Friday, July 29, 2022

"The Eagle's Eggs" (infrared wide view) | European Southern Observatory

"The Eagle's Eggs" (infrared wide view) | European Southern Observatory

Messier 16 (M16), also known as the Eagle Nebula, is located in the southern constellation of Serpens (the Snake).

Using the infrared multi-mode ISAAC instrument on the 8.2-m VLT ANTU telescope, European astronomers were able to image the Eagle Nebula at near-infrared wavelength. The ISAAC near-infrared images cover a 9 x 9 arcminutes region, in three broad-band colors and with sufficient sensitivity to detect young stars of all masses and—most importantly—with an image sharpness as good as 0.35 arcseconds.

The wide-field view of M16 shows that there is much happening in the region. The first impression one gets is of an enormous number of stars. Those which are blue in the infrared image are either members of the young NGC 6611 cluster—whose massive stars are concentrated in the upper right (north west) part of the field—or foreground stars which happen to lie along the line of sight towards M16.

Most of the stars are fainter and more yellow. They are ordinary stars behind M16, along the line of sight through the galactic bulge, and are seen through the molecular clouds out of which NGC 6611 formed. Some very red stars are also seen: these are either very young and embedded in gas and dust clouds, or just brighter stars in the background shining through them.

This photo is the result of a three-color composite mosaic image of the Eagle Nebula (Messier 16), based on 144 individual images obtained with the infrared multi-mode instrument ISAAC on the ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the Paranal Observatory. At the center, the so-called "Pillars of Creation" can be seen. This wide-field infrared image shows not only the central three pillars but also several others in the same star-forming region, as well as a huge number of stars in front of, in, or behind the Eagle Nebula. The cluster of bright blue stars to the upper right is NGC 6611, home to the massive and hot stars that illuminate the pillars.

Technical information: This image was made using the near-infrared camera ISAAC on the ESO 8.2-m VLT ANTU telescope on April 8 and May 8 - 10, 2001. The full field measures approximately 9.1 x 9.1 arcmin, covering roughly 17 x 17 light-years (5.3 x 5.3 pc) at the distance to the region (about 6,500 light-years or 2 kpc). This required a 16-position mosaic (4 x 4 grid) of ISAAC pointings : at each pointing, a series of images were taken in each of the near-infrared J s - (centered at 1.24 µm wavelength), H- (1.65µm), and K s - (2.16 µm) bands. North is up and East left.

The total integration time for each pixel in the mosaic was 1200, 300, and 300 seconds in the central 4.5 x 4.5 arcmin region, and 200, 50, and 50 seconds in the outer part, in J s -, H-, and K s - bands, respectively. The seeing FWHM (full width at half maximum) was excellent, at 0.38, 0.36, and 0.33 arcsec in J s, H, and K s, respectively. Point sources are detected in the central region at the 3-sigma level (brightest pixel above background noise) at 22.6, 21.3, and 20.4 magnitudes in J s, H, and K s, respectively. These limits imply that a 1 million year old, 0.075 solar-mass object on the star/brown dwarf boundary could be detected in M16 through roughly 15, 20, and 30 magnitudes of visual extinction at J s, H, and K s, respectively.

After removal of instrumental signatures and the bright infrared sky background, all frames in a given band were carefully aligned and adjusted to form a seamless mosaic. The three monochromatic mosaics were then scaled to the cube root of their intensities to reduce the enormous dynamic range and enhance faint nebular features. The mosaics were then combined to create the color-coded image, with the J s -band being rendered as blue, the H-band as green, and the K s -band as red. A total of 144 individual 1024 x 1024 pixel ISAAC images were merged to form this mosaic.

Credit: European Southern Observatory/M.McCaughrean & M.Andersen (AIP)

Release Date: December 20, 2001


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NASA's Space to Ground: Decades of Results | Week of July 29, 2022

NASA's Space to Ground: Decades of Results | Week of July 29, 2022

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station.

Learn more about the important research being operated on Station:

nasa.gov/stationbenefits

https://www.nasa.gov/iss-science 

For more information about STEM on Station:

https://www.nasa.gov/stemonstation

Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM) 


Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Duration: 2 minutes, 36 seconds

Release Date: July 29, 2022


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Thursday, July 28, 2022

New Views of The Pillars of Creation: Hubble's Universe Unfiltered

New Views of The Pillars of Creation: Hubble's Universe Unfiltered

Presented by Dr. Frank Summers, Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)

One of Hubble's most famous images was taken in 1995. The iconic "Pillars of Creation" shows the tall and beautiful gaseous pillar structures that can form inside star-forming regions. Within these dark clouds, stars are being born. Hubble kicked off its 25th anniversary year in 2015 with some images that used its improved cameras to revisit these beautiful pillars. This larger, higher resolution, and expanded wavelength examination uncovered new details, new features, and new perspectives on a classic image.  

For more information: 

https://hubblesite.org/science

Background Notes:

—Most will remember that there was an initial flaw in Hubble's mirror that was corrected in 1993. After that repair mission, it took some time for the public to recognize just how amazing Hubble's views of the universe really were. The 'Pillars of Creation' image, released in November 1995, was a watershed in that regard. The image was shown on television news and reproduced in newspapers and magazines everywhere. The widespread attention helped certify Hubble's status to the public as the pre-eminent observatory of our time.

—The "teapot" in Sagittarius is not the full constellation. It is a star pattern, called an "asterism," within the larger collection of connected stars that makes up the entire constellation. One can search online to see the full Sagittarius constellation as it depicts the archer. A similar asterism is the Big Dipper, which is a star pattern within the constellation of Ursa Major.

—The visible and infrared views of astronomical objects are generally similar enough that one can identify common structures between the views. When using other wavelengths, like X-rays or radio waves, it can be very hard to identify how the two different wavelength views correspond. Astronomers must record the exact sky coordinates of an image in order to be able to precisely compare against views by other telescopes and in other wavelengths.


Video Credit: Space Telescope Science Institute (

Duration: 16 minutes

Release Date: March 4, 2016


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Revisiting The Pillars of Creation | Hubble

Revisiting The Pillars of Creation | Hubble

Hubblecast 82: The NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope has revisited one of its most iconic and popular images: the Eagle Nebula’s Pillars of Creation. This time Hubble has not just one image for us, but two: as well as the new visible-light image the telescope used infrared light to produce a second breathtaking picture of the region. Between them these images show the pillars in more detail than ever before. In this Hubblecast we explore the different ways in which Hubble, and other telescopes, have captured this iconic object.


Directed by: Georgia Bladon

Visual design and editing: Martin Kornmesser

Written by: Georgia Bladon and Nicky Guttridge

Narration: Sara Mendes da Costa

Images: NASA, ESA/Hubble and the Hubble Heritage Team, J. Hester and P. Scowen (Arizona State University), ESO, Digitized Sky Survey 2, M. McCaughrean & M. Andersen (AIP)

Video: NASA, European Space Agency/Hubble 

Animations: Martin Kornmesser, Luis Calcada, NASA, ESA/Hubble 

Music: Toomas Erm (European Southern Observatory)

Web and technical support: Mathias Andre and Raquel Yumi Shida

Executive producer: Lars Lindberg Christensen

Duration: 6 minutes

Release Date: January 5, 2015



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Stellar Powerhouses in The Eagle Nebula | Hubble

Stellar Powerhouses in The Eagle Nebula | Hubble


A spectacular section of the well-known Eagle Nebula has been targeted by the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope. This collection of dazzling stars is called NGC 6611, an open star cluster that formed about 5.5 million years ago and is found approximately 6,500 light-years from the Earth. It is a very young cluster, containing many hot, blue stars, whose fierce ultraviolet glow make the surrounding Eagle Nebula glow brightly. The cluster and the associated nebula together are also known as Messier 16.

Astronomers refer to areas like the Eagle Nebula as HII regions. This is the scientific notation for ionized hydrogen from which the region is largely made. Extrapolating far into the future, this HII region will eventually disperse, helped along by shockwaves from supernova explosions as the more massive young stars end their brief but brilliant lives.

In this image, dark patches can also be spotted, punctuating the stellar landscape. These areas of apparent nothingness are actually very dense regions of gas and dust, which obstruct light from passing through. Many of these may be hiding the sites of the early stages of star formation, before the fledgling stars clear away their surroundings and burst into view. Dark nebulae, large and small, are dotted throughout the Universe. If you look up to the Milky Way with the naked eye from a dark, remote site, you can easily spot some huge dark nebulae blocking the background starlight.

This picture was created from images from Hubble’s Wide Field Channel of the Advanced Camera for Surveys through the unusual combination of two near-infrared filters (F775W, colored blue, and F850LP, colored red). The image has also been subtly colorized using a ground-based image taken through more conventional filters. The Hubble exposure times were 2,000s in both cases and the field of view is about 3.2 arcminutes across.


Credit: European Space Agency/Hubble & NASA

Release Date: January 3, 2011


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ESA Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti on Spacewalk | International Space Station

ESA Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti on Spacewalk | International Space Station

ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti begins her first spacewalk

ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti of Italy exits the Space Station to begin her first ever spacewalk, alongside cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev on July 21, 2022. This spacewalk was also the first conducted by a European woman, and the first conducted by a European in an Orlan spacesuit from the International Space Station.

 Credit: ESA/NASA/Roscosmos/Sergey Korsakov

ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti & cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev on spacewalk
Credit: Roscosmos/Sergey Korsakov

ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti during a spacewalk
Credit: Roscosmos/Sergey Korsakov

ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti in Orlan spacesuit

European astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti of Italy prepares for her first ever spacewalk alongside cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev. 

Screenshot taken from GoPro video

Credit: ESA/NASA/Roscosmos/Sergey Korsakov


    Screenshot taken from GoPro video

Credit: ESA/NASA/Roscosmos/Sergey Korsakov


On July 21, 2022, European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti of Italy completed her first ever spacewalk alongside cosmonaut and Expedition 67 Commander Oleg Artemyev of Russia. Not only that, but this spacewalk was also the first conducted by a European woman, and the first conducted by a European in a Russian Orlan spacesuit from the International Space Station.

Expedition 67 Commander Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos and Flight Engineer Samantha Cristoforetti of ESA (European Space Agency) concluded their spacewalk at 5:55 p.m. EDT on July 21, 2022, after 7 hours and 5 minutes. Artemyev and Cristoforetti completed all but one of their major objectives, which included the deployment of 10 nanosatellites designed to collect radio electronics data during the spacewalk and installing platforms and workstation adapter hardware near the 37-foot-long manipulator system mounted to Nauka. The spacewalkers also relocated the arm’s external control panel and replaced a protective window on the arm’s camera unit. The last planned activity, to extend a Strela telescoping boom from Zarya to Poisk, will be completed on a future spacewalk.

Additional spacewalks are planned to continue outfitting the European robotic arm and to activate Nauka’s airlock for future spacewalks.

The work on the European robotic arm will be used to move spacewalkers and payloads around the Russian segment of the station.

This was the sixth spacewalk in Artemyev’s career, and the first for Cristoforetti. It was the sixth spacewalk at the station in 2022 and the 251st spacewalk for space station assembly, maintenance, and upgrades.

Expedition 67 Crew

Commander Oleg Artemyev (Russia)

Roscosmos Flight Engineers: Denis Matveev and Sergey Korsakov (Russia)

NASA Flight Engineers: Kjell Lindgren, Bob Hines, Jessica Watkins (USA)

European Space Agency (ESA) Flight Engineer: Samantha Cristoforetti (Italy)

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the  International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada. The ISS has been the most politically complex space exploration program ever undertaken.

Learn more about the important research being operated on ISS: https://www.nasa.gov/iss-science


Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center/European Space Agency (ESA)/Roscosmos

Capture Date: July 21, 2022

Release Date: July 28, 2022


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Rising Eagle: Stellar Spire in The Eagle Nebula | Hubble

Rising Eagle: Stellar Spire in The Eagle Nebula | Hubble


Appearing like a winged fairy-tale creature poised on a pedestal, this object is actually a billowing tower of cold gas and dust rising from a stellar nursery called the Eagle Nebula. The soaring tower is 9.5 light-years or about 90 trillion kilometers high, about twice the distance from our Sun to the next nearest star.

Stars in the Eagle Nebula are born in clouds of cold hydrogen gas that reside in chaotic neighborhoods, where energy from young stars sculpts fantasy-like landscapes in the gas. The tower may be a giant incubator for those newborn stars. A torrent of ultraviolet light from a band of massive, hot, young stars [off the top of the image] is eroding the pillar.

The starlight also is responsible for illuminating the tower's rough surface. Ghostly streamers of gas can be seen boiling off this surface, creating the haze around the structure and highlighting its three-dimensional shape. The column is silhouetted against the background glow of more distant gas.

The edge of the dark hydrogen cloud at the top of the tower is resisting erosion, in a manner similar to that of brush among a field of prairie grass that is being swept up by fire. The fire quickly burns the grass but slows down when it encounters the dense brush. In this celestial case, thick clouds of hydrogen gas and dust have survived longer than their surroundings in the face of a blast of ultraviolet light from the hot, young stars.

Inside the gaseous tower, stars may be forming. Some of those stars may have been created by dense gas collapsing under gravity. Other stars may be forming due to pressure from gas that has been heated by the neighboring hot stars.

The first wave of stars may have started forming before the massive star cluster began venting its scorching light. The star birth may have begun when denser regions of cold gas within the tower started collapsing under their own weight to make stars.

The bumps and fingers of material in the center of the tower are examples of these stellar birthing areas. These regions may look small but they are roughly the size of our solar system. The fledgling stars continued to grow as they fed off the surrounding gas cloud. They abruptly stopped growing when light from the star cluster uncovered their gaseous cradles, separating them from their gas supply.

Ironically, the young cluster's intense starlight may be inducing star formation in some regions of the tower. Examples can be seen in the large, glowing clumps and finger-shaped protrusions at the top of the structure. The stars may be heating the gas at the top of the tower and creating a shock front, as seen by the bright rim of material tracing the edge of the nebula at top, left. As the heated gas expands, it acts like a battering ram, pushing against the darker cold gas. The intense pressure compresses the gas, making it easier for stars to form. This scenario may continue as the shock front moves slowly down the tower.

The dominant colors in the image were produced by gas energized by the star cluster's powerful ultraviolet light. The blue color at the top is from glowing oxygen. The red color in the lower region is from glowing hydrogen. The Eagle Nebula image was taken in November 2004 with the Advanced Camera for Surveys aboard the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope.


Credit: NASA, European Space Agency, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

Release Date: April 25, 2005


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The Pillars of Creation—fade from visible to infrared | Hubble

The Pillars of Creation—fade from visible to infrared | Hubble

This video compares two new views of the Eagle Nebula’s Pillars of Creation captured by Hubble by fading from one into the other.

First, the pillars are shown as seen in visible light, capturing the multi-colored glow of gas clouds, wispy tendrils of dark cosmic dust, and the rust-colored elephants’ trunks of the nebula’s famous pillars.

The video then fades into an image taken in infrared light, which penetrates much of the obscuring dust and gas and unveils a more unfamiliar view of the pillars.


Credit: NASA, European Space Agency/Hubble and the Hubble Heritage Team

Duration: 36 seconds

Release Date: January 5, 2015


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The Pillars of Creation—visible & infrared comparison | Hubble

The Pillars of Creation—visible and infrared comparison | Hubble


This image compares two views of the Eagle Nebula’s Pillars of Creation captured by Hubble. On the left the pillars are seen in visible light, capturing the multi-colored glow of gas clouds, wispy tendrils of dark cosmic dust, and the rust-colored elephants’ trunks of the nebula’s famous pillars.

The right image is taken in infrared light, which penetrates much of the obscuring dust and gas and unveils a more unfamiliar view of the pillars.


Credit: NASA, European Space Agency/Hubble and the Hubble Heritage Team

Release Date: January 5, 2015


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Pan over The Pillars of Creation—Infrared | Hubble

Pan over The Pillars of Creation—Infrared | Hubble

This video pans over the new NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope image of the Eagle Nebula’s Pillars of Creation. This image is taken in infrared light, which penetrates much of the obscuring dust and gas and unveils a more unfamiliar view of the pillars.

In this ethereal view the entire frame is peppered with bright stars and baby stars are revealed being formed within the pillars themselves. The ghostly outlines of the pillars seem much more delicate, and are silhouetted against an eerie blue haze.


Credit: NASA, European Space Agency/Hubble and the Hubble Heritage Team

Duration: 26 seconds

Release Date: January 5, 2015


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The Pillars of Creation in Infrared | Hubble

The Pillars of Creation in Infrared | Hubble


The NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope has revisited one of its most iconic and popular images: the Eagle Nebula’s Pillars of Creation.

This image shows the pillars as seen in infrared light, allowing it to pierce through obscuring dust and gas and unveil a more unfamiliar—but just as amazing—view of the pillars.

In this ethereal view the entire frame is peppered with bright stars and baby stars are revealed being formed within the pillars themselves. The ghostly outlines of the pillars seem much more delicate, and are silhouetted against an eerie blue haze.

Hubble also captured the pillars in visible light.


Credit: NASA, European Space Agency/Hubble and the Hubble Heritage Team

Release Date: January 5, 2015


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Pan over The Pillars of Creation | Hubble

Pan over The Pillars of Creation | Hubble

This video pans over a NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope image of the Eagle Nebula’s Pillars of Creation.

This image shows the pillars as seen in visible light, capturing the multi-colored glow of gas clouds, wispy tendrils of dark cosmic dust, and the rust-colored elephants’ trunks of the nebula’s famous pillars.

The dust and gas in the pillars is seared by the intense radiation from young stars and eroded by strong winds from massive nearby stars. With these new images comes better contrast and a clearer view for astronomers to study how the structure of the pillars is changing over time.


Credit: NASA, European Space Agency/Hubble and the Hubble Heritage Team

Duration: 26 seconds

Release Date: January 5, 2015


#NASA #ESA #ESO #Astronomy #Space #Hubble #Nebula #EagleNebula #Messier16 #NGC6611 #PillarsOfCreation #SerpensCauda #Constellation #MilkyWay #Galaxy #Cosmos #Universe #SpaceTelescope #GSFC #STScI #UnitedStates #Europe #Chile #SouthAmerica #STEM #Education #HD #Video

Zoom into The Pillars of Creation | NASA Hubble

 Zoom into The Pillars of Creation | NASA Hubble

Hubble’s legendary “Pillars of Creation” are bathed in the blistering ultraviolet light from a grouping of young, massive stars located off the top of the image. Streamers of gas can be seen bleeding off the pillars as the intense radiation heats and evaporates it into space. Denser regions of the pillars are shielding material beneath them from the powerful radiation.

Credit: NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI)

Acknowledgment: NASA, European Space Agency, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), the Digitized Sky Survey ((DSS), STScI/AURA, Palomar/Caltech, and UKSTU/AAO), T.A. Rector (NRAO/AUI/NSF and NOAO/AURA/NSF) and B.A. Wolpa (NOAO/AURA/NSF), and A. Fujii

Duration: 56 seconds

Release Date: January 14, 2015


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Zoom into The Pillars of Creation | Hubble

Zoom into The Pillars of Creation | Hubble

This video zooms from a ground-based view into a three-color composite mosaic image of the Eagle Nebula (Messier 16), based on images obtained with the Max Planck Gesellschaft (MPG)/European Southern Observatory (ESO) 2.2-meter telescope, finishing on the 2015 NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope image of the Eagle Nebula’s Pillars of Creation.


Credit: NASA, European Space Agency/Hubble and the Hubble Heritage Team

Duration: 56 seconds

Release Date: January 14, 2015


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The Eagle Nebula's Pillars of Creation | Hubble

The Eagle Nebula's Pillars of Creation | Hubble


The NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope has revisited one of its most iconic and popular images: the Eagle Nebula’s Pillars of Creation. This image shows the pillars as seen in visible light, capturing the multi-colored glow of gas clouds, wispy tendrils of dark cosmic dust, and the rust-colored elephants’ trunks of the nebula’s famous pillars.

The dust and gas in the pillars is seared by the intense radiation from young stars and eroded by strong winds from massive nearby stars. With these images, we have gained better contrast and a clearer view for astronomers to study how the structure of the pillars is changing over time.

Distance: 7000 light years


Credit: NASA, European Space Agency/Hubble and the Hubble Heritage Team

Release Date: January 5, 2015


#NASA #ESA #Astronomy #Space #Hubble #Nebula #EagleNebula #Messier16 #NGC6611 #PillarsOfCreation #SerpensCauda #Constellation #MilkyWay #Galaxy #Cosmos #Universe #SpaceTelescope #GSFC #STScI #UnitedStates #Europe #STEM #Education

Wednesday, July 27, 2022

Expedition 68 Space Station Crew Training | NASA's Johnson Space Center

Expedition 68 Space Station Crew Training | NASA's Johnson Space Center

Russian Cosmonauts, Japanese & American Astronauts Train Together in Houston, Texas

Expedition 68 Crew: Frank Rubio (USA), Josh Cassada (USA), Koichi Wakata (Japan), Nicole Mann (USA), Anna Kikina (Russia), Dmitri Petelin (Russia), Sergey Prokopyev (Russia)

Credit: NASA/James Blair

Image Date: May 13, 2022

Roscosmos Cosmonaut Anna Kikina smiles during training inside the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility (SVMF) to prepare for her upcoming journey to the International Space Station as part of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 mission.
Credit: NASA/James Blair

Image Date: May 13, 2022

NASA Astronaut Nicole Mann smiles during training inside the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility (SVMF) to prepare for her upcoming journey to the International Space Station as part of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 mission.
Credit: NASA/James Blair

Image Date: May 13, 2022

Crew-5 training
May 13, 2022
Credit: NASA/James Blair
Crew-5 prepares for their mission
May 13, 2022
Credit: NASA/James Blair
Emergency Preparedness Training for SpaceX Crew-5
May 13, 2022
Credit: NASA/James Blair
SpaceX Crew-5 Training
May 13, 2022
Credit: NASA/James Blair

Anna Kikina in SpaceX Crew Dragon Capsule

Cosmonaut Anna Kikina sits in a mockup of the spacecraft that will take NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 mission to the International Space Station during training at SpaceX in Hawthorne, California. This will be a different experience from flying in the Soyuz. Cosmonaut Anna Kikina will be the first Russian to travel aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft (and from U.S. soil).

Credit: SpaceX

Image Date: June 27, 2022


Expedition 68 crewmembers train for emergency scenarios in the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston before their International Space Station mission. 

NASA Astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada are going to the International Space Station no earlier than Sept. 29, 2022 alongside their crewmates, Koichi Wakata of JAXA, and Anna Kikina of Roscosmos.

Astronaut Josh Cassada Official NASA Biography

https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/josh-a-cassada

Astronaut Nicole Mann Official NASA Biography

https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/nicole-a-mann

Astronaut Koichi Wakata Official JAXA Biography

https://humans-in-space.jaxa.jp/en/astronaut/wakata-koichi/


Cosmonaut Anna Kikina Roscosmos Info

Anna Yuryevna Kikina (Russian: Анна Юрьевна Кикина, born August 27, 1984, in Novosibirsk) is a Russian engineer and test cosmonaut, selected in 2012. She is the only woman cosmonaut currently in active service at Roscosmos. [Wikipedia]


An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the  International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada. The ISS has been the most politically complex space exploration program ever undertaken.

Learn more about the important research being operated on ISS: https://www.nasa.gov/iss-science 


Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Release Date: July 26, 2022


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