Here is this week’s episode of NASA’s Space to Ground report on activities related to the International Space Station:

NASA astronaut Joe Acaba uses the unique environment of weightless on the ISS to give a STEM demonstration of the relationship between kinetic and potential energy:

Wheat is now growing on the ISS: Giving Roots and Shoots Their Space: The Advanced Plant Habitat | NASA

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Here is the latest Space to Ground report from NASA on activities related to the International Space Station:

This cool video shows a time lapse (90 minutes into 2 minutes) of the SpaceX Dragon approaching the ISS for capture by the robotic arm this past Wednesday:

This video is about the entrepreneurial company Alpha Space, which

owns and operates the MISSE, an orbiting commercial science facility permanently installed on the exterior of the International Space Station. Alpha Space, a woman- and minority-owned company, serves the Space Research, Testing, and Materials Science communities with turn-key, fixed price services that make getting science and test elements safely into space, and data and materials back to earth, as simple and inexpensive as possible. If it fits, it flies.

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NASA has released this week’s Space to Ground report on activities related to the International Space Station:

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The latest Space to Ground report from NASA on  activities related to the International Space Station:

A Soyuz with three new crew members docked with the ISS on Friday:

More at:

• Soyuz spacecraft with crew of three docks with space station – Spaceflight Now
• Soyuz MS-08 mission, first crew launch of 2018, docks with ISS – NASASpaceFlight.com

Here is a video about plants growing in weightlessness:

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This week’s Space to Ground report from NASA on activities related to the International Space Station:

** A demonstration on the ISS of Newton’s Third Law of Motion:

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