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Meteor vaporizes over Earth in jaw-dropping time-lapse from space station
A new time lapse from the International Space Station captures a meteor streaking into the atmosphere and vaporizing above the planet, turning a fleeting flash into a slow, cinematic sequence. From orbit,
After more than five months in space, four astronauts on a mission known as Crew-11 are about to cut their mission short and return to Earth.
Depending on the timing, NASA could launch a fresh crew to the space station while four other astronauts are flying around the moon.
The NASA International Space Station (ISS) crew that included a sick astronaut splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego, California, early on Thursday morning. "Welcome home, Crew-11!" NASA said in an update, adding that the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft hit the on water on schedule at 12:41 a.m. PT.
In a new study, terrestrial bacteria-infecting viruses were still able to infect their E. coli hosts in near-weightless "microgravity" conditions aboard the International Space Station, but the dynamics of virus-bacteria interactions differed from those observed on Earth.