Here is the latest episode in NASA’s Space to Ground weekly report on activities related to the International Space Station:

** This Year The Space Station Is Getting Its First Major Expansion in a Decade – Scott Manley

The last major addition to the International Space Station was in 2011, after that the forced retirment of the Space Shuttle meant that new hardware was necessarily small, but this year we’re seeing a number of new pieces of hardware which will be attached to the station which will expand it and change the way it looks.

** WE ARE RESILIENT: A Message from NASA Astronauts – NASA

It has been one year since the United States began its battle against the COVID-19 pandemic. This year has been tough and has changed the way all of us live. And yet despite extraordinary circumstances, NASA still accomplished extraordinary things. Aboard the International Space Station, NASA Astronauts Mike Hopkins and Victor Glover have a message for all of us: Take care of each other and we’ll get through this together.

** Expedition 64 Nanoracks – March 10, 2021 – NASA Video

Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 64 Flight Engineers Victor Glover and Shannon Walker of NASA discussed the new Nanoracks Bishop Airlock on the orbital outpost during an in-flight question and answer session with Nanoracks officials March 10. The airlock was delivered to the station on a SpaceX cargo Dragon vehicle in December and was attached to the Tranquility module by the Canadian-built Canadarm2 robotic arm.

** Spacewalks above, pandemic below – how one ISS crew member experienced 2020 | Aeon Videos

In September 2019, the Swedish-American biologist and NASA astronaut Jessica Meir realised her lifelong dream of travelling to space when she launched from Kazakhstan to the International Space Station (ISS), where she would serve as flight engineer for the next seven months. Featuring remarkable footage – including Meir’s euphoric first steps into the ISS and her participation, with fellow astronaut Christina Koch, in the first-ever all-female spacewalk – this short documentary captures scenes from Meir’s roundtrip journey with intimacy and grandeur. Occurring over the course of many tumultuous months on Earth, including the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the film also ponders what it’s like to experience the trials of humanity from 254 miles above.

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** Expedition 64 Crew 2 Crew News Conference – March 1, 2021 – NASA Video

The crew of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-2 mission Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur of NASA, Akihiko Hoshide of JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pesquet discussed their upcoming mission in a preflight briefing from NASA’s Johnson Space Center. The mission is scheduled to launch no earlier than April 20 from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The crew is scheduled for a long duration stay aboard the orbiting laboratory, conducting science and maintenance and are set to return in fall 2021.

** Expedition 64 Crew 2 Mission Overview Briefing – March 1, 2021 – NASA Video

** Spacewalk at the International Space Station – NASA

Slip into the weekend while cheering on two astronauts working in the vacuum of space! At 7 a.m. EST on Friday, Mar. 5, Kate Rubins of NASA and Soichi Noguchi of JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) will exit the International Space Station to vent ammonia from the Early Ammonia System and complete several other tasks outside the orbital lab. Once their spacesuits are switched to battery power, the spacewalk is scheduled to last approximately six-and-a-half hours.

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** Northrop Grumman CRS-15: Redwire Crystallization Facility – ISS National Lab

On Northrop Grumman CRS-15, Redwire will launch its sixth commercial facility to the International Space Station, the Industrial Crystallization Facility (ICF). The ICF will provide a space-based platform for the growth and formulation of centimeter-scale single crystals and other exotic materials for use in the optics and sensor industries. Validation of the ICF will also provide a proof of concept for applied industrial materials production in microgravity, which will be an important in-orbit research and development capability in the future. Learn more about this facility, and how it may support future research and development in low Earth orbit.

** Northrop Grumman CRS-15: Research Overview – ISS National Lab

Learn highlights of ISS National Lab-sponsored investigations that are part of the Northrop Grumman CRS-15 mission to the space station. This mission will bring with it several technology development demonstrations to the orbiting laboratory. This video provides a snapshot on some of the unique investigations that will be performed on the space station over the coming weeks and months.

** NLRA 2021-3: Technology Advancement and Applied Research on the ISS National Lab Webinar – ISS National Lab

** Expedition 64 Spacewalk 71 and 72 Preview Briefing – February 24, 2021 – NASA Video

At the Johnson Space Center, Houston, NASA managers and flight controllers previewed a pair of upcoming spacewalks by Expedition 64 crewmembers outside the International Space Station during a briefing Feb. 24. ISS Deputy Program Manager Kenny Todd, spacewalk flight directors Marcos Flores and Chris Edelen and spacewalk officer Art Thomason discussed a spacewalk on Feb. 28 by NASA Flight Engineers Kate Rubins and Victor Glover to begin the installation of hardware that will support upgraded solar array components to be delivered to the station later this year. They also provided a rundown of activities during a March 5 spacewalk by Rubins and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Flight Engineer Soichi Noguchi to upgrade other external systems on the orbital outpost.

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** Expedition 64 Inflight with The Centers For Disease Control – February 10, 2021 –NASA Video

Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 64 Flight Engineers Kate Rubins and Shannon Walker of NASA discussed research aboard the orbital laboratory with officials of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention during an in-flight conversation Feb. 10. Rubins arrived at the station last October aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft while Walker launched to the station last November on the SpaceX Crew Dragon “Resilience”.

** Watch Russia’s Progress spacecraft depart space station in time-lapse – Space.com Videos

Russia’s Progress MS-15 cargo spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station on Feb. 9, 2021.

** Spacewalker moved by robotic arm in amazing space view – Space.com Videos

NASA astronaut Victor Glover is being moved by the International Space Station’s Canadarm2 to another work site in this spacewalk footage from Feb. 1. 2021.

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** Science Launching on Northrop Grumman’s 15th Resupply Mission – NASA

Experiments using worms to study muscle weakening, examining how astronauts sleep, and testing high-powered computers in space will be launching, along with more scientific experiments and supplies, to the International Space Station on a Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft. This Cygnus is named the S.S. Katherine Johnson, after the NASA mathematician whose calculations were critical to the success of our early human spaceflight missions. The vehicle launches no earlier than Feb. 20 from our Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Many of the experiments launching on this spacecraft build on previous studies conducted during the more than 20 years of continuous human habitation of the International Space Station, helping us explore farther in to space, and benefiting humans back on Earth. Learn more about the research being conducted on station: https://www.nasa.gov/iss-scienceFollow​

** Spacewalk to Finish Battery Upgrades & Install Cameras on the International Space Station – NASA

Watch two spacewalkers at work outside the International Space Station! NASA astronauts Victor Glover and Michael Hopkins will exit the orbiting lab’s Quest airlock at about 7 a.m. EST [Feb.1.2021], to complete tasks including battery maintenance and installing high definition cameras.   Live coverage on NASA Television begins at 5:30​ a.m.. The spacewalk will officially begin once the duo set their spacesuits to battery power, and is scheduled to last approximately six-and-a-half hours.

** Expedition 64 Astronauts Speak with National Science Foundation – February 3, 2021 –NASA Video

Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 64 Flight Engineers Kate Rubins and Victor Glover of NASA discussed research and other aspects of life in space during an in-flight conversation Feb. 3 with members of the National Science Foundation. Rubins, who is an epidemiologist, arrived on the station last October aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, while Glover flew to the station last November aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon “Resilience” vehicle.

** Some recent ISS postings:

• Robotics, Emergency Training and Cargo Mission Preps on Station – Space Station/NASA
• Crew Looks to U.S. Space Record and Super Bowl Flyover – Space Station/NASA
• Science Gear Work and Spacesuit Cleaning Follow Harvest – Space Station/NASA
• Spacewalkers Wrap Up Battery Work and Camera Installations – Space Station/NASA

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