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Re: Expedition 38 thread (November 11, 2013 - March 12, 2014)
« Reply #100 on: 12/27/2013 09:13 pm »
During the US DPC, MCC-H advised the crew that a debris avoidance maneuver (PDAM) was scheduled for 0432 but it sounded like it may not occur.  Comms were being clobbered by post EVA Russian discussions but I'm pretty sure the likelihood of the maneuver actually being necessary were decreasing.
Best quote heard during an inspection, "I was unaware that I was the only one who was aware."

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Re: Expedition 38 thread (November 11, 2013 - March 12, 2014)
« Reply #102 on: 12/30/2013 04:44 pm »
December 30, 2013
MEDIA ADVISORY M13-198


NASA Sends Out of This World New Year’s Greeting in Times Square

NASA astronauts will help ring in 2014 by sending greetings from space and from Earth to the crowd gathered in New York's Times Square on New Year’s Eve.

Astronaut Mike Massimino will participate in the New Year’s Eve Countdown event on Tuesday evening, Dec. 31. He also will introduce a video greeting from Expedition 36 flight engineer Karen Nyberg, who returned from the International Space Station in November, and from three of the astronauts currently on board the space station: NASA's Rick Mastracchio and Mike Hopkins, and Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.

The New Year’s countdown will be shown from 6 p.m. to 12:15 a.m. EST on the Toshiba Vision screen atop One Times Square, right below the New Year countdown ball. Eddie Temistokle, senior manager of corporate communications and corporate social responsibility for Toshiba America Inc., will welcome Massimino to the stage at 9:47 p.m.

Mastracchio, Hopkins and Wakata are part of a six-member crew currently on the orbiting laboratory, along with Oleg Kotov, Mikhail Tyurin and Sergey Ryazanski of the Russian Federal Space Agency.

Prominently positioned below the world-famous Times Square New Year's Eve Ball, the dual LED screens will allow revelers in Times Square to see this special greeting from space.

Several NASA events have been broadcast in Times Square, including the Curiosity rover landing on Mars, which drew thousands of viewers, and the launches of two other spacecraft.

For more information about the International Space Station, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/station

Jacques :-)

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Re: Expedition 38 thread (November 11, 2013 - March 12, 2014)
« Reply #103 on: 12/31/2013 06:44 am »
New year on the ISS  :D .

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Re: Expedition 38 thread (November 11, 2013 - March 12, 2014)
« Reply #104 on: 12/31/2013 02:35 pm »

ISS Daily Summary Report – 12/27/13

Posted on December 27, 2013 by HQ.
 

Russian EVA 37: Kotov (EV1) and Ryazansky (EV2) performed RS EVA 37 with a duration of 8 hours and 7 minutes.  During the EVA Hopkins was isolated in the MRM-2/36S while Tyurin, Mastracchio, and Wakata had access to all modules forward of the SM / DC1.   Tasks completed during the EVA included:
•Installation of Yakor foot restraint on VRM station
•Removal of foot restraint ingress aid
•Removal of VSPLESK experiment from SM large diameter and it’s jettison
•Installation of SEISMOPROGNOZ experiment on SM large diameter
•Install Payload Boom on SM large diameter

The High Resolution Camera (HRC) and Medium Resolution Camera (MRC) were installed and cables routed, however due to unsuccessful checkout of the cameras they were uninstalled and brought back inside the ISS.  The planned tasks not completed during this EVA include the retrieval of СКК #2-СО cassette container, removal and jettison of MPAC & SEED frame and photos of MLI of RS exterior.

 Microbiome Investigation: FE-3 Hopkins perform his Flight Day 60 session of the Microbiome investigation. He answered survey questions, collected body sample, and inserted the samples into cold stowage.  The Microbiome experiment investigates the impact of space travel on both the human immune system and an individual’s microbiome (the collection of microbes that live in and on the human body at any given time). Samples from different parts of the body and the surrounding ISS environment are taken periodically. The study will assess the likelihood and consequences of alterations in the microbiome due to extreme environments and the related human health risks.

Space Headaches Investigation:  FE-3 Hopkins , FE5 Mastracchio, and FE-6 Wakata filled out a weekly questionnaire for ESA’s Space Headaches investigation.  They complete these questionnaires at the end of every week throughout their mission. Headaches can be a common complaint during space flights and can negatively affect mental and physical capacities of astronauts and cosmonauts which can influence performance during a space mission. This investigation involves obtaining pre-, in-flight and post-flight data via the questionnaires to evaluate the prevalence and characteristics of crewmembers’ headaches in microgravity.  Investigators will use this data to assess crewmember headache episodes, analyze characteristics of the headaches and provide the basis for developing future

COSMO Shoot: Wakata set up the COSMO laptop and 4K camera in preparation for capturing images of the Earth surface across the US and Canada.  He later removed the 4K camera hardware and temporarily stow it in the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM).
Jacques :-)

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Re: Expedition 38 thread (November 11, 2013 - March 12, 2014)
« Reply #105 on: 01/01/2014 01:49 pm »
On December 29, the Russian Santa Claus, Ded Moroz, visited Russian Mission Control and talked with the ISS cosmonauts. It looks like he did not take his granddaughter Snegurochka with him...
http://www.roscosmos.ru/20095/

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Re: Expedition 38 thread (November 11, 2013 - March 12, 2014)
« Reply #107 on: 01/03/2014 06:17 pm »

MEDIA ADVISORY M14-001

International Space Station Crew to Connect with Virginia Students


Students in Newport News and Williamsburg, Va., will begin 2014 by talking with astronauts in orbit aboard the International Space Station.
 
Expedition 38 Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio of NASA will participate in a live video chat, or downlink, at 10:25 a.m. EST Tuesday, Jan. 7, with students and educators from Denbigh High School’s Aviation Academy in Newport News. Students will have the opportunity to ask Mastracchio about life, work and research aboard the space station. The downlink will air live on NASA Television and on the agency's Web site.
 
Prior to the video conference, education specialists from NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., and the National Institute of Aerospace’s Center for Integrative STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) Education, also in Hampton, will provide interactive learning experiences designed to help students gain a better understanding of the space station program. The Aviation Academy magnet program is a highly specialized, four-year aviation program for high school students.
 
At 1:33 p.m. EST, Wednesday, Jan. 8, sixth grade students from Berkeley Middle School in Williamsburg, Va., also will connect with Expedition 38 Flight Engineer Mike Hopkins of NASA through the Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) program.
 
Before the radio chat, NASA Chief Scientist Ellen Stofan will address the Berkeley students to discuss current research activities on the orbiting laboratory and how a STEM curriculum could help students join the next generation of explorers. In preparation for the event, students have spent the past several weeks learning from Langley scientists, engineers, and education specialists about how the space station works and what it takes to live and work in space.
 
Both events are open to the media.  To attend the downlink at Denbigh High School’s Aviation Academy, reporters must contact Michelle Price at 757-591-7543 or [email protected]. The Academy is located at 902-B Bland Blvd., in Newport News, at the Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport.
 
To attend the ARISS ham radio event at Berkeley Middle School, journalists must contact Betsy Overkamp-Smith at 757-603-6480 or [email protected]. The school is located at 1118 Ironbound Rd., in Williamsburg.
 
NASA activities have been incorporated into classes at the schools in preparation for these unique educational experiences. Linking students directly to station astronauts provides an authentic experience of space exploration, scientific studies and possibilities for future human space exploration.
 
The in-flight education downlink and the ARISS ham radio chat are designed to engage educational organizations in the United States to improve STEM teaching and learning. They are managed by NASA's Teaching From Space education program, which promotes learning opportunities and builds partnerships with the education community using the unique environment of space and NASA's human spaceflight program.
 
The exact time of the downlink could change. For NASA TV streaming video, schedule and downlink information, visit:
 
http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv
 
For information about NASA's education programs, visit:
 
http://www.nasa.gov/education
 
For information about the International Space Station, visit:
 
http://www.nasa.gov/station
Jacques :-)

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Re: Expedition 38 thread (November 11, 2013 - March 12, 2014)
« Reply #108 on: 01/04/2014 01:09 pm »

ISS Daily Summary Report – 01/02/14

Posted on January 2, 2014 by HQ.

Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) Survey: Ground specialists performed a survey of the AMS payload using the Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS) video cameras. This imagery will be used as a tool to note any degradation and help diagnose future AMS payload operations anomalies. The previous AMS survey was performed one year ago.
 
Ocular Health (OH) Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) Test and Fundoscope Examination:  Flight Engineer (FE)-6 Wakata, acting as Crew Medical Officer (CMO), performed an OCT test on FE-3 Hopkins. Wakata then conducted a Fundoscope eye examination with remote guidance from ground experts. The OCT and Fundoscope activities are part of the Flight Day 90 session for Hopkins. The Ocular Health protocol is a systematic gathering of physiological data to characterize the risk of microgravity-induced visual impairment / intracranial pressure in ISS crewmembers.  Researchers believe the measurement of visual, vascular and central nervous system changes over the course of this experiment and during the subsequent post flight recovery will assist in the development of countermeasures, clinical monitoring strategies and clinical practice guidelines.
 
Nanoracks Biorack Centrifuge Troubleshooting: Mastrocchio successfully performed troubleshooting on the Nanoracks Biorack Centrifuge in order to complete checkout operations. This follows Hopkins’ attempt in November to perform power up and checkout which were unsuccessful.  Ground teams assisted in the troubleshooting while monitoring live over-the-shoulder high definition video of the activity.
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Anyone know what's going on with ISS imagery of late?

Up until recently images were always posted on spaceflight.nasa.gov, as in the link below:

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew-38/inflight/ndxpage1.html

But this now appears to have stopped, and instead all imagery is being posted on the "nasa2explore" Flickr account:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore

Anyone know whether this is simply a case of the person who manages the spaceflight.nasa.gov gallery being away, etc., or is the move to Flickr permanent?
« Last Edit: 01/04/2014 08:20 pm by Space Pete »
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Re: Expedition 38 thread (November 11, 2013 - March 12, 2014)
« Reply #110 on: 01/04/2014 09:13 pm »
Very good question, Space Pete.
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Re: Expedition 38 thread (November 11, 2013 - March 12, 2014)
« Reply #111 on: 01/05/2014 12:08 am »
Thanks for letting me know, because I was getting annoyed that the pictures hadn't been updating on nasa.gov.

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Re: Expedition 38 thread (November 11, 2013 - March 12, 2014)
« Reply #112 on: 01/06/2014 07:00 am »
"Koichi Wakata Weekly Activity Report"

Vol.7
"Message from Koichi Wakata, "Greetings upon the completion of EVA support, and Merry Christmas from the International Space Station""
Koichi Wakata, giving his impressions of EVA support activities, and Merry Christmas from the ISS


Vol.8
Happy New Year and Expectation for Sochi Olympic games from Koichi Wakata
Shooting Date: January 1, 2014


Vol.9
Koichi Wakata, performing calligraphy on board Kibo
Shooting Date: January 1, 2014


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Apparently ISS on-orbit images will no longer be posted on spaceflight.nasa.gov, and will instead now all be going on the nasa2explore Flickr account.

Don't know why they've done this, it is a real pain to download hi-res images from Flickr (five clicks, as opposed to the two that it took before). :(
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Re: Expedition 38 thread (November 11, 2013 - March 12, 2014)
« Reply #114 on: 01/07/2014 09:52 am »
Apparently ISS on-orbit images will no longer be posted on spaceflight.nasa.gov, and will instead now all be going on the nasa2explore Flickr account.

Don't know why they've done this, it is a real pain to download hi-res images from Flickr (five clicks, as opposed to the two that it took before). :(

In addition, the name of the pic (iss number) is not copied when you download the picture. You have to copy and paste that yourself.

I don't understand the reason why NASA is doing this. It comes on the heels of the cancellation of the weekly ISS report videos and the earlier cancellation of the press kits. I know that we now have the weekly "space to ground clips" but I don't even bother watching them.

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Re: Expedition 38 thread (November 11, 2013 - March 12, 2014)
« Reply #115 on: 01/07/2014 12:46 pm »
Apparently ISS on-orbit images will no longer be posted on spaceflight.nasa.gov, and will instead now all be going on the nasa2explore Flickr account.

Don't know why they've done this, it is a real pain to download hi-res images from Flickr (five clicks, as opposed to the two that it took before). :(

Are you kidding me ? did you check with JSC PAO ?

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Re: Expedition 38 thread (November 11, 2013 - March 12, 2014)
« Reply #116 on: 01/07/2014 03:36 pm »
ISS Daily Summary Report – 01/06/14
http://blogs.nasa.gov/stationreport/2014/01/06/iss-daily-summary-report-010614/

ISS Safety Video Survey: Flight Engineer (FE)-5 Mastracchio captured  video of the ISS interior volume, with which the ground team will assess the current vehicle configuration and identify any areas of concern related to ventilation blockage, flammability hazards, emergency egress paths, access to fire ports, and safety equipment, etc. The Safety Video Survey is performed approximately every 6 months.

Internal Thermal Control Systems (ITCS) Sampling: FE-3 Hopkins has completed nominal sampling from the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM) ITCS, Node 2 Low Temperature Loop (LTL) and Moderate Temperature Loop (MTL), and Node 3 MTL. He was ahead of the timeline today and performed a LAB ITCS sampling as well, which was originally scheduled for tomorrow.  The preventative maintenance task is performed to determine the Ortho-Phthalaldehyde (OPA) and ammonia levels in the ITCS for each of the modules.

Cardio Ox Investigation:  FE-6 Wakata has attached Electrocardiogram (ECG) electrodes, and prepared for ultrasonic scanning by marking arteries with assistance from the operator, FE-3 Hopkins. Wakata then performed ultrasound scans on himself with assistance from Hopkins and remote guidance from ground team. This is Wakata’s flight day 60 session and his final on-board session.  Future human space travel missions may increase the risk of oxidative and inflammatory damage primarily from radiation, but also from psychological stress, reduced physical activity, diminished nutritional standards, and exposure to elevated oxygen levels during extravehicular activity. There is evidence that higher levels of oxidative and inflammatory stress and associated damage to blood vessels contribute to cardiovascular disease. The purpose of this study is to measure levels of biomarkers in blood and urine that are affected by oxidative and inflammatory stress before, during, and after long duration spaceflight and relate them to the risk of developing atherosclerosis.

Advanced Biological Research System (ABRS) Deconfiguration: On December 13th the ABRS loop flush to remove air bubbles was not successful on Chamber 2. Wakata powered down the ABRS and configured it for return on a future mission.

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Re: Expedition 38 thread (November 11, 2013 - March 12, 2014)
« Reply #118 on: 01/08/2014 02:25 pm »
ARISS at Ostrów, Wielkopolska, Poland => short information about this event =>
http://www.zst-ostrow.edu.pl/aktualnosci/119-termin-lacznosci-z-iss-juz-znamy
& http://www.arisspolska.info/?p=3916 ;)





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Re: Expedition 38 thread (November 11, 2013 - March 12, 2014)
« Reply #119 on: 01/08/2014 03:43 pm »
January 8, 2014
MEDIA ADVISORY M14-007


NASA Hosts Media Teleconference Today to Discuss International Space Station


NASA will host a teleconference at 12:30 p.m. EST today, Jan. 8, to update media on plans for the International Space Station.

The teleconference participants are:
-- William Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for NASA's Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate
-- Sam Scimemi, director of NASA's International Space Station Program.

Media must register to participate in the teleconference no later than 11:30 a.m., by contacting Karen Northon at 202-358-1600 or [email protected].

The teleconference will be streamed live online at:

http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio

For more information about the International Space Station, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/station

-end-
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