Tomorrow, NASA Astronaut Frank Rubio is coming home 🌎

Tomorrow, NASA Astronaut Frank Rubio is coming home 🌎

While spending 371 days in space, Dr. Rubio has:

-Orbited the Earth 5,936 times
-Traveled 157,412,306 statute miles
-Completed three spacewalks
-Broken the record for the longest single spaceflight by a U.S. astronaut
-And much more!

Tune in to NASA TV to watch Rubio and his fellow crewmates return to Earth. Live coverage begins at 12 a.m. ET, with landing scheduled for 7:17 a.m. ET on Sept. 27. Link in bio!

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Tomorrow, NASA Astronaut Frank Rubio is coming home 🌎

While spending 371 days in space, Dr. Rubio has:

-Orbited the Earth 5,936 times
-Traveled 157,412,306 statute miles
-Completed three spacewalks
-Broken the record for the longest single spaceflight by a U.S. astronaut
-And much more!

Tune in to NASA TV to watch Rubio and his fellow crewmates return to Earth. Live coverage begins at 12 a.m. ET, with landing scheduled for 7:17 a.m. ET on Sept. 27. Link in bio!

Find out what’s heading up to the space station on SpaceX’s 29th resupply mission! 🚀

– ILLUMA-T tests using infrared lasers for faster data speeds. A successful tech demo could mean more reliable communication and larger data transfers to the space station, Moon, or Mars.

– Aquamembrane 3 continues to evaluate advanced filtration for recovering water using proteins. Results from the test could lead to a full-scale version of the water filtration system on future spacecraft.

– Earth’s surface and weather can affect space weather through atmospheric gravity waves. AWE will measure these waves and could bring greater understanding to the phenomenon.

– Gaucho Lung looks at the behavior of fluid in tubes while in microgravity. This experiment could contribute to enhanced delivery methods for medication.