Liftoff! NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Launches to International Space Station
29 Sep
Science & Technology

Liftoff! NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Launches to International Space Station

Posted by author-avatar
0
NASA Space Technology The two crew members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission launched at 1:17 p.m. EDT Saturday, for a science expedition aboard the International Space Station. This is the first human spaceflight mission launched from Space Launch Complex-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, and the agency’s ninth commercial crew rotation mission to the space station.A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket propelled the Dragon spacecraft into orbit carrying NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov. The spacecraft will dock autonomously to the forward-facing port of the station’s Harmony module at approximately 5:30 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 29, where Hague and Gorbunov will join Expedition 72 for a five-month stay aboard the orbiting laboratory.“This mission required a lot of operational and planning flexibility. I congratulate the entire team on a successful launch today,...
Continue reading
Hubble Captures Stellar Nurseries in a Majestic Spiral
29 Sep
Science & Technology

Hubble Captures Stellar Nurseries in a Majestic Spiral

Posted by author-avatar
0
NASA Space Technology This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features the spiral galaxy IC 1954, located 45 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Horologium. It sports a glowing bar in its core, majestically winding spiral arms, and clouds of dark dust across it. Numerous glowing, pink spots across the disc of the galaxy are H-alpha regions that offer astronomers a view of star-forming nebulae, which are prominent emitters of red, H-alpha light. Some astronomers theorize that the galaxy’s ‘bar’ is actually an energetic star-forming region that just happens to lie over the galactic center.The data featured in this image come from a program that extends the cooperation among multiple observatories: Hubble, the infrared James Webb Space Telescope, and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, a ground-based radio telescope. By surveying IC 1954 and...
Continue reading
An International Space Station Leak Is Getting Worse—and Keeping NASA Up at Night
29 Sep
Science & Technology

An International Space Station Leak Is Getting Worse—and Keeping NASA Up at Night

Posted by author-avatar
0
NASA Space Technology US space officials do not like to talk about the perils of flying astronauts on the aging International Space Station, elements of which are now more than a quarter of a century old.However, a new report confirms that NASA managers responsible for operating the space station are seriously concerned about a small Russian part of the station, essentially a tunnel that connects a larger module to a docking port, which is leaking.Russian and US officials have known that this small PrK module, which lies between a Progress spacecraft airlock and the Star module, has been leaking since September 2019. A new report, published Thursday by NASA's inspector general, provides details not previously released by the space agency that underline the severity of the problem.NASA Space Technology New Details About the LeakFor example,...
Continue reading
Load more posts
Loading...