Videos: “Space to Ground” ISS report – Aug.16.2019

The latest episode of NASA’s Space to Ground weekly reports on activities related to the International Space Station:

** Testing biomining techniques on the ISS for extracting resources from space based sources such as asteroids and the Moon:

** Expedition 60 ESA PAO Stockholm Culture Festival August 13, 2019

Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 60 Flight Engineer Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency discussed life and research on the orbital laboratory Aug. 13 with an audience gathered at the Stockholm Culture Festival in Stockholm, Sweden. Parmitano is in the early weeks of a long-duration mission on the complex that will run through February 2020.

** Expedition 60 In Flight Bustle Digital Group – August 14, 2019

Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 60 Flight Engineer Christina Koch of NASA discussed life and research as an astronaut aboard the orbital outpost Aug. 14 during an in-flight question-and-answer session for the Bustle Digital Group’s “Be My Guest” feature. Koch is nearing the halfway mark of a long-duration mission on the station that will exceed 300 days in orbit.

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