A Day's Work: Robert Behnken Updates Power Systems on the Station
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ISS Daily Summary Report – 6/30/2020
Payloads Plant Habitat-02 Latch Evaluation: Following issues experienced with the Environmental Control System (ECS) installation a few weeks ago, the crew performed a more detailed inspection of the failed locking mechanism on the new ECS.  The inspection went well and the crew was able to lock and unlock the ECS system in the current configuration.  …

July 01, 2020 at 12:00AM
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July 4, 1997: Sojourner Arrives on the Red Planet
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The Galaxy, the Planet, and the Apple Tree
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ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/01/2020
Systems USOS Extravehicular Activity (EVA) #66/S6 Battery EVA #2:  Chris Cassidy (EV1) and Bob Behnken (EV2) performed a 6 hour 1 minute EVA that completed the following tasks in support of the S6 Channel 1B battery transition from nickel hydrogen (NiH2) to lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries: Li-ion Battery D from EP to S6 IEA Slot 6 …

July 02, 2020 at 12:00AM
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NASA Awards Total and Spectral Solar Irradiance Sensor-2 Spacecraft Contract
NASA has awarded the Total and Spectral Solar Irradiance Sensor-2 (TSIS-2) Spacecraft contract to General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems Group of San Diego, California.

July 02, 2020
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Lynds Dark Nebula 1251
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Meeting in the Mesosphere
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Saturns Northern Hexagon
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M43: Dust, Gas, and Stars in the Orion Nebula
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Upgrading the Space Station Is All in a Day's Work
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Artemis Generation Students Across US to Speak with NASA Astronaut in Space
Students from across the nation will pose questions about NASA’s Artemis program to an astronaut aboard the International Space Station. The educational event will air live at 12:15 p.m. EDT Thursday, July 9, on NASA Television and the agency’s website.

July 06, 2020
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NASA Provides Update on Commercial Crew Program, Close Call Review of Boeing’s Orbital Flight Test
NASA will host a media teleconference at 2:30 p.m. EDT Tuesday, July 7, to discuss the outcome of its High Visibility Close Call review of the December 2019 uncrewed Orbital Flight Test of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft.

July 06, 2020
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Comet NEOWISE over Lebanon
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ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/06/2020
Payloads Fluids Integrated Rack/Light Microscopy Module (FIR/LMM)/CDM change out: As a continuation of the CDM experiment, the crew installed the sixth of the ten experiment modules on the FIR/LMM.  Capillary-Driven Microfluidics in Space (Capillary Driven Microfluidics or more simply, CDM) examines the drawing of fluids into a tiny narrow tube in microgravity. Results may improve …

July 07, 2020 at 12:00AM
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Mercurys Sodium Tail
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Jupiter's Magnificent Swirling Clouds
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Heat Shield Milestone Complete for First Orion Mission with Crew
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ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/07/2020
Payloads NRCSD-18 Install to Slide Table:  In preparation for the NanoRacks Cubesat Deployer – mission 18 (NRCSD-18) currently planned for later this month, the crew installed the appropriate hardware onto the JEM airlock slide table.  The NRCSD is a stackable, modular, ground loaded launch case.  Each NanoRacks CubeSat Deployer accommodates up to eight launch cases, …

July 08, 2020 at 12:00AM
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Noctilucent NEOWISE
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STS-135: Shuttle's Final Launch and the Beginning of a New Era
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