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2022-06-02 16:38:19 #NewReport from #ISS : "ISS Daily Summary Report – 6/01/2022" Progress 79P Undocking: Today, the Russian Cargo Vehicle Progress 79P, which provided cargo and propellent to the ISS, undocked from the Service Module Aft port at 3:08 AM CT. Following departure from the ISS the vehicle Open / Comment

2022-06-02 07:26:23 #NewImage from #Nasa: "Lunar Occultation of Venus" On May 27 Venus rose as the morning star, near the waning crescent Moon in a predawn sky already full of planets. It was close on the sky to the Moon's crescent and a conjunction of the second an third brightest celestial beacons were enjoyed by skygazers around the world. But seen from locations along a track through southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean the Moon actually passed in front of Venus in a lunar occultation. In this animated gif the 75 percent illuminated disk of Venus approaches and just begins to disappear behind the sunlit southwestern lunar limb. The telescopic frames used to construct it were captured from Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean around 4:50am local time, with the Moon and Venus very close to the eastern horizon. At the time Venus was over 180 million kilometers from Reunion Island, compared to a lunar distance of a mere 400 thousand kilometers or so. About 50 minutes later Venus emerged from behind the Moon. [June 02, 2022] https://apod.nasa.gov/image/2206/OccultationVenusQuentinGineys1024.gif Open / Comment

2022-06-01 22:51:35 #BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Administrator to Launch Artemis Learning Lunchbox Initiative" NASA Administrator Bill Nelson is helping kick off a new initiative to deliver food and hands-on science, technology, engineering, and math kits, called Learning Lunchboxes, in Orlando at 10:30 a.m. EDT on Friday, June 3. [June 01, 2022] Read more here: http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-administrator-to-launch-artemis-learning-lunchbox-initiative Open / Comment

2022-06-01 21:16:29 #BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Scientists Available for 2022 Hurricane Season Interviews" The Atlantic Ocean hurricane season begins today, June 1, and runs through Nov. 30 and NASA is once again prepared to help understand and monitor storms from its unique vantage point of space. [June 01, 2022] Read more here: http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-scientists-available-for-2022-hurricane-season-interviews Open / Comment

2022-06-01 21:06:47 #BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Partners with Industry for New Spacewalking, Moonwalking Services" NASA has selected Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace to advance spacewalking capabilities in low-Earth orbit and at the Moon, by buying services that provide astronauts with next generation spacesuit and spacewalk systems to work outside the International Space Station, explore the lunar surface on Artemis missions, and prepare for human missions to [June 01, 2022] Read more here: http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-partners-with-industry-for-new-spacewalking-moonwalking-services Open / Comment

2022-06-01 20:21:18 #BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Científicas de la NASA disponibles para entrevistas sobre huracanes" La temporada de huracanes en el océano Atlántico comienza hoy, 1 de junio, y se extiende hasta el 30 de noviembre, y la NASA está preparada una vez más para ayudar a entender y vigilar las tormentas desde su singular atalaya desde el espacio. [June 01, 2022] Read more here: http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/cient-ficas-de-la-nasa-disponibles-para-entrevistas-sobre-huracanes Open / Comment

2022-06-01 16:53:02 #NewReport from #ISS : "ISS Daily Summary Report – 5/31/2022" Payloads: Behavioral Core Measures (BCM): The crew performed two BCM research sessions consisting of a set of 12 runs/tests each. The Standardized Behavioral Measures for Detecting Behavioral Health Risks during Exploration Missions (BCM) experiment initially examined a suite of measurements to reliably assess the risk of adverse cognitive effects, behavioral conditions, or psychiatric disorders during Open / Comment

2022-06-01 16:44:04 #NewPhoto from #Nasa: "Hurricane Season 2022 Begins" Hurricanes are the most powerful weather event on Earth. The 2022 Atlantic hurricane season extends from June 1 to November 30. [June 01, 2022] http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss065e432549.jpg Open / Comment

2022-06-01 07:21:23 #NewImage from #Nasa: "Tau Herculids Meteors over Kitt Peak Telescopes " It wasn't the storm of the century -- but it was a night to remember. Last night was the peak of the Tau Herculids meteor shower, a usually modest dribble of occasional meteors originating from the disintegrating Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3. This year, calculations showed that the Earth might be passing through a particularly dense stream of comet debris -- at best creating a storm of bright meteors streaking out from the constellation of Hercules. What actually happened fell short of a meteor storm, but could be called a decent meteor shower. Featured here is a composite image taken at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona, USA accumulated over 2.5 hours very late on May 30. Over that time, 19 Tau Herculids meteors were captured, along with 4 unrelated meteors. (Can you find them?) In the near foreground is the Bok 2.3-meter Telescope with the 4.0-meter Mayall Telescope just behind it. Next year, the annual Tau Herculids are expected to return to its normal low rate, with the next active night forecast for 2049. [June 01, 2022] https://apod.nasa.gov/image/2206/TauHerMeteors_Lyu_1080.jpg Open / Comment

2022-05-31 21:56:39 #BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA to Provide Live Coverage of Space Station Cargo Launch, Docking" NASA will provide live coverage of the launch and docking of a Russian cargo spacecraft carrying about three tons of food, fuel, and supplies for the Expedition 67 crew aboard the International Space Station. [May 31, 2022] Read more here: http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-to-provide-live-coverage-of-space-station-cargo-launch-docking Open / Comment