James Stoffel
@StoffAdAstra
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Houston, TX
Joined August 2012
We’re excited to be selected by @NASA to land astronauts back on the Moon, this time to stay. Time to get to work! https://t.co/hiAZZCRHMg
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Orbiting the Mediterranean, from Europe into Africa. So much human history to see in the lights!
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The complete batch of satellites for our first @Arianespace mission have arrived in French Guiana. All satellites have cleared initial health checkouts, and teams will soon begin processing and integration ahead of launch on Ariane 64.
Washington ➡️ Florida ➡️ French Guiana We’ve completed initial processing and begun shipping satellites for our first mission with @Arianespace. Satellites are transported in specialized, temperature-controlled containers en route to French Guiana, where they’ll be processed and
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Staying busy. This week, the Artemis II astronauts sat with our @NASA_Johnson experts and talked through every launch question imaginable, ending with our full-team Capstone Lunar Flyby simulation! Our Countdown Demonstration Test will be taking place in December.
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Lettuce tell you something. 🥬 Growing food in space isn’t easy, and it’s key to NASA’s Artemis missions, where astronauts will live and work on the Moon. Data from NASA’s Open Science Data Repository show that lettuce grown aboard the Space Station contained up to 31% less
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@Astro_Ayers @Space_Station @NASA @Astro_Onishi @NPR @AstroPeggy @zenanaut @AstroIronMike @Astro_Kimiya @AstroAnnimal M+171: During a summer break in medical school I spent time working under Dr. Ami Bhatt and Mathew Meyerson at the Broad Institute, famous for their early work and research sequencing DNA. I never thought I would be sequencing DNA from space. Also the devices to sequence DNA are
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@Astro_Ayers @Space_Station @NASA @Astro_Onishi @NPR @AstroPeggy @zenanaut @AstroIronMike @Astro_Kimiya @AstroAnnimal M+147: One of the science experiments that SpaceX CRS-33 brought aboard is the Microgravity Associated Bone Loss-B study, which studies bone-forming adult stem cells in microgravity, providing us a better understanding of the basic mechanisms of bone loss in space. This
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5 days until @Astro_ChrisW launches. Evenings in quarantine involve a few refresher training classes and time outside in the clear, cool, Kazakhstan evenings. This night he explains to us why 21 cm and 1.4 GHz is important to detect hydrogen atoms in the universe. I’m going to
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The Soyuz rolled to the pad this morning Baikonur style: carried horizontally on a railcar, gliding across the steppe at sunrise. At the pad, hydraulic arms lift it upright and the four counterweighted “tulip” petals close around the base. There are no hold-down bolts—at ignition
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“The night is dark and full of wonders”Thanks to Dr James Pavela for letting me take a few photos of him while we are in quarantine. The purpose of quarantine is to avoid infections in space. Nonetheless, there have been on the order of 10 cases of respiratory infections since
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