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2022-05-26 16:24:32 #NewPhoto from #Nasa: "Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2 Landing" Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft opens its main parachutes as it lands at White Sands Missile Range’s Space Harbor, Wednesday, May 25, 2022. [May 26, 2022] http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52099923324_5d3bca3159_o.jpeg Open / Comment

2022-05-26 07:21:46 #NewImage from #Nasa: "NGC 4565: Galaxy on Edge" Magnificent spiral galaxy NGC 4565 is viewed edge-on from planet Earth. Also known as the Needle Galaxy for its narrow profile, bright NGC 4565 is a stop on many telescopic tours of the northern sky, in the faint but well-groomed constellation Coma Berenices. This sharp, colorful image reveals the galaxy's boxy, bulging central core cut by obscuring dust lanes that lace NGC 4565's thin galactic plane. NGC 4565 itself lies about 40 million light-years distant and spans some 100,000 light-years. Easily spotted with small telescopes, sky enthusiasts consider NGC 4565 to be a prominent celestial masterpiece Messier missed. [May 26, 2022] https://apod.nasa.gov/image/2205/Needle_Galaxy_4-7-22.jpg Open / Comment

2022-05-26 03:16:48 #BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA, Boeing Complete Starliner Uncrewed Flight Test to Space Station" NASA and Boeing safely landed the company’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft Wednesday in the desert of the western United States, completing the uncrewed Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) to the International Space Station to help prove the system is ready to fly astronauts. [May 25, 2022] Read more here: http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-boeing-complete-starliner-uncrewed-flight-test-to-space-station Open / Comment

2022-05-26 00:36:48 #BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Administrator, Arizona Students to Hear from Station Astronauts" Students from Arizona will have an opportunity this week to hear from astronauts aboard the International Space Station. [May 25, 2022] Read more here: http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-administrator-arizona-students-to-hear-from-station-astronauts Open / Comment

2022-05-25 20:59:11 #NewPhoto from #Nasa: "Ultracold Bubbles (in Pink)" Since the Apollo program, astronauts have documented (and contended with) how liquids behave differently in microgravity than they do on Earth. [May 24, 2022] http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/1-cal-main-image1041.jpg Open / Comment

2022-05-25 17:21:24 #BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Invites Media to Discuss Space Station Science, Climate Research" NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT Tuesday, June 2, to discuss the hardware, technology demonstrations, and science experiments, including a new climate research investigation, headed to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX’s 25th commercial resupply mission for NASA. [May 25, 2022] Read more here: http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-invites-media-to-discuss-space-station-science-climate-research Open / Comment

2022-05-25 16:58:33 #NewReport from #ISS : "ISS Daily Summary Report – 5/24/2022" Payloads: Cell Biology Experiment Facility (CBEF-L): The CBEF-L Motor Power Cable connections were swapped with the CBEF-L Motor Signal Cable connections in order to narrow down the turn table issue in the CBEF-L Incubator Unit. CBEF-L is a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) new subrack facility, which is an upgraded facility of the original CBEF Open / Comment

2022-05-25 07:21:55 #NewImage from #Nasa: "The Lively Center of the Lagoon Nebula " The center of the Lagoon Nebula is a whirlwind of spectacular star formation. Visible near the image center, at least two long funnel-shaped clouds, each roughly half a light-year long, have been formed by extreme stellar winds and intense energetic starlight. A tremendously bright nearby star, Herschel 36, lights the area. Vast walls of dust hide and redden other hot young stars. As energy from these stars pours into the cool dust and gas, large temperature differences in adjoining regions can be created generating shearing winds which may cause the funnels. This picture, spanning about 10 light years, combines images taken in six colors by the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope. The Lagoon Nebula, also known as M8, lies about 5000 light years distant toward the constellation of the Archer (Sagittarius). [May 25, 2022] https://apod.nasa.gov/image/2205/LagoonCenter_HubbleOzsarac_960.jpg Open / Comment

2022-05-24 23:41:38 #BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Awards Contract to National Academy of Sciences" NASA has awarded a sole-source contract to the National Academy of Sciences of Washington to conduct studies on questions of national importance within the domain of NASA science and technology programs relating to space science, Earth science, and biological and physical science in space. [May 24, 2022] Read more here: http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-awards-contract-to-national-academy-of-sciences Open / Comment

2022-05-24 23:26:33 #BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Awards Contract to National Academy of Science" NASA has awarded a sole-source contract to the National Academy of Science of Washington to conduct studies on questions of national importance within the domain of NASA science and technology programs relating to space science, Earth science, and biological and physical science in space. [May 24, 2022] Read more here: http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-awards-contract-to-national-academy-of-science Open / Comment