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2022-06-16 21:41:27 #BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Updates Astronaut Assignments for Boeing Starliner Test Flight" NASA will fly two astronaut test pilots aboard the agency’s Boeing Crew Flight Test (CFT) mission to the International Space Station, where they will live and work off the Earth for about two weeks. [June 16, 2022] Read more here: http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-updates-astronaut-assignments-for-boeing-starliner-test-flight Open / Comment

2022-06-16 19:03:36 #NewReport from #ISS : "ISS Daily Summary Report – 6/15/2022" Payloads: Actiwatch: Eight Actiwatches were setup on Human Resource Facility 2 (HRF2) rack for battery charge and data downlinks. The Actiwatch is a waterproof, non-intrusive, sleep-wake activity monitor worn on the wrist of a crewmember and contains a miniature uniaxial accelerometer that produces a signal as the subject moves. The data is stored in non-volatile Open / Comment

2022-06-16 18:14:12 #NewPhoto from #Nasa: "The Progress Pride Flag Flies at NASA Headquarters" The Progress Pride flag is seen flying at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters Building. [June 16, 2022] http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52148226607_4b386cc977_o.jpeg Open / Comment

2022-06-16 07:26:47 #NewImage from #Nasa: "Strawberry Supermoon from China" There are four Full Supermoons in 2022. Using the definition of a supermoon as a Full Moon near perigee, that is within at least 90% of its closest approach to Earth in a given orbit, the year's Full Supermoon dates are May 16, June 14, July 13, and August 12. Full Moons near perigee really are the brightest and largest in planet Earth's sky. But size and brightness differences between Full Moons are relatively small and an actual comparison with other Full Moons is difficult to make by eye alone. Two exposures are blended in this supermoon and sky view from June 14. That Full Moon was also known to northern hemisphere skygazers as the Strawberry moon. The consecutive short and long exposures allow familiar features on the fully sunlit lunar nearside to be seen in the same image as a faint lunar corona and an atmospheric cloudscape. They were captured in skies over Chongqing, China. [June 16, 2022] https://apod.nasa.gov/image/2206/StrawberrySupermoonfromChina1024.jpg Open / Comment

2022-06-15 22:34:56 #BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA, Partner Agency Leaders to Talk to Space Station Astronauts" NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy, Italian Space Agency (ASI) President Giorgio Saccoccia, and leadership from the U.S. Embassy in Rome will speak with astronauts aboard the International Space Station this week. [June 15, 2022] Read more here: http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-partner-agency-leaders-to-talk-to-space-station-astronauts Open / Comment

2022-06-15 19:43:27 #BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA, ESA Finalize Agreements on Climate, Artemis Cooperation" NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and ESA (European Space Agency) Director General Josef Aschbacher signed two agreements Wednesday at the ESA Council meeting in Noordwijk, Netherlands, further advancing the space agencies’ cooperation on Earth science and Artemis missions. [June 15, 2022] Read more here: http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-esa-finalize-agreements-on-climate-artemis-cooperation Open / Comment

2022-06-15 17:48:25 #NewReport from #ISS : "ISS Daily Summary Report – 6/14/2022" Payloads: BioLab: A health check was performed on the Biolab Glovebox. The Biological Experiment Laboratory in Columbus (BioLab) is a multiuser research facility located in the European Columbus laboratory. The facility is used to perform space biology experiments on microorganisms, cells, tissue cultures, small plants, and small invertebrates. BioLab allows scientists to gain a better Open / Comment

2022-06-15 16:53:11 #NewPhoto from #Nasa: "The Sparkle of Distant Galaxies" The brilliant cascade of stars through the middle of this image is the galaxy ESO 318-13. [June 15, 2022] http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/potw1249a.jpeg Open / Comment

2022-06-15 07:11:37 #NewImage from #Nasa: "In the Heart of the Virgo Cluster " The Virgo Cluster of Galaxies is the closest cluster of galaxies to our Milky Way Galaxy. The Virgo Cluster is so close that it spans more than 5 degrees on the sky - about 10 times the angle made by a full Moon. With its heart lying about 70 million light years distant, the Virgo Cluster is the nearest cluster of galaxies, contains over 2,000 galaxies, and has a noticeable gravitational pull on the galaxies of the Local Group of Galaxies surrounding our Milky Way Galaxy. The cluster contains not only galaxies filled with stars but also gas so hot it glows in X-rays. Motions of galaxies in and around clusters indicate that they contain more dark matter than any visible matter we can see. Pictured here, the heart of the Virgo Cluster includes bright Messier galaxies such as Markarian's Eyes on the upper left, M86 just to the upper right of center, M84 on the far right, as well as spiral galaxy NGC 4388 at the bottom right. [June 15, 2022] https://apod.nasa.gov/image/2206/VirgoCentral_Adomaitis_960.jpg Open / Comment

2022-06-14 18:52:08 #BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Invites Media, Public to View Webb Telescope’s First Images" NASA, in partnership with ESA (European Space Agency) and CSA (Canadian Space Agency), will release the James Webb Space Telescope’s first full-color images and spectroscopic data during a televised broadcast beginning at 10:30 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, July 12, from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. [June 14, 2022] Read more here: http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-invites-media-public-to-view-webb-telescope-s-first-images Open / Comment