Videos: “Space to Ground” & other space habitat reports – Oct.7.2022

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

** Expedition 68 – NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 Flight Day 1 Highlights – Oct. 5, 2022 – NASA Video

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 astronauts lifted off at 12 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Oct. 5, from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, bound for the International Space Station for the fifth commercial crew rotation mission aboard the microgravity laboratory. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket propelled the Crew Dragon spacecraft with NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina, into orbit to begin a long-duration science mission on the space station. The Crew Dragon spacecraft, named Endurance, will dock autonomously to the forward port of the station’s Harmony module at 4:57 p.m. EDT Thursday, Oct. 6.

** SpaceX Crew-5 mission launches to space station, booster nails landing – VideoFromSpace

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a Crew Dragon spacecraft carrying NASA astronauts Josh Cassada and Nicole Mann, JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Oct. 5, 2022.

** See SpaceX Crew-5 inside Dragon – What stuffed toy did they bring? – VideoFromSpace

The SpaceX Crew-5 astronauts and cosmonaut have been strapped into the Crew Dragon spacecraft for launch. Every Crew that preceded the carried a stuff toy for a zero-g indicator, what will they they have aboard today?

** Expedition 68 – NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 Flight Day 2 Highlights – Oct. 6, 2022 – NASA Video

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 astronauts docked autonomously to the forward port of the International Space Station’s Harmony module at 4:57 p.m. EDT Thursday, Oct. 6. NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina, arrived after a one-day journey to begin a long-duration science mission on the space station. Following docking, Mann, Cassada, Wakata, and Kikina joined the Expedition 68 crew of NASA astronauts Bob Hines, Kjell Lindgren, Frank Rubio, and Jessica Watkins, and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut and station commander Samantha Cristoforetti, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin.

** SpaceX Crew-5 docks with the International Space Station – VideoFromSpace

Crew Dragon spacecraft carrying NASA astronauts Josh Cassada and Nicole A Mann, JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina docked with the International Space Station on Oct. 6, 2022.

** SpaceX Crew-5 enters space station after docking – VideoFromSpace

NASA astronauts Josh Cassada and Nicole A Mann, JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina entered the International Space Station shortly after docking on Oct. 6, 2022.

** See SpaceX Crew-5’s welcome ceremony aboard the International Space Station – VideoFromSpace

NASA astronauts Josh Cassada and Nicole A Mann, JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina are welcomed aboard the International Space Station by commander Samantha Cristoforetti on Oct. 6, 2022.

** Samantha Cristoforetti’s second mission highlight | Minerva Mission – European Space Agency, ESA on Youtube

ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti will soon complete her second mission to the International Space Station, Minerva.

She was launched from Kennedy Space Center in late April, and since then has supported many European and international science experiments, as well as taken responsibility for all operations within the US Orbital Segment. In July 2022 she performed her first spacewalk, during which she carried out work in the Russian segment to bring the European Robotic Arm into operation.

This report provides a summary of the Minerva Mission, which will end shortly with Samantha’s return to Earth.

Samantha’s personal Twitter: https://twitter.com/AstroSamantha
Samantha’s personal TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@astrosamantha

** Watch China move space station module to new docking port – VideoFromSpace

China’s Wentian lab module was moved to the “side port of the space station’s node cabin,” on Sept. 30, 2022. The Tiangong space station is now in an L shape as a result.

** ISS Live video stream – IBM/ISS HD Earth Viewing Experiment

Currently, live views from the ISS are streaming from an external camera mounted on the ISS module called Node 2. Node 2 is located on the forward part of the ISS. The camera is looking forward at an angle so that the International Docking Adapter 2 (IDA2) is visible. If the Node 2 camera is not available due to operational considerations for a longer period of time, a continuous loop of recorded HDEV imagery will be displayed. The loop will have “Previously Recorded” on the image to distinguish it from the live stream from the Node 2 camera. After HDEV stopped sending any data on July 18, 2019, it was declared, on August 22, 2019, to have reached its end of life. Thank You to all who shared in experiencing and using the HDEV views of Earth from the ISS to make HDEV so much more than a Technology Demonstration Payload!

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