Astronaut Drew Feustel gives an excellent performance in this music video recorded on the International Space Station with gorgeous views of the earth passing below:
NASA astronaut Drew Feustel recorded this music video from space. Feustel launched to the International Space Station in March 2018 and is currently serving as Expedition 56 Commander. Drew thanks all who helped bring this to life, including his friend, Gord Sinclair, for giving him permission to use the song, and the crew of Expeditions 55 and 56 for their support and participation in NASA’s human space exploration mission.
Here is a Chris Hadfield’s famous rendition of Space Oddity on the ISS:
Hadfield also performed the song I.S.S. simultaneously with Barenaked Ladies and a choir back on earth:
Here is the latest Space to Ground report from NASA on activities related to the International Space Station:
Competitive tennis reaches orbit:
Fun Facts about a “Year of Education on Station:
Three ISS crew members returned to earth this week:
The Soyuz MS-08 spacecraft landed in Kazakhstan on 4 October 2018, at 11:45 UTC (07:45 EDT, 17:45 local time) with the International Space Station Expedition 56 crew members, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev, NASA astronauts A.J. (Drew) Feustel and Ricky Arnold. The three crew members spent 197 days in space.
Here is the latest episode of the Space to Ground weekly report from NASA on activities related to the International Space Station:
*** A brief item about a sediment study underway on the station:
Quantifying Cohesive Sediment Dynamics for Advanced Environmental Modeling (BCAT-CS) focuses on the study of forces between particles that cluster together by studying sediments of quartz and clay particles. By conducting the research aboard the International Space Station (ISS), it is possible to separate the forces acting on the particles over a short range (adhesive forces) versus those acting over a long range (cohesive forces). The quartz/clay system is commonly found in a wide variety of environmental settings (such as rivers, lakes, and oceans) and plays an important role in technological efforts related to deep sea hydrocarbon drilling and carbon dioxide sequestration.
*** A NASA high altitude balloon experiment observed “rare electric blue clouds”:
On the cusp of our atmosphere live a thin group of seasonal electric blue clouds. Read the story: https://go.nasa.gov/2QPcrOD. Forming fifty miles above the poles in summer, these clouds are known as noctilucent clouds or polar mesospheric clouds — PMCs. A recent NASA long-duration balloon mission observed these clouds over the course of five days at their home in the mesosphere. The resulting photos, which scientists have just begun to analyze, will help us better understand turbulence in the atmosphere, as well as in oceans, lakes, and other planetary atmospheres, and may even improve weather forecasting.
