Here’s the latest Space to Ground report from NASA about activities related to the International Space Station:

The latest report on the Kennedy Space Center:

NASA JPL posted this video of a test with an engineering model of the Insight Mars lander. The Insight mission is scheduled to launch this May:

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Here is this week’s Space to Ground report from NASA about activities related to the International Space Station:

Here is a nice little physics demo by ISS crew member Randy Bresnik:

Watch NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik demonstrate Newton’s Second Law of Motion on the International Space Station by applying a force to objects of different mass. Do you see the differences in acceleration?

Here are highlights of last week’s departure, undocking, and landing  in Kazakhstan of a Soyuz spacecraft with three ISS crew members:

The Soyuz MS-06 spacecraft hatch was closed at 19:58 UTC, on 27 February 2018. International Space Station Expedition 53-54 crew members, Flight Engineers Mark Vande Hei and Joe Acaba of NASA and Alexander Misurkin of Roscosmos started their journey home at 23:08UTC, when the Soyuz MS-06 spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station. The Soyuz MS-06 spacecraft landed in Kazakhstan at 02:31 UTC on 28 February 2018.

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

Here is a NASA Johnson video about how the Canadian robotics systems used to build the ISS led directly to applications in surgical robotics:

Here is a video recorded yesterday for “Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day”. They used a panoramic camera system that allows you to scan the inside of the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) up and down and 360 degrees around.

The VAB is the centerpiece of the Kennedy Space Center, which is becoming a multi-user facility for commercial and government launch services:

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