Dragon SpX-11 (CRS-11), ROSA, MUSES, NICER - Falcon 9 - Kennedy LC-39A - 03.06.2017 21:07 UTC

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Jonathan McDowell ‏Подлинная учетная запись @ planet4589 1 ч назад

Dragon CRS-11's capsule C106.2 splashed down near 27N 122W at about 1213 UTC Jul 3 completing its mission.

И де он сейчас?!
Сейчас about 16 30 UTC Jul 3

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http://tass.ru/kosmos/4383638

Космический грузовик Dragon приводнился в Тихом океане

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НЬЮ-ЙОРК, 3 июля. /ТАСС/. Космический грузовой корабль Dragon американской компании SpaceX после отстыковки от Международной космической станции (МКС) вернулся на Землю.
Аппарат доставил с МКС груз массой 1,9 тонны, главным образом результаты научных экспериментов и образцы технологических разработок.
"Dragon выпустил основные парашюты. Благополучное приводнение подтверждено. Полет корабля коммерческого назначения на станцию и обратно завершен", - говорится в сообщении на странице SpaceX в Twitter.
Корабль, доставивший 6 июня 2,7 тонны груза на МКС, отстыковался в 09:41 мск. Как отмечается в Twitter МКС, операцию по отстыковке корабля от манипулятора Canadarm2 проводил американский астронавт Джек Фишер. Ранее отстыковка была запланирована на 2 июля, но ее отложили из-за неблагоприятного прогноза погоды в той части Тихого океана, где должен был приводниться корабль.
Грузовик был запущен 4 июня с помощью ракеты-носителя Falcon 9 с космодрома на мысе Канаверал (штат Флорида). Dragon доставил на МКС около 2,7 тонны грузов: продовольствие и материалы для проведения более 250 научных экспериментов. В том числе речь идет о совместном проекте NASA и Европейского космического агентства, который предусматривает изучение влияния света и микрогравитации на семена растений. Экипаж станции также получил прибор SEXTANT (Station Explorer for X-Ray Timing and Navigation), предназначенный для измерения периодичности рентгеновского электромагнитного излучения нейтронных звезд и испытания новейшей технологии навигации.
Сейчас на борту МКС находятся российский космонавт Федор Юрчихин, американские астронавты Джек Фишер и Пегги Уитсон.

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Spacex Dragon returned home this morning after a month-long stay at the @ISS, completing the first re-flight mission of a commercial spacecraft to and from the orbiting laboratory. Its mission to the Space Station delivered almost 6,000 pounds of supplies and hardware, including critical materials to directly support dozens of the more than 250 science and research investigations that will occur during Expeditions 52 and 53. Dragon is now headed to port for a cargo handover to @nasa

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Атяпа пишет:
И де он сейчас?!
Сейчас about 16 30 UTC Jul 3

:?:   :?:   :?:  Шо это было ? По прямой от точки приводнения до створа порта Лос-Анджелеса примерно 450 морских миль... Спасают капсулу отнюдь не скороходы, так что капсуле суток двое до причала.

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http://www.sbsun.com/business/20170705/return-of-the-space-mice-spacexs-reflown-dragon-lands-in-san-pedro-packed-with-science-galore

Return of the space mice! SpaceX's reflown Dragon lands in San Pedro packed with science galore

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Twenty mice were flown to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX's Dragon ship. A new protein was tested on the mice that has shown promise in re-growing lost bone density. Photo courtesy NASA

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By Sandy Mazza, Daily Breeze

POSTED: 07/05/17, 12:42 PM PDT | UPDATED: 3 DAYS AGO


SpaceX's Dragon spaceship, carrying more than 4,100 pounds of cargo and research specimens, became the first capsule used in two different missions when it splashed down this week in the Pacific Ocean southwest of Los Angeles. The mission was the first re-flight of one of SpaceX's unpiloted supply ships to the International Space Station. The ship returned to San Pedro's outer harbor across fr om Cabrillo Marina on Tuesday. Photo by Gene Blevins/LA DailyNews/SCNG

SpaceX's first reflown Dragon spacecraft has returned to dock at the Port of Los Angeles filled with science research, including the first 20 mice ever returned by the U.S. from space.

The craft, first flown for NASA in September 2014, splashed down in the Pacific Ocean at dawn Monday.

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It was delivered by barge Tuesday to San Pedro's outer harbor across from Cabrillo Marina, wh ere SpaceX has a leasehold to park its space-going equipment.

"All the rodents from ISS made it back alive and healthy yesterday on July 4! This is the first successful American live return," said Dr. Chia Soo, a lead researcher on UCLA's NELL-1 study to develop a drug that, for the first time, can ease the extreme bone loss astronauts face in orbit.

The mice were sent to the Space Station last month to study a new protein that has shown promise in re-growing lost bone density. They made the grueling journey through and back the Earth's atmosphere in snug specially designed mice habitats.

"If it can work for microgravity-related bone loss, then it could have increased use for patients one day on Earth who have bone loss from trauma or aging," Soo said.

Scientific research on board is returning from the National Laboratory on the International Space Station. The Dragon docked there after launching from Kennedy Space Center in a NASA commercial resupply mission on June 3.

The various returned science experiments were headed for research institutions around the world, while the Dragon will likely be driven to Texas for testing before being retooled at the company's manufacturing and design headquarters in Hawthorne. SpaceX officials did not confirm the craft's future plans, however.

Also among the research in this mission was a new instrument designed to study neutron stars, or pulsars, which are the most magnetic objects known in the universe. They're expected to hold the keys to more accurate global navigation and timekeeping.

"(Pulsars) emit light all across the spectrum in narrow beams from their magnetic poles," said Zaven Arzoumanian, the science lead for the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer, or NICER, study. Neutron stars "have very rapid rotation, hundreds of times every second. They're faster than the blades of a household blender. NICER's trying to understand what makes pulsars tick."

Hundreds of fruit flies are also returning from orbit for an investigation into the effects of microgravity on the cardiovascular system.

"Fruit fly hearts have similar components to humans and are much closer to humans, in some respect, than mice and rats," said Karen Ocorr, who is leading the study at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute in La Jolla.

The research team sent hundreds of flies packed in six tissue box-sized habitats. Four of the boxes carried 2,000 fly eggs, and others carried hundreds of breeding adults, intended to give birth in space to flies that would return to Earth.

"We have a team of 12 people who will be present in the lab when we receive the flies back," Ocorr said. "We'll spend the next month or more trying to understand the effects on their skeletal muscle and heart muscle function, among other things.

"People who have long-term illnesses, or are infirm and spend a long time in bed, experience progressive cardiac dysfunctions," she said, adding that this study could help develop new therapies for weak hearts.

Lennox Middle School students will also soon get back research from inside this Dragon. They're studying whether lemon-mint plants grow better, worse, or the same in microgravity, as part of the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program.

"We wanted to use mint because it's something we use a lot in our Hispanic culture," said Nayeli Salgado, one of the Lennox school team members. "It has many uses — stomach aches, ear aches. You can use it instead of medicine. It takes the pain away."

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http://www.dailybreeze.com/science/20170708/back-home-with-researchers-more-science-ahead-for-mice-tronauts

Back home with researchers, more science ahead for 'mice-tronauts'


July 4,2017. San Pedro CA. SpaceX's Dragon spaceship made space history today as being the first capsule used twice in two different missions that has never been done before. SpaceX carrying more than 4,100 pounds of cargo and research specimens, descended to a predawn splashdown Monday in the Pacific Ocean southwest of Los Angeles, completing the first ...

By Sandy Mazza, Daily Breeze

POSTED: 07/08/17, 6:47 PM PDT | UPDATED: 7 HRS AGO


The "space mice" lived in this climate-controlled container while trekking to the space station. Photo courtesy NASA

The first 20 star-trekking mice to travel to the International Space Station, riding aboard a spacecraft built by Hawthorne-based Space X, have returned to their home lab at UCLA.

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But the mission isn't over for the mice, plucked last week from their capsule in San Pedro, according to a scientist participating in the project that aims to help humans battle bone loss.

For now, the pioneering rodents are awaiting their rodent counterparts, still orbiting 220 miles above Earth on the space station's National Lab. And they're getting reacquainted with life back on Earth, dealing with such challenges as normal gravity.

Altogether, 40 mice will continue to be treated with a protein therapy that has shown promise regrowing lost bone.

The mice passed through the Earth's 3,000-degree Fahrenheit atmosphere at a rate of force equal to about five times their body weight — without injury, scientists said.

They took to life in space pretty well, said Louis Stodieck, director of BioServe Space Technologies at the University of Colorado Boulder's aerospace-engineering sciences division.

"They looked really good. They were very healthy," said Stodieck, who came to UCLA to help acclimate the mice to life on Earth again. "Mice are very capable."

During their travel, they lived inside a specially made, jungle-gym-like habitat and ate moist, nutrient-rich food bars developed by NASA. ("Think of a power bar but not quite so sweet," Stodieck said. "The mice love it. It's very good, I've actually tried it.")

Like returning astronauts, the mice-tronauts appeared initially unsteady in gravity. Their space habitat had mesh walls, allowing them to crawl around with stability.

"They get so adapted to microgravity, that gravity probably feels a little hard," Stodieck said. "They looked a little bit tenuous, but they're getting used to it."

Since the Soviet Sputnik program returned the first animals — dogs, rodents and insects — from a brief trip around the Earth in 1957, the U.S. Space Shuttle program has gone on to return animals from rocket trips.

But these are the first U.S. rodents to participate in a lengthy microgravity research trip, and to board the space station's National Laboratory, Stodieck said.

"These studies, with animal models, are few and far between. They are difficult and expensive," he said. "It's very important for us, in any of these studies, to maximize their scientific utility. The space station is a tremendous laboratory platform. We're learning a lot of things."

Increasingly, researchers are studying the effects of microgravity on stem cells to understand the full potential of space research.

But the mice are promising some exciting results that could help many people on Earth, according to the scientists.

Astronauts (and mice-tronauts) experience severe bone loss when they travel outside Earth's gravity-laden atmosphere.

Floating around in microgravity not only depletes bone mass, it also weakens muscles, most notably, heart muscles. The recent mission also carried hundreds of fruit flies for an investigation into the effects of microgravity on the cardiovascular system.

"With the Space Shuttle program, we were only able to do relatively short (orbital research) durations (with animals)," Stodieck said. "We weren't able to let them adapt over a long period of time. This duration of exposure was the first time we've been able to do a detailed, controlled study" with animals in space.

SpaceX's reusable rockets and spacecraft are enabling U.S. researchers to send experiments to orbit affordably from America for the first time in years.

The Dragon craft that returned the mice to Earth previously flew to the Space Station in 2014.

SpaceX's business model relies on such high-tech recycling. And spacecraft that are quickly reusable are key to future scientific research in space, Stodieck said.

"We're now able to look at the recovery of animals and compare it with counterparts continued to be housed in microgravity conditions," Stodieck said. "On the space station, we can watch their behavior with infrared LEDs. The mice adapt to microgravity very quickly. By the time we see them for the first time (after their rocket ride), they're eating, drinking and grooming — they've already adjusted to their environment very well.

"In fact, a crew member commented that they adjust the way they move around in space basically the same way the astronauts do. They use their legs for balance and arms to move around."

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NanoRacks‏Подлинная учетная запись @NanoRacks 7 июл.

The #BIT #NanoLab safely returned on #Dragon & has been delivered to #SLSL @ @NASAKennedy. Researchers have begun to analyze their results!