NASA launching new space toilet and more to space station this week – Space.com

Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus NG-13 cargo resupply spacecraft, with its radiant, cymbal-formed photograph voltaic arrays, is pictured in the snatch of the Canadarm2 robotic arm on the World Home Internet site correct ahead of the vessel’s departure on Might possibly 11, 2020. The NG-14 cargo ship will originate to the affirm dwelling on Sept. 29, 2020.

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A non-public cargo spacecraft will snatch off from Virginia on Tuesday (Sept. 29), carrying heaps of unique provides to the World Home Internet site, together with scientific experiments, skincare from Estée Lauder and a price-unique affirm bog.

The mission, identified as Cygnus NG-14, will likely be affirm 7,624 lbs (3,458 kilograms) of cargo on the14th flight for Northrop Grumman’s robotic Cygnus spacecraft and the resupply craft’s 13th mission to the World Home Internet site. Cygnus will originate atop an Antares rocket Sept. 29 at 10: 27 p.m. EDT (0227 a.m. GMT Sept. 30) from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. 

Northrop Grumman has named the Cygnus spacecraft the S.S. Kalpana Chawla to honor astronaut Kalpana Chawla, who modified into once definitely one of seven astronauts who died in the Columbia shuttle tragedy in 2003.

That it is most likely you’ll gaze the originate dwell right here at Home.com, courtesy of NASA TV, without prolong at NASA TV initiating at 10 p.m. EDT (0200 GMT Sept. 30) or at NASA Wallops’ Ustream space initiating at roughly 5: 30 p.m. EDT. 

Linked: Search amazing originate pictures of Antares and Cygnus NG-13!

“Humanity faces many challenges this day, and I’m proud to be fragment of a community that accepts challenges on an everyday basis that turns issues into alternatives and opportunities into actuality,” David Brady, assistant program scientist for the World Home Internet site Program at NASA’s Johnson Home Heart in Houston, said concerning the originate correct thru a prelaunch teleconference Thursday (Sept. 24). 

The close to 8,000 lbs. of cargo carried to affirm by Cygnus will consist of crew provides fancy meals alongside scientific experiments and even a newly updated affirm bog, formally called the Universal Fracture Administration Machine. The cargo will likely be brought to toughen the Expedition 64 crew aboard the affirm dwelling, though keen rapidly SpaceX’s Crew 1 astronauts might additionally accomplish yelp of a few of this cargo, as they are dwelling to originate on Oct. 23. 

The $23 million affirm bog, which modified into once created with astronaut input, will likely be amongst the crucial experiments and instruments sent with this originate. This bog is 65% smaller and 40% lighter than the lavatory for the time being on the affirm dwelling, NASA officers said.

It modified into once designed to optimize “the yelp of the lavatory for the female crew, and NASA spent alternative time working with crewmembers … to toughen the yelp of the commode,” Melissa McKinley, NASA Evolved Exploration Programs Logistics Reduction carrying out supervisor, said correct thru the connected teleconference. 

The cargo will even consist of a radish-rising experiment identified as Plant Habitat-02; the Onco Selectors investigation, that can address most cancers therapies; a novel water recovery machine experiment; a undoubtedly knowledgeable digital camera that can prefer what it is fancy to be aboard the affirm dwelling in 360-level virtual actuality; bottles of skincare serum from Estée Lauder; and much extra.  

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