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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ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/08/2020
Payloads Fluids Integrated Rack/Light Microscopy Module (FIR/LMM)/CDM Change-out:  As a continuation of the CDM experiment, the crew installed the seventh 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 current …

July 09, 2020 at 12:00AM
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Comet NEOWISE from the ISS
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Creating Psyche: Mission to an Asteroid
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ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/09/2020
Payloads Droplet Formation Study (DFS) installation:  The crew installed the DFS investigation hardware into the Microgravity Science Glovebox (MSG).  The investigation is scheduled to begin later this month.  Droplet Formation Studies in Microgravity (Droplet Formation Study, or more simply DFS) evaluates water droplet formation and water flow of Delta Faucet’s H2O kinetic shower head technology. …

July 10, 2020 at 12:00AM
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NASA Awards SETI Institute Contract for Planetary Protection Support
NASA has awarded the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, a contract to support all phases of current and future planetary protection missions to ensure compliance with planetary protection standards.

July 10, 2020
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Aviation Scholars to Speak with NASA Astronauts Aboard Space Station
Aviation scholars from across the nation will pose questions next week to NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

July 10, 2020
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The Tails of Comet NEOWISE
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Comet CG Creates Its Dust Tail
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Hubble Sees a Star Called HBC 672 and the Bat Shadow
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NASA Broadcasts Final Spacewalks to Upgrade Space Station Power System
NASA astronauts Chris Cassidy and Robert Behnken will conduct a pair of spacewalks Thursday, July 16, and Tuesday, July 21, to finish a 3.5-year effort to upgrade the International Space Station’s power system.

July 13, 2020
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NASA, ESA to Release First Images from Solar Orbiter Mission
Scientists from NASA and ESA (European Space Agency) will release the first data captured by Solar Orbiter, the joint ESA/NASA mission to study the Sun, during an online news briefing at 8 a.m. EDT Thursday, July 16.

July 13, 2020
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Comet NEOWISE over Stonehenge
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ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/13/2020
Payloads NanoRacks External Cygnus CubeSat Deployer (NRCSD): The crew took imagery photos of the NRCSD-18 Deploys. Two satellites were deployed: DeMi (Deformable Mirror) and TechEdSat-10 (Technology Educational Satellite-10). The NanoRacks CubeSat Deployer is a stackable, modular, ground loaded launch case.  Each NanoRacks CubeSat Deployer accommodates up to eight launch cases and are stacked for each …

July 14, 2020 at 12:00AM
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