Here is the latest Space to Ground short video report from NASA on this week’s activities related to the International Space Station

This video shows all of the discussion on Thursday between Pope Francis and the ISS crew:

Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 53 Commander Randy Bresnik and Flight Engineers Joe Acaba and Mark Vande Hei of NASA and Flight Engineer and Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli of the European Space Agency discussed life and work in space and the spirit of international cooperation during a question and answer session Oct. 26 with Pope Francis at the Vatican. The pope also discussed the crew members’ view of the Earth from orbit and praised the crew for its accomplishments in demonstrating the value of international collaboration for peaceful purposes. The crewmembers are in various stages of their respective five and a half month missions on the outpost.

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

** A podcast with ISS crewmembers in a talk about photography from space:

“Houston We Have a Podcast” streamed live on NASA TV and Facebook Live on October 13, 2017. Hosts Gary Jordan and Megan Sumner talk about astronaut photography with Expedition 53 crewmembers Randy “Komrade” Bresnik, Paolo Nespoli, Joe Acaba, and Mark “Sabot” Vande Hei. The crewmembers answer questions submitted on Facebook Live.

** There have been three spacewalks this month at the station including one today:

… Expedition 53 Commander Randy Bresnik and Flight Engineer Joe Acaba of NASA conducted a spacewalk Oct. 20 to continue upgrades to and maintenance of station hardware. It was the third spacewalk in two weeks for Expedition 53 crewmembers outside the Quest airlock. During the excursion, Bresnik and Acaba replaced a failed camera light on the new Latching End Effector “hand” on the Canadarm2 robotic arm, installed a new high definition camera on the starboard truss of the complex, replaced a fuse on the Dextre Special Dexterous Manipulator attachment for the arm and removed thermal blankets from two spare electrical routing units for future robotic replacement work, if required. It was the fifth spacewalk in Bresnik’s career and the third for Acaba.

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

Here is a new NASA video about food on the station:

This photo taken during a spacewalk this week gives a sense of the scale of the ISS – Mark T. Vande Hei on Twitter:

“My 2nd #spacewalk is complete for Expedition 53! Can you find the two people working outside in this picture?”

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The latest Space to Ground report from NASA on recent International Space Station (ISS) related activities:

Highlights of the career of Canadarm2. the Canadian-built robotic appendage used on the ISS for a wide variety of tasks:

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