NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for IMAP Mission
NASA has selected Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for the agency’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission, which includes four secondary payloads.

September 25, 2020
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Hubble Shoots the Moon
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Moon Pairs and the Synodic Month
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Lightning over Colorado
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Filaments of the Cygnus Loop
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Soyuz MS-16 Spacecraft Docked to the Space Station
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Astronaut Serena M. Auñón-Chancellor Examines Her Eyes in Space
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ISS Daily Summary Report – 9/28/2020
Payloads Combustion Integrated Rack/Advanced Combustion via Microgravity Experiments (CIR/ACME)/BRE-2: The crew exchanged a GC (gas chromatograph) argon bottle and opened the valve on the 40% O2/60% N2 bottle on manifold 2.  This was performed in support of the continuing BRE part 2 (Burning Rate Emulator) investigation, which is one of the ACME suite of five …

September 29, 2020 at 12:00AM
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ISS Daily Summary Report – 9/29/2020
Payloads Radi-N2 Retrieve: The crew retrieved the eight Radi-N2 bubble detectors from their deployed location near windows 3 and 4 in the Cupola, and handed over the Russian crew for processing.  The detectors had been deployed in this location for one week.  The objective of this Canadian Space Agency investigation is to better characterize the …

September 30, 2020 at 12:00AM
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Retroreflectors: From Apollo to Mars
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NASA Astronaut Aboard Space Station to Answer Questions from High School Students
NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy, currently aboard the International Space Station, will answer questions posed by high school students from across the nation this week.

September 30, 2020
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Solis Lacus: The Eye of Mars
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Satellite Captures Active Fires in the Western U.S.
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ISS Daily Summary Report – 9/30/2020
Payloads Sally Ride Earth Knowledge Acquired by Middle Schools (EarthKAM) Lens Change: The crew exchanged the currently-installed 50mm camera lens for an 85mm camera lens.  This activity is typically performed about halfway through an EarthKAM mission to give the students different options for their targets.  As of the last report, almost 21,000 students from 33 …

October 01, 2020 at 12:00AM
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Biking to the Moon
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Hubble Captures Galactic Glamour Shot
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ISS Daily Summary Report – 10/01/2020
Payloads Astrobee: The crew powered on the Astrobee system, and the ground team performed a series of file transfers and commands.  The goal was to perform several tasks as a continuation of the checkout for the upcoming Robo Pro Challenge.  The Kibo Robot Programming Challenge (Robo-Pro Challenge), also known as Kibo-RPC, allows students to create …

October 02, 2020 at 12:00AM
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NASA Science, Cargo Heads to Space Station on Northrop Grumman Resupply Mission
A Northrop Grumman Cygnus resupply spacecraft is on its way to the International Space Station with nearly 8,000 pounds of scientific investigations, technology demonstrations, commercial products, and other cargo after launching at 9:16 p.m. EDT Friday from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia.

October 03, 2020
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Driving to the Sun
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Orion Nebula in Oxygen, Hydrogen, and Sulfur
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NGC 5643: Nearby Spiral Galaxy from Hubble
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