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On this week’s , Chris Edelen, acting vehicle integration office manager for NASA’s Orion Program, discusses the spacecraft built to take the Artemis II astronauts around the Moon. https://www.nasa.gov/podcasts/houston-we-have-a-podcast/artemis-ii-the-orion-spacecraft/

Curiosity MSL: Workspace sol_4641

Expedition 73, your space delivery of new science and supplies was delivered on the Harmony module's forward port at 7:05 a.m. EDT today by the SpaceX Dragon.

SpaceX Dragon Docks to Station Delivering New Science, Supplies - NASA At 7:05 a.m. EDT, the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft docked to the forward port of the International Space Station’s Harmony module.

ESA's mission to Jupiter is on track for its gravity-assist flyby at Venus on 31 August, following the successful resolution of a spacecraft anomaly that temporarily disrupted communication with Earth.
There will be no images captured during this flyby. Juice is designed to feel at home in the cold, dark environment at Jupiter. It is much hotter at Venus, and Juice's remote sensing instruments must remain switched off due to thermal constraints.

Juice team resolves anomaly on approach to Venus The European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) is on track for its gravity-assist flyby at Venus on 31 August, following the successful resolution of a spacecraft communication anomaly that temporarily severed contact with Earth.The issue, which emerged during a routine ground stat...

Explanation: Sometimes even the sky surprises you. To see more stars and faint nebulosity in the Pleiades star cluster (M45), long exposures are made. Many times, less interesting items appear on the exposures that were not intended -- but later edited out. These include stuck pixels, cosmic ray hits, frames with bright clouds or Earth's Moon, airplane trails, lens flares, faint satellite trails, and even insect trails ...

The Meteor and the Star Cluster (APOD: 2025 Aug 25)
Image Credit & Copyright: Yousif Alqasimi & Essa Al Jasmi
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Explanation: Sometimes even the sky surprises you. To see more stars and faint nebulosity in the Pleiades star cluster (M45), long exposures are made. Many times, less interesting items appear on the exposures that were not intended -- but later edited out. These include stuck pixels, cosmic ray hits, frames with bright clouds or Earth's Moon, airplane trails, lens flares, faint satellite trails, and even insect trails. Sometimes, though, something really interesting is caught by chance. That was just the case a few weeks ago in al-Ula, Saudi Arabia when a bright meteor streaked across during an hour-long exposure of the Pleiades. Along with the famous bright blue stars, less famous and less bright blue stars, and blue-reflecting dust surrounding the star cluster, the fast rock fragment created a distinctive green glow, likely due to vaporized metals.

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Starship Asterisk* • APOD Discussion Page
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