Here is this week’s Space to Ground report from NASA on activities related to the International Space Station:
Here are more scenes from the spacewalk on Thursday:
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Category Archives: Living in Space
SpaceX successfully re-launches and lands orbital rocket booster
SpaceX today successfully launched a communications satellite into orbit and also flew the first stage booster back down for a safe landing onto a floating platform at sea. This launch and landing are historic because the booster had flown once before (April 2016). This was the first time an orbital rocket booster had been re-flown.
Here is a video clip from the webcast showing video from the booster as it came down towards the sea. The video transmission dropped out briefly (the antenna on the platform is shaken by the plume of the rocket) but then the image comes of the rocket in the center of the ship:
Some words from Elon Musk about the successful mission:
A video of the launch from Kennedy Space Center:
Here is the whole webcast:
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Videos: Watch astronauts on a spacewalk outside the ISS
Two astronauts are conducting an EVA (Extravehicular Activity) , i.e. a spacewalk, outside the International Space Station (ISS) this morning: NASA Updates Schedule for International Space Station Spacewalks | NASA.
NASA’s Shane Kimbrough and ESA’s Thomas Pesquet will be outside the station for about six hours helping to prepare the ISS for the future arrival of U.S. commercial crew spacecraft and upgrade station hardware. In this video, Sarah Korona, U.S. EVA # 40 Spacewalk Officer, narrates an animation of the tasks for the spacewalkers.
And here is a live webcast of the EVA:
Video: “Space to Ground” ISS report – Mar.17.2017
This week’s Space to Ground report from NASA on activities related to the International Space Station:
A couple of bonus videos:
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Video: “Space to Ground” ISS report for Mar.10.2017
A new report from NASA on activities aboard the International Space Station: