Week of June 25 – June 29, 2018
The Sextant Navigation investigation tests use of a hand-held sextant aboard the
Crews from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, offload a transportation stand from NASA’s Pegasus barge Saturday, Jan. 7.
the facility where the thermal protection system spray foam will be applied by hand
Technicians at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, have completed applying thermal protection system material to the launch vehicle
rocket, the thermal protection system material for the LVSA is applied entirely by hand
Astronauts Nick Hague and Christina Koch have configured their spacesuits and reviewed procedures for tomorrow’s spacewalk at the International Space Station. Robotics controllers also readied the Port-4 (P4) truss structure so the spacewalkers can continue battery swaps and power upgrades outside the orbital lab. Hague and Koch will set their spacesuits to battery power Friday …
in Mission Control remotely commanded the Canadarm2 robotic arm and its “robotic hand
Expedition 54 Flight Engineers Mark Vande Hei of NASA and Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency switched their spacesuits to battery power at 7 a.m. EST, signifying the official start of today’s planned six-and-a-half-hour spacewalk outside the International Space Station. Watch the spacewalk live on NASA Television and the agency’s website. Vande Hei is …
first task for the two spacewalkers is to move a Latching End Effector (LEE), or hand
NASA astronaut Kate Rubins and her crewmates, Anatoly Ivanishin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency are scheduled to return to Earth on Saturday, Oct. 29 at 11:59 p.m. EDT (9:59 a.m. Oct. 30, Kazakhstan time). NASA Television will air coverage of the departure and landing …
Expedition 49 Commander Ivanishin will hand over station command to NASA astronaut
The crew was back at work today with more life science studies and human research. Cygnus cargo transfer work is ongoing as robotics controllers prepare for an external video survey. Mice continue to be observed today for the Rodent Research-3 study. The astronauts are measuring their bone density to learn how microgravity affects muscles and …
The Canadarm2 robotic arm will link up with the DEXTRE robotic hand tonight.
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 …
Whitson will hand over station command to Yurchikhin the day before the Expedition
The Expedition 56 crew has nearly completed loading the SpaceX Dragon resupply ship with cargo for retrieval back on Earth this Friday. The orbital residents are also busy with an intense day of space research and Russian spacewalk preparations. Dragon is due to be released Friday at 12:37 p.m. EDT from the International Space Station …
During the near seven-hour excursion, the spacewalkers will hand-deploy four tiny
Three Expedition 54 crew mates are in the final week of their mission and are packing up for a return to Earth. They and the rest of the crew also researched botany and biomedical science to support future crews on longer missions further into space. Commander Alexander Misurkin is readying the Soyuz MS-06 spacecraft that …
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