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JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) and Expedition 64 astronaut Soichi Noguchi relaxes at the end of the work day inside the seven-windowed cupola, the International Space Station’s “window to the world.” The orbiting lab was flying above the South Pacific at the ti...
Two Rockets on Opposite Sides of the World Are Launching to the International Space Station
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Two rockets on opposite sides of the world are launching to the International Space Station (ISS) to deliver cargo and a new crew this week. The first spaceship launched from Kazakhstan on Tuesday night hauling supplies to replenish the Expedition 69 crew. The second will launch from Florida sending...
New Algorithm Sharpens Focus of World’s Most Powerful Microscopes – Improves Cryo-EM 3D Molecular Structure Maps
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Scientists develop a technique that improves the resolution of cryo-electron microscopy. We’ve all seen that moment in a cop TV show where a detective is reviewing grainy, low-resolution security footage, spots a person of interest on the tape, and nonchalantly asks a CSI technician to “...
Expedition 64 Crew Docks to International Space Station to Begin Six-Month Mission
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The Soyuz spacecraft carrying NASA astronaut Kate Rubins and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov docked to the International Space Station at 4:48 a.m. EDT while both spacecraft were flying about 261 miles above the Mediterranean Sea. Aboard the space station, Expedition 63 C...
National Institutes of Health Launches Large Clinical Trial to Test Immune Modulators for Treatment of COVID-19
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The National Institutes of Health has launched an adaptive Phase 3 clinical trial to evaluate the safety and efficacy of three immune modulator drugs in hospitalized adults with COVID-19. Some COVID-19 patients experience an immune response in which the immune system unleashes excessive amounts of p...
Six International Space Station residents will spend a week working together in low-Earth orbit before splitting up on October 21. As the new Expedition 64 trio gets used to life in space, four more astronauts are planning to join them in November. Three new station crew members are adapting to livi...
Two veteran International Space Station residents will have a Change of Command ceremony on Tuesday before the Expedition 63 crew returns to Earth the following day. Meanwhile, the Russian portion of the crew has temporarily sealed a leak on the orbiting lab. Commander Chris Cassidy of NASA will han...
The hallmark of a perfectly thrown football is a tight spiraling of the tip around the trajectory of the parabolic path of flight. Why the tip follows the trajectory has presented a paradox for some time. A team of researchers, including Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) physicist Willy ...
This is the official portrait of the Expedition 1 crew, the first humans to live aboard the International Space Station. Arriving on station on November 2, 2000, they were the first of 64 crews to live and work aboard the orbital laboratory. During a January 30, 1996, press conference in Washington,...
Monday, November 2, 2020, marked 20 years of continuous human presence on the International Space Station. Relive a few memorable moments from the unique orbital outpost in this clip covering 20 years of the International Space Station in 60 seconds. Since November 2, 2000, when Crew One took up res...
20 Top Experiments From 20 Years of Human Research on the International Space Station
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As the world celebrates two decades of humans in orbit around Earth on the International Space Station, this month’s science summary will look back not at four weeks of European research in space, but 20 years – with a focus on human research, naturally. In November 2000 the first human entered the ...