NASA's various life sciences programs have prepared the SPACELINE Current Awareness updates since 1999 covering all aspects of space life science, gravitational biology, space medicine, and human factors. #NASA does not maintain a website - nor does it have an archive of this resource online. However, SpaceRef does have a complete archive of SPACELINE updates all the way back to 1999.

NASA Mars Mission Valkyrie Robots Paving Way - VIDEO https://youtu.be/McwnSghX7O4 SOURCE www.ihumanmedia.com ...More #NASA #USAF

May 20 1969, Apollo 11 rollout to Pad 39A
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Lightning over Texas | International Space Station
Tim Kopra: "We're watching the bad storms from Space Station."

Credit: NASA/JSC, U.S. Astronaut & Station Commander Tim Kopra
Release Date: May 19, 2016

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SpaceX Dragon Ready for Release | International Space Station
New high-res image issued of the SpaceX Dragon ready to be released from the International Space Station for its journey back to the Earth. The vehicle was ultimately released by Expedition 47 robotic arm operator Tim Peake of ESA (European Space Agency) on May 11, 2016. Dragon returned to Earth carrying more than 3,700 pounds of NASA cargo and science samples from human research, biology and biotechnology studies, physical science investigations and education activities sponsored by NASA and the U.S. national laboratory.

Credit: NASA/JSC
Image Date: May 11, 2016
Release Date: May 18, 2016

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Astronaut "Armed and Ready" for Satellite Capture: 1992 | NASA
Space Shuttle Endeavour STS-49 Mission Specialist Pierre Thuot is perched on the end effector of the Robot Arm (Remote Manipulator System/RMS), with the Intelsat VI satellite capture bar on May 13, 1992. This would be one of many attempts to "grapple" the Intelsat VI satellite which was rendered inoperative when its Payload Assist Module (PAM) motor failed to fire thus preventing it from reaching an operational altitude.

Pierre Thuot is a retired United States Navy Captain and NASA astronaut. He went into space three times, spending over 650 hours in space, including over 15 hours in three space walks. He is a former U.S. record holder for time spent on one space walk, and participated in the first three-person space walk. (Source: Wikipedia)

Pierre's Official NASA Biography:
www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/thuot.html

Credit: NASA/JSC
Image Date: May 13, 1992

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Dallas, Texas, USA | International Space Station
Tim Kopra: "Goodnight, Dallas, Grand Prairie, and Arlington from Space Station."

Credit: NASA/JSC, U.S. Astronaut & Station Commander Tim Kopra
Release Date: May 19, 2016

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CubeSat Launches: View 4 | International Space Station
CubeSats fly free after leaving the NanoRacks CubeSat Deployer on the International Space Station. Seen here are two Dove satellites. The satellites are part of a constellation designed, built and operated by Planet Labs Inc. to take images of Earth from space. The images have several humanitarian and environmental applications, from monitoring deforestation and urbanization to improving natural disaster relief and agricultural yields in developing nations.

Planet Labs: www.planet.com

CubeSats are a new, low-cost tool for space science missions. Instead of conventional space science missions that carry a significant number of custom-built, state-of-the-art instruments, CubeSats are designed to take narrowly targeted scientific observations, with only a few instruments, often built from off-the-shelf components.

A total of 17 CubeSats have been released since Monday, May 16, 2016, from a small satellite deployer on the outside of Japan's Kibo experiment module’s airlock. The CubeSats serve various functions including, Earth observation, improvements to commercial ship tracking and providing weather data on the Earth’s oceans.

Credit: NASA/JSC
Date: May 17, 2016

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Hubble’s New View of Mars and Planets | NASA
The Hubble Space Telescope is more well known for its picturesque views of nebulae and galaxies, but it's also useful for studying our own planets, including Mars.

Hubble imaged Mars on May 12, 2016—ten days before Mars would be on the exact opposite side of the Earth from the Sun.

YouTube link: https://youtu.be/zxAqVspVqpY

Music: "Season of Swag" by David Travis Edwards and Kenneth Barbee, Killer Tracks [BMI] and Soundcast Music [SESAC]

View Hubble's New Mars Images on G+:
plus.google.com/113507009175485747967/posts/V2PYjxtqFYC
plus.google.com/113507009175485747967/posts/UTYJHhTwg1R

Credit: NASA/Goddard/Katrina Jackson
Duration: 1 minute
Release Date: May 19, 2016

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#Goddard #JourneyToMars #STEM #Education   #Video #HD

CubeSat Launches: View 6 | International Space Station
CubeSats fly free after leaving the NanoRacks CubeSat Deployer on the International Space Station. Seen here are two Dove satellites. The satellites are part of a constellation designed, built and operated by Planet Labs Inc. to take images of Earth from space. The images have several humanitarian and environmental applications, from monitoring deforestation and urbanization to improving natural disaster relief and agricultural yields in developing nations.

Planet Labs: www.planet.com

CubeSats are a new, low-cost tool for space science missions. Instead of conventional space science missions that carry a significant number of custom-built, state-of-the-art instruments, CubeSats are designed to take narrowly targeted scientific observations, with only a few instruments, often built from off-the-shelf components.

A total of 17 CubeSats have been released since Monday, May 16, 2016, from a small satellite deployer on the outside of Japan's Kibo experiment module’s airlock. The CubeSats serve various functions including, Earth observation, improvements to commercial ship tracking and providing weather data on the Earth’s oceans.

Credit: NASA/JSC
Date: May 17, 2016

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NASA Spacecraft Beams Back Science Data on Kuiper Belt Object 1994 JR1

http://www.sci-news.com/space/science-data-kuiper-belt-object-1994-jr1-03881.html

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Photos from the Gemini 12 mission, 1966.
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NASA has released new footage of its super-pressure weather balloon, which launched from New Zealand’s Wanaka airport on Tuesday, May 17.
The 2,366-kg balloon, a COSI balloon (Compton Spectrometer and Imager), was inflated with as much as 3,600 kg of helium and has been set on a course to orbit the Earth for as long as possible, with a target of 100 days._
(1:10)

The video points out that the current NASA record for a balloon orbit is 54 days.

You are welcome read more at: http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/nasa-mini-balloon-mission-maps-migratory-magnetic-boundary




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The Evidence for #Apollo11
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CubeSat Launches: View 2 | International Space Station
CubeSats fly free after leaving the NanoRacks CubeSat Deployer on the International Space Station. Seen here are the STMSat-1 and two NODeS satellites. The St. Thomas More (STM) Sat-1 mission is an education mission to provide hands-on, inquiry-based learning activities with an on-orbit mission to photograph the Earth and transmit images to our primary ground station and to remote ground stations throughout the country. The Network & Operation Demonstration Satellite (NODeS) test out the potential for using multiple, small, low-cost satellites to perform complex science missions.

Learn more STMSat-1 about here: www.stmsat-1.org

​CubeSats are a new, low-cost tool for space science missions. Instead of conventional space science missions that carry a significant number of custom-built, state-of-the-art instruments, CubeSats are designed to take narrowly targeted scientific observations, with only a few instruments, often built from off-the-shelf components.

A total of 17 CubeSats have been released since Monday, May 16, 2016, from a small satellite deployer on the outside of Japan's Kibo experiment module’s airlock. The CubeSats serve various functions including, Earth observation, improvements to commercial ship tracking and providing weather data on the Earth’s oceans.

Credit: NASA/JSC
Date: May 16, 2016

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+CASIS 

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Pluto’s ‘Fretted’ Terrain | NASA’s New Horizons Mission
Pluto's informally named Venera Terra region
May 19, 2016: In looking over images of Pluto’s informally named Venera Terra region, New Horizons scientists have spotted an expanse of terrain they describe as “fretted.” As shown in the enhanced-color image at top, this terrain consists of bright plains divided into polygon-shaped blocks by a network of dark, connected valleys typically reaching a few miles (3 to 4 kilometers) wide. Numerous impact craters of up to 15 miles (25 kilometers) in diameter also dot the area, implying the surface formed early in Pluto’s history.

New Horizons scientists haven’t seen this type of terrain anywhere else on Pluto; in fact, it’s rare terrain across the solar system—the only other well-known example of such being Noctis Labyrinthus on Mars. The distinct interconnected valley network was likely formed by extensional fracturing of Pluto’s surface. The valleys separating the blocks may then have been widened by movement of nitrogen ice glaciers, or flowing liquids, or possibly by ice sublimation at the block margins. Compositional data from New Horizons’ Ralph/Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC), shown in the bottom image, indicate that the blocks are rich in methane ice (shown as false-color purple); methane is susceptible to sublimation at Pluto surface conditions.

The resolution of these MVIC images is approximately 2,230 feet (680 meters) per pixel. They were obtained at a range of approximately 21,100 miles (33,900 kilometers) from Pluto, about 45 minutes before New Horizons’ closest approach on July 14, 2015.

Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
Release Date: May 19, 2016

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Patagonia mountains & clouds | International Space Station

Patagonia is a sparsely populated region located at the southern end of South America, shared by Argentina and Chile. The region comprises the southern section of the Andes mountains as well as the deserts, steppes and grasslands east of this southern portion of the Andes. Patagonia has two coasts; a western one towards the Pacific Ocean and an eastern one towards the Atlantic Ocean. (Source: Wikipedia)

Credit: NASA/JSC, U.S. Astronaut & Station Commander Tim Kopra
Release Date: May 19, 2016

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CubeSat Launches: View 3 | International Space Station
CubeSats fly free after leaving the NanoRacks CubeSat Deployer on the International Space Station. Seen here are two LEMUR-2 satellites. The NanoRacks-LEMUR-2 satellites are part of a remote sensing satellite constellation that provides global ship tracking and weather monitoring. About 90 percent of global trade is shipped by sea, but tracking of oceangoing ships is inefficient; many ships are unmonitored as they transit the world’s oceans, far from land and out of range of ground-based beacons.

​CubeSats are a new, low-cost tool for space science missions. Instead of conventional space science missions that carry a significant number of custom-built, state-of-the-art instruments, CubeSats are designed to take narrowly targeted scientific observations, with only a few instruments, often built from off-the-shelf components.

A total of 17 CubeSats have been released since Monday, May 16, 2016, from a small satellite deployer on the outside of Japan's Kibo experiment module’s airlock. The CubeSats serve various functions including, Earth observation, improvements to commercial ship tracking and providing weather data on the Earth’s oceans.

Credit: NASA/JSC
Date: May 18, 2016

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CubeSat Launches: View 5 | International Space Station
CubeSats fly free after leaving the NanoRacks CubeSat Deployer on the International Space Station. Seen here are two Dove satellites. The satellites are part of a constellation designed, built and operated by Planet Labs Inc. to take images of Earth from space. The images have several humanitarian and environmental applications, from monitoring deforestation and urbanization to improving natural disaster relief and agricultural yields in developing nations.

Planet Labs: www.planet.com

CubeSats are a new, low-cost tool for space science missions. Instead of conventional space science missions that carry a significant number of custom-built, state-of-the-art instruments, CubeSats are designed to take narrowly targeted scientific observations, with only a few instruments, often built from off-the-shelf components.

A total of 17 CubeSats have been released since Monday, May 16, 2016, from a small satellite deployer on the outside of Japan's Kibo experiment module’s airlock. The CubeSats serve various functions including, Earth observation, improvements to commercial ship tracking and providing weather data on the Earth’s oceans.

Credit: NASA/JSC
Date: May 17, 2016

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CubeSat Launches: View 1 | International Space Station
CubeSats fly free after leaving the NanoRacks CubeSat Deployer on the International Space Station. Seen here are the MinXSS and CADRE satellites. MinXSS is a science investigation from the University of Colorado Boulder, and the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics to study solar flares, active regions, the quiescent sun, and their impact on Earth’s upper atmosphere. CADRE is a space weather investigation from the University of Michigan that will improve our understanding of the dynamics of the upper layers of our atmosphere.

​CubeSats are a new, low-cost tool for space science missions. Instead of conventional space science missions that carry a significant number of custom-built, state-of-the-art instruments, CubeSats are designed to take narrowly targeted scientific observations, with only a few instruments, often built from off-the-shelf components.

A total of 17 CubeSats have been released since Monday, May 16, 2016, from a small satellite deployer on the outside of Japan's Kibo experiment module’s airlock. The CubeSats serve various functions including, Earth observation, improvements to commercial ship tracking and providing weather data on the Earth’s oceans.

Credit: NASA/JSC
Date: May 16, 2016

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