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NASA astronauts Steve Bowen and Woody Hoburg as well as UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev began their journey back to Earth from the International Space Station on Sunday, September 3, by closing the hatch to the SpaceX Dragon, named Endeavour, followed by undocking. After nearly 16 hours of transit, Bowen, Hoburg, Alneyadi, and Fedyaev returned to Earth with a parachute-assisted splashdown off the coast of Florida on Monday, September 4. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 completed an approximately six-month mission living and working aboard the microgravity laboratory to advance scientific knowledge and demonstrate new technologies for future human and robotic exploration flights that pave the way for NASA’s Artemis program.

NASA ID: NRHO visualization with low-lunar orbit This animation shows the Gateway space station's polar orbit, a unique, highly elongated near-rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO) represented by the blue line that steadily covers every part of the Moon, permitting access to the entire surface. A precisely polar low lunar orbit is represented by the orange line for reference. Date Created:2018-10-08

NASA ID: JPL-20230906-PSYCHEf-0002-Psyche L30 UHD Scheduled to launch on Oct. 5, 2023, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Psyche mission is a journey to a metal asteroid orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter. What makes the asteroid Psyche unique is that it may be the partial core of a planetesimal (one of the building blocks of a rocky planet) or could be primordial material that never melted. The mission aims to help answer fundamental questions about Earth’s own metal core and the formation of our solar system. The spacecraft also will carry NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC), a technology demonstration that aims to show how lasers could increase data transmission rates far beyond the capacity of current radio frequency systems used on spacecraft today. Tune in as we hear from experts behind the mission. JPL Director Laurie Leshin will provide opening remarks, and briefing participants

Venus returns to the early morning skies as a bright beacon in the east. The full moon at the end of the month is known as the Harvest Moon. And if you have access to dark skies away from urban light pollution, you might be able to glimpse the faint, glowing pillar of the zodiacal light. Additional information about topics covered in this episode of What's Up, along with still images from the video, and the video transcript, are available at https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/skywatching/home.

HURRICANE IDALIA IS SEEN FROM THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION AFTER LANDFALL NASA ID: Expedition_69_ Space_Station_Flies_Over_Hurricane_Idalia_230830_1874509 Date Created:2023-08-30 Center:JSC Keywords: hurricane idalia , expedition 69

NASA ID: KSC-20230826-MH-AJN01-0001-SpaceX_Crew_7_Isolated_Launch_and_Landing_Views Live launch coverage of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 mission, beginning with a summarized video of astronaut suit-up inside the iconic Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout building and continuing through launch from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A in Florida. The SpaceX Dragon, Endurance, launched at 3:27 a.m. EDT Saturday, Aug. 26, on a Falcon 9 rocket, carrying NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Andreas Mogensen, who will serve as spacecraft commander and pilot, respectively. JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov will join as mission specialists. Endurance is scheduled to dock to the International Space Station at 8:39 a.m. EDT Sunday, Aug. 27

Crew-7’s pilot is Andreas Mogensen, the Copenhagen, Denmark native who was selected as an ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut in 2009 and became the first Danish citizen in space after launching aboard a Soyuz for a 10-day mission to the space station in 2015. He completed undergraduate studies and received a master’s degree in aeronautical engineering from Imperial College London in England before gaining his doctorate in aerospace engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. Mogensen has since served as a crew member for NEEMO (NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations) missions and was the European astronaut liaison officer to NASA's Johnson Space Center from 2016-2022

NASA ID: Where Are the Moon Rocks_ - Horizontal Video Where are the Moon rocks? When they’re not being studied by institutions or enjoyed by museumgoers, NASA has a specialized Lunar Sample Curation Laboratory at NASA’s Johnson Space Center to store and keep these otherworldly samples safe. Deputy Apollo Sample Curator Dr. Juliane Gross explains more about lunar sample curation. Date Created:2023-08-22

ID: 242_OceanWorlds We once thought oceans made our planet unique, but we’re now coming to realize that ‘ocean worlds’ are all around us.

Earth views from the International Space Station. City lights, auroras, sunsets, oceans, moon on the horizon an other beauty shots of our planet from space

On February 24, 1987, astronomers in the southern hemisphere saw a supernova in the Large Magellanic Cloud. This new object was dubbed “Supernova 1987A” and was the brightest stellar explosion seen in over four centuries. Chandra has observed Supernova 1987A many times and the X-ray data reveal important information about this object. X-rays from Chandra have shown the expanding blast wave from the original explosion slamming into a ring of material expelled by the star before it exploded. The latest Chandra data reveal the blast wave has moved beyond the ring into a region that astronomers do not know much about. These observations can help astronomers learn how supernovas impact their environments and affect future generations of stars and planets.

B-roll for media and public use. NASA’s Europa Clipper mission, scheduled to launch in October 2024, will conduct a detailed survey of Jupiter’s moon Europa to determine whether the icy moon could harbor conditions suitable for life. This reel includes clips showing the assembly and integration of various parts of the spacecraft within a clean room at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The spacecraft, in orbit around Jupiter, will perform dozens of close flybys of Europa, soaring over a different location with each pass so that it eventually scans nearly the entire moon. Europa Clipper will launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

ignition NASA ID: ignition A thruster undergoes testing in 2022 as part of the development of the Gateway space station's Power and Propulsion Element (PPE) that will make Gateway the most powerful solar-electric spacecraft ever flown.

This resource reel shows major milestones for NASA’s mega Moon rocket, the SLS (Space Launch System). Following its debut flight with the launch of Artemis I in November 2022, NASA and its partners across the country continue to make progress building, assembling, and testing hardware for SLS rockets that will power the first crewed Artemis missions with Artemis II, III, and IV. Video highlights include: Artemis I launch footage; core stage production for Artemis II and III at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans; flight software testing at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama; launch vehicle stage adapter production for Artemis II and III also at Marshall; shipment and delivery footage of the ICPS (interim cryogenic propulsion system) for Artemis III; and, propulsion testing of the solid rocket boosters and RS-25 engines for future SLS flights.

This summer, Earth has experienced some of the hottest temperatures on record and July is shaping up to follow this record-breaking trend. Join NASA climate experts Monday, August 14 at 3:30pm ET as they discuss impacts of climate change. Submit your questions using #askNASA.

ISS 4K Crew Earth Observations NASA ID: ISS 4K Crew Earth Observation

A team of engineers and technicians worked on deploying and stowing stationary plasma thrusters (SPT) on NASA's Psyche spacecraft inside the Astrotech Space Operations Facility near the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Aug. 4, 2023. This is part of the assembly, test, and launch operations preparations. The SPT are on a dual axis positioning mechanism, the DAPM, and together they make a DSM, or DAPM-Actuated SPT Module. Psyche will launch atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy. Launch is targeted for Oct. 5, 2023. Riding with Psyche is a pioneering technology demonstration, NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment.

Expedition 69 Space Station Crew Answers Galveston, Texas, Student Questions - Aug. 14, 2023

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