Humans in Space
On June 7, 2021, NASA’s Juno spacecraft flew closer to Jupiter’s ice-encrusted moon Ganymede than any spacecraft in more than two decades. Less than a day later, Juno made its 34th flyby of Jupiter. This animation provides a “starship captain” point of view of each flyby. For both worlds, JunoCam images were orthographically projected onto …
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Submitted By : Bjorn_Jonsson Mission Phase : PERIJOVE 34 An approximately true color/contrast mosaic of Ganymede images pj34_01 and pj34_02. The viewing geometry for image pj34_02 was used for the mosaic. The color is mainly based on Ganymede’s global visible light spectrum but it is somewhat subjective and approximate. Since an accurately reconstructed trajectory for …
Expedition 65 Flight Engineers (from left) Thomas Pesquet of ESA (European Space Agency) and Shane Kimbrough of NASA gather and prepack cargo to be returned to Earth on the next SpaceX Cargo Dragon mission targeted for launch on June 3, 2021. Credits: NASA Katherine Brown Headquarters, Washington Sandra Jones Johnson Space Center, Houston Love0 Share …
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NASA astronaut Kate Rubins adjusts research hardware aboard the International Space Station. Her feet are strapped to the floor to give her leverage as she works in the station’s low gravity. The longer she stays in this low gravity, the more her bone density and muscle mass will change. Credits: NASA For every month in …
NASA astronaut candidate Kayla Barron poses for a portrait after donning her spacesuit, Friday, July 12, 2019 at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Credits: NASA/Bill Ingalls Barron was born in Pocatello, Idaho, but considers Richland, Washington, her hometown. She earned a bachelor’s degree in systems engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, …
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Mizuna mustard plants grow inside plant pillows in the Vegetable Production System, also known as Veggie, on the International Space Station. Credits: NASA Growing fresh vegetables in space offers benefits beyond providing a source of nutrition to crew members, explained Dr. Gioia Massa, project scientist at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Here on Earth, …
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 11:17 a.m. EST on Dec. 6, 2020, carrying the uncrewed cargo Dragon spacecraft on its journey to the International Space Station for NASA and SpaceX’s 21st Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-21) mission. Dragon will deliver more than 6,400 …
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President Joe Biden stands with a model of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, which achieved its first flight on the Red Planet April 19. Credits: White House/Adam Schultz It’s been a busy 100 days! Since Jan. 20, we’ve landed our Perseverance rover on Mars, and flown our Ingenuity helicopter, a technology demonstration that caught a ride …
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Expedition 64 Flight Engineers Kate Rubins of NASA and Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov of Roscosmos are scheduled to depart the International Space Station Friday, April 16. The three crew members are pictured inside the Kibo laboratory module from JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency). Credits: NASA Rubins, along with Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey …
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