Apollo 12 Flight Journal – Day 3, part 1: Day of the Tuna Fish https://www.nasa.gov/history/afj/ap12fj/08day3_dottf.html
monocular again at the Earth, and looks like it’s dark everywhere except the lower left-hand
monocular again at the Earth, and looks like it’s dark everywhere except the lower left-hand
The Expedition 64 crew had a light duty day Thursday following a busy holiday season filled with space research and U.S. cargo ship departure preparations. Soon the astronauts will be ramping up for a set of International Space Station maintenance and upgrades spacewalks planned for January and February. Final science experiments are wrapping up this …
NASA and SpaceX engineers will be on hand to retrieve the Dragon after its splashdown
The Expedition 63 crew is reviewing tasks and trying on spacesuits today ahead of two spacewalks set to begin Friday. Another microsatellite is set to be deployed from the International Space Station today. Two NASA astronauts spent all day Tuesday preparing for the first of two spacewalks that will start on Friday at 7:35 a.m. …
The station’s fine-tuned Canadian robotic hand, known as Dextre, grappled Red-Eye
A NASA astronaut will swap command of the International Space Station with a European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Wednesday at 10:10 a.m. live on NASA TV. Expedition 56 Commander Drew Feustel will be handing the station “keys” over to German astronaut Alexander Gerst during the traditional change of command ceremony. Expedition 57 officially starts Thursday …
Command Before Homecoming Expedition 56 Commander Drew Feustel (left) of NASA will hand
Robotics controllers and Expedition 55 crew members are getting ready for the departure of the SpaceX Dragon resupply ship next week. The commercial space freighter will leave the International Space Station and splashdown in the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday loaded with cargo for retrieval and analysis. Flight Engineer Ricky Arnold powered up command and communications …
In the meantime the 57.7-foot-long robotic arm and its fine-tuned robotic hand, also
More research gear continues to be unloaded from inside and outside of the SpaceX Dragon cargo craft today. Back on Earth, another resupply ship is poised to blast off Monday on a quick delivery mission to the International Space Station. Overnight, mission controllers commanded the Canadarm2 robotic arm to extract a new Earth-observing experiment from …
atmospheric glow are the backdrop as the Canadarm2 robotic arm with its Dextre robotic hand
NASA’s bio-manufacturing experiment called BioNutrients is testing a way to use microorganisms to produce on-demand nutrients that will be critical
Space Station in 2019, the experiment assesses the stability and performance of a hand-held
Two Expedition 54 astronauts continue preparing for Monday’s upcoming spacewalk to wrap up robotics repair work. The crew is also working on a variety of science gear to ensure the orbital laboratory is in tip-top shape. Flight Engineer Mark Vande Hei is going outside the International Space Station again for this year’s second spacewalk. This …
Norishige Kanai to finish maintenance on a Latching End Effector, or the robotic hand
Vertical Spin Tunnel Facility Benefits
Acquisition Gallery Facility Benefits A variety of miscellaneous instruments, including hand-held
Bolden, Jr., gets a helping hand as he dons his Launch/Entry suit in the O&C…