Nosmo King
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Yes sorry that was my mistake in the first post, it should be 50+ litres (12 approx gallons)It says liters in your original? Those are significantly different.
Yes sorry that was my mistake in the first post, it should be 50+ litres (12 approx gallons)It says liters in your original? Those are significantly different.
The ISS bug that could aid human colonisation of Mars.
IN MID-MARCH, NASA researchers announced that they’d found an unknown life-form hiding aboard the International Space Station. And they were cool with that.
In fact, for an organization known for a sophisticated public communications strategy—Mars rovers don’t write their own tweets, is what I’m saying—everyone was pretty quiet about this discovery.
Almost too quiet.
It’s true that the new life wasn’t, say, a xenomorphic alien with acid for blood. It was a novel species of bacteria, unknown on Earth but whose genes identified it as coming from a familiar terrestrial genus called Methylobacterium. Typically its members like to hang out amid the roots of plants, not on the walls of space stations. Still, you’d think a probably-not-but-maybe-evolved-in-space microbe would merit a little more freaking out. Yet here we are. Nobody was exactly surprised—and the reasons why could define the future of human space exploration.
As part of an ongoing research project into the microbial life of the ISS, astronauts onboard in 2015 and 2016 swabbed down various parts of the station and sent home the wipes they used. Over the next couple of years down here on Earth, a team of researchers headquartered at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Biotechnology and Planetary Protection Group isolated the microbes and sequenced their genes. One species, found on a HEPA filter in the station’s life-support system, was a garden-variety (literally!) Methylobacterium rhodesianum. But three samples—from a surface near the materials research rack, a wall near the “cupola” of windows, and the astronauts' dining table—were something new. The researchers running the project named it M. ajmalii. ...
https://www.wired.com/story/sneaky-new-bacteria-on-the-iss-could-build-a-future-on-mars/
It will be the ride of a lifetime for them.Baby squid to be launched to the space station.
"More than 100 baby squid and 5,000 microscopic animals are set to be launched to the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday.
The creatures, along with other equipment for experiments, will head to the ISS aboard Space X's Falcon 9 rocket.
Its hoped that the experiments will be able to help scientists understand the effects of spaceflight.
The launch at 13:29 EDT (17:29 GMT) will be broadcast live by Nasa.
The 128 baby bobtail squid will be used as part of research into the effects of spaceflight on beneficial interactions between microbes and animals."
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57339989
Haven't we seen this film? Did anybody take any notice?Baby squid to be launched to the space station.
"More than 100 baby squid and 5,000 microscopic animals are set to be launched to the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday.
The creatures, along with other equipment for experiments, will head to the ISS aboard Space X's Falcon 9 rocket.
Its hoped that the experiments will be able to help scientists understand the effects of spaceflight.
The launch at 13:29 EDT (17:29 GMT) will be broadcast live by Nasa.
The 128 baby bobtail squid will be used as part of research into the effects of spaceflight on beneficial interactions between microbes and animals."
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57339989
And yet, they have been adding new modules (like recently).NASA said that life aboard the international space station will end December 2024 after being in service from 1998.
Signs of wear and tear are showing through the station.
Will the last person turn off the lights and close the door !
There are far worse places to have your vehicle go all "unintended acceleration", I suppose. Had to be a bit unnerving though.The ISS was destabilised when the new Russian modules thrusters fired unintentionally.
"The International Space Station (ISS) was destabilised after engines of a newly arrived Russian module inadvertently fired up.
"Mission control teams corrected the action and all systems are operating normally," US space agency Nasa said.
This was done by activating thrusters on other modules of the ISS. An investigation is now under way.
US and Russian officials stressed that the seven crew members aboard the space station were never in any danger.
The malfunction happened three hours after the Nauka module docked with the ISS on Thursday, following an eight-day flight from Earth."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-58021394
Lemons?!Happy Birthday Megan!
A space station astronaut is celebrating her 50th birthday with an ice cream and other treats brought by a supply ship.
SpaceX’s latest cargo delivery showed up on Monday at the International Space Station after a day in transit.
Overseeing the automated docking was Nasa astronaut Megan McArthur.
”No one’s ever sent me a spaceship for my birthday before. I appreciate it,” she radioed after the capsule arrived.
Launched Sunday from Nasa’s Kennedy Space Centre, the capsule contains lemons, cherry tomatoes, avocados and ice cream for Ms McArthur and her six crewmates, along with a couple tons of research and other gear. ...
https://www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-40369820.html
I would hope they included the gin and tonic to go with the lemonsCan't have the crew getting scurvy.
A serious setback for the ISS as Russia today announced new cracks found in the Russian part of the ISS.
Russia claims the ISS is deteriorating faster than previously thought.
Russian space agency Roscosmos downplayed the incident.
"The orbit of the object, which forced the crew today to move into spacecraft according to standard procedures, has moved away from the ISS orbit. The station is in the green zone," the agency tweeted.
The wayward material passed by without incident, but its origin is now under the spotlight.
It appears to have come from a broken-up Russian satellite, Kosmos-1408. A spy satellite launched in 1982, it weighed over a tonne and had ceased working many years ago.
LeoLabs, a space debris-tracking company, said its radar facility in New Zealand had picked up multiple objects where the long-defunct spacecraft should have been.
But Mr Price said the danger was far from over.
"This test will significantly increase the risk to astronauts and cosmonauts on the International Space Station, as well as to other human spaceflight activities," he said.
"Russia's dangerous and irresponsible behaviour jeopardises the long-term sustainability of outer space and clearly demonstrate that Russia's claims of opposing weaponisation of space are disingenuous and hypocritical.
"The US will work with our partners and allies to respond to their irresponsible act."
What is that?
What is that?
FULL STORY: https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/02/world/nasa-international-space-station-retire-iss-scn/index.htmlNASA plans to retire the International Space Station by 2031 by crashing it into the Pacific Ocean
NASA intends to keep operating the International Space Station until the end of 2030, after which the ISS would be crashed into a remote part of the Pacific Ocean known as Point Nemo, according to newly published plans outlining its future.
Launched in 2000, the space lab has orbited 227 nautical miles above Earth with more than 200 astronauts from 19 different countries enjoying stints aboard -- representing a continuous human presence in space.
NASA said that commercially operated space platforms would replace the ISS as a venue for collaboration and scientific research. ...
n the International Space Station Transition Report, NASA said the plan was for the ISS to fall to Earth in an area known as the South Pacific Oceanic Uninhabited Area -- also known as Point Nemo. The report said that its budget estimate assumed that the deorbit would happen in January 2031.
Named after the submarine sailor in Jules Verne's novel "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea," Point Nemo is the point in the ocean that is farthest from land and has been a watery grave for many other spacecraft.
The area is approximately 3,000 miles off of New Zealand's eastern coast and 2,000 miles north of Antarctica and it's estimated that space-faring nations such as the US, Russia, Japan and European countries have sunk more than 263 pieces of space debris there since 1971. ...