LAUNCH! SpaceX Falcon 9 B1078 launches with the Starlink 6-53 mission out of SLC-40.

LIVE: youtube.com/watch?v=3hRbq4…

Very excited to present some of my recent work regarding skeletal muscle calcium handling in murine muscle following spaceflight 🐭🚀!

It's an exciting lineup of talks (May 1 & 2) - if you're interested, the link to register is here 👇

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#ISRO is now targeting 2026 for the launch of the Chandrayaan-4 Lunar Sample Return Mission!! 🎯

Previously it was planned to launch NET 2027.

Here's hoping they'll successfully demonstrate docking capability via SpaDEx in late-2024 as it'll play a pivotal role in CH-4.

Shenzhou-18 caps over two decades of Chinese human spaceflight reut.rs/3UtgwuW

👨‍🚀Ye Guangfu, 44, a first-grade astronaut, is the mission commander of the #Shenzhou XVIII spaceflight.

🛰️He made his first journey into space in October 2021, on the six-month Shenzhou XIII mission, becoming one of the second group of inhabitants of Chinese Space Station. [📷VCG]

LAUNCH!

Ye Guangfu, Li Cong and Li Guangsu, the three Chinese astronauts for the upcoming Shenzhou-18 spaceflight mission, met the press on Wednesday. #space bit.ly/3xSpA3K

Bullseye for the 300th landing of a Falcon 9 booster!

LIVE: SpaceX Falcon 9 B1078 with the Starlink 6-53 mission out of SLC-40.

SpaceX also going for 300 booster landings.

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LAUNCH! SpaceX Falcon 9 B1080 launches the Starlink 6-52 mission from SLC-40.

NSF Livestream: youtube.com/watch?v=NLClc8…

Chinese astronauts Ye Guangfu (C), Li Cong (R) and Li Guangsu will carry out the #Shenzhou18 crewed spaceflight mission, and Ye will be the commander, the China Manned Space Agency announced at a press conference on Wednesday.

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⏯️ Catch the replay of the #ESAastro2022 graduation ceremony 🎓 Relive the excitement and celebrate their incredible journey to becoming fully-certified astronauts 👩‍🚀👨‍🚀 #TheHoppers

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#ISRO is gearing up for the first Integrated Air-Drop Test of the #Gaganyaan Crew Module, scheduled to take place this wednesday!! 🗓

This is one of the last big hurdles for Gaganyaan before its first uncrewed orbital flight!

Learn more about this test through this graphic 👇

Adaptive transcriptomics of human Aortic #SmoothMuscleCell to spaceflight 3 d

Bioscience-3 flight hardware set
STaARSd incubator
SpaceX CRS-17

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⏫PTEN; PPARα/RXRα

⏬inflammation; ATM DDR; Hypertrophy; Senescence

Weakened contractile, synthetic & osteogenic

Awesome first day of the Spaceflight Human Optimization and Performance (SHOP) Summit Human Optimization and Performance (SHOP) Summit! What an amazing cast and delivery of content!

Two more days to go and expecting the same level of content!

The so-called 'big vent' is underway as the feed lines are being chilled prior to second stage liquid oxygen loading on the Falcon 9 second stage.

Watch live: youtube.com/watch?v=rMMrFS…

Over at SpaceX, McGregor: B1086, a Falcon Heavy side booster for GOES-U launching NET in late June, is preparing to Static Fire as part of its acceptance testing.

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