News about Space Station

The dynamic duo is heading to the @Space_Station!🛰️ On this week’s #HWHAP, NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test Commander Butch Wilmore and Pilot Suni Williams discuss their astronaut journeys and preparation to be the first humans to fly Starliner. go.nasa.gov/3JqsUWb pic.twitter.com/N4QaqiBUwl

Four years ago yesterday the Soyuz capsule carrying @gctc_ru OlegSkripochka, @AstroDrewMorgan and me touched down back on our home planet. Reflecting now on our incredible mission, and how much my life has changed since then. Squeezed inside our capsule like a baby in the womb, I… pic.twitter.com/1iDpCPFYyh

I've been revisiting Soyuz spaceship reentry trajectories. Although the landing is in Kazakhstan the reentry is over Saudi Arabia, and debris from the jettisoned BO and PAO modules would hit Saudi, Iraq or Iran if any survived. Mostly desert, but Baghdad is close to the track.

The Nanoracks NRCSD-27 cubesat deployer package was extracted from the ISS Kibo airlock today (Apr 18) by the Japanese RMS robot arm, and used to deploy seven cubesats.