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Crew launch to ISS Paves is a way for “stuck” astronauts ‘returns
This screen grab image from NASA’s live broadcast shows a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blowing up a Crew Dragon capsule from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida towards the International Space Station. It’s not long to go straight away. After more than nine months on the International Space Station, the two astronauts are one step closer to returning home after…
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Musk spit out with Danish astronauts on a “abandoned” ISS crew
Danish astronaut Andreas Morgensen will speak at the Kennedy Space Centre in August 2023. Elon Musk, the world’s wealthiest man, entered the warm queue with Danish astronauts on Thursday, with former President Joe Biden deliberately taking two American astronauts on the International Space Station He criticized the tech billionaire’s claims that he had abandoned it. Andreas “Andy” Morgensen is in…
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Tether covered with solar panels could accelerate ISS orbit
Power diagram of the BPT tether system on the ISS. Credit: Acta Astronautica (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.actastro.2024.12.031 The ISS’s orbit is slowly decaying. Although it may seem like a permanent fixture in the sky, the orbiting space laboratory is only about 400 km above the planet. There may not be much atmosphere at that altitude. However, some are still present, and…
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SpaceX to launch more commercial astronaut missions to the ISS
This distributed image published by NASA on September 19, 2024 shows the International Space Station taken from inside the window of the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavor. Elon Musk’s SpaceX plans to partner with a California-based startup to fly commercial crew missions to the International Space Station, the companies announced Thursday. The mission is subject to NASA approval and also involves…
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Brain cells mature faster in space, but stay healthy: ISS study
Credit: Stem Cell Translational Medicine (2024). DOI: 10.1093/stcltm/szae070 Microgravity is known to alter muscles, bones, the immune system, and cognition, but little is known about its specific effects on the brain. To understand how brain cells respond to microgravity, Scripps Research Institute scientists teamed up with the New York Stem Cell Foundation to send small clumps of stem cell-derived brain…
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Transport phenomena and basic physics explored in the microgravity environment of the ISS
By Patrick O’Neill, International Space Station National Laboratory Photo of the International Space Station. Credit: NASA A paper published in Gravitational and Space Research reveals insights gained from research sponsored by the International Space Station (ISS) National Laboratory on fundamental physical processes, including transport phenomena, momentum, energy, and mass transfer. I am. Transport phenomena describe how heat and matter move…
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NASA astronaut hospitalized after returning from ISS
SpaceX’s Dragon Endeavor spacecraft just after splashdown off the coast of Florida on October 25, 2024. A NASA astronaut who just returned from the International Space Station was hospitalized with an unknown illness but is in stable condition, the U.S. space agency said Friday. The four-member Crew-8 mission splashed down off the coast of Florida early Friday after spending nearly…
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