SpaceX has completed its delivery to the International Space Station after fixing a navigation problem that held up the shipment by a day. Everything went smoothly the second time around as the station astronauts captured the SpaceX Dragon cargo ship as the two craft sailed over Australia.
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SpaceX, Russian cargo ships heading for space station
As a SpaceX Dragon cargo ship closed in on the International Space Station early Wednesday, a Russian Soyuz-U rocket making the venerable booster’s final flight successfully lifted a Progress supply ship into orbit, three months after an upper stage failure destroyed another station-bound freighter. Mounted atop a snow-covered launch pad — the same pad used by cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin at the dawn of the Space Age — the Soyuz-U rocket carrying the Progress MS-05/66P cargo ship thundered to life at 12:58 a.m. EST and climbed away from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Scientists are about to blast something into space that will shock you
… they’ll be sending up Methicillian-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, also known as MRSA or staph. The bug causes health problems like pneumonia and bloodstream infections. The ISS is the perfect place to conduct experiments on it, as it is basically …
SpaceX is delivering a lethal superbug to the ISS
… many widely used antibiotics and therefore can be tricky to treat effectively, making it a serious threat to public health. That’s why scientists are desperate to find a way to deal with it. Lead researcher Dr. Anita Goel believes that the near-zero …
DNA Testing, Bacteria Can’t Hide
… or identify microbes growing in the International Space Station and determining whether or not they represent a health threat.” This space-based DNA sequencer could help protect astronaut health during missions, and future explorers could also use …
Researchers provide insights into effects of microgravity on bone tissue
The co-authors from the Russian side are Oleg Gusev and Vladimir Sychyov . As is well-known, space flights bring with them a unique set of health hazards.
Researchers provide insights into effects of microgravity on bone tissue
The co-authors from the Russian side are Oleg Gusev and Vladimir Sychyov . As is well-known, space flights bring with them a unique set of health hazards.
NASA Spaceline Current Awareness List #731 13 January 2017
… Research Fund of the University of Oxford.” 5 Ronca AE, French AJ, Smith JD. Translating basic research to astronaut health in space: NASA Ames rodent specimen biobanking for the Human Research Program. Gravit Space Res. 2016 Dec;4(2):70-4. …