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As the #ISS reaches it's 15th anniversary (#ISS15), let's pause to reflect on the amazing accomplishments of living and working in space these last 15 years. Zarya, the first space station module, was launched aboard a Russian Proton rocket and placed into orbit on Nov. 20, 1998. Two years later the first crew would occupy the station which consisted of just three modules including Russia’s Zvezda service module and the United States’ Unity node. When Expedition 1 returned to Earth four months later the station had expanded to a fourth module, the U.S. Destiny laboratory, and its first solar array, the P6 truss structure, attached to Unity. Fast forward to today and you have the 38th crew to live and work continuously aboard the orbital laboratory. They are moving ahead with science to benefit life on Earth and in space. The six-member crew is also ensuring the station is operating in optimal shape and exercising to stay healthy during its long-term stay in space. The space station continues to provide a microgravity environment for researchers to conduct experiments in biology and biotechnology, human research, Earth and space science, physical science, and technology demonstrations, among a multitude of others, in what was only an engineering schematic just 15 years ago. In that time, space station educational activities on orbit have reached more than 42 million students across the globe. Further, the space station serves as a stepping-stone to deeper space exploration, demonstrating the essentials of long-term living in space. Thank you for celebrating 15 years of the International Space Station with us today. Image credit: NASA #nasa #space #spacestation #earth #humanoutpost #iss15 #birthday #astronauts #zarya #international #unity; -
With the #ISS15 anniversary today, let’s not forget what the space station (#ISS) is truly about: humans living off the planet. In this image, NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson, Expedition 24 flight engineer, looks through a window in the Cupola of the International Space Station. A blue and white part of Earth and the blackness of space are visible through the windows. The image, taken on Sept. 11, 2010, was a self-portrait using natural light. The station is the centerpiece of our human spaceflight activities in low-Earth orbit. It is fully staffed with a crew of six, and American astronauts will continue to live and work there in space 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. It is a test bed for exploration technologies such as autonomous refueling of spacecraft, advanced life support systems and human/robotic interfaces. The station is the engineering test bed that enables us to prove the systems we need and deal with the crew health issues that must be solved for us to actually go beyond Earth for extended periods of time, when we eventually go to Mars and beyond. CREDIT: NASA #nasa #space #spacestation #earth #humanoutpost #iss15 #birthday #astronauts #zarya #roscosmos #international #unity #rsa; -
Celebrating #ISS15: Astronaut James H. Newman waves during a spacewalk preparing for release of the first combined #ISS elements. The Russian-built Zarya module, with its solar array panel visible here, was launched into orbit fifteen years ago on Nov. 20, 1998. Two weeks later, on Dec. 4, 1998, NASA's space shuttle Endeavour launched Unity, the first U.S. piece of the complex. During three spacewalks on the STS-88 mission, the two space modules built on opposite sides of the planet were joined together in space, making the space station truly international. Since that first meeting of Zarya and Unity, the space station grew piece by piece with additions from each of the international partners built across three continents and leading to the largest and most complex spacecraft ever constructed. The space station, now four times larger than Mir and five times larger than Skylab, represents a collaboration between NASA, Roscosmos, the European Space Agency, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency and the Canadian Space Agency, representing 15 countries in all. CREDIT: NASA #nasa #space #iss #iss15 #spacestation #birthday #astronauts #zarya #roscosmos #international #unity #rsa; -
Celebrating 15 Years (#ISS15) Since the Sunrise: Two weeks after the Zarya was launched into orbit on Nov. 20, 1998, Endeavour launched Unity, the first U.S. piece of the complex, during the STS-88 mission. In this image, blanketing clouds form the backdrop for this 70mm scene of the connected Zarya and Unity modules after having been released from NASA’s space shuttle Endeavour's cargo bay a bit earlier. The two space modules built on opposite sides of the planet were joined together in space, making the space station truly international. The Russian Space Agency, now known as Roscosmos, launched a Proton rocket that lifted the pressurized module called Zarya, or “sunrise,” into orbit. This launch would truly be the dawn of the largest international cooperation effort in space to ever come to light. Zarya was the first piece of the International Space Station. Also known as the Functional Cargo Block (FGB), it would provide a nucleus of orientation control, communications and electrical power while the station waited for its other elements, including the Zvezda service module and Unity. CREDIT: NASA #nasa #space #iss #iss15 #spacestation #birthday #astronauts #zarya #roscosmos #international #unity #rsa; -
Drifting away: three nanosatellites, known as Cubesats, were deployed from the space station’s airlock in the Kibo module Tuesday at 7:10 a.m. EST; a fourth will be released Wednesday at 2:50 a.m. The Japanese robotic arm grappled and unberthed a deployer mechanism containing all four satellites from Kibo’s airlock. Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata monitored the satellite deployment while operating the Japanese robotic arm from inside Kibo. The Cubesats were delivered to the space station Aug. 9, 2013, aboard Japan’s fourth H-II Transfer Vehicle, Kounotori-4. This image was taken by space station astronaut Rick Mastracchio. CREDIT: NASA #station #iss #spacestation #astronauts #space #nasa,#earth #satellites #cubesats #nanosatellites;
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Comet ISON is seen 9 days from the sun: Comet ISON shows off its tail in this three-minute exposure taken on Nov. 19, 2013 at 6:10 a.m. EST, using a 14-inch telescope located at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. The comet is just nine days away from its close encounter with the sun; hopefully it will survive to put on a nice show during the first week of December. The star images are trailed because the telescope is tracking on the comet, which is now exhibiting obvious motion with respect to the background stars over a period of minutes. At the time of this image, Comet ISON was some 44 million miles from the sun -- and 80 million miles from Earth -- moving at a speed of 136,700 miles per hour. Image credit: NASA/MSFC/Aaron Kingery #nasa #space #ison #cometison #comet #stars #astronomy #universe #solarsystem; -
First IceBridge Antarctic science flight from McMurdo Station completed! We were treated to spectacular views while successfully collecting data over the Transantarctic mountains. IceBridge, a six-year NASA mission, is the largest airborne survey of Earth's polar ice ever flown. It will yield an unprecedented three-dimensional view of Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets, ice shelves and sea ice. These flights will provide a yearly, multi-instrument look at the behavior of the rapidly changing features of the Greenland and Antarctic ice. Data collected during IceBridge will help scientists bridge the gap in polar observations between NASA's Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) -- in orbit since 2003 -- and ICESat-2, planned for early 2016. ICESat stopped collecting science data in 2009, making IceBridge critical for ensuring a continuous series of observations. IceBridge will use airborne instruments to map Arctic and Antarctic areas once a year. IceBridge flights are conducted in March-May over Greenland and in October-November over Antarctica. Other smaller airborne surveys around the world are also part of the IceBridge campaign. Credit: NASA / Michael Studinger #nasa #earth #science #ice #icebridge #icesat #snow #arctic #polar #antarctic #polarice; -
Taking flight at Cape Canaveral! NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft launches aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 41, Monday, Nov. 18, 2013, Cape Canaveral, Florida. NASA’s Mars-bound spacecraft, the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN, or MAVEN, is the first spacecraft devoted to exploring and understanding the Martian upper atmosphere. The one-year mission begins in September 2014, when the spacecraft reaches Mars orbit. Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls #nasa #space #ula #rocket #launch #rocketlaunch #launchpad#321 launch #maven2mars #planets #science #solarsystem #martian #maven #countdown; -
And we have lift off! The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft launches from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 41, Monday, Nov. 18, 2013, Cape Canaveral, Florida. NASA’s Mars-bound spacecraft, the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutionN, or MAVEN, is the first spacecraft devoted to exploring and understanding the Martian upper atmosphere. The one-year mission begins in September 2014, when the spacecraft reaches Mars orbit. Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls) #nasa #space #ula #rocket #launch#rocketlaunch #launchpad #321launch#maven2mars #planets #science #solarsystem,#martian #maven #countdown; -
One more Mars image before the launch of our MAVEN mission at 1:28 pm EST today. This sharp view of the Red Planet taken from Earth was obtained by NASA Hubble Space Telescope (HST). This stunning portrait was taken with the HST Wide Field Planetary Camera-2 (WFPC2) on March 10, 1997, just before Mars opposition, when the red planet made one of its closest passes to the Earth (about 60 million miles or 100 million km). MAVEN will be the first to study the Red Planet's upper atmosphere. Scientists expect data gathered during the MAVEN mission to help explain how Mars' climate has changed over time due to the loss of atmospheric gases. The one-year mission begins in Sept. 2014, when the spacecraft reaches Mars orbit. Credit: David Crisp and the WFPC2 Science Team (Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology), and NASA #nasa #space #ula #rocket #launch#rocketlaunch #launchpad #321launch#maven2mars #planets #science #solarsystem,#martian #maven #countdown;
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With MAVEN launching to Mars today at 1:28pm ET, here’s an image courtesy NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover. While Curiosity is working to understand Mars as a past habitat, MAVEN will study the upper Martian atmosphere. Curiosity will not be able to "see" MAVEN on its arrival. Later in the mission, Curiosity may be able to view MAVEN when its orbit passes over Gale Crater at dusk, similar to viewing a low-earth-orbiting (LEO) satellite around Earth. MAVEN will help in understanding Mars' climate history and uncovering when and how long Mars may have had an environment more favorable to microbial life than found today. This photo is a mosaic of images taken by the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on Curiosity while the rover was working at a site called "Rocknest" in October and November 2012. The center of the scene, looking eastward from Rocknest, includes the Point Lake area. After the component images for this scene were taken, Curiosity drove 83 feet (25.3 meters) on Nov. 18 from Rocknest to Point Lake. From Point Lake, the Mastcam is taking images for another detailed panoramic view of the area further east to help researchers identify candidate targets for the rover's first drilling into a rock. CREDIT: NASA #nasa #space #ula #rocket #launch #rocketlaunch #launchpad #321launch #maven2mars #planets #science #solarsystem, #martian #maven #countdown #curiosityrover; -
Getting excited for today’s 1:28 pm EST MAVEN launch to Mars? In honor of MAVEN, here is an image from the 1976 Viking 1 orbiter that shows the thin atmosphere of Mars. Scientists will use MAVEN data to determine the role that loss of volatile from the Mars atmosphere to space has played through time, giving insight into the history of Mars' atmosphere and climate, liquid water and planetary habitability. Tune into NASA TV today at 11 a.m. for the start of launch coverage. You can watch the action live on NASA TV at http://www/nasa.gov/nasatv Credit: NASA #nasa #space #ula #rocket #launch #rocketlaunch #launchpad #321launch #maven2mars #planets #science #solarsystem, #martian #maven #countdown; -
It’s Mars Day at NASA, and we’re launching our MAVEN spacecraft there at 1:28 p.m. EST. Forecasters predict a 60 percent chance for favorable weather during a two-hour launch window of the United Launch Alliance Atlas V-401 rocket. MAVEN will take critical measurements of the Martian upper atmosphere to help scientists understand climate change over the Red Planet's history. MAVEN is the first spacecraft devoted to exploring and understanding the Martian upper atmosphere. It will orbit the planet in an elliptical orbit that allows it to pass through and sample the entire upper atmosphere on every orbit. The spacecraft will investigate how the loss of Mars' atmosphere to space determined the history of water on the surface. This global mosaic of 102 Viking 1 Orbiter images of Mars was taken on orbit Feb. 22, 1980. The images are projected into point perspective, representing what a viewer would see from a spacecraft at an altitude of 2,500 km. Image Credit: NASA #nasa #space #ula #rocket #launch #rocketlaunch #launchpad #321launch #maven2mars #planets #science #solarsystem, #martian #maven #countdown; -
'Twas the night before launch... NASA MAVEN’s last night on Earth before launching to Mars. The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft onboard is seen at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 41, Sunday, Nov. 17, 2013, Cape Canaveral, Fla. Forecasters from the U.S. Air Force 45th Weather Squadron continue to predict a 60 percent chance of favorable weather for the launch of MAVEN at 1:28 p.m. EST Monday. MAVEN is scheduled to liftoff atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V at the beginning of a two hour launch window. Teams are working no technical issues and the countdown is targeted to pick up from the T-6 hour, 20 minute mark at 6:28 a.m. Monday. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls) #maven #nasa #space #ula #rocket #launch #rocketlaunch #launchpad #321launch #maven2mars #planets #science #solarsystem, #martian; -
One more day until our next Mars-bound spacecraft launches to the red planet. United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft onboard is seen at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 41, Sunday, Nov. 17, 2013, Cape Canaveral, Fla. MAVEN is scheduled to launch at 1:28 p.m. EST on Monday, Nov. 18. MAVEN is the first spacecraft devoted to exploring and understanding the Martian upper atmosphere. It will orbit the planet in an elliptical orbit that allows it to pass through and sample the entire upper atmosphere on every orbit. The spacecraft will investigate how the loss of Mars' atmosphere to space determined the history of water on the surface. The spacecraft is scheduled to reach Mars in September 2014. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls) #maven #nasa #space #ula #rocket #launch #rocketlaunch #launchpad #321launch #maven2mars #planets #science #solarsystem, #martian;
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