Patrick Stoliker, NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center’s Deputy Director, is retiring Feb. 18. He had a 30-year career as an engineer and manager at the
Pat Stoliker, NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center deputy director, tried his hand
The events listed here took place in Arkansas in April 2024. We appreciate your interest and encourage you to stay tuned for future events about space
NOAA and NASA scientists will be on hand to talk more about eclipse science.
69 Progress (69P) Undock: Last night, 69P undocked from the Service Module (SM) Aft port at 9:16 PM CDT. This Progress vehicle will remain on-orbit conduct non-ISS free-flight experiments until 29-August. The deorbit burn is scheduled for Wednesday, August 29 at 8:24 PM CDT followed by atmospheric entry and destruction. Center for the Advancement of Science …
Astronauts onboard the ISS test a hand-held sextant that is intended for use on future
NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) solid rocket boosters have grown taller with the addition of the fifth and final pair of motor segments in preparation for the launch of Artemis I later this year. At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, engineers with Exploration Ground Systems lowered the final solid rocket booster into place on …
the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the left-hand
Three Expedition 47 crew members are preparing to go home early Saturday morning. Three other station residents will stay behind beginning Expedition 48 on the International Space Station. Veteran cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko will command the Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft that will take him and astronauts Tim Kopra and Tim Peake back to Earth. The trio are …
Swap Station Command Friday Morning Commander Tim Kopra (bottom row center) will hand
Rodent Research-3 (RR-3) Operations: The crew completed operations on 5 more rodents, performing bone densitometry measurements, then transferring the rodents to the Microgravity Science Glovebox (MSG) for sample processing. Today’s operations conclude this session of RR activities. The next activities are tentatively planned following SpaceX-10 arrival. This investigation studies the molecular and physical changes to …
Ground investigations and on-orbit troubleshooting determined that the right hand
Payloads: Bio-Monitor: A crewmember performed the setup and donned the Bio-Monitor Garment and Headband and initiated a 48-hour data session. Bio-Monitor is a Canadian onboard instrument that serves as a platform for scientific experiments on the ISS. The instrument performs on-orbit monitoring of crew member physiological parameters, with wearable sensors that only minimally interfere with …
the crew is completing several activities for the Crew Dragon, beginning with a hand
Payloads: Behavioral Core Measures: Crew completed a ROBoT-r (simulated CanadArm manipulation task) research session. The Standardized Behavioral Measures for Detecting Behavioral Health Risks during Exploration Missions (Behavioral Core Measures) experiment initially examined a suite of measurements to reliably assess the risk of adverse cognitive or behavioral conditions and psychiatric disorders during long-duration spaceflight, and evaluated …
instrumented with Infra-Red markers distributed on the head, the torso and the hand
On July 19, 2024, NASA officially named Johnson Space Center’s building 12 the “Dorothy Vaughan Center in Honor of the Women of Apollo.” A portrait of Dorothy
This portrait was hand-painted by Eliza Hoffman, an accomplished artist who is also
Week of April 6-10
live on Mars is being used to address an immediate need here on Earth and produce hand
