Videos: “Space to Ground” + Other ISS reports – Oct.15.2021

Here is the latest episode in NASA’s Space to Ground weekly report on activities related to the International Space Station:

** NRCSD#21 Deployments from the International Space StationNanoracks

Deployments of three CubeSats from the Nanoracks CubeSat Deployer on the International Space Station. This is Nanoracks’ 21st CubeSat deployment mission from the ISS. The first deployment will contain CAPSat, a 3U from the University of Illinois. The second deployment will contain PR CuNaR2, a 3U from the Inter American University of Puerto Rico (the first ever Puerto Rican Satellite!), and a 3U from the University of Massachusetts Lowell.

** Crew 3 Training Resource Reel UHD – October 12, 2021NASA Video

NASA astronauts Raja Chari, Tom Marshburn and Kayla Barron as well as ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Matthias Maurer train for their six-month stay aboard the International Space Station.

** Space food | Mission Alpha [in French with English subtitles]European Space Agency, ESA on Youtube

ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet is on his second mission to the International Space Station called Alpha. In this video Thomas talks about his crew preference food that arrived on @SpaceX CRS-22 supply spacecraft, the video was recorded on 19 June 2021 in the Zvezda module of the Space Station.

Astronauts’ full space menu comprise of a range of food designed to meet nutritional and operational requirements on board. Because of the two hours of exercise they perform every day on the Station and a full schedule of science and operations, astronauts are expected to consume approximately 3000 calories per day in space.

For ESA astronauts such as Thomas, two thirds of this calorie intake come from the basic food supply that is preselected and prepacked by @NASA for the entire space mission. The final third of their calories comes from ‘crew choice meals’ – food that the astronauts choose for themselves, either from the US menu or a range of European, Russian and Japanese options. Before any mission to the Space Station, the astronauts participate in several space food tasting sessions to help determine what dishes will be included in the basic food supply. During a training course they test a range of different food and drink items and rate each of them in a questionnaire.

This information is then provided to NASA’s food lab which determines the final food package. Over 200 experiments are planned during Thomas’ time in space, with 40 European ones and 12 new experiments led by the French space agency @CNES. Follow Thomas: http://bit.ly/ThomasPesquetBlog

** Earth Images from the International Space Station. | Oct. 9, 2021 space googlevesaire

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