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SpaceX Dragon cargo ship docks at space station to deliver solar arrays, seeds and more
SpaceX’s latest Dragon cargo ship arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) early Sunday (Nov. 27) to deliver tons of fresh supplies, new solar wings nd even some ice cream for the orbiting lab.
The robotic Dragon spacecraft docked with the orbiting lab Sunday around 7:39 a.m. EST (1230 GMT) as both spacecraft sailed high over the Pacific Ocean.
“We’re excited to unpack and get to work,” NASA astronaut Josh Cassada radioed Mission Contro from the station after the successful docking.
“Hopefully you can enjoy your well-deserved and long-awaited ice cream soon,” Mission Control’s Megan Harvey replied.
Sunday’s meetup ended a brief orbital chase for Dragon; the SpaceX freighter launched atop a Falcon 9 rocket on Saturday afternoon (Nov. 26) from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Related: See the evolution of SpaceX rockets in pictures
Dragon is packed with about 7,700 pounds (3,500 kilograms) of cargo. The manifest includes two new International Space Station Roll Out Solar Arrays (iROSAs), gear designed to augment the orbiting lab’s existing solar wings.
The ISS will eventually feature six iROSAs, which together will boost the station’s power supply by 20% to 30%. Spacewalking astronauts have installed two of the new arrays to date.
Dragon also delivered a wide variety of scientific experiments to the ISS on this trip. For example, one study bound for the station will grow dwarf cherry tomatoes from seeds in a bid to help ramp up off-Earth food production. Another investigation will continue previous microgravity research with 3D-cultured heart tissue (opens in new tab), testing potential therapies that could prevent or slow the development of cardiac disease.
Dragon’s current mission is called CRS-26, because it is the 26th robotic cargo flight that SpaceX is flying to the ISS for NASA. CRS-26 had been scheduled to lift off on Tuesday (Nov. 22) but was pushed back by bad weather.
Cargo Dragons usually stay docked to the ISS for about a month, but CRS-26 will remain aloft for 45 days or so, NASA officials have said. The extra time was allotted, in part, to allow for the spacewalks needed to install the iROSAs.
CRS-26 will end with a parachute-aided ocean splashdown. Dragon is the only currently operational cargo craft that comes back to Earth in one piece following its missions. The other two active freighters — Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus vehicle and Russia’s Progress craft — are designed to burn up in Earth’s atmosphere when their time in orbit is up.
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SpaceX launches tomato seeds, other supplies to space station
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SpaceX is carrying a fresh haul of supplies to the International Space Station this weekend after bad weather at the launch site forced the company to wave off its first attempt.
The mission took off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida around 2:20 p.m. ET Saturday. The original liftoff date had been Tuesday.
The bounty of supplies on board includes a pair of new solar arrays for the space station, dwarf tomato seeds and a range of science experiments. There will also be treats for the astronauts on the space station, like ice cream and Thanksgiving fare like spicy green beans, cranberry apple desserts, pumpkin pie and candy corn.
The solar arrays will be installed outside the floating laboratory during spacewalks scheduled for November 29 and December 3. They will give the space station a power boost.
SpaceX has launched more than two dozen resupply missions to the space station over the past decade as part of a multibillion-dollar deal with NASA. This launch comes amid SpaceX’s busiest year to date, with more than 50 operations so far, including two astronaut missions.
The cargo on board includes a number of health-related items, such as the Moon Microscope kit. The portable handheld microscope will allow astronauts to collect and send images of blood samples to flight surgeons on the ground for diagnostics and treatment.
Nutrients are a key component of maintaining good health in space. But fresh produce is in short supply on the space station compared with the prepackaged meals astronauts eat during their six-month stays in low-Earth orbit.
“It is fairly important to our exploration goals at NASA to be able to sustain the crew with not only nutrition but also to look at various types of plants as sources for nutrients that we would be hard-pressed to sustain on the long trips between distant destinations like Mars and so forth,” said Kirt Costello, chief scientist at NASA’s International Space Station Program and a deputy manager of the ISS Research Integration Office.
Astronauts have grown and tasted different types of lettuce, radishes and chiles on the International Space Station. Now, the crew members can add some dwarf tomatoes — specifically, Red Robin tomatoes — to their list of space-grown salad ingredients.
The experiment is part of an effort to provide continuous fresh food production in space.
The dwarf tomato seeds will be grown under two different light treatments to measure the impact on the number of tomatoes that can be harvested as well as the plants’ nutritional value and taste. Red Robin tomatoes will also be grown on Earth as a control experiment. The two crops will be compared to measure the effects of a zero-gravity environment on tomato growth.
The space tomatoes will be grown inside small bags called plant pillows installed in the Vegetable Production System, known as the Veggie growth chamber, on the space station. The astronauts will frequently water and nurture the plants.
“Tomatoes will be a new adventure for us on the veggie team, trying to figure out how to keep these thirsty plants well watered without overwatering,” said Gioia Massa, NASA’s space crop production scientist and principal investigator for the tomato study.
The tomatoes will be ready for their first taste test in the spring.
The crew is expecting tomato harvests 90, 97 and 104 days after the plants begin to grow. During taste tests, the crew will rate the flavor, aroma, juiciness and texture of the tomatoes grown using the different light treatments. Half of each tomato harvest will be frozen and returned to Earth for analysis.
Growing plants on the space station not only provides the opportunity for fresh food and creative taco nights, it can also boost the mood of the crew during their long spaceflight.
Surveys will track astronauts’ moods as they care for and interact with the plants to see how nurturing the seedlings enhances the crew’s experience amid the isolation of the space station.
The hardware is still in development for larger crop production on the space station and eventually other planets, but scientists are already planning what plants might grow best on the moon and Mars. Earlier this year, a team successfully grew plants in lunar soil that included samples collected during the Apollo missions.
“Tomatoes are going to be a great crop for the moon,” Massa said. “They’re very nutritious, very delicious, and we think the astronauts will be really excited to grow them there.”
Dwarf tomato seeds will launch to ISS aboard SpaceX’s next resupply flight
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When SpaceX’s 26th commercial resupply mission launches Tuesday, it will carry a bounty of supplies, a pair of new solar arrays, dwarf tomato seeds and a range of science experiments to the International Space Station.
The mission will also deliver ice cream and Thanksgiving-style treats, including spicy green beans, cran-apple desserts, pumpkin pie and candy corn, to the space station crew.
The Dragon spacecraft is expected to lift off with its 7,700 pounds (3,493 kilograms) of cargo from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 3:54 p.m. ET, with live coverage available on NASA’s website beginning at 3:30 p.m. ET.
The International Space Station Roll Out Solar Arrays, or iROSAs, will be installed outside the floating laboratory during spacewalks scheduled for November 29 and December 3. The solar arrays will give the space station a power boost.
The cargo includes a number of health-related items, such as the Moon Microscope kit. The portable handheld microscope will allow astronauts to collect and send images of blood samples to flight surgeons on the ground for diagnostics and treatment.
Nutrients are a key component of maintaining good health in space. But fresh produce is in short supply on the space station compared with the prepackaged meals astronauts eat during their six-month stays in low-Earth orbit.
“It is fairly important to our exploration goals at NASA to be able to sustain the crew with not only nutrition but also to look at various types of plants as sources for nutrients that we would be hard pressed to sustain on the long trips between distant destinations like Mars and so forth,” said Kirt Costello, chief scientist at NASA’s International Space Station Program and a deputy manager of the ISS Research Integration Office.
Astronauts have grown and tasted different types of lettuce, radishes and chiles on the International Space Station. Now, the crew members can add some dwarf tomatoes — specifically, Red Robin tomatoes — to their list of space-grown salad ingredients.
The experiment, known as the Pick-and-Eat Salad-Crop Productivity, Nutritional Value, and Acceptability to Supplement the ISS Food System, is part of an effort to provide continuous fresh food production in space.
The dwarf tomato seeds will be grown under two different light treatments to measure their impact on how many tomatoes can be harvested, as well as the plants’ nutritional value and taste. Red Robin tomatoes will also be grown on Earth as a control experiment. The two crops will be compared to measure the effects of the zero gravity environment on tomato growth.
The space tomatoes will be grown inside small bags called plant pillows installed in the Vegetable Production System, known as the Veggie growth chamber, on the space station. The astronauts will frequently water and nurture the plants as they grow, as well as pollinate the flowers.
“Tomatoes will be a new adventure for us on the Veggie team, trying to figure out how to keep these thirsty plants well watered without over watering,” said Gioia Massa, NASA’s space crop production scientist and principal investigator for the tomato study.
The tomatoes will be ready for their first taste test in the spring.
The crew is expecting three tomato harvests 90, 97 and 104 days after the plants begin to grow. During taste tests, the crew will rate the flavor, aroma, juiciness and texture of the tomatoes grown using the two different light treatments. Half of each tomato harvest will be frozen and returned to Earth for analysis.
Growing plants on the space station not only provides the opportunity for fresh food and creative taco nights, it can also boost the mood of the crew during their long spaceflight.
The astronauts will also take surveys to track their moods as they care for and interact with the plants to see how nurturing the seedlings enhances their experience amid the isolation and confinement of the space station.
The hardware is still in development for larger crop production on the space station and eventually other planets, but scientists are already planning what plants might grow best on the moon and Mars. Earlier this year, a team successfully grew plants in lunar soil that included samples collected during the Apollo missions.
“Tomatoes are going to be a great crop for the moon,” Massa said. “They’re very nutritious, very delicious and we think the astronauts will be really excited to grow them there.”
2022 MLB playoff field is set with seeds locked: Wild Card Series schedule and format explained
With the action from Tuesday, Oct. 4 between playoff teams concluded, we know now for certain that the games on the final day of the regular season are all meaningless in terms of the playoff field. Each of the 12 teams was already clinched heading into Tuesday, then the Braves clinched the NL East and results for the last two wild-card teams on both sides of the bracket settled the matchups.
Here’s how it’ll look.
American League
The Wild Card Series will be three games all in the same ballpark with no travel. There won’t be re-seeding, either, so the winner of the Rays-Guardians series faces the Yankees in the ALDS while the Mariners-Blue Jays winner heads to Houston.
For a full breakdown of the new format, we’ve got you covered.
National League
As noted, there isn’t re-seeding after the first round. It’s a locked bracket, so the winner of the Padres-Mets gets the Dodgers in the NLDS while the winner of the Phillies-Cardinals series gets the defending champion Braves.
The individual game times haven’t been assigned yet, but we know all four Wild Card Series will be played Friday, Saturday and, if necessary, the clinching Game 3 would be played Sunday.
Wild Card Series schedule (best-of-three)
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Game 1 of all four divisional series will take place on Tuesday, Oct. 11. Check out the full schedule here.
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For The First Time, Scientists Have Grown Plants in Moon Dirt. It Didn’t Go Great
When the Artemis program returns humans to the Moon in (hopefully) a few years’ time, there are considerable logistics that need to be addressed for keeping such fragile beings alive in such a hostile environment.
Not least is the issue of food. Space agencies involved in the International Space Station are very experienced, by now, in providing pre-packed provisions, but there are advantages to having access to fresh food, including to both physical and mental health.
If lunar soil were to prove an amenable medium for growing fresh crops, that would be amazing. So a team of scientists used a few precious grams of actual lunar samples collected during the Apollo missions to attempt to grow plants – specifically, thale cress, or Arabidopsis thaliana.
“For future, longer space missions, we may use the Moon as a hub or launching pad. It makes sense that we would want to use the soil that’s already there to grow plants,” says horticultural scientist Rob Ferl of the University of Florida.
“So, what happens when you grow plants in lunar soil, something that is totally outside of a plant’s evolutionary experience? What would plants do in a lunar greenhouse? Could we have lunar farmers?”
Well, spoiler: Moon dirt, also known as lunar regolith, isn’t hugely great at growing plants. But this research is just a first step towards one day growing plants on the Moon in an excitingly sci-fi future.
The current quantity of lunar sample material here on Earth is quite small, and therefore valuable and highly prized.
Ferl and his colleagues, fellow University of Florida horticultural scientist Anna-Lisa Paul and geologist Stephen Elardo, were granted a loan of just 12 grams of the precious stuff, after three applications made over 11 years.
This necessitated a very small, very tight experiment – a mini-garden of Arabidopsis. They carefully divided their samples to be distributed between 12 thimble-sized pots, to each of which was added a nutrient solution and a few seeds.
Control groups of seeds were also planted in terrestrial soil from extreme environments, and soil simulants (a terrestrial material used to simulate the properties of extraterrestrial soils).
For the experiment, the team used a Mars soil simulant, and a lunar simulant named JSC-1A. This is important, because previous experiments have shown that plants can grow well in both types of simulant, but subtle differences could mean the real thing is a different story.
(Paul et al., Communications Biology, 2022)
Above: Plants growing in the three sets of lunar soil and the soil simulant.
That does actually seem to be the case. To the researchers’ surprise, nearly all the seeds planted in the lunar samples sprouted, but that’s where things took a turn. Instead of growing merrily, the seedlings seemed to be smaller, slower-growing, and much more varying in size than the plants grown in the lunar simulant.
When the team then extracted the plants to conduct genetic analysis, they found out why.
“At the genetic level, the plants were pulling out the tools typically used to cope with stressors, such as salt and metals or oxidative stress, so we can infer that the plants perceive the lunar soil environment as stressful,” Paul says.
“Ultimately, we would like to use the gene expression data to help address how we can ameliorate the stress responses to the level where plants – particularly crops – are able to grow in lunar soil with very little impact to their health.”
The lunar samples used by the researchers came from three different locations on the Moon, at different layers of depth from the surface, collected by Apollo missions 11, 12, and 17.
Interestingly, this seemed to have an effect on how well the plants responded to the soil. Those planted in the soil closest to the surface, from Apollo 11, fared worse; one plant even died. This is the layer of lunar regolith most exposed to cosmic rays and the solar wind, which damages it.
By contrast, the seeds planted in less exposed soil fared noticeably better, although the results were still not as good as plants grown in terrestrial volcanic ash. This information could help scientists figure out how best to grow plants on the Moon, as well as develop ways to make the lunar soil more hospitable to plants.
We’re not quite there yet, though. Further research in characterizing and optimizing the lunar soil for plant growth will need to take place before we can consider using Moon dirt to grow crops. But now scientists at least have a clearer understanding of what they’re working with, and what the next steps should be.
“We wanted to do this experiment because, for years, we were asking this question: Would plants grow in lunar soil,” Ferl said. “The answer, it turns out, is yes.”
The research has been published in Communications Biology.
March Madness: No. 1 seeds Gonzaga and Arizona are stunned in Sweet 16
No. 1 overall seed and last year’s runner-up Gonzaga was upset by No. 4 seed Arkansas 74-68, before another No. 1 seed, Arizona, lost to No. 5 seed Houston 72-60 shortly after.
With defending champion and the other top seed Baylor already knocked out, the only No. 1 seed left is Kansas.
Arkansas’ progression to the Elite Eight of the men’s NCAA tournament is their second in a row, but just their third since 1995.
After shocking Gonzaga and advancing to the next round where they’ll face Duke, Razorbacks’ head coach Eric Musselman told CBS: “Thank you to everybody that said we had no chance.”
“We grinded in our prep. I give these guys a ton of credit. We took a four-hour flight after traveling from Buffalo to Fayetteville for 24 hours to here, and then we went straight to an hour and 45-minute practice,” Musselman said.
“Can’t compliment these guys and the entire team enough for the way that they buy in to game preparation. It’s probably the coolest thing I’ve ever been a part of that they just kind of do what we ask.”
For Houston, they led wire-to-wire against Arizona, scoring the first basket and never trailing against the Wildcats.
Jamal Shead led the way for the Cougars with 21 points, with Kyler Edwards hitting five three-pointers as he added 19 points.
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”I knew we were going to make them uncomfortable, that’s what we do,” Houston head coach Kelvin Sampson said. ”Our team, we’re a tough bunch … They’re not afraid of anybody.”
Dalen Terry led scoring for Arizona with 17 points. Houston will now face Villanova on Saturday in the Elite Eight.
Bracketology: No. 1 seeds are set for Selection Sunday after late Kansas jump to No. 1 line
Saturday was another day of upsets that affected both ends of the bracket.
The biggest was Virginia Tech beating Duke to win the ACC Tournament. That is the second major event that Duke has failed to win in coach Mike Krzyzewski’s final season. However, the bracket implication is that the Hokies stole a bid. I do not believe they were getting into the NCAA tournament without winning the ACC.
The team that is now out is SMU. The Mustangs lost to Memphis in the American Athletic Conference Tournament semifinals and fell out of the bracket. SMU has one of the worst strength of schedule rankings of any team competing for a spot in the field and has two bad losses, including one in Quad 4. The Mustangs have not done enough good to make up for that.
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The top seeds in the bracket are now set, I believe. Gonzaga should be the overall No. 1 on selection Sunday, followed by Pac-12 champion Arizona, Big 12 champion Kansas and reigning national champion Baylor.
There are no games left that can influence the top line of the bracket. Auburn and Kentucky are out of the SEC Tournament. Purdue did not get strong enough opponents in the Big Ten Tournament to make a push for the top line. The Boilermakers will face Iowa for the Big Ten title on Sunday immediately before the Selection Show.
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Check out Palm’s latest bracket, full field of 68 and all the teams on the bubble on the Bracketology hub.
There are no bubble games left to be played, but there is one very important game to bubble teams on the Sunday schedule. Davidson will be playing to win the Atlantic 10 Tournament championship to go along with its regular season title. If Richmond wins that game, the Spiders will steal a bid, and that bid belongs to Xavier, which is currently the last team in the bracket.
Texas A&M has made a surprising run to the SEC Tournament championship game and will face Tennessee for that title.
In other action, Houston will face Memphis for the American Athletic Conference Tournament championship and Princeton will take on Yale for the Ivy League crown.
I may do some seed scrubbing later, and other adjustments may need to be made based on the results of Saturday’s games, but the bracket is coming into shape with the official announcement just hours away.
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1A boys’ hockey quarterfinals: Minneapolis falls, top seeds move on
The state boys’ hockey tournament starts at 11 a.m. with No. 2 seed Warroad playing Monticello in the first of four Class 1A quarterfinal games at the Xcel Energy Center. The evening session features Minneapolis vs. Alexandria in the second game — the first time a Minneapolis public school team has been in the tournament since 1994.
You can watch the tournament here on this video feed from Ch. 45:
Here is today’s schedule:
11 a.m.: Warroad 7, Monticello 1
Quintin Brooks gave Monticello a 1-0 lead midway through the first period. But Warroad quickly tied the score and broke the game open in the second period. Daimon Gardner scored his 40th goal of the season in the second period and added two more for a hat trick. The Warriors (25-3-1) extended their winning streak to nine games in a row and have yielded only four goals in their last five victories. More on the game is here.
1:30 p.m.: Mahtomedi 4, Mankato East/Loyola 1
Three goals in the second period sent Mahtomedi to a victory. Carter Haycraft scored 1:10 into the second period, Nick Beiersdorf added a goal at the halfway point and Cavanaugh Bruner struck with just 7.8 seconds remaining as No. 3 seed Mahtomedi (17-11-1) went ahead to stay. More on the game is here.
6 p.m.: Hermantown 5, New Prague 1
Top seed Hermantown used barely more than three minutes to score three goals at the game’s start and took an easy victory. New Prague did manage to end Hermantown’s shutout streak at 192 minutes, 33 seconds with a power-play goal from Will Andersen in the first period.
8:40 p.m.: Alexandria 4, Minneapolis 1
Minneapolis gave up the go-ahead goal in the second period, and Alexandria pulled away, bringing a quick end to the first trip to state for a public school team from the city since 1994. Senior forward Brycen Berg scored twice for Alexandria. Zander Zoia scored for Minneapolis.
Thursday’s Class 2A schedule is here.
Read more about the tournament:
A tournament team of its own brings inspiration to all Minneapolis
Class 1A story lines: A coach’s hat, a goalie’s post, rematches and second chances
Names, numbers: Facts about teams in the 1A field
Meet the Star Tribune’s 2021-22 all-metro hockey team
Gritty and smooth: Cretin-Derham Hall’s Drew Fisher is metro hockey player of the year
Hill-Murray snags top seed in 2A
MSHSL pledges to address racist taunts at sporting events
Star Tribune high school Live Blog