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Depending on weather and cloud cover, a Florida rocket launch from Cape Canaveral could be seen from Daytona, New Smyrna Beach to Vero and Fort Pierce
This week on Space Beat, host Rob Landers and space team reporter Brooke Edwards talk about NASA's upcoming IMAP mission to study the solar wind and the heliosphere around our solar system. Also, future explorers get a free pass to Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex this month and ISS astronauts get ready for a fresh batch of supplies.
Only 370 people have been selected by NASA as astronauts, making it an extraordinarily small and elite group composed mostly of men. The latest additions — revealed during a ceremony at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston — will join 41 active U.S. astronauts currently serving in the corps.
The Safety and Mission Assurance II contract will provide safety and mission assurance services for the Marshall Space Flight Center.
The study looks at how bacteria behave in microgravity and tests silver-based disinfectants that could protect astronauts and spacecraft.