Space to Ground: Images: July 19, 2024

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station.

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Welcome to space to ground, I’m jaden jennings. A cargo crafts departs the space station, nasa astronauts butch wilmore and suni williams share their experiences from launch to low earth orbit, and astronaut photography takes center stage on social media. "release commanded. " northrop grumman’s uncrewed cygnus spacecraft departed the international space sration on friday july 12 five and a half months after delivering more 8,200 pounds of scientific investigations, commercial products, and other cargo to the orbiting laboratory for nasa and its international partners. With the craft’s departure, the kentucky re-entry probe experiment-2 stowed inside the spacecraft prepared to take measurements to demonstrate a thermal protection system.

This investigation could lead to improvements in heat shielding during atmospheric re-entry. On july 13, the cygnus craft, filled with trash, then underwent a destructive re-entry where it safely burned up in the earth’s atmosphere " we are having a great time here on iss. You know butch and I have been up here before and it feels like coming back home. It feels good to float around, it feels good to be in space and work up here with the international space station team, so yeah, it's great to be up here so I'm not complaining, butch isn't complaining that we're here for a couple of weeks" on july 10, nasa astronuats butch wilmore and suni williams participated in an on-orbit news conference where the crew discussed various elements of the starliner mission thus far and answered questions directly from the media. "we're been intergrated right into expedition 71, 71 plus as we call it, and we've been doing science for them, maintenance, some major maintainance that has been waiting for a little while, like stuff that's been on the books for a little bit.

I got to do some gene sequencing. I think you got to do some other science experiments as well with the moon microscope that was 3d printed, so we've been thoroughly busy up here, integrated right into the crew and every, every, about once a week we get to jump into starliner and talk to our control team there and work through all the new, nuances that they're working that they're working hard on the ground to make sure that we will be able to come home before too long. " since the beginning of the space station, astronauts have taken many of photos of earth. The photos that are taken actively support our understanding of the planet, advancing our knowledge of climate change, natural disasters, and even the vast changes of our earth’s landscapes. And while most traditional satellites only take photos looking straight down at the earth, astronauts can capture images from a variety of perspectives.

"we have this camera set up in here. We put all of the settings into the camera. It's going to be 6400 iso... " nasa astronaut matt dominick has captured several breath-taking images of earth during his time aboard the space station and has posted several on his social media account on x @dominickmatthew. Some of examples include: an image of a dragon spacecraft docked to station that is illuminated by the moon in the upper right-hand corner.

A sliver of the moon from 260 miles above earth as clouds appear towards the horizon waiting on the sunrise. He has even captured notable landmarks such as the nile river and mediterraten sea, and natural disasters such as hurricane beryl as the expedition 71 flew directly above the storm. You can keep up with the rest of the current crew on board station by following us on social media @space_station, @nasa_astronauts, @astro_jeanette, and @astro_suni. And that’s space to ground for now. Thank you so much for watching.

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