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NASA's Frank Rubio Shatters Space Record Aboard ISS

  Record-Breaking Earth-to-Space Call

In a historic Earth-to-Space call scheduled for 12:05 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, September 13, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy will engage in a conversation with agency astronaut Frank Rubio. The discussion centers around Rubio's remarkable mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS), marking a new record in American spaceflight history.  

Tune In to Witness History

The call, providing a glimpse into life aboard the ISS and the incredible achievements of American astronauts, will be broadcast live on NASA TV, the NASA App, and the agency’s official website. Interested viewers can watch this groundbreaking conversation online at https://www.nasa.gov/live.  

Rubio's Record-Setting Journey

Frank Rubio, currently on a year-long mission aboard the orbiting laboratory, has officially surpassed NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei’s previous U.S. record of 355 days in space for the longest single spaceflight by an American. When Rubio returns to Earth later this month, he will have spent an astonishing 371 days in space. To explore more NASA station astronaut records, refer to the agency's official website.  

Pioneering Continuous Space Living

For over 22 years, astronauts have continuously inhabited and operated on the space station, conducting critical experiments, advancing scientific knowledge, and honing skills essential for deep space exploration. Now, let's focus on Frank Rubio, a member of NASA's 2017 Astronaut Candidate Class, who began his mission in September 2022 and will conclude it in September 2023, achieving the longest single-duration spaceflight for a U.S. astronaut.  

A Diverse Background in Service

Frank Rubio, a native of Florida, brings a diverse background to this historic mission. He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 1998 and earned a Doctorate of Medicine from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in 2010. Before attending medical school, Rubio served as a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter pilot, accumulating more than 1,100 flight hours, including over 600 hours in combat and imminent danger zones during deployments to Bosnia, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Dr. Rubio is a board-certified family physician and flight surgeon. At the time of his selection as an astronaut, he was serving in the 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne) at Fort Carson, CO. This remarkable Earth-to-Space call marks another milestone in the history of space exploration, as NASA's astronauts continue to push the boundaries of human endurance and knowledge beyond the confines of our planet.   Sources: THX News & NASA. Read the full article

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Supply ship Cygnus NG-18 S.S.Sally Ride will depart from the ISS today. Release from the SSRMS is scheduled at 12:20BST, coverage from 12:00BST on NASA TV. Patch: NASA patch for NG-18 shoe the silhouette of Cygnus rising to the ISS. 18 stars for NG-18 and the red dots donate the launch site at Wallops Island, Virgina, Northrop Grumman control centre at Dulles, Virgina and Houston, Texas the ISS Mission Control Centre. The ship was named after the United States first female astronaut Sally Ride.

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So I wanna tell y'all about something very near and dear to my heart.

This is the Psyche asteroid, or, at least an artist's representation - we don't know what it actually looks like yet, but this is a fair enough guess. It's a roughly 200 mile wide asteroid in the asteroid belt, and it's made almost entirely out of metal. Its composition makes it unique; it’s the only large metallic body we know of in the entire solar system.

We think it might be the core of what used to be a planet.

When solar systems form, they start out as disks made of interstellar gas and dust, called protoplanetary disks. Here's a picture of HL Tauri, one of the best images of a protoplanetary disk we have.

That dust globs together into larger and larger pieces, and eventually forms hundreds of "planetesimals", which are rocky bodies about a kilometer across. Planetesimals had very erratic orbits compared to the modern planets - the dust of the protoplanetary disk caused friction and drag, which threw them off course.

They frequently collided with each other, and either broke apart or stuck together and grew even larger. Arrokoth is actually a leftover planetesimal, a time capsule from the early solar system, and we were able to visit it wayyy out in the Kuiper belt with the New Horizons probe!

Once planetesimals get to be about the size of the moon, we call them "protoplanets". Protoplanets were fundamentally different from their planetesimal siblings - we believe they were differentiated. When an object in space gets big enough, a combination of radioactive decay, impacts, and gravitational pressure causes them to heat up and melt. Denser materials like iron and nickel sink towards their centers, while the lighter materials rise to the surface. The differentiation process is why Earth's core is made of iron, while the surface is primarily rock.

While protoplanet orbits were much more stable than those of planetesimals, they still eventually collided with each other until everything settled into the planets we see today (though gas giants had a few extra steps - that's a different post!).

We think the Psyche asteroid was a protoplanet, well on its way to becoming a bona fide planet, when an impact struck it hard enough to strip away its rocky layers, leaving behind the dense, metallic core - like in this illustration.

More and more, we think  the properties of a planet's core are fundamental to its long-term evolution. Venus, Earth, and Mars are all roughly the same size and roughly the same distance from the sun, cosmically speaking, yet they're so different! Venus has hell death clouds, Earth is home, and Mars is dry and dead - why?

The Psyche asteroid gives us the unique opportunity to actually observe a planetary core directly - it's much harder to dig to the center of a planet than it is to go to space, so that's exactly what we're going to do!

On Thursday October 12th at 10:16am Eastern, the Psyche spacecraft will launch and begin its journey to the asteroid belt! You can watch at https://www.nasa.gov/nasatv/!

I've been a part of this mission for over four years now, and I can't speak highly enough of the team that made it happen through all of the ups and downs. Good luck out there, buddy. We're all rooting for you :')

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The Orion Spacecraft is currently entering the Earth's atmosphere after a trip around the moon. It should be touching down in about 15 minutes

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The moon's surface as seen by Orion, which is set to return to Earth and conclude the Artemis I mission on December 11 at 12:40 PM Eastern time.

Watch the splashdown live on NASA TV: https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/#public

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Hello everyone! Have a blessed day! Let's walk with appreciating the moments that make life special. Let's stay positive, and remember, we're in this beautiful journey together! Let's make today amazing! #iampeace #jeanetteandmikeinspace #picturecourtesy #nasatv #kmtv #www.nasa.gov/station

[spacenutspod]

This artist’s concept shows Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lander on the surface of the Moon. This robotic delivery, part of NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign, will transport agency science and technology demonstrations to the Moon for the benefit of all.Intuitive Machines NASA will host a media teleconference at 3:30 p.m. EST Wednesday, Jan. 31, to discuss its science and technology demonstrations flying aboard Intuitive Machines’ first flight to the Moon as part of the agency’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign.  Audio of the CLPS science call will livestream on the agency’s website at: https://www.nasa.gov/nasatv Briefing participants include: Joel Kearns, deputy associate administrator for exploration, Science Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters Debra Needham, program scientist, Exploration Science Strategy and Integration Office, NASA Headquarters Chris Culbert, program manager, CLPS, NASA Johnson Space Center Trent Martin, vice president, Space Systems, Intuitive Machines To participate, media must RSVP no later than two hours before the briefing by emailing  ksc-newsroom@mail.nasa.gov. The Intuitive Machines Nova-C lander will launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and carry NASA robotic science and other commercial payloads to the Moon. Liftoff of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is targeted for a multi-day launch window, which opens no earlier than mid-February from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Among the items on its lander, this first Intuitive Machines mission will carry NASA science instruments focusing on plume-surface interactions, space weather and lunar surface interactions, radio astronomy, precision landing technologies, and a communication and navigation node for future autonomous navigation technologies. In May 2019, the agency awarded a task order for scientific payload delivery to Intuitive Machines. Through Artemis, commercial robotic deliveries will perform science experiments, test technologies, and demonstrate capabilities to help NASA explore the Moon in advance of Artemis Generation astronaut missions to the lunar surface, in preparation for future missions to Mars. NASA is working with several U.S. companies to deliver science and technology to the lunar surface through the CLPS initiative. This pool of companies may bid on task orders. A task order award includes payload integration and operations, as well as launching from Earth and landing on the surface of the Moon. NASA’s CLPS contracts are indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts with a cumulative maximum contract value of $2.6 billion through 2028. For CLPS updates including launch follow: https://blogs.nasa.gov/artemis -end- Alise FisherHeadquarters, Washington202-358-2546alise.m.fisher@nasa.gov Nilufar RamjiJohnson Space Center, Houston281-483-5111nilufar.ramji@nasa.gov Antonia JaramilloKennedy Space Center, Florida321-501-8425antonia.jaramillobotero@nasa.gov Share Details Last Updated Jan 24, 2024 LocationNASA Headquarters Related TermsCommercial SpaceArtemisCommercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)Commercial Space ProgramsMissions

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NASA’s #NewHorizons spacecraft will perform a fly-by of UltimaThule in the #KuiperBelt on #NewYearsDay!! over 4 billion miles away from #Earth - Watch #NASATV on #NewYearsEve - https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive

[mrm101]

Dragon CRS27/SpX27 undocking today (15 Apr) at 16:05BST with 1,950kg (4,300 lb) of return cargo onboard. landing time has not yet been decided. Undocking coverage from 15:45BST (landing won't be shown). Pic: Current ISS configuration.

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Days in this game is slowly gone get better for the whole planet @avamax #GoddessAngelAva one. #NasaTV mix with some #RoswellNM future tech picture style. Birth Mother @akashicqueen Father god @kryonleecarroll and my space family.🙏🏽 26730 Woodmont St RosevilleMichigan #GoddessAngelAva Old soul right here. #HolographicMedicalPods #OrionStarSeed #AtlanteanStarSeed #ArcturianStarSeed #AndromedaStarSeed #PleiadianStarseed #LemurianStarSeed 💫SEED #Telos #DreamGirlsRock #AlienGirlsRock #AliensAreCool #UFOsRock #TheSecretUniverse #TheGalaticFederationOfLight #THESPIRITCARGOD #THESONOFGOD #KRYONSON🙌🏽 https://www.instagram.com/p/CbSqu-1Ly1M/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Die NASA gab 1 Million Dollar für die Entwicklung eines Kugelschreibers aus, der auch im Weltraum funktionieren sollte. Die Russen benutzten Bleistifte. 🖖  irgendwo im Internet #nasa #nasa🚀 #nasabilder #nasapic #nasapictures #nasapict #nasalive #nasalivestream #nasalivefeed #nasatv #nasanews #nasanew #sojuz #weltall #weltall #universe #univers #space #spacex #spaceship #spaceshipearth #spaceships #spaceshipearth #mariosolak #onlineverkaufen #onlinemarketingconsultant #onlinemarketingberatung #onlinemarketingberatung (hier: Neckarsulm, Germany) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-_q-KPnk1C/?igshid=1ixr9t98de337

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Nasa posts a photo of Sun whose active spots make it look like a Jack-o-lantern! The image was captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, which watches the sun at all times from its orbit in space. . #jackolanternsun #nasatv #halloween #spooky #science #sun #solardynamicsobservatory https://www.instagram.com/p/B4LSHEtAnVG/?igshid=izyl0knl3v78

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Dragon Capture confirmed! Well done to all at NASA, SpaceX and to the CAPCOM. #nasa #nasatv #space #spacex #spacexdragon #dragoncapsule #iss #internationalspacestation #capcom