The grinding, colliding, shifting, and diving of plates causes earthquakes, fuels volcanoes, builds mountains, tears open oceans, and constantly remodels and resurfaces our home planet.
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The grinding, colliding, shifting, and diving of plates causes earthquakes, fuels volcanoes, builds mountains, tears open oceans, and constantly remodels and resurfaces our home planet.
The Expedition 51 crew members are awaiting a new space shipment and getting ready for new science experiments. The crew is also preparing for the departure of a pair of International Space Station flight engineers. The Falcon 9 rocket that will launch the SpaceX Dragon cargo craft to space is resting at its launch pad …
The International Space Station is preparing this week for the departure of two Expedition 51 crew members and the arrival of the SpaceX Dragon. Expedition 52 will begin Friday morning when two Expedition 51 crew members depart the station inside the Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft. Cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy and astronaut Thomas Pesquet will return to Earth …
Human Research Program (HRP): A 49S crewmember collected Return minus 15 days (R-15) blood and urine samples for Vascular Echo, Biochem Profile, and Marrow investigations as well as air samples for Marrow and ultrasound measurements for Vascular Echo. The Vascular Echo investigation examines changes in blood vessels and the heart while crew members are in …
Cardio Ox Ultrasound: A 50S crewmember completed their Flight Day (FD) 180 ultrasound, blood pressure and Electrocardiogram (ECG) measurements for the Cardio Ox investigation. With scanning assistance from a Crew Medical Officer (CMO) and ground remote guidance specialists, the crew donned ECG electrodes and marked the Carotid and Brachial arteries for scanning. By collecting ultrasound …
NASA’s Operation IceBridge 2017 Arctic campaign included flights out of the Norwegian archipelago.
NanoRack Cubesat Deployer (NRCSD) #12 Cubesat Deploys: The remaining 8 of 17 NRCSD #12 CubeSats were successfully deployed from the ISS today. All are a subset of the QB50 constellation of CubeSats provided by countries from around the world. The constellation studies the upper reaches of the Earth’s atmosphere over a period of 1 to …
More CubeSats were ejected from the International Space Station this week to explore the Earth’s upper atmosphere. Meanwhile, the Expedition 51 crew trained for a crew departure and cargo craft arrival. NanoRacks, a private company with facilities on the space station, deployed a total of 17 CubeSats over two days this week from a satellite …
A new study says tens of thousands of people die prematurely each year because diesel engines don’t really run as cleanly as they do in laboratory tests.