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NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day
June 10, 2026
The Eagle Nebula and Friends
What looks as if it is going to swallow the great Pillars of Creation? The Eagle Nebula (M16) is not a bird, a plane, or Superman. M16 is actually a combination of several celestial objects. NGC 6611 is the young star cluster that appears to peak out beneath the Eagle’s “wings”. The ultraviolet light from these stars ionizes the surrounding gas, creating the emission nebula IC 4703. The Stellar Spire is seen reaching towards the Pillars of Creation from the left. Both are structures of cold gas and dust that are optimal for star formation. Some astronomers previously thought the Pillars of Creation had been evaporated away by a supernova. Because M16 is 6,000 light years away, we would not be able to see the Pillars’ destruction for thousands more years. However, there is no conclusive evidence of the theorized supernova, so the Pillars of Creation will likely continue to create stars for millions of years.
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LIPBmoUdDc
>>24698160 PB
>Do Anons understand what is about to be unleashed?
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>President Trump is in attendance for Game 3 in New York
Trump at the NBA 'Finals' yesterday, they don't have many games left.
Ultra major happenings might really be only 2 weeks away.
Earth Core - LLSVPs, Space Weather | S0 News and frens
June.10.2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqHLp_ZEt4c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNLUUO7KQJk (EarthMaster: New Study States San andreas Fault Stressed More than anytime in last 1000 Years. Tuesday Night)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkJq-9xFiDE (Ryan Hall Y'all: Everyone Is Wrong About This Hurricane Season…)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFmFIrRllFY (Global Crisis: The Abnormal Heat Wave in Europe and the Hidden Causes of Climate Collapse)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-S0JJm0XPOI (On the Pulse with Silki: One of South America’s Most Dangerous Volcanoes Is Stirring with Incandescence)
https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/noaas-solar-1-enters-new-era-of-space-weather-monitoring
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/06/10/earthquakes-philippines-cuba-aftershocks/90471506007/
https://www.sunstar.com.ph/cebu/quake-death-toll-rises-to-45
https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2026/06/10/47-magnitude-earthquake-shakes-islands-no-tsunami-threat/
https://www.ky3.com/2026/06/10/national-weather-service-confirms-four-more-tornadoes-sunday-severe-weather-outbreak/
https://earthsky.org/earth/severe-weather-in-upper-midwest-expected-june-10-11/
https://futurism.com/science-energy/california-primed-earthquake-geological-research
https://meteoagent.com/schumann-resonance-forecast
https://weather.substack.com/
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/
https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes-volcanoes/news.htm
https://www.tornadohq.com/
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/
https://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=10&month=06&year=2026
https://theconversation.com/a-meteorite-impact-may-have-once-rained-gold-on-western-australia-new-study-284768
other space objects
https://parade.com/news/rare-june-meteor-shower-you-can-hear
https://www.durham.ac.uk/departments/academic/physics/about-us/events/building-infrared-instruments-to-explore-a-virgin-comet/
https://avi-loeb.medium.com/the-best-and-worse-are-yet-to-come-dab7ece817ea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp8nJ6cFotw (Ray's Astro: VENUS AND JUPITER CONJUNCTION 2026 - TONIGHT LIVE)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVn1CR2jApY (Dobsonian Power: STAR OF BETHLEHEM LIVE - VENUS & JUPITER COSMIC CONJUNCTION!)
A meteorite impact may have once rained gold on Western Australia – new study
June 9, 2026 9:43pm EDT
We’re used to a lot of different natural things falling out of the sky. These can include snow, rain, and sometimes even frogs (yes, really). All of these relate to weather phenomena.
Far more exotic things fall from the sky that are not related to weather. Earth is pelted by about 14 tons of micrometeorites each day. And larger meteorite falls also happen daily, which are visible as fireballs that streak across the night sky.
When an asteroid collides with Earth, it can trigger even stranger debris. Tektites are glassy droplets that form by melting during a meteorite impact, and are then ejected hundreds to thousands of kilometres away from the impact site.
The Australasian tektite field that formed some 790,000 years ago from an unknown impact and might cover 10–30% of Earth’s surface is the most famous example.
In a new study published in the journal Meteoritics and Planetary Science, we describe the discovery of a previously unknown 4km-diameter meteorite impact crater in the Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia.
A gold band points the way
The impact site is near the town of Ora Banda (Spanish for “gold band”), a historic gold mining district about 50km north of Kalgoorlie.
For now we’ve named the site the “Ora Banda impact structure”, given its proximity to the historic mining district.
However, the region has a much longer history of First Nations culture, and we’re currently working with collaborators at the Goldfields Aboriginal Language Centre on establishing an Indigenous name for the site.
The impact site is interesting for a number of reasons. Ora Banda is one of the few impact craters on Earth whose target rocks – meaning, all rocks in the area affected by the impact – are ancient greenstones, which are metamorphosed volcanic rocks like basalt.
Greenstones are valuable to the economy of Australia because in some places they contain gold. The Ora Banda impact was accidentally discovered during exploration drilling for gold.
The ‘smoking gun’ evidence for impact
If you find a site you suspect might be an impact crater, the scientific process to confirm that’s indeed the case involves documenting what’s known as diagnostic evidence.
Diagnostic impact evidence – the “smoking gun” of an impact – is that which is found nowhere else. It can include either evidence of the space rock itself, or unique high-pressure shock wave damage in the target rocks.
The first evidence for impact we found at Ora Banda was shatter cones – distinctive conical features in rocks that record the passage of the shock wave. We found a few shatter cones in rubbly outcrops at the surface, and we also found some in the drill cores.
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The discovery of shatter cones nailed it – we knew then this spot had to be an ancient impact site.
However, we set out to look for more evidence in order to further support our new impact hypothesis and learn more about the event. So, we went back to the cores.
Unusual rocks
The Ora Banda drill cores contained a range of different rock types. At the top was a sequence of clay-rich sediments – these washed into the crater after it formed. At the bottom were rocks that had a different story to tell: impact breccias.
Breccia is a name for any rock that’s been broken up into smaller fragments and has a matrix of smaller particles that “glue” it all together. Breccias are commonly found at impact craters, because the high-energy shock waves can cause rocks to instantly shatter.
Not surprisingly, there are different types of impact breccias, depending on what they contain.
A breccia is “monomict” if it consists of just one rock type, or “polymict” if it contains pieces of different rocks. Polymict breccias provide strong evidence of mixing, as if the rocks were thrown together in a blender. Both breccia types occur in the Ora Banda cores.
If breccia contains glassy melt particles along with other bits of rock, we call that “suevite”. The glassy bits provide key evidence for an even stranger part of the impact process.
They hint that molten material was thrown up into the sky when the meteorite smashed into Earth. While flying in the air, the molten particles turned to glass before landing back into the newly formed crater, resulting in a layer of suevite breccia.
But that’s not all. We found two additional types of microscopic “smoking gun” impact evidence in the breccia.
The first was shocked quartz grains, deformed in a way that’s unique to meteorite impacts. The second was meteorite residue in the glass. This happens because the meteorite vaporises and partly dissolves within the glassy melt particles.
With the discovery of shatter cones, shocked quartz, and extra-terrestrial meteorite residue, our hypothesis that the Ora Banda structure is an impact crater was confirmed.
Raining gold?
Glass and shocked minerals wasn’t all we found in the Ora Banda breccias. Some also contained small nuggets of gold.
This means that during the impact event, when all the shocked rock fragments and glass were thrown up into the sky, gold particles were also raining back down onto the surface, into the newly formed breccia deposits.
That’s not something typically found in impact craters, and it shows how unique this geologic setting is.
With Ora Banda, and the recently discovered Ilkurlka and Miralga structures, there are now 34 confirmed meteorite impact craters across Australia. They range in age from a few thousand years old, to the 2.2 billion-year-old Yarrabubba structure.
Some, like the iconic Wolfe Creek (Kandimalal) crater, are youthful and well preserved. Most others, including Ora Banda, are older and eroded to the point that a circular crater is no longer visible.
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https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-marches-toward-artemis-iii-mission-in-2027-names-crew-members/
extra Artemis III
https://x.com/NASAAdmin/status/2064702792023879811
https://x.com/NASA/status/2064519048063565927
https://www.uniladtech.com/science/space/nasa-commander-breaks-silence-all-male-artemis-iii-730844-20260610
https://yellowhammernews.com/former-redstone-flight-surgeon-frank-rubio-selected-for-nasas-artemis-iii-mission/
https://orbitaltoday.com/2026/06/10/nasa-astronauts-to-wear-prada-designed-cooling-underwear-on-the-moon/
NASA Marches Toward Artemis III Mission in 2027, Names Crew Members
Jun 09, 2026
Taking another step toward one of the most complex human spaceflight missions in recent history, NASA on Tuesday provided new Artemis III details and announced the four prime crew members and a backup for the test flight.
The mission will undertake a series of challenging tests in Earth orbit in 2027, essential for Artemis IV, the first planned crewed mission to the lunar South Pole in 2028.
During Artemis III, the agency’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket will launch the Orion spacecraft and its crew from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to low Earth orbit.
After Orion systems checkouts, the spacecraft will, for the first time, demonstrate rendezvous and docking capabilities with test versions from one, or both, American commercial human landing systems in development by Blue Origin and SpaceX.
This highly choreographed mission includes a dramatic multi-launch campaign of the world’s most powerful rockets, testing integrated hardware between Orion and the landers, including system interfaces, software, propulsion, and communications.
Crew assignments are as follows:
NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik, commander
ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Luca Parmitano, pilot
NASA astronaut Andre Douglas, mission specialist
NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, mission specialist
As part of Tuesday’s event, NASA astronaut Bob Hines was named as a backup crew member. The crew will begin training immediately on Orion spacecraft systems, as well as assist in the development and operations of the test versions of Blue Origin and SpaceX landers.
“Today we take another bold step in humanity’s return to the Moon, building on the extraordinary foundation laid by the Artemis II astronauts,” said NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman.
“Their achievements reignited global excitement for exploration, and now they pass the torch to the Artemis III team, Randy, Luca, Frank, and Andre. Artemis III will demonstrate the power of American innovation and international partnership as we test complex rendezvous and docking operations and advance the technologies that will one day carry us deeper into the solar system.
This mission will require the most awe-inspiring coordination of heavy-lift rocket launches in history, drawing on the talent and capability of teams across government and the spaceflight community.
The Artemis III astronauts, alongside ESA and our international partners, and the tens of thousands of the best and brightest across the agency and industry, are ushering in a new Golden Age of exploration carrying forward the hopes and dreams of the next generation just as the Apollo astronauts did for so many of us.”
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This also is the first time an ESA astronaut has been assigned an Artemis mission.
“Artemis III will push the boundaries of spacecraft operations in orbit. Luca’s assignment as pilot reflects the depth of European expertise in human spaceflight and draws on his extensive operational experience in high-pressure situations,” said Josef Aschbacher, ESA’s director general.
“At the same time, ESA’s European Service Module will once again provide the critical capabilities that power Orion, demonstrating Europe’s enduring role at the very heart of the Artemis program.
The news out of Houston today is a powerful recognition of ESA’s role in enabling humanity’s return to the Moon – and a key advancement in our partnership with NASA. Europeans can take pride in being part of this exciting journey.”
Mission progress
NASA and its partners are making progress preparing for the test flight.
Engineers will connect the Orion crew module and service module this summer and integrate the spacecraft’s docking system, which will fly for the first time.
Heat shield testing continues with individual blocks having undergone ultra-sonic inspections and installation onto the heat shield structure.
Rocket processing also is well underway. Technicians for SLS are integrating the engine section to the rest of the core stage ahead of installing the four RS-25 engines this summer.
With all solid rocket booster segments now at NASA Kennedy and mobile launcher refurbishments on track, rocket stacking also is scheduled to begin this summer. NASA continues design and fabrication of a spacer that will replace the upper stage on Artemis III.
Blue Origin is developing a crewed lunar version of the company’s Blue Moon lander, while SpaceX is developing a crewed lunar lander version of the company’s Starship, with both companies building test articles for Artemis III.
NASA is supporting both lander providers hands-on throughout design, development, testing, and evaluation, including sharing agency expertise and capabilities gained from previous missions.
In addition to status updates from NASA and both commercial partners, the agency discussed details during the event about the planned operations for Artemis III, which will support an increased mission cadence, ramp up production, and drive supply chain improvements for the Artemis program.
The Artemis III mission builds on the successful Artemis II flight completed in April and will help the agency prepare to send the first astronauts, Americans, to Mars.
Artemis III includes launching the world’s most powerful rockets in short order. Blue Origin’s lander pathfinder, which is able to stay in orbit for multiple weeks, will launch first and await the crew.
NASA will send the astronauts aboard Orion by SLS to orbit Earth, before rendezvousing in space with the company’s lander test article and spending about two days docked together for tests and technology demonstrations, including entering the lander.
After completing docked operations with Blue Origin, Orion will detach and await Starship. SpaceX’s Starship pathfinder will launch and meet up with Orion to spend about a day connected for checkouts and testing.
After that, Orion and its crew will undock and return home, splashing safely down in the Pacific Ocean where a team from the U.S. Navy and NASA will recover the astronauts.
In total, the crew is expected to remain in space for about two weeks, with exact mission length to be determined in real-time based on launch, rendezvous, and docked operations.
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Learn more about Artemis III crew members
This will be the third mission to space for Bresnik, having launched aboard space shuttle Atlantis on the STS-129 mission to the International Space Station in 2009.
He later flew on the Soyuz MS-05 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the space station, serving as a flight engineer for the station’s Expedition 52 and commander of Expedition 53.
A California native, he graduated from The Citadel with a degree in mathematics and was selected by NASA in the 2004 astronaut candidate class.
A retired U.S. Marine colonel, he has logged more than 7,000 hours in 95 types of aircraft and is a fellow in the Society of Experimental Test Pilots.
Since 2018, he has served as assistant to the chief of the Astronaut Office for exploration, overseeing the development and testing of the spacecraft and systems that will operate during Artemis missions.
Artemis III also will be the third spaceflight for Parmitano.
Selected by ESA as an astronaut in 2009, he first served as a flight engineer on the Italian Space Agency’s (ASI) first long-duration mission to the space station, launching on a Soyuz from Baikonur in 2013.
He returned to the orbital laboratory in 2019 aboard Soyuz MS-13 for his second mission, during which he served as commander of Expedition 61, becoming the third European, and the first Italian, to command the station.
Parmitano earned a bachelor’s degree in political sciences from the University of Naples Federico II and a master’s degree in experimental flight test engineering from the Institut Supérieur de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace in Toulouse, France.
A graduate of the Italian Air Force Academy, he became a test pilot in 2007 and was promoted to colonel in 2019. He has logged more than 2,000 flight hours across 40 types of aircraft.
Rubio is making his second trip to space. He launched aboard the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft from Baikonur to the space station on Sept. 21, 2022, and returned on Sept. 27, 2023, breaking the record for the longest single-duration spaceflight by an American astronaut with 371 days in orbit.
Rubio was selected by NASA in the 2017 astronaut candidate class. A Florida native, he graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 1998, earned a doctor of medicine from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in 2010, and has served for more than 28 years in the U.S. Army as an aviator, a physician, and an astronaut.
The mission is Douglas’ first spaceflight. Selected by NASA in the 2021 astronaut candidate class, he previously served as a backup and closeout crew member for the agency’s Artemis II mission.
A Virginia native, Douglas earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and four postgraduate degrees from various institutions, including a doctorate in systems engineering from George Washington University.
During his time in the Coast Guard, he conducted search and rescue, maritime salvage, and drug interdiction operations. Additionally, his time at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory involved designing and testing multidomain autonomous vehicles, space exploration systems, and numerous undersea warfare platforms.
Serving as a backup crew member, Hines will train alongside Bresnik, Parmitano, Rubio, and Douglas. Should a primary crew member be unable to participate in the mission, he would join the Artemis III crew.
Hines previously served as pilot of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 mission to the International Space Station. Selected by NASA in the 2017 astronaut candidate class, he served as a research pilot at the agency’s Johnson Space Center prior to his selection.
He is a colonel in the U.S. Air Force with more than 27 years of service as an instructor pilot, fighter pilot, and test pilot.
As part of the Golden Age of innovation and exploration, NASA will send Artemis astronauts on increasingly difficult missions to explore more of the Moon for scientific discovery, economic benefits, establish an enduring human presence on the lunar surface, and to build on our foundation for the first crewed missions to Mars.
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https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2026/06/Artemis_III_NASA_announcement_highlights_Luca_Parmitano_assigned_as_pilot
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/ESA_astronaut_Luca_Parmitano_joins_NASA_s_Artemis_III_mission_as_pilot
https://www.wantedinrome.com/news/nasa-picks-italian-astronaut-luca-parmitano-as-pilot-for-artemis-iii-mission.html
ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano joins NASA’s Artemis III mission as pilot
09/06/2026
ESA / Science & Exploration / Human and Robotic Exploration
NASA has announced the crew for the Artemis III mission, which includes ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano as pilot.
ESA is also providing its third European Service Module for this crewed test flight in Earth orbit, which will be key for the mission’s objective to test rendezvous and docking capabilities ahead of future lunar landing missions.
NASA announced the crew of Artemis III mission which will include, NASA astronaut and commander Randy Bresnik, pilot Luca Parmitano of ESA, and NASA astronauts Frank Rubio and Andre Douglas as lander specialists.
NASA astronaut Bob Hines was also assigned as a backup crew member. The crew will now begin a rigorous training schedule to learn the Orion spacecraft systems, as well as the operations of the human landing systems, to prepare for an ambitious series of demonstrations ahead of a Moon landing mission.
Luca Parmitano is an ESA astronaut from Italy who has spent 366 days in space across two long-duration missions to the International Space Station, Volare and Beyond.
During these missions, he supported hundreds of experiments, performed six spacewalks totalling more than 30 hours and became commander of the Station.
Since returning to Earth, he has served as ESA’s liaison at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, acting as CAPCOM and training ESA astronauts for spacewalks and robotic operations.
Last year, Luca participated in NASA’s Underway Recovery Test 12 off the coast of California to simulate the splashdown and recovery of Artemis astronauts from a full-scale mock-up of the Orion spacecraft.
Before joining the European astronaut corps, Luca was selected in 2007 by the Italian Air Force to become a test pilot. He trained as an Experimental Test Pilot at EPNER, the French test pilot school in Istres.
Luca was promoted to the role of Colonel in the Italian Air Force ahead of his Beyond mission in 2019. He has logged more than 2000 hours flying time, is qualified on more than 20 types of military airplanes and helicopters and has flown over 40 types of aircraft.
His technical skills as test pilot will be put to the test once again during the Artemis III mission.
“Artemis III will push the boundaries of spacecraft operations in orbit.
ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano’s assignment as pilot reflects the depth of European expertise in human spaceflight and draws on his extensive operational experience in high-pressure situations,” said Josef Aschbacher, ESA’s Director General.
“At the same time, ESA’s European Service Module (ESM) will once again provide the critical capabilities that power Orion, demonstrating Europe’s enduring role at the very heart of the Artemis programme.
The news out of Houston today is a powerful recognition of ESA’s role in enabling humankind’s return to the Moon – and a key advancement in our partnership with NASA. Europeans can take pride in being part of this exciting journey."
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"Today we take another bold step in humanity’s return to the Moon, building on the extraordinary foundation laid by the Artemis II astronauts,” said NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman.
“Their achievements reignited global excitement for exploration, and now they pass the torch to the Artemis III team, Randy, Luca, Frank, and Andre.
Artemis III will demonstrate the power of American innovation and international partnership as we test complex rendezvous and docking operations and advance the technologies that will one day carry us deeper into the solar system.
This mission will require the most awe-inspiring coordination of heavy-lift rocket launches in history, drawing on the talent and capability of teams across government and the spaceflight community.
The Artemis III astronauts, alongside ESA and our international partners, and the tens of thousands of the best and brightest across the agency and industry, are ushering in a new Golden Age of exploration carrying forward the hopes and dreams of the next generation just as the Apollo astronauts did for so many of us.”
“I am honoured to be part of this crew, and humbled at the same time: my crew mates bring a wealth of different experiences, and I’m looking forward to working with them, eager to learn and to contribute as much as I can in my role.
As a test pilot, this is truly a dream mission, as we’ll be able to help testing systems and developing procedures so that future crews may go further and ultimately take humanity back to the Moon” said Luca Parmitano, ESA astronaut.
“I am very grateful to the Italian Air Force for providing me with training in my early stages; to the Italian Space Agency -and Italy as a whole- for trusting me with their very first long duration flight when I was just a rookie; and to the European Space Agency for the training, endless support and amazing opportunities I have had since I became an ESA astronaut, and to NASA for its leadership in returning humanity to the Moon.
It’s the confirmation that ESA is a reliable partner, and the continuation of a strong partnership with NASA that will take a European to the Moon.”
“Europe will play not only one but two decisive roles in this upcoming Artemis mission,” said Daniel Neuenschwander, ESA’s Director of Human and Robotic Exploration.
“ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano, in his piloting seat, will be responsible for the complex spacecraft maneouvering, alongside the NASA commander, which the mission will require.
The European industry will also be onboard with him thanks to our European Service Module with contributions from across 13 ESA Member States, involving 20 main contractors and over 100 suppliers.”
ESA’s European Service Module is the powerhouse of NASA’s Orion spacecraft for Artemis missions to the Moon, providing power, propulsion, thermal control, air and water for the four astronauts on board.
Built by European industry led by ESA, the module’s structure is produced by Thales Alenia Space in Turin, Italy, before final assembly by prime contractor Airbus in Bremen, Germany.
The first two European Service Modules successfully powered the uncrewed Artemis I mission in 2022 and the crewed Artemis II mission earlier this year.
As announced by NASA, Artemis III is now planned as a crewed test flight in Earth orbit to demonstrate systems and operations required for future lunar landing missions planned from Artemis IV onwards.
Following launch aboard NASA’s Space Launch System rocket, the European Service Module’s engines will be used to perform key propulsion maneouvres, as well as supporting proximity operations and docking demonstrations with lunar landing system pathfinders.
The third European Service Module is currently undergoing testing at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA. The module departed Bremen in August 2024 aboard the Canopée transport vessel.
After arrival in the United States, the module was integrated with the crew module adapter, and ESA officially handed the service module over to NASA in September 2025.
The module recently completed acoustic testing and will soon be connected to the Orion crew module, forming the integrated spacecraft.
The four European-built solar arrays will then be installed before Orion continues its test and integration campaign ahead of launch next year.
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Crew Works Microbiology, Advanced Tech and Congratulates New Artemis III Crew
June 9, 2026 3:57PM
Microbiology and human research were the main scientific focus aboard the International Space Station on Tuesday to protect health on and off the Earth.
The Expedition 74 crew members also worked on advanced research hardware and sent down a congratulatory message to the Artemis III crew, who were named during an announcement from the Johnson Space Center in Houston.
Some common bacteria have shown an increased resistance to antibiotics in the space environment potentially affecting an astronaut’s ability to fight an infection.
Flight engineers Jack Hathway of NASA and Sophie Adenot of ESA (European Space Agency) explored the antibiotic-resistant organisms inside the Kibo laboratory module’s Life Science Glovebox and the Harmony module’s maintenance work area by processing the microbial samples and preparing them for DNA extraction and analysis.
Doctors will use the data to understand how microbes adapt to microgravity possibly informing countermeasures to reduce the risk to astronaut health and protect patients on Earth.
NASA flight engineers Jessica Meir and Chris Williams partnered together loading a CubeSat-packed small satellite orbital deployer into Kibo’s airlock that will soon be placed into the vacuum of space.
The Japanese robotic arm will grapple the deployer and point it away from the orbital outpost where it will safely deploy the shoebox-sized satellites into Earth orbit.
A series of tiny satellites will be released for public and private research, including the Hokushin-1 CubeSat that will test space technologies such as radio frequency, propulsion, and solar arrays.
Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Andrey Fedyaev worked on a pair of different investigations on Tuesday to continuously monitor how weightlessness affects the human body.
Kud-Sverchkov, the orbital outpost’s commander, strapped an acoustic sensor around his neck that recorded his rapid exhalation to learn how living in space affects the respiratory system.
Fedyaev wore a set of cuffs attached to his arms, wrist, and fingers measuring his blood pressure for a microgravity cardiac experiment. Roscosmos flight engineer Sergei Mikaev was back on artificial intelligence research studying new tools to boost crew efficiency and communications aboard a spacecraft.
Four of the station’s astronauts also sent down a message congratulating the four new Artemis III crew members commander Randy Bresnik of NASA, pilot Luca Parmitano of ESA, and NASA mission specialists Frank Rubio and Andre Douglas.
The four flight engineers each spoke a few inspiring words with Meir stating, “Congratulations, Artemis III and godspeed on the journey ahead.” Watch the crew message on @Space_Station X.
https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/spacestation/2026/06/09/crew-works-microbiology-advanced-tech-and-congratulates-new-artemis-iii-crew/
https://x.com/Space_Station/status/2064386450267783174
extra NASA
https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/wallops/2026/06/09/nasa-wallops-to-support-june-rocket-launch/
https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/tyndalls-trail-of-bergs/
https://science.nasa.gov/asset/webb/evidence-of-a-black-hole-star/