Space to Ground (28 March 2025)
Space to Ground (S2G) (28 March 2025) - Presented by Dominique Crespo & Chelsey Ballarte - Video credit: NASA JSC - Summary by Frederic Eger - Space to Ground (S2G), the weekly podcast about the ISS, featured this week interviews with astronauts, including NASA astronaut Johnny Kim, who has completed final qualification training for their upcoming launch to the International Space Station. The Soyuz crew members are set to lift off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on April 8th. They will be joined by NASA's Crew 10 crew, who arrived earlier this month.Crew 10 has been conducting science experiments, collecting data at the beginning, middle, and end of their space flights. NASA astronaut Nicole Ayers has been wearing a headband for an experiment called T-mini, which measures her core body temperature. This data will help researchers determine how environmental and physiological factors affect how the body regulates its temperature during spaceflight.Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi tested out a free-flying robot called the GEM internal ball camera 2, which can take photo and video, freeing up astronauts for more time for science. NASA has announced its next commercial crew mission to the orbiting laboratory, with Zena Cardman as commander and Mike Fink as pilot. The Crew 11 mission will be Fink's fourth trip to space, having previously flown twice on a Soyuz spacecraft, once on Shuttle Endeavor, and soon the SpaceX Dragon.Returning from their long-duration science mission aboard the International Space Station, NASA's SpaceX Crew 9 completed over 150 science experiments, totaling more than 900 hours of research. They completed investigations on plant growth and quality, tested the potential of stem cell technology to address blood diseases, autoimmune disorders, and cancers, conducted research on lighting systems to help astronauts maintain circadian rhythms, loaded the first wooden satellite for deployment to test sustainable materials, and took samples from the space station's exterior to study whether microorganisms can survive in space.S2 featured also interviews with astronauts and flight engineers, such as Anne McLean and Don Pettit, and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson on the StarTalk program. Follow Space to Ground on social media for updates on the crew on station and the science. More about research being operated on Station: https://www.nasa.gov/iss-science ; https://www.nasa.gov/stemonstation; https://x.com/Space_Station; http://facebook.com/iss; http://instagram.com/iss
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