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SpaceX’s 26th commercial resupply mission (CRS) is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Nov.18. The Dragon spacecraft carries scientific experiments and technology demonstrations that explore growing plants in space, creating nutrients on-demand, in-space construction, and more. https://go.nasa.gov/3gYH3id

Expedition 55-56 Soyuz Commander Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos and Flight Engineers Drew Feustel and Ricky Arnold of NASA launched on the Russian Soyuz MS-08 spacecraft on Mar. 21 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to begin a two-day journey to the International Space Station and the start of a five-month mission on the outpost. The footage also contains the crew's pre-launch activities including their departure from their Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters, their suit-up in the Cosmodrome's Integration Facility, walk out to their crew bus and arrival at the launch pad to board their spacecraft.

Expedition 51-52 Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of Roscosmos and Flight Engineer Jack Fischer of NASA launched on the Russian Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft on April 20 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to begin a six-hour journey to the International Space Station and the start of a four and a half month mission on the outpost.

board the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn handed over command of the International Space Station to Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev during a change of command ceremony on May 4. Farewell remarks also took place ahead of Crew-3 undocking and splashdown following their six-month mission aboard the orbital outpost. Marshburn and Artemyev are in the midst of long-duration missions living and working aboard the microgravity laboratory to advance scientific knowledge and demonstrate new technologies for future human and robotic exploration missions.

Expedition 53-54 Soyuz Commander Alexander Misurkin of Roscosmos and flight engineers Mark Vande Hei and Joe Acaba of NASA launched on the Russian Soyuz MS-06 spacecraft Sept. 13 (Kazakhstan time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The trio began a six-hour journey to the International Space Station and the start of a five-and-a-half-month mission on the outpost. The footage contains the crew’s prelaunch activities including their departure from their crew quarters, suit-up in the Cosmodrome’s Integration Facility, walkout to the crew bus and arrival at the launch pad to board the spacecraft

Board the International Space Station, Expedition 54 Flight Engineer Scott Tingle of NASA discussed the initial days of his planned six-month mission on the outpost in an in-flight interview on Jan. 4 with the Boston Globe. Tingle, who is a native of Massachusetts, arrived aboard the station on Dec. 19 and is scheduled to remain in orbit through early June.

Scientists use the International Space Station and its many tools, including DNA sequencing and genome editing, to study microbes – how they behave in sanitized and confined environments, how space may change them in ways that could affect human health, and whether they could be used to mine metals on other planets.

NASA announced the Biden-Harris Administration’s commitment to extend International Space Station (ISS) operations through 2030. Over the past two decades, the United States has maintained a continuous human presence in orbit around the Earth to test technologies, conduct scientific research, and develop skills needed to explore farther than ever before. The unique microgravity laboratory has hosted more than 3,000 research investigations from over 4,200 researchers across the world and is returning enormous scientific, educational, and technological developments to benefit people on Earth. Nearly 110 countries and areas have participated in activities aboard the station, including more than 1,500,000 students per year in STEM activities. Extending operations through 2030 will continue another productive decade of research advancement and enable a seamless transition of capabilities in low-Earth orbit to one or more commercially owned and operated destinations in the late 2020s.

Researchers from around the world use the International Space Station to address complex human health problems on Earth, such as studying disease formation, testing drugs and diagnostic tools, and examining the inner workings of the human body. Much of this work employs unique microgravity tools including protein crystals and tissue chips, as well as devices designed specifically for space but that also have been adapted for use on Earth.

Outside the International Space Station, Expedition 54 Flight Engineers Mark Vande Hei and Scott Tingle of NASA conducted the first spacewalk this year Jan. 23 to replace a degraded latching end effector (LEE) on one end of the Canadarm2 robotic arm. There are two redundant end effectors on each end of the arm used to grapple visiting vehicles and components during a variety of operational activities. The spacewalk was the 206th in support of space station assembly and maintenance, the third in Vande Hei’s career and the first for Tingle. Vande Hei will venture outside the station again Jan. 29 with Flight Engineer Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to stow a spare latching end effector removed from the robotic arm last October on to the station’s mobile base system rail car for future use.

This video was taken by the crew members aboard the Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft which docked to the International Space Station at 9:33 p.m. EDT March 27, 2015. NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Gennady Padalka arrived just six hours after launching from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, completing four orbits around the Earth before catching up with the orbiting laboratory. The vehicle docked to the Poisk module (also known as the Mini-Research Module 2) on the space-facing side of the Russian Service Module. The spinning object in view is an antenna that is part of the automatic rendezvous and docking system known as KURS.

Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 65 Flight Engineers Megan McArthur, Shane Kimbrough and Mark Vande Hei of NASA recorded a message on June 19 for the nation’s celebration of its 245th birthday from their orbital vantage point 252 miles above Earth. McArthur and Kimbrough launched to the station in April in a SpaceX Crew Dragon atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket just two weeks after Vande Hei launched to the complex aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft.

High-definition cameras outside the International Space Station captured new views of a somewhat weakened Hurricane Florence at 6:56 a.m. EDT on Sept. 13 as it neared the U.S. Eastern seaboard. According to the National Hurricane Center, Florence is moving northwest with winds of 110 miles an hour. On the forecast track, the centre of Florence will approach the coasts of North and South Carolina later today, then move near or over the coast of southern North Carolina and eastern South Carolina in the hurricane warning area tonight and Friday. A slow motion over eastern South Carolina is forecast Friday night through Saturday night. The region is facing potential catastrophic flooding from Florence with some rainfall totals predicted to reach 40 inches.

As a home to humans and a lab for scientific research for more than 20 years, the International Space Station is a one-of-a-kind platform for advancing technologies such as robots, computers, health monitors, life support systems, and more for both space and ground applications. The station also has made it possible for numerous experiments to delve into how space travel affects people physically and psychologically – knowledge that often improves the quality of life for people on Earth, too.

Outside the International Space Station, Expedition 59 Flight Engineers Anne McClain and Nick Hague of NASA conducted a spacewalk on March 22 to begin the replacement of old nickel-hydrogen batteries with new, more powerful lithium-ion batteries as part of an ongoing upgrade to the station’s power system. McClain and Hague conducted the first of three spacewalks by station crewmembers over the next two-and-a-half weeks to replace the batteries for the station’s port 4 (P4) truss power channels and to enhance station communications systems. McClain and Christina Koch of NASA are scheduled to continue the battery swap-out work on the next spacewalk on March 29. On April 8, Hague will be joined by Flight Engineer David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency for the third spacewalk in this series to install jumper cables that will provide redundancy to station robotics systems and to upgrade communications gear.

On February 24, 1987, astronomers in the southern hemisphere saw a supernova in the Large Magellanic Cloud. This new object was dubbed “Supernova 1987A” and was the brightest stellar explosion seen in over four centuries. Chandra has observed Supernova 1987A many times and the X-ray data reveal important information about this object. X-rays from Chandra have shown the expanding blast wave from the original explosion slamming into a ring of material expelled by the star before it exploded. The latest Chandra data reveal the blast wave has moved beyond the ring into a region that astronomers do not know much about. These observations can help astronomers learn how supernovas impact their environments and affect future generations of stars and planets.

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NASA’s Jacob Keaton answers questions about the International Space Station. He highlights building this home off Earth and what astronauts do while aboard. Research and other lessons learned from the space station will help us send humans to the Moon under the Artemis program and prepare for Mars.

Following a successful perigee raise maneuver and translunar injection burn, the Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage (IPCS) separated from Orion and the European Service Module. The ICPS will enter a heliocentric orbit, circling the Sun until it is destroyed. This video was captured by a

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