Expedition 68 Crew: New November 2022 Photos | International Space Station

Expedition 68 Crew: New November 2022 Photos | International Space Station

The seven Expedition 68 crew members join each other for a portrait inside the International Space Station's Unity module. From left are, Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina; NASA astronauts Frank Rubio and Josh Cassada; Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata; NASA astronaut Nicole Mann; and Roscosmos cosmonauts Dmitri Petelin and Sergey Prokopyev.

Three Expedition 68 Flight Engineers pose for a portrait inside the International Space Station's U.S. Destiny laboratory module. From left are, astronaut Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), and NASA astronauts Frank Rubio and Nicole Mann.

NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Frank Rubio are pictured inside the seven window cupola, the International Space Station's "window to the world," while orbiting 272 miles above the south Atlantic Ocean.

NASA astronaut and Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Frank Rubio is pictured inside the International Space Station's U.S. Destiny laboratory module.

NASA astronaut and Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Nicole Mann gives a "thumbs up" from inside the Harmony module's forward-facing international docking adapter where the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour crew ship is docked.

Roscosmos cosmonaut and Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Anna Kikina is pictured carrying personal protective equipment inside the Harmony module's forward-facing international docking adapter where the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour crew ship is docked.

Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) gives a "thumbs up" from inside the Harmony module's forward-facing international docking adapter where the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour crew ship is docked.

NASA astronaut and Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Josh Cassada is pictured inside the Harmony module's forward-facing international docking adapter where the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour crew ship is docked.

Spacewalks are on the schedule this month for two astronauts and two cosmonauts. Cassada and NASA Flight Engineer Frank Rubio are preparing for a Nov. 15, 2022, spacewalk to ready the orbiting lab for its third and fourth rollout solar arrays. 

Expedition 68 Crew

Station Commander Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos (Russia)

Roscosmos (Russia): Flight Engineers Anna Kikina & Dmitri Petelin

NASA: Flight Engineers Nicole Mann, Frank Rubio & Josh Cassada

JAXA (Japan): Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata

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)

Image Date: November 3, 2022

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Nicole Aunapu Mann: First Native American Woman from NASA in Space

Nicole Aunapu Mann: First Native American Woman from NASA in Space

The first Indigenous woman from NASA has gone to space!

Selected as an astronaut candidate in June 2013, Nicole Aunapu Mann is the first Native American woman from NASA in space. In 2018, she was chosen as one of the nine astronauts to crew the first flight tests and missions of the Boeing CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX Crew Dragon. In her first spaceflight, she launched to the International Space Station as commander of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft on Oct. 5, 2022.

As mission commander, she will be responsible for all phases of flight, from launch to re-entry. Aboard the station, she serves as an Expedition 68 flight engineer.

View the Native American Heritage Month Gallery: 

https://www.nasa.gov/content/native-american-heritage-month

Astronaut Nicole Mann Official NASA Biography:

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

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

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Release Date: October 5, 2022

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Total Lunar Eclipse & NASA's Artemis I Moon Rocket | Kennedy Space Center

Total Lunar Eclipse & NASA's Artemis I Moon Rocket | Kennedy Space Center

The Moon is seen during a total lunar eclipse above NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard atop a mobile launcher at Launch Pad 39B, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s Artemis I flight test is the first integrated test of the agency’s deep space exploration systems: the Orion spacecraft, SLS rocket, and supporting ground systems. 

The first in a series of increasingly complex missions, Artemis I will be an uncrewed flight test that will provide a foundation for human deep space exploration, and demonstrate NASA's commitment and capability to extend human existence to the Moon and beyond.  It will travel 280,000 miles from Earth, thousands of miles beyond the Moon over the course of about a three-week mission. Orion will stay in space longer than any ship for astronauts has done without docking to a space station and return home faster and hotter than ever before.

On the Artemis III Mission, NASA will land the first woman and the first person of color on the surface of the Moon, paving the way for a long-term lunar presence and serving as a steppingstone on the way to Mars. 

Learn more about Artemis I at:

NASA's Artemis Program:

https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis

https://www.nasa.gov/artemis-1

NASA's Space Launch System (SLS)

https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/index.html

NASA's Orion Spacecraft

https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/orion/about/index.html

Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky

Image Date: November 8, 2022

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Gravitational Lensing: Magnifying the Universe's Distant Past | Hubble

Gravitational Lensing: Magnifying the Universe's Distant Past | Hubble

Space Sparks Episode 5: This Space Sparks Episode explores the concept of gravitational lensing. 

This effect is only visible in rare cases and only the best telescopes—including the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope—can observe the results of gravitational lensing. The strong gravity of a massive object, such as a cluster of galaxies, warps the surrounding space, and light from distant objects travelling through that warped space is curved away from its straight-line path.

This video will highlight how Hubble's sensitivity and high resolution allows it to see details in these faint, distorted images of distant galaxies.

Credits: 

Directed by: Bethany Downer and Nico Bartmann  

Editing: Nico Bartmann  

Web and technical support: Enciso Systems  

Written by: Bethany Downer   

Footage and photos: European Space Agency (ESA)/Hubble, NASA

Duration: 5 minutes, 30 seconds

Release Date: August 4, 2021

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Distant Galaxy Cluster Abell 611: Wide-field View

Distant Galaxy Cluster Abell 611: Wide-field View

This image shows a wide-field view of the galaxy cluster Abell 611. Abell 611 is located roughly 3.2 billion light years from Earth. 

Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)/Hubble, Digitized Sky Survey 2.

Acknowledgement: D. De Martin

Release Date: October 27, 2022

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Pan of a Cosmic Web 3 Billion Light Years Away: Galaxy Cluster Abell 611 | Hubble

Pan of a Cosmic Web 3 Billion Light Years Away: Galaxy Cluster Abell 611 | Hubble

The Hubble Space Telescope brings you this inky image of the galaxy cluster Abell 611, located roughly 3.2 billion light years from Earth. 

This object is a popular target for investigating dark matter, in part because of the numerous examples of strong gravitational lensing visible amongst the cluster’s intricate web of galaxies.

Credit: NASA, European Space Agency (ESA), P. Kelly, M. Postman, J. Richard, S. Allen, N. Bartmann  

Duration: 30 seconds

Release Date: October 20, 2022

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A Cosmic Web 3 Billion Light Years Away: Galaxy Cluster Abell 611 | Hubble

A Cosmic Web 3 Billion Light Years Away: Galaxy Cluster Abell 611 | Hubble

Hubble brings you this inky image of the galaxy cluster Abell 611, located roughly 3.2 billion light years from Earth.

Image Description: Hundreds of small galaxies appear across this view. Their colors vary. Some are shades of orange, while others are white. Most appear as fuzzy ovals, but a few have distinct spiral arms. There are also many thin, long, orange arcs that curve around the center of the image, where there is a prominent orange glow.

This object is a popular target for investigating dark matter, in part because of the numerous examples of strong gravitational lensing visible amongst the cluster’s intricate web of galaxies.

Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)/Hubble, NASA, P. Kelly, M. Postman, J. Richard, S. Allen

Release Date: October 27, 2022

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Northrop Grumman Antares Rocket Launch: CRS-18 Cargo Resupply | NASA

Northrop Grumman Antares Rocket Launch: CRS-18 Cargo Resupply | NASA

A Northrop Grumman Antares rocket launched the CRS-18 Cygnus spacecraft, dubbed “S.S. Sally Ride,” from MARS Pad 0A, at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Virginia, on November 7, 2022, at 10:32 UTC (05:32 EDT). Cygnus will deliver approximately 3,729 kg (8,200 lb.) of research, crew supplies, and hardware to the International Space Station for NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services-2 (CRS-2) NG-18 mission. Cygnus is scheduled to arrive on November 9, 2022, around 10:05 UTC (05:05 EDT). The NG-18 Cygnus cargo delivery spacecraft is named in honor of the late NASA astronaut Sally Ride. In 1983 she became the first American woman to fly in space for STS-7, the Space Shuttle Challenger’s second mission.

Credit: Northrop Grumman/NASA

Acknowledgement: SciNews

Duration: 6 minutes, 32 seconds

Release Date: November 7, 2022

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Northrop Grumman Antares Rocket Launch: CRS-18 Cargo Resupply | NASA

Northrop Grumman Antares Rocket Launch: CRS-18 Cargo Resupply | NASA

A Northrop Grumman Antares rocket, with the company's Cygnus spacecraft onboard, launched at 5:32 a.m. EST, Monday, Nov. 7, 2022, from the Mid Atlantic Regional Spaceport's Pad-0A, at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Northrop Grumman's 18th contracted cargo resupply mission with NASA to the International Space Station will deliver more than 8,000 pounds of science and research, crew supplies and vehicle hardware to the orbital laboratory and its crew. The CRS-18 Cygnus spacecraft is named after the first American woman in space, Sally Ride.

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)

Release Date: November 7, 2022

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Stellar Birthplaces: Nebulas NGC 3603 & NGC 3576 (infrared) | ESO

Stellar Birthplaces: Nebulas NGC 3603 & NGC 3576 (infrared) | ESO

The image shows two cosmic clouds of purple with a golden orange glow towards their centers. The clouds are found separated from each other on each side of the image. The clouds stand out against a black background with a myriad of stars.

This is a new view of NGC 3603 (left) and NGC 3576 (right), two stunning nebulas imaged with the European Southern Observatory’s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA). This infrared image peers through the dust in these nebulas, revealing details hidden in optical images. 

NGC 3603 and NGC 3576 are 22,000 and 9,000 lightyears away from us, respectively. Inside these extended clouds of dust and gas, new stars are born, gradually changing the shapes of the nebulas via intense radiation and powerful winds of charged particles. Given their proximity, astronomers have the opportunity to study the intense star formation process that is as common in other galaxies but harder to observe due to the vast distances.

The two nebulas were cataloged by John Frederick William Herschel in 1834 during a trip to South Africa, where he wanted to compile stars, nebulas and other objects in the sky of the southern hemisphere. This catalogue was then expanded by John Louis Emil Dreyer in 1888 into the New General Catalogue, hence the NGC identifier in these and other astronomical objects.

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)/VVVX survey

Release Date: November 7, 2022

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Investigating a Made-to-Measure Galaxy: NGC 7038 in Indus | Hubble

Investigating a Made-to-Measure Galaxy: NGC 7038 in Indus | Hubble

The spiral arms of the galaxy NGC 7038 wind languidly across this image from the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope. NGC 7038 lies around 220 million light-years from Earth in the southern constellation Indus. This image portrays an especially rich and detailed view of a spiral galaxy, and exposes a huge number of distant stars and galaxies around it. This is because it is made from a combined 15 hours worth of Hubble time focused on NGC 7038 and collecting light. So much data indicates that this is a valuable target, and indeed, NGC 7038 has been particularly helpful to astronomers measuring distances at vast cosmic scales.

Image Description: An enormous spiral galaxy fills half of the frame, in the center. It is oval-shaped, with four blue spiral arms winding around it. The galaxy’s centre shines brightly with pale yellow light. Thin strands of orange dust are spread around the centre, following the paths of the arms. Above and below the galaxy, very many small stars and galaxies are visible on the black background.

The distances to astronomical objects are determined using an interconnected chain of measurement techniques called the Cosmic Distance Ladder. Each rung in the ladder is calibrated by earlier steps, based on measurements of objects closer to us. This makes the accuracy of distances at the largest scales dependent on how accurately distances to nearby objects can be determined. Hubble inspected NGC 7038 with its Wide Field Camera 3 to calibrate two of the most common distance measurement techniques: type 1A supernovae and Cepheid variables. 

One of Hubble's original science goals was to accurately establish distances to night-sky objects, and over its three decades of operation Hubble’s increasingly precise distance measurements have contributed to one of the most intriguing unsolved problems in astronomy. Distance measurements are used to derive a quantity known as the Hubble constant, which captures how fast the Universe is expanding. As astronomer’s measurements of the Hubble constant have become more precise, their value has become increasingly inconsistent with the value of the Hubble Constant derived from observations of the Big Bang’s afterglow. Astronomers have been unable to explain the mismatch between the two values of the Hubble constant, which suggests that a new discovery in cosmology is waiting to be made.

Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)/Hubble & NASA, D. Jones

Acknowledgement: G. Anand, L. Shatz

Release Date: November 7, 2022

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Looking Forward to NASA's Artemis I: Apollo 17 Earthrise—December 1972

Looking Forward to NASA's Artemis I: Apollo 17 Earthrise—December 1972

Apollo 17: 50th Anniversary (1972-2022) Image

This is a spectacular Earthrise view from lunar orbit on December 16, 1972, during NASA's Apollo 17 Moon Mission. Apollo 17 crew: Commander Gene Cernan, Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt, and Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans. Apollo 17 (December 7–19, 1972) was the final deep space mission of NASA's Apollo program—the most recent time humans have set foot on the Moon or traveled beyond low Earth orbit. 

This is a historic image. 

NASA/JSC Catalog# AS17-152-23274

Learn about NASA's Apollo Program—Apollo 7-17 (1968-1972):

https://history.nasa.gov/apollo.html

https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/5-8/features/nasa-knows/what-was-apollo-program-58.html

Through Artemis, NASA aims to land the first woman and first person of color on the Moon, heralding a new era for space exploration and utilization. The Artemis missions are increasingly complex endeavours that will lay the foundation for sustainable human and robotic exploration of Earth's only natural satellite, the Moon.

Learn about NASA's Artemis Program:

https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis-i/

https://www.nasa.gov/artemis-1

Read the Artemis Plan (74-page PDF Free Download): 

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/artemis_plan-20200921.pdf

NASA's Space Launch System (SLS)

https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/index.html

NASA's Orion Spacecraft

https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/orion/about/index.html

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)/PipploIMP

Image Date: December 16, 1972

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NASA's Mars Curiosity & Perseverance Rovers: New November 2022 Images | JPL

NASA's Mars Curiosity & Perseverance Rovers: New November 2022 Images | JPL

Mars2020 - Sol 607 - Watson

Mars2020 - Sol 607 - Watson

MSL - Sol 3640 - Mastcam

MSL - Sol 3641 - Mastcam

Mars2020 - Sol 606 - MastCam-Z

MSL - Sol 3639 - MastCam

MSL - Sol 3631 - Mastcam

MSL - Sol 3642 - Mastcam

Celebrating 10 Years on Mars! (2012-2022)

Mission Name: Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)

Rover Name: Curiosity

Main Job: To determine if Mars was ever habitable to microbial life. 

Launch: Nov. 6, 2011

Landing Date: Aug. 5, 2012, Gale Crater, Mars

Mission Name: Mars 2020

Rover Name: Perseverance

Main Job: Seek signs of ancient life and collect samples of rock and regolith (broken rock and soil) for possible return to Earth.

Launch: July 30, 2020    

Landing: Feb. 18, 2021, Jezero Crater, Mars

For more information on NASA's Mars missions, visit: mars.nasa.gov

Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill

Image Release Dates: Nov. 3-5, 2022

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Star Cluster Messier 15: Wide-field View (ground-based)

Star Cluster Messier 15: Wide-field View (ground-based)

This image, from the Digitized Sky Survey 2, shows the sky around Messier 15, one of the oldest and densest globular clusters known.

This glittering cluster contains over 100,000 stars, as well as something more exotic and mysterious at its core: a rare type of black hole.

Distance: 35,000 light-years

Credit: NASA, European Space Agency (ESA), Digitized Sky Survey 2

Release Date: November 14, 2013

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Zooming on Star Cluster Messier 15 | Hubble

Zooming on Star Cluster Messier 15 | Hubble

This video sequence begins with a zoom through the constellation of Pegasus (The Winged Horse), finishing with Hubble observations of Messier 15, one of the oldest and densest globular clusters known. This glittering cluster contains over 100,000 stars, as well as something more exotic and mysterious at its core: a rare type of black hole.

Distance: 35,000 light-years

Credit: NASA, European Space Agency (ESA), Digitized Sky Survey 2, Nick Risinger 

Duration: 56 seconds

Release Date: February 17, 2016

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A Glittering Globular Cluster: Messier 15 | Hubble

A Glittering Globular Cluster: Messier 15 | Hubble

This cluster of stars is known as Messier 15, and is located some 35,000 light-years away in the constellation of Pegasus (The Winged Horse). It is one of the oldest globular clusters known, with an age of around 12 billion years.

Both very hot blue stars and cooler golden stars can be seen swarming together in the image, becoming more concentrated towards the cluster's bright center. Messier 15 is one of the densest globular clusters known, with most of its mass concentrated at its core. As well as stars, Messier 15 was the first clusters known to host a planetary nebula, and it has been found to have a rare type of black hole at its center.

This new image is made up of observations from Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys in the ultraviolet, infrared, and optical parts of the spectrum.

Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)/Hubble and NASA, A. Sarajedini  

Duration: 30 seconds

Release Date: September 6, 2021

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