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Expedition 70 Flight Engineer and NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps prepares tubes to collect samples from the crew for the Immunity Assay investigation.

One crew and one cargo spacecraft on two different continents are counting down to launch as the seven orbital residents aboard the International Space Station spent Wednesday exploring how space affects the immune system, carrying out robotics activities, and connecting with students on Earth.

Three crew members are gearing up to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Thursday, March 21. NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson, cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky, and Flight Engineer Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus will lift off aboard the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft at 9:21 a.m. EDT and take a short ride to the station, docking only a few hours later at 12:39 p.m., joining the Expedition 70 crew in microgravity. This will be Dysons third trip to the orbital complex, where she will spend six months conducting research in low Earth orbit.

Only a few hours after the crew arrives, NASAs SpaceX 30th commercial resupply mission will lift off from Space Launch Complex 40 in Florida. The Dragon cargo craft, scheduled to launch at 4:55 p.m. on Thursday, will carry an array of new science and technology investigations, as well as food and supplies for the crew. Dragon will orbit Earth before autonomously docking to the zenith port of the Harmony module at 7:30 a.m. Saturday, March 23.

In microgravity, the crew split up duties on Wednesday as they prepare for the upcoming station traffic. In the morning, Flight Engineer Matthew Dominick of NASA collected samples for the Immunity Assay investigation. Afterward, Flight Engineer Jeanette Epps of NASA processed the samples for the experiment. Immunity Assay looks at the impact of spaceflight on cellular immune functions in blood samples, tests that could only previously be conducted on Earth. With new tech, processing samples inflight helps researchers gain a better understanding of astronauts immune changes during long-duration space missions.

Dominick and Epps later teamed up to reconfigure some of the cameras aboard station that the crew uses to take photos of research, Earth, and more.

In the Japanese Experiment Module, Flight Engineer Michael Barratt of NASA powered on the free-flying Astrobee robots and conducted a Zero Robotics tech demonstration. Zero Robotics allows students on Earth to write software to control Astrobee, inspiring the next generation of scientists, engineers, and explorers.

Afterward, Barratt teamed up with Flight Engineer Loral OHara of NASA to conduct an ISS Ham Radio session with a school in Greece. During the session, Barratt and OHara answered questions from students about living and working in space.

In the Nauka module, Flight Engineer Nikolai Chub replaced air ventilation filters, then moved on to collect and process water samples from the Roscosmos water processing system. Flight Engineer Alexander Grebenkin practiced his piloting techniques during a Pilot-T session, while Commander Oleg Kononenko prepped for Soyuzs arrival as he will be on deck to monitor the autonomous docking of the spacecraft.

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Update for 1 p.m. ET: The abort of today's Soyuz launch may have been due to a dead battery. "The reason has been identified, we just discovered at a meeting of the state commission that the reason was a voltage drop in the chemical current source," Roscosmos General Director Yuri Borisov said in a statement posted to the Russian space agency's Telegram account today.

A Russian Soyuz rocket carrying three astronauts bound for the International Space Station experienced a rare abort on the launch pad on Thursday (March 21) while the crew waited expectantly inside their spacecraft.

The abort occurred just 21 seconds before the Soyuz rocket was to launch NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiyand spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus to the International Space Station (ISS) from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Liftoff was scheduled for 9:21 a.m. EDT (1321 GMT).

"The Soyuz launch to the space station has been aborted," NASA spokesperson Rob Navias said during live commentary. "So, no visitors to the International Space Station today. The next opportunity to launch, pending resolution of what happened today, would be Saturday morning," he added.

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Navias said the abort was triggered by an automatic system shortly before engine ignition; two umbilical connections were retracted away from the rocket ahead of the planned launch. Roscosmos, Russia's space agency, sent engineers to the launch pad shortly after the abort to make sure the vehicle was safe and crew could be extracted.

"The vehicle is safe, all fueling operations have ceased," Navias said. "All safety commands have been provided onboard the rocket so there's no danger to the crew. They're perfectly safe."

NASA's Mission Control center radioed news of the launch abort to astronauts aboard the ISS shortly after it occurred. Flight controllers made it clear the Soyuz crew was safe.

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"Station copies; aborted," station commander Andreas Mogensen of the European Space Agency replied. "Most importantly, Station copies crew are safe."

Russia's Soyuz rockets and crewed Soyuz spacecraft are workhorse transport vehicles that regularly fly cosmonauts and astronauts to and from the ISS. Roscosmos has used the spacecraft for crewed flights throughout the 24-year history of the ISS, as well as during its previous Mir space station program.

An abort just before launch is exceedingly rare for Soyuz rockets. In October 2018, a Soyuz rocket carrying NASA astronaut Nick Hague and cosmonautAlexey Ovchinin suffered an in-flight abort that forced the crew's Soyuz capsule to rip free from its rocket and make a harrowing emergency landing. That abort was traced to a deformed sensor on the Soyuz rocket.

Dyson, Novitskiyand Vasilevskaya are set to launch on a mission to join the ongoing crew on the International Space Station. Dyson and Novitskiyplan to spend six months aboard the space station as part of its Expedition 71 crew, while Vasilevskaya is set to embark on a 12-day stay and return home with the outgoing Expedition 70 crew.

Exactly when the three space travelers will launch, however, is unclear. While Roscosmos has said the next window to launch the trio will open on Saturday, engineers with Soyuz rocket maker Energia will have to understand why today's Soyuz launch aborted and perform any fixes that may be required. NASA has pledged to share updates as they are received from Roscosmos and Energia.

Meanwhile, in Florida, another rocket is counting down to launch to the ISS today.

An uncrewed SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon cargo ship are scheduled to launch more than 2 tons of fresh supplies to the ISS from Space Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Liftoff for that mission is scheduled for 4:55 p.m. EDT (2055 GMT) and should continue as planned, Navias said.

"The preliminary word is that the Falcon 9 launch of the CRS-30 resupply mission to the station will likely proceed as planned today," he added.

NASA and SpaceX will provide a livestream of the CRS-30 cargo launch, beginning at 4:35 p.m. EDT (2035 GMT).

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A Russian Soyuz rocket will launch three people, including one NASA astronaut, toward the International Space Station (ISS) on Saturday morning (March 23), and you can watch the action live.

The rocket is scheduled to launch the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Saturday at 8:36 a.m. EDT (1236 GMT). You can watch live here at Space.com, courtesy of NASA, or directly via the space agency. Coverage will begin at 8:00 a.m. EDT (1200 GMT).

MS-25 was originally supposed to lift off on Thursday (March 21), but an electrical issue with the Soyuz rocket forced an abort 21 seconds before the planned launch.

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Riding on Soyuz MS-25 will be NASA's Tracy C. Dyson, cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of the Russian space agency Roscosmos and Marina Vasilevskaya, a spaceflight participant from Belarus.

If all goes according to plan, the trio will arrive at the ISS on Monday (March 25) at 11:09 a.m. EDT (1503 GMT). You can watch that orbital rendezvous here at Space.com as well, beginning at 10:15 a.m. EDT (1415 GMT) on Monday.

Coverage will resume at 1:15 p.m. EDT (1715 GMT), to show the hatches opening between the Soyuz and the ISS and air welcoming remarks from the orbiting lab's current residents. Hatch opening is expected around 1:40 p.m. EDT (1740 GMT).

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Saturday's launch will kick off the third spaceflight for Dyson, the fourth for Novitskiy and the first for Vasilevskaya. The latter two spaceflyers will be in orbit for just 12 days or so; they'll come back to Earth in early April aboard a different Soyuz, along with NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara, who's wrapping up a 6.5-month stint on the ISS.

Dyson will live aboard the orbiting lab for six months, eventually coming home in September with Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub of Roscosmos, who are conducting a yearlong mission on the ISS.

The Soyuz mission will be the second launch to the ISS in just a few days; SpaceX launched a robotic cargo mission to the station on Thursday at 4:55 p.m. EDT (2055 GMT).

Editor's note: This story was updated at 5:15 p.m. EDT on March 22 with the new target launch and docking dates of March 23 and March 25, respectively.

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WASHINGTON A Soyuz spacecraft is en route to the International Space Station, two days after a rare last-minute launch scrub.

A Soyuz-2.1a rocket lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 8:36 a.m. Eastern March 23. It placed the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft into orbit about nine minutes later.

Soyuz MS-25 is commanded by Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy with NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson and Marina Vasilevskaya, a Belarusian spaceflight participant, also on board. The spacecraft is scheduled to dock with the stations Prichal module at 11:09 a.m. Eastern March 25.

The launch was scheduled for March 21, but the countdown was halted just 20 seconds before liftoff. Roscosmos said several hours later that the launch was called off because of a low voltage reading in the launch vehicle. There had been no record of a scrub so late in the countdown of a crewed Soyuz launch before this incident.

At a March 22 briefing about the upcoming CST-100 Starliner crewed test flight to the station, Dana Weigel, NASA ISS deputy program manager, said at that time that Roscosmos was still troubleshooting the issue, but Roscosmos announced later in the day the launch had been rescheduled for the next day.

NASA spokesman Rob Navias said in NASA TV coverage of the second launch attempt that batteries were replaced and tested in the Soyuz rockets first stage after the scrub, allowing the launch to proceed.

The two-delay launch delay will mean a four-day delay in the arrival of the crew to the station. The original launch was planned to allow the Soyuz to fly a fast approach to the station, arriving about three hours after launch. That trajectory is not available on this launch attempt, meaning the crew will take a more conventional two-day approach to the station.

Once docked to the station, Novitskiy and Vasilevskaya will remain for 12 days, returning in the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft currently there with NASA astronaut Loral OHara, who launched to the station in that spacecraft in September along with Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub. That departure is scheduled for April 6. Kononenko and Chub will remain on the station an additional six months, returning in Soyuz MS-25 with Dyson.

The Soyuz MS-25 launch took place a little more than an hour after a Dragon cargo spacecraft, flying the CRS-30 commercial cargo mission, docked with the station. That docking, with the zenith port of the Harmony module, took place at 7:19 a.m. Eastern, about 10 minutes ahead of schedule. The spacecraft launched March 21 on a Falcon 9 and is delivering more than 2,800 kilograms of supplies, experiments and hardware to the station.

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SpaceX is about to hit another round-number milestone.

Elon Musk's company will launch its 30th contracted cargo mission to the International Space Station (ISS) for NASA on Thursday (March 21), if all goes according to plan.

A robotic SpaceX Dragon capsule is scheduled to lift off atop a Falcon 9 rocket Thursday at 4:55 p.m. EDT (2055 GMT) from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. You'll be able to watch the action live here at Space.com, courtesy of NASA.

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The mission, known as CRS-30 ("Commercial Resupply Services-30"), will arrive at the ISS on Saturday morning (March 23), delivering food, supplies, equipment and a variety of scientific experiments to the orbiting lab.

Among those investigations are studies of "plant metabolismin space and a set ofnew sensorsfor free-flying Astrobee robots to provide 3D-mapping capabilities," NASA officials wrote in an update on Friday afternoon (March 15).

"Other research includes a fluid physics study that could benefit solar cell technology and auniversity projectfrom CSA (Canadian Space Agency) that will monitor sea ice and ocean conditions," they added.

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CRS-30's Dragon will spend about a month attached to the ISS before coming back to Earth with a splashdown off the Florida coast.

Dragon is the only robotic ISS cargo craft capable of coming down in one piece (and hauling science gear from the station to researchers here on Earth). The other two operational freighters, Russia's Progress vehicle and Northrop Grumman's Cygnus, are designed to burn up in Earth's atmosphere when their orbital time is up.

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A NASA astronaut with Northern California ties is set to begin her third mission in space this week. Tracy C. Dyson, who earned a doctorate in chemistry at UC Davis in 1997, is one of three crew members who will blast off from Kazakhstan on Thursday to support Expedition 70 for a mission to the International Space Station. Her launch was set for Thursday morning but was delayed with less than 20 seconds left before takeoff. It is unclear when the launch will be rescheduled.Dyson will spend six months on the space station as an Expedition 70 and 71 flight engineer before returning to Earth in September. She told UC Davis for its Letters & Science magazine that her mission will include experiments and technology demonstrations. Among them will be a study on how fire spreads in space, though she is also ready to take on other tasks should the plan change. If theres anything Ive learned in the 25 years that Ive been doing this, its that the plan changes, she told the magazine. According to her NASA bio, Dyson previously spent more than 188 days in space, which involved more than 22 hours in three spacewalks. She was a mission specialist on the Space Shuttle Endeavor in 2007 and a flight engineer for Expedition 23/24 in 2010. Dyson grew up in Southern California and went on to compete in track and field while an undergrad at Cal State Fullerton, where she earned her undergraduate degree in chemistry. She became a pilot while attending grad school in Davis and also learned Russian and American Sign Language. NASA invited her to begin training as an astronaut about a year after she began post-doc studies at UC Irvine, according to Letters & Science magazine. The magazine reported that Dyson has also served as a consultant to The Martian movie and its star, Jessica Chastain. Dyson also has TV experience, serving as a host for NASAs StationLife series, and also as a guest judge on Cupcake Wars. NASA's launch coverage will air on NASA+, NASA Television, YouTube and NASAs website. | VIDEO BELOW | NASA seeks new astronauts. What to know

A NASA astronaut with Northern California ties is set to begin her third mission in space this week.

Tracy C. Dyson, who earned a doctorate in chemistry at UC Davis in 1997, is one of three crew members who will blast off from Kazakhstan on Thursday to support Expedition 70 for a mission to the International Space Station.

Her launch was set for Thursday morning but was delayed with less than 20 seconds left before takeoff. It is unclear when the launch will be rescheduled.

Dyson will spend six months on the space station as an Expedition 70 and 71 flight engineer before returning to Earth in September.

She told UC Davis for its Letters & Science magazine that her mission will include experiments and technology demonstrations. Among them will be a study on how fire spreads in space, though she is also ready to take on other tasks should the plan change.

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If theres anything Ive learned in the 25 years that Ive been doing this, its that the plan changes, she told the magazine.

According to her NASA bio, Dyson previously spent more than 188 days in space, which involved more than 22 hours in three spacewalks.

She was a mission specialist on the Space Shuttle Endeavor in 2007 and a flight engineer for Expedition 23/24 in 2010.

Dyson grew up in Southern California and went on to compete in track and field while an undergrad at Cal State Fullerton, where she earned her undergraduate degree in chemistry.

She became a pilot while attending grad school in Davis and also learned Russian and American Sign Language.

NASA invited her to begin training as an astronaut about a year after she began post-doc studies at UC Irvine, according to Letters & Science magazine.

The magazine reported that Dyson has also served as a consultant to The Martian movie and its star, Jessica Chastain.

Dyson also has TV experience, serving as a host for NASAs StationLife series, and also as a guest judge on Cupcake Wars.

NASA's launch coverage will air on NASA+, NASA Television, YouTube and NASAs website.

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The mystery of the lost space tomato has been solved.

Astronauts aboard theInternational Space Station(ISS) revealed in alivestreamWednesday celebrating the space stations 25th anniversary that they finally found the missing fruit after initially blaming fellow astronautFrank Rubiofor its disappearance.

NASA's Associate Administrator Bob Cabana asked the crew near the end of the broadcast if they hid anything or lost anything that they were still looking for, to which several of the astronauts laughed.

"Well, we might have found something that someone had been looking for quite a while, NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli said with a smile on her face.

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She continued, "Our good friend Frank Rubio, who headed home, has been blamed for quite a while for eating the tomato. But we can exonerate him. We found the tomato."

According to Space.com, the mystery of the lost tomato had been a months-long inside joke between astronauts on the ISS, which started after Rubio harvested Red Robin dwarf tomatoes for the space stations Veg-05 experiment.

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Following thetomato harvest in March, each astronaut received samples of the tomato harvest in a Ziploc bag. However, before Rubio could eat his portion, it reportedly floated away, per the outlet. The other ISS astronauts humorously didnt believe it.

The NASA astronaut reportedly first discussed the missing tomato during a livestream call on NASA Television, where he noted that he spent so many hours looking for that thing, but ultimately came up empty-handed.

"I'm sure the desiccated tomato will show up at some point and vindicate me, years in the future, Rubio said, per Space.com.

He again mentioned the lost tomato in a news conference held after returning to earth after more than a year in space. He said, per the outlet, that he had spent "1820 hours of my own time looking for the missing tomato, but it was never discovered.

"The reality of the problem, you know the humidity up there is like 17%. It's probably desiccated to the point where you couldn't tell what it was, and somebody just threw away the bag," Rubio said with a laugh. "Hopefully somebody will find it someday: a little, shriveled thing."

During the ISS crews 25th anniversary stream, they noted that they all have on multiple occasions lost items in the space station.

Luckily most of them we found again near an air vent, maybe a couple minutes, maybe a couple hours later. But it is certainly one of the challenges that you really get to learn to cope with until you get here, one of the astronauts said.

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A NASA astronaut will "light" felt candles to celebrate Hanukkah in space.

NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli plans to conduct the traditional lighting of the menorah in felt, given that the agency and International Space Station (ISS) wisely have restrictions against using fire aboard a spacecraft. The lighting will be done during Hanukkah, the Jewish festival which begins at sundown local time on Thursday (Dec. 7).

"My husband and little girls helped make a felt menorah, with lights for each night, that I can pin on to celebrate with them. So I'm excited to do that," Moghbeli said during a press conference in July, adding that her family celebrates both Hanukkah and Christmas.

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Astronauts have found creative ways to celebrate holidays aboard the ISS over the years. Back in 2019 during Hanukkah, for example, Jewish astronaut Jessica Meirposted a photo of her feet in festive blue, neon green and purple socks, adorned with menorahs and representations of the Star of David.

Hanukkah is the Jewish festival that starts on the 25th of Kislev, a month on the Hebrew calendar that follows the cycles of the new moon. In the Gregorian calendar that much of the world uses, Hanukkah tends to fall in November or December, depending on the year.

"Hanukkah reaffirms the ideals of Judaism and commemorates in particular the rededication of the Second Temple of Jerusalem by the lighting of candles on each day of the festival," Britannica writes of the festival.

The Second Temple, a central feature of Judaism, replaced an earlier temple destroyed by the Babylonians. The newer temple stood between either 516 BCE or 350 BCE (depending on the source) and 70 CE, when it was destroyed by the Romans, according to Harvard University. While the temple was never reconstructed, the western wall persists and remains a sacred site in Judaism.

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Some of this year's Nobel Prize winners will make a call to space on Monday (Dec. 11), and you can watch online for free.

Two European Space Agency (ESA) astronauts one of them here on Earth and the other aboard the International Space Station (ISS) will speak with recent Nobel laureates during the event. You can watch live here at Space.com, via ESA Web Two, at 08:45 a.m. EST (1345 GMT) on Monday.

The conversation will include ISS Expedition 70 commander Andreas Mogensen, astronaut Marcus Wandt (who is scheduled to launch to the ISS early next year on the private Ax-3 mission), and 2023 Nobel laureates Ferenc KrauszandMoungi Bawendi.

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"This will be a chance for two scientists, who have received their Nobel Prize medals the day before for the discoveries of attoseconds and quantum dots, to have a conversation with astronauts," the Nobel Prize Museum wrote of the event.

"Join us to hear their perspectives on the importance of basic science, how we are constantly expanding our knowledge about the universe, and the challenges of conducting experiments in space."

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Bawendi won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his applications of quantum dots, which are semiconductor nanocrystals. Krausz won the Nobel Prize in Physics with work on attosecond-scale pulses of light that stimulate charged particles such as electrons in matter. (An attosecond is just 0.000000000000000001 of a second.)

The event will be livestreamed from the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm, although not all guests of honor will be onsite. Mogensen is on the ISS, while Wandt will phone in from his training at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

This story was updated at 7:55 p.m. EDT Dec. 12 after new livestream timing from ESA.

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