Four Exp 71 crew members spent Wednesday gearing up for tomorrow’s relocation of their
@SpaceX
Dragon spacecraft, which will make room for the arrival of Starliner as part of
@NASA
’s Boeing Crew Flight Test. The septet also worked robotics and connected with students on Earth.…
Meet Dana Weigel who became
@NASA
's International Space Station Program Manager on April 8, 2024. "You’re not successful without the team, so it’s your ability to support, motivate, and guide the team that allows us to accomplish amazing things."
The Exp 71 septet spent Tuesday completing a series of training and conducting ongoing health research to help scientists on Earth better understand the effects of spaceflight on the human body. More...
The
@SpaceX
#Dragon
cargo spacecraft splashed down off the coast of Tampa, Florida, at 1:38am ET today completing its resupply mission to the orbital outpost. More...
The Exp 71 crew spent Monday conducting routine maintenance and performing health exams while gearing up for a spacecraft relocation and crew arrival. More…
In preparation for the arrival of
@NASA
’s Boeing Crew Flight Test, four crew members will relocate the
@SpaceX
Dragon spacecraft to the space-facing port of the Harmony module on Thursday, May 2.
Live coverage of the relocation will begin at 7:30am ET.
Nighttime photo of Iberia from
@Space_Station
, including all of Spain, Portugal, Gibraltar, North Africa, and some of France, showing a rich history of human development.
At night it becomes obvious where civilization is by the way we sprinkle our light bulbs across Earth, and…
Outside of
@Space_Station
, materials on the MISSE platform are tested in the harsh space environment. Samples from MISSE-18 including materials that could be used in lunar or Martian missions are scheduled to return home on April 27.
After 36 days docked to the
@space_station
, the Dragon spacecraft supporting SpaceX’s 30th commercial resupply mission for
@NASA
will undock from the orbiting lab on Sunday, April 28th. Watch live beginning at 12:45 p.m. ET →
Cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub went on a spacewalk on Thursday installing equipment and experiments on the space station's Roscosmos segment. More pix...
This week on
#SpaceToGround
, two cosmonauts conducted a spacewalk, science is set to return to Earth, and an upcoming Dragon relocation will make room for the docking of Starliner as part of
@NASA
’s Boeing Crew Flight Test. 🌎🚀
.
@NASA
TV will broadcast the departure of the
@SpaceX
#Dragon
cargo spacecraft, weather permitting, on Sunday, April 28. It will return over 4,100 pounds of science and supplies to Earth for analysis.
Your science is ready for delivery. 📦
NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick closes out the Dragon spacecraft in preparation for its scheduled departure in late April. Dragon will return to Earth with samples and hardware from several experiments for further study.
The Boeing Starliner Crewed Test Flight is scheduled to launch on May 6. These flights are part of efforts to increase time dedicated to advancing science and technology demonstrations aboard
@Space_Station
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