** The Official Space Flight Thread - The Space Station and Beyond **

[Cosimo]

This week:

 

[Cosimo]

A close look at the Falcon 9 stage one on the droneship after the JCSAT-14 mission:

JCSAT-14 first stage on droneship by SpaceX, on Flickr

JCSAT-14 first stage on droneship by SpaceX, on Flickr

JCSAT-14 first stage on droneship by SpaceX, on Flickr

 

[Cosimo]

A few moments with Aleksey Ovchinin, Russian cosmonaut:

 

[Cosimo]

The Falcon 9 stage one landing on the droneship after the JCSAT-14 mission

 

[Cosimo]

Another landing video, this time Blue Origin's New Shepard, showing flight of the booster from just ahead of re-entry through descent and landing:

 

[Cosimo]

Using Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) as a viable option for exploration of Mars and beyond:

 

[Cosimo]

SpaceX Dragon departs the station tomorrow.

Dragon is currently attached to the Harmony module. After it is uninstalled with the 57.7 foot Canadarm2, the Dragon will be released at 14:18 BST (09:18 EDT) for a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean at 19:55 BST.

The departure will be live on NASA TV.

 

[Cosimo]

Dragon is on the way home:

 

[Cosimo]

Curiosity Mars rover reports on the weather:

 

[Cosimo]

The first stage of the Falcon 9 returns to Port Canaveral:

 

[Cosimo]

Another view from the ISS, this time Asia at night:

 

[Cosimo]

Astronaut Jeff Williams has tweeted a time-lapse video of sunrise seen from the station:

https://twitter.com/Astro_Jeff/status/731071859211440134

 

[Cosimo]

This week:

 

[Cosimo]

On May 16 we will have had 100,000 orbits and travelled around 2,643,342,240 miles!

 

[Cosimo]

The Falcon 9 booster being transported home:

 

[Cosimo]

A bit of history now. How one of the most iconic pictures was taken so many years ago:

 

[Jokester]

Pure filth.

 

[Glaucus]

pure filth I want in my bed.

 

[quickshot89]

pure filth I want in my bed.

was it speaking, i got distracted by re-entry cushions

 

[lysa16]

hi there