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Expedition 72 Trio Undocks for Earth Return Aboard Soyuz

By |2025-04-19T18:08:00-04:00April 19th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|

The Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft carrying NASA astronaut Don Pettit and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner departs the International Space Station.NASA+ At 5:57 p.m. EDT, the Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft undocked from the orbiting laboratory’s Rassvet module with NASA astronaut Don Petitt and Roscosmos cosmonauts Aleksey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner. NASA’s live coverage of deorbit [...]

Soyuz Crewmates Prep for Undocking; Expedition 72 Ends Soon

By |2025-04-19T17:32:00-04:00April 19th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|

iss072e977434 (April 9, 2025) — The Soyuz MS-26 (foreground) and MS-27 crew ships are pictured docked to the International Space Station’s Rassvet module and Prichal module, respectively. At right, is the 214 million-year-old Manicouagan crater located in Quebec as the orbital outpost soared 263 miles above far eastern Canada.NASA NASA’s live coverage of undocking is [...]

Astronaut, Cosmonauts Board Soyuz; Close Hatch for Departure

By |2025-04-19T15:02:00-04:00April 19th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|

(From left) Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos, Don Pettit of NASA, and Ivan Vagner of Roscosmos wave farewell before boarding their Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft for the ride back to Earth.NASA+ At 2:52 p.m. EDT, the hatch closed between the Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft and the International Space Station in preparation for undocking and return to Earth. NASA [...]

NASA+ Begins Coverage as Soyuz Trio Preps for Departure

By |2025-04-19T14:05:00-04:00April 19th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|

Soyuz MS-26 crew members (from left) NASA astronaut Don Pettit and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner pose for a portrait at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Russia. Credit: GCTCGCTC/Andrey Shelepin NASA’s live departure coverage is underway on NASA+. Learn how to stream NASA content through a variety of platforms, including social media. [...]

Hubble Spies Cosmic Pillar in Eagle Nebula

By |2025-04-18T15:31:00-04:00April 18th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

ESA/Hubble & NASA, K. Noll This newly reprocessed image released on April 18, 2025, provides a new view of an enormous, 9.5-light-year-tall pillar of cold gas and dust. Despite its size, it’s just one small piece of the greater Eagle Nebula, also called Messier 16. The Eagle Nebula is one of many nebulae in the [...]

Station Has New Commander; Soyuz Trio Ready for Saturday Departure

By |2025-04-18T15:06:00-04:00April 18th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|

Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin (left) hands over command of the International Space Station to JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi (right) as the rest of the Expedition 72 crew looks on.NASA The International Space Station has a new commander as three Expedition 72 crew members get ready to return to Earth on Saturday. [...]

NASA to Cover US Spacewalk 93, Hold Preview News Conference

By |2025-04-18T13:42:00-04:00April 18th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA astronauts work to retrieve batteries and adapter plates from an external pallet during a spacewalk to upgrade the International Space Station’s power storage capacity.Credit: NASA Two NASA astronauts will venture outside the International Space Station, conducting U.S. spacewalk 93 on Thursday, May 1, to complete station upgrades. NASA will preview the upcoming spacewalk during [...]

Early Career Faculty 2024

By |2025-04-18T12:54:00-04:00April 18th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

1 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Back to ECF Home Transformational Advanced Energetic Propulsion Omid Beik Colorado School of Mines Development of a MW-Scale High-Voltage Multiphase Dual-Rotor Generator and Rectifier for a PMAD in an NEP System Ognjen Ilic University of Minnesota Concept Demonstration of Directed Energy Propulsion with Metasurface [...]

Developing Oxychalcogenide Membranes for Superconducting Power Transmission

By |2025-04-18T12:54:00-04:00April 18th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

1 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) ECF 2024 Quadchart Yang.pdf Shuolong Yang University of Chicago This effort will leverage the latest developments in superconductors to build a power transmission cable that can operate in the extreme cold temperatures found on the Moon with very low electrical losses. The team will [...]

Power on the Dark Side: Stimulus-Responsive Adsorbents for Low-Energy Controlled Storage and Delivery of Low Boiling Fuels to Mobile Assets in Permanently Shaded Regions

By |2025-04-18T12:53:00-04:00April 18th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

1 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) ECF 2024 Quadchart McGuirk.pdf Christopher McGuirk Colorado School of Mines This project will investigate and develop improved storage methods for the fuels needed to generate electrical power in places where sunlight is not available. The effort will focus on particularly tailored materials called Metal [...]

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