HALLOWEEN ON THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION - Although no ghouls or goblins or trick-or-treaters come knocking at the International Space Station’s front hatch, crew members aboard the orbiting facility still like to get in the Halloween spirit. Whether individually or as an entire crew, they dress up in sometimes spooky, sometimes scary, but always creative costumes, often designed from materials available aboard the space station. Please enjoy the following scenes from Halloweens past even as we anticipate the costumes of the future. More (Source: NASA - Nov 2)
NASA SETS COVERAGE FOR ITS SPACEX CREW-9 DRAGON STATION RELOCATION - In preparation for the arrival of NASA’s SpaceX 31st commercial resupply services mission, four crew members aboard the International Space Station will relocate the agency’s SpaceX Crew-9 Dragon spacecraft to a different docking port Sunday, Nov. 3. Live coverage begins at 6:15 a.m. EST on NASA+ and will end shortly after docking. Learn how to watch NASA content through a variety of platforms, including social media. NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, and Butch Wilmore, as well as Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, will undock the spacecraft from the forward-facing port of the station’s Harmony module at 6:35 a.m., and redock to the module’s space-facing port at 7:18 a.m. More (Source: NASA - Nov 1)
CHINA TAIKONAUT TRIO ARRIVES AT THE TIANGONG SPACE STATION - Three of China’s taikonauts completed their journey to the Tiangong space station to begin the country’s eighth long-duration spaceflight. Commander Cai Xuzhe led the roughly 6.5-hour Shenzhou-19 mission alongside Song Lingdong and Wang Haoze. They rode aboard a LongMarch 2F Y19 rocket, which docket with the TSS about 11 a.m. BJT on Oct. 29 (11 p.m. EDT on Oct. 29, 0300 UTC on Oct. 30). Liftoff from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China happened at 4:27 a.m. BJT on Oct. 30 (4:27 p.m. EDT, 2027 UTC on Oct. 29). More (Source: SpaceFlight Now - Nov 1)
SPACEX LAUNCHES 23 STARLINK SATELLITES ON FALCON 9 ROCKET FROM CAPE CANAVERAL - SpaceX launched its second of the day on Wednesday evening with another Starlink flight. This Falcon 9 rocket will add another 23 Starlink satellites to the growing megaconstellation. Liftoff of the Starlink 10-13 mission from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station happened at 5:10 p.m. EDT (2110 UTC). More (Source: SpaceFlight Now - Oct 31)
ASTRONAUTS ON THE ISS ARE BRACED FOR AN URGENT EVACUATION - AS NASA UNCOVERS 50 'AREAS OF CONCERN' INCLUDING LEAKS AND CRACKS ON THE 25-YEAR-OLD SPACE STATION - NASA's astronauts aboard the International Space Station have been told to prepare for an urgent evacuation amid growing safety concerns. The US space agency and its Russian counterpart, Roscomos, are tracking 50 'areas of concern' related to a growing leak aboard the station. NASA is now calling the cracks in a Russian service module a 'top safety risk' - escalating the threat rating to five out of five. More (Source: Daily Mail - Oct 30)
CHINA LAUNCHES 3 ASTRONAUTS TO TIANGONG SPACE STATION ON SHENZHOU 19 MISSION - China's next human spaceflight mission is on its way into orbit. A Long March 2F rocket topped with the Shenzhou 19 crew spacecraft lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center today (Oct. 19) at 4:27 p.m. EDT (2027 GMT; 4:27 a.m. Oct. 30 Beijing time), rising into a night sky above the spaceport. Aboard are commander Cai Xuzhe, 48, who was a member of the Shenzhou 14 mission, and rookie astronauts Song Lingdong, 34, a former air force pilot, and Wang Haoze, also 34, a spaceflight engineer. More (Source: Space.com - Oct 30)
NOAA SHARES FIRST IMAGERY FROM GOES-19 SUVI INSTRUMENT - The Solar Ultraviolet Imager, or SUVI, onboard NOAA’s GOES-19 satellite, which launched on June 25, 2024, began observing the sun on Sept. 24, 2024. SUVI monitors the sun in the extreme ultraviolet portion of the electromagnetic spectrum to watch for hazardous space weather that could affect Earth. The sun’s upper atmosphere, or solar corona, consists of extremely hot plasma, which is ionized gas. More (Source: nesdis - Oct 29)
LIVE COVERAGE: SPACEX TO LAUNCH 20 STARLINK SATELLITES ON FALCON 9 ROCKET FROM VANDENBERG SFB - SpaceX is preparing to launch another Falcon 9 rocket in the pre-dawn hours of Tuesday morning The flight will add another 20 Starlink satellites to the megaconstellation. The Starlink 9-9 mission features 13 satellites that include Direct to Cell capabilities. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base is set for 4:44 a.m. PDT (7:44 a.m. EDT, 1144 UTC). More (Source: SpaceFlight Now - Oct 29)
ASTRONAUT RELEASED FROM HOSPITAL AFTER RETURN FROM INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION - An unnamed astronaut was released from Ascension Sacred Heart Pensacola in Florida and returned to Johnson Space Center in Houston in good health Saturday, NASA reported. The astronaut was one of four who splashed down while aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft on Friday to conclude NASA's SpaceX Crew-8 mission. The four aboard the SpaceX Dragon were astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt and Jeanette Epps and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin. More (Source: UPI - Oct 29)
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