ALT NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 astronauts, from left, Jessica Watkins, Bob Hines, and Kjell Lindgren, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti stand outside Kennedy Space Center’s Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building during a dry dress rehearsal on April 20, 2022. Named Freedom by the Crew-4 crew, SpaceX’s Crew Dragon will carry the astronauts to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Liftoff, powered by SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, is targeted for no earlier than 4:15 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, April 26, 2022. Crew-4 will be the first spaceflight for Hines and Watkins and the second flight for Lindgren and Cristoforetti.
ALT NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren takes a bite of a lettuce plant harvested from the VEG-01 investigation during Expedition 44. Credits: NASA
ALT Preflight image of the CubeLab containing LambdaVision’s Protein-Based Artificial Retina Manufacturing investigation, which tests manufacturing artificial retinas containing a light-activated protein. Credits: LambdaVision
ALT Schematic configuration of oxygen, iron and magnesium atoms in the mineral ferropericlase at different pressures related to the iron spin crossover
ALT Carbon dioxide ice in polar caps on Mars turns from solid directly to vapor in the spring and causes specific erosion landscapes. https://www.uahirise.org/ESP_020914_0930
