📣 Journalists are invited to attend our Intermediate Ministerial Meeting in Rome on 15 December, where ESA Member States will discuss Europe’s future in space exploration.
📰 Register by 30 October: https://t.co/sc0Q1vowdu
#IMM26
Time to bring them home 🌎
After nearly eight months aboard the @Space_Station, the four members of Crew-12 will soon head back to Earth. We’re targeting no earlier than 8:05am EDT (1205 UTC), on Wednesday, Oct. 7, for the undocking of the @SpaceX Dragon spacecraft. Details: https://t.co/PPq8gNyI1G
Two walkouts, one station. 🛰️
@NASA's @SpaceX Crew‑12 and Crew‑13 both began their journeys waving to family and friends outside the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at Kennedy Space Center. Today, both crews are living and working aboard the International @Space_Station as Crew‑12 prepares to wrap up their mission and return to Earth this week while Crew‑13 settles in for their long‑duration stay.
Just passing through...
Today, Earth's orbit passes between the Sun and Saturn. That means Saturn is opposite the Sun in our sky, so it's at "opposition" – the perfect time to catch a glimpse of the ringed planet.
For more October skywatching tips: https://t.co/IJbLPf5zuY
Streaming live now on @NASA+, astronaut @Astro_Jessica hands over station command to cosmonaut Pyotr Dubrov as @SpaceX Crew-12 prepares for Earth return.
https://t.co/5BgDNwAk65
All systems are looking good, and weather is favorable for liftoff. Propellant load is about to begin for Falcon 9’s launch of the @SemperCitiusSDA's fourth Tranche 1 data transport mission from California → https://t.co/wz4JbJVy1b
CASE UPDATE from @FBIAlbany: Fifteen Alleged Members and Associates of the Untouchable Gorilla Stone Nation Charged in Bank Fraud Conspiracy
Learn more about the investigation and how the FBI and our partners are holding accountable those who steal from hardworking Americans: https://t.co/5gG9DEbSpP
Room with a view. Check out my new digs as I camp out in Dragon until our departure. With Crew-13’s arrival we have a very full house on the @Space_Station. Luke is living in my previous crew quarters, and I’ve pitched a tent in Dragon.
🆕 This suspected second-generation planet has solved a Hubble cold case 🕵️♂️
Since 1999, mysterious chemical signatures from a white dwarf, HS 0209+0832, have sat in the Hubble archive. Now, sleuthing astronomers have revealed unusual chemical abundances, including of the element niobium. 1/3