SpaceX's CRS-35 cargo Dragon is scheduled to dock with the ISS around 11 a.m. EDT on Oct. 15 with more than 6,000 pounds of food, research and hardware. Space.com's preview says the supplies are mainly for the four astronauts of Crew-13.
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NASA will send four biology studies to the space station on SpaceX's 35th resupply flight, including brain tissue models flown for five weeks. NASA ties the work to astronaut health on long missions, but the readouts are mostly from tissue, plants and station surfaces.
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ISS astronaut photographs 100 square kilometers of Moon-type rock in southern Madagascar
ISS astronaut photographed Saririaky massif in Madagascar, 100 square km of anorthosite at least 600 million years old. Anorthosite also makes up much of the Moon's bright highlands, and NASA Earth Observatory says scientists link the deformed rock around it to the collisions that built Gondwana.
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NASA sent 12 student-built heat-shield test capsules down with a trash-filled Cygnus XL cargo ship that breaks apart on its planned reentry. The capsules eject during the breakup, so Moon and Mars materials still in development get flight data without a launch of their own.
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The four astronauts of NASA's Crew-12 mission splashed down off California on Oct 8, a day after undocking from the space station. The Guardian reported that capsule repairs held up their replacements by three weeks, adding time to a hurried relief tour that lasted eight months.
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SpaceX cargo resupply mission carries test of building artificial retinas in orbit
NASA and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than Oct. 13 to fly more than 6,300 pounds of cargo to the space station on a Dragon capsule. On board are experiments testing whether microgravity builds better artificial retinas and heart tissue models.
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NASA's Crew-13 launched four crew Thursday on a Dragon due to dock at the space station 7 hours 50 minutes later, a U.S. record by NASA's account. NASA stated the record before the docking took place, so it holds only once the 7 p.m. arrival happens.
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Crew-13's record 7-hour-55-minute trip to the ISS came down to where the station sat at launch
SpaceX's Crew-13 Dragon reached the ISS 7 hours 55 minutes after launch, 6 hours 48 minutes under the previous crewed record. NASA credited luck in where the station sat, so docking-day plans should still assume the longer catch-up path.
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buildOne report1 publisher Heat rejection caps Google's first orbital TPU satellite at 15-minute compute bursts
Google's first orbital TPU satellite can run its chips for only about 15 minutes before its radiators catch up, Ars Technica reports. Power is the easy part in orbit, so radiator area decides how many chips each satellite can carry.
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Outpost signs a Luxembourg drug-screening lab as its first space-factory customer
Outpost signed Exobiosphere's automated drug-screening lab as the first announced customer of its Space Factories platform, ahead of a 2028 mission. Its CarryAll spacecraft is still in development, so buyers get a reference customer before they get a flown return.
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Crew-12 heads home in early October after crystallising cancer-targeting drugs in orbit
NASA's Crew-12, four astronauts from NASA, ESA and Roscosmos, is due back from the space station in early October. The agency's look back sets out what the crew's experiments in drug crystallisation, bone repair and quantum physics were built to test.
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NASA's SpaceX Crew-13 will fly four astronauts from three agencies to the space station no earlier than Oct. 1. Its research includes human stem-cell-derived heart and Parkinson's tissue models, and their value will depend on how they compare with matched samples kept on the ground.
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NASA intends to exercise options for a fifth and sixth Boeing Starliner flight and to fly an uncrewed test as early as December, with crew returning by 2028. The plan would keep a second US crew capsule available beside SpaceX's Crew Dragon, if Boeing's thruster fixes hold up in flight.
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NASA will fly Starliner uncrewed again before putting astronauts aboard in mid-2028
NASA and Boeing plan an uncrewed Starliner flight in December or January, with astronauts to follow in mid-2028 if it goes well. The agency is spending that time to secure a second American crew ferry for the years after SpaceX retires Crew Dragon.
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University of Copenhagen researchers found blood signs of gut bacteria fermenting more protein in 52 ISS astronauts within weeks of reaching orbit. The team suspects slower digestion and says Mars crews may need countermeasures, though blood chemistry alone cannot confirm the cause.
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A cruise missile hit on the Progress Rocket Space Center targets where Soyuz vehicles are built, not where they fly. Roscosmos was already short of rockets before the strike.
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Stanford world model docks with the ISS about 53% of the time in preprint tests
Stanford's Out-of-this-World-Model docked with the ISS about 53% of the time in tests, after 50 times fewer training runs than a comparable learning system. The cheaper training helps researchers, though a failure rate near 47% leaves flight certification far off.
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A Science Advances paper says five ordinary human-associated microbes could stay alive in shadowed south-pole terrain. The expensive consequence is the baseline contamination survey it implies.
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A Science Advances paper says hitchhiking Earth microbes can persist in shadowed niches sometimes no bigger than a footprint, which moves contamination control from hardware treatment to traverse planning.
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NASA and ESA will share Crew-13 blood draws to study clotting in weightlessness
NASA and ESA will coordinate blood draws from Crew-13 astronauts in a joint clotting study, one of six human studies on the mission. The study asks why weightlessness disturbs venous blood flow in some astronauts but not others, and answering that depends on how many crew take part.
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