Clearing the Air in Space: Improving Life Support on International Space Station and For Deep Space Exploration When the ninth SpaceX resupply mission to the station launched July 18, it carried the Long Duration Sorbent Testbed
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Kate Rubins’ Space Station Science Scrapbook As a child, Kate Rubins dreamed of being an astronaut and a scientist.
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Visiting Vehicle Launches, Arrivals and Departures The International Space Station has hosted a variety of spacecraft shuttling crews and delivering supplies.
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Weekly Recap From the Expedition Lead Scientist Expedition 50 is hard at work 200-plus miles above us! Catch this week’s research highlights here.
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ISS Daily Summary Report – 11/09/2016 Oxygen Generation System (OGS) Maintenance: Overnight the decision was made not to perform the Recirc loop flush. Earlier this morning the crew installed the new Oxygen Generation Assembly (OGA) Hydrogen Orbital Replacement Unit (ORU) into the OGS rack. However, the crew was not able to fully mate the Hydrogen
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ISS Daily Summary Report – 11/10/2016 Oxygen Generation System (OGS) Maintenance: This morning the crew took a return-to-ground sample of the OGS Recirculation Loop and restowed all tools and hardware the crew has used the last 2 days for the OGS maintenance. The calibration settings for the OGA were updated based on performance this morning
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ISS Daily Summary Report – 11/11/2016 Group Combustion Leak Check: The crew performed additional Group Combustion Experiment Module (GCEM) troubleshooting today, and completed a leak check of the Gaseous Nitrogen (GN2) supply line and associated Quick Disconnects (QDs). The International Standard Payload Rack (ISPR) valves and QDs for the gas supply line were connected and
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ISS Daily Summary Report – 11/14/2016 Radiation Dosimetry Inside ISS-Neutron (RaDI-N) Retrieval: Today a USOS crewmember retrieved all 8 of the Space Bubble Detectors that were deployed last week around the International Space Station (ISS) for the RaDI-N experiment, and handed them to the Russian crewmember to be processed in the Bubble Reader. The Canadian
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ISS Daily Summary Report – 11/15/2016 Human Research Facility (HRF) Software Upgrades: The crew initiated the first of three days of HRF software transitions. Today’s upgrade were made to the HRF Rack 1 Personal Computer (PC). The new software loads will support new experiments and on-board capabilities. Although the load and checkout of PC1 was
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ISS Daily Summary Report – 11/16/2016 Human Research Facility (HRF) Software Upgrades: Today the crew initiated the second day of HRF software transitions. Today’s upgrades will be to the HRF Personal Computer-3 (HRFPC-3). Based on the compatibility issue observed during the HRF Rack 1 PC upgrade yesterday, ground teams were able to command to the
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