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First human spaceflight to Earth’s polar regions.
Joined March 2018
Got questions about research & life in space?🚀🌎 Tomorrow I’ll be joining the Translational Research Institute for Space Health @BCMSpaceHealth for a live Reddit #AMA (Ask Me Anything) to talk about #Fram2, space health, and what it’s like up there. Tune in tomorrow, Tuesday,
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RT @maxhaot: Really cool to host @framonauts @satofishi shortly after his return from orbit in last April. Chun is one of the only four hum…
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Heard Island and McDonald Islands (ISO 3166-2:HM) is one of the most difficult countries/territories on ISO 3166 for any human to legally set foot on. You would probably have to organize your own scientific mission in order to be granted access. Our crew member, @icetrek Eric
The Trump administration has put a 10 percent tariff on the Heard Island and McDonald which has a population of 0 people and is inhabited only by penguins.
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Starlink connects those in the most remote areas on and off planet Earth 🛰️🐉
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When I saw this with my own eyes, one thought that came to mind was the famous opening line from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens: It is the best of times for fishing, it is the worst of times for fish…
Chinese fishing fleets are so large you can see them from space. My father @astro_Pettit took this image from the ISS last month. That is not a city. Every single dot is a boat trawling the seabed.
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Title: DracoStyle [Evolved] Feat. very special guest: The spacecraft itself As an intermezzo between the science: A short synth session, blending technology into music, to also give the arts some room on the mission. A little freestyled at the end! @framonauts and original
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Ever wondered what information your saliva holds? Turns out, quite a bit! Project: Saliva sampling for stress response 🫧 Question: How does stress quantifiably influence us in unknown environments? Fun facts: - Saliva can be used to measure a multitude of interesting
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Another fun (and active!) series of experiments on our @framonauts mission. Project: Efficient Exercise 💪🏻 Question: How can we a) shorten necessary exercise time and b) develop a portable device for use in space? Fun facts: - We tested blood flow restriction (BFR) training
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Watch the extended, ~4-hour cut with additional views from the Dragon spacecraft flying over Earth’s polar regions during the Fram2 mission
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Views from the Dragon spacecraft during Fram2, the first polar-orbit human spaceflight mission to explore Earth with the @framonauts
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I got to talk to the FRAM2 astronauts while they were in polar orbit! This was the first ever crewed mission over the north and south poles. Stick around to the end to see my footage of them splashing down from a plane! @framonauts
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The dance of the dinners. Microgravity never gets old. #fram2 #microgravity #zerogravity #weightlessness #framonauts
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While on orbit I often found our altitude to be deceiving. This is a kind of fractal effect where an inlet at 2000m altitude could look like a bay at 10km which could look like a gulf at 100km and an entire country’s coastline at 400km. Sinai Peninsula. @framonauts
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Mac. Robertson Land, Antarctica. From top down: Prince Charles Mountains, Lambert glacier (largest on Earth and creating one of Earth’s deepest canyons), the Amery Ice Shelf, Prydz Bay. I flew across the Amery Ice Shelf in 1996 flying from Mawson to Davis stations. @framonauts
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I presumed that viewing Earth from 400+ km above would feel like gazing at something infinitely far, where depth perception wouldn’t matter. However, that’s not true—you can distinctly see Earth’s spherical shape, and the layers between the clouds and the ground stand out
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My return home to Norway was exceptional 🇳🇴 Our plane was greeted at OSL with a water bridge, a huge thank you to @SAS for going above and beyond ( maybe not quite as beyond as Fram2 😂), and a big hug to everyone who met up at the arrival hall at OSL ❤️ The love was felt ❤️ 📸
We're honored to have flown Norwegian astronaut Jannicke Mikkelsen home from Los Angeles to Oslo, after her historic Fram2 space mission. Thank you, Jannicke, for flying SAS - and for inspiring us all to reach higher!
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The most historic experiment we had on board was a tech demonstration: The first ever X-Ray taken in space. Project: X-Ray ⚡ Question: Can we take good quality X-Rays in space? Fun facts: - Due to bone loss in microgravity, fractures can become more likely on long duration
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