Editor’s Note: This advisory reflects NASA and SpaceX’s goal to begin undocking by Thursday, December 21, at 5:05 p.m. EST by December 20, 2023. has been updated. The company’s 29th Dragon commercial resupply service mission from the International Space Station due to bad weather in the landing zone off the coast of Florida.
NASA and its international partners will receive scientific research samples and hardware when SpaceX’s Dragon cargo replenishment spacecraft departs from the International Space Station on Thursday, Dec. 21.
The agency will provide live coverage of Dragon’s docking and departure starting at 4:45 p.m. ET on its NASA+ streaming service. web Or the NASA app. The coverage will also be broadcast live on NASA Television. YouTube, and on the agency’s website. Learn how to stream NASA TV through various platforms, including social media.
Dragon will undock from the station’s Harmony module at 9:05 p.m., following orders from SpaceX’s ground controllers in Hawthorne, California, and fire its thrusters to move away from the station at a safe distance. .
After re-entering the atmosphere, the spacecraft will splash down off the coast of Florida. NASA will not broadcast the splashdown, but updates will be posted on his NASA News. space station blog.
Dragon will bring back to Earth more than 4,300 pounds of supplies and scientific experiments designed to take advantage of the space station’s microgravity environment. The droplets off the coast of Florida allow researchers to quickly transport experimental results to NASA’s space station processing facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, minimizing exposure of samples to Earth’s gravity. Data can now be collected.
Scientific hardware and samples returning to Earth include Planet Habitat-03, which will assess whether genetic adaptations in one generation of space-grown plants are passed on to the next generation. This is one of his first multigenerational plant biology studies in orbit.
Other studies include JAXA’s (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) Cellular Gravity Sensing Study, which investigates how cells sense and respond to the effects of gravity. The results could facilitate drug development to treat muscle atrophy and osteoporosis.
Genes in Space-10 also returns to Dragon. This is a student-led project that tests a method to measure the length of telomeres (cap-like structures at the ends of DNA strands that shorten as we age) in orbit. To lengthen spatially.
In addition, samples from MaRVIN-PCIM (Microgravity Research for Versatile Research – Phase Change in Mixtures) and Neuronix (Innovative Paralysis Therapy Enabling Neural Regeneration) are also being returned to Earth for scientific analysis. Masu.
Dragon arrived at the station on Nov. 11 as SpaceX’s 29th commercial resupply service mission to NASA, delivering approximately 6,500 pounds of research, crew supplies, and station hardware. The spacecraft launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A on November 9th.
These are just a few of the hundreds of investigations currently being conducted in orbiting laboratories in the fields of biology, biotechnology, physical sciences, earth sciences, and space sciences. Advances in these areas will help keep astronauts healthy during long space trips and, through NASA’s Artemis program, will help future human and robotic exploration beyond low-Earth orbit to the Moon and Mars. will demonstrate the technology for
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