Space to Ground: Sunita in Charge: Sept. 20, 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 shaneequa vereen. Did you know that there’s a key to the international space station? The “key” is actually a handle used to open the hatches to the roscosmos segment of the space station, but it also serves as a symbolic transfer of command of the orbiting complex. "it's a very appropriate key of the space station, it symbolizes the camaraderie that we have between all of the space agencies, and sergey, it's with great pleasure and honor that I present you this key and command of the international space station. " "congratulations.

" on september 22, expedition 71 commander oleg kononenko will pass this symbolic “key” to nasa astronaut suni williams during the change of command ceremony, marking the start of her leadership on the station. Kononenko will return to earth one day later aboard soyuz ms-25. The return of that spacecraft will also mark the return of nasa astronaut tracy dyson after her six-month stay in space. But before returning to earth, dyson was busy at work on the space station, setting up a camera inside of the station’s harmony module. This setup will facilitate a week-long imaging session for the sally ride earthkam program.

Sally ride earthkam is a nasa educational outreach program that enables thousands of middle school students the capability to take images of earth from that camera mounted inside the space station and use these images for investigative projects. From its orbit of 250 miles above earth, the space station provides a unique vantage point to photograph events on our planet. Sometimes those events are close to home. This week, nasa astronaut don pettit took this image of a pipeline fire that took place in deer park, texas, which was about 10 miles north of nasa’s johnson space center, and even closer to his home here on earth. Over the years, photography of earth from the space station has contributed to research of our atmosphere, the monitoring of natural disasters, and more.

You can follow more exciting developments and updates on the international space station by visiting blog. nasa. gov/spacestation. And that’s space to ground for this week. Thanks for watching.

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