crew supplies and needed equipment.

Another externally mounted instrument being delivered is the Atmospheric Waves Experiment.Among the equipment being delivered to the station is an experimental high-speed laser communications package designed to send and receive data encoded in infrared laser beams at much higher rates than possible with traditional radio systems.

deputy space station program manager at the Johnson Space Center.A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasts off from the Kennedy Space Center carrying a Dragon supply ship on a 32-hour flight to the International Space Station.and some fun holiday treats for the crew.

and the second mission for capsule C-211.So were hoping the results of this study can be used to inform female astronaut health during long-duration spaceflight and even female reproductive health here on Earth.

As the waves interact with the ionosphere.

The climb to space went smoothly.Haojing Yan (University of Missouri) Mothra is one of 14 transients objects in space that vary in brightness over time identified in the study of MACS0416.

which existed about 3 billion years after the big bang.which scientists expect will combine at point to form an even larger cluster.

while those color-coded in red represent the longest wavelengths.Finding transients in faraway galaxies was one of the research teams main goals when they set out to combine observations from different telescopes.