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NASA’s Scott Kelly has been in space for 236 days since Thursday, and in that time he’s become well known for the snapshots of the Earth he’s uploaded during his stay at the International Space Station. In his latest upload, which went live on Twitter on Thursday, Scott Kelly shows something that looks awfully like an UFO.

The First Picture Featured the South of India, and this one Features A UFO

Sunday’s image shows a spectacular photo of stars sparkling over India’s brilliantly lit cities, yet up in the right edge, there is a small hint of something stranger. The same object can be seen much more clearly in Thursday’s picture of a brilliant sunrise coming up the Earth’s crest. Conspiracy theorists as well as alien fanatics are calling it a UFO.

Did Scott Kelly Just Prove that Aliens Are Real Through This UFO Picture?

In different YouTube videos, the theorists are assuring these UFO couldn’t be clearer. In the upper right side of the picture, it’s easy to spot an object with two lights on each end, and it looks a lot like a ship in movement.

Clapway Takes This into Its Own Hands

In light of the reaction to these pictures, we’ve decided to conduct our own investigation. If there really is an UFO in Scott Kelly’s picture, was he aware that he was capturing it? It’s completely possible that the New Horizons space probe also has hundreds, if not thousands, of images with similar objects in the background. In any case, this is our take on Scott Kelly’s UFO picture:

Clapway version of Scott Kelly’s UFO photo

With buzz from this image, the idea of extraterrestrial life becomes much clearer. For all we know, this could one day be featured in History’s Ancient Aliens.

Scott Kelly Releases Another UFO Picture

Boredom Strikes at ISS - http://clapway.com/2015/11/17/scott-kelly-tweets-a-south-india-pic-from-iss123/

American astronaut Scott Kelly uploaded a picture of South India at night from the ISS, showcasing the beauty of Southern Indian cities from space. The picture showed a gorgeous landscape of the Ganges and the India-Pakistan border.

@StationCDRKelly/ Twitter (Blue Filter)

The Picture Was Uploaded from ISS November 15

Kelly’s picture was taken from the south-western direction, with India’s southern coast in the eastern part of the image. The faded yellow color of the landscape is minutely interrupted by city lights, making for a gorgeous view quite a ways away.

The caption on the picture read: ‘Day 233. Once upon a #star over Southern India. #Goodnight from the @space_station! #YearInSpace.’

The ISS has been getting a series of repairs, which featured Kelly’s very first spacewalk, to get some of the equipment adjusted or upgraded. For a station so far away, the ISS has sure been garnering a surprising amount of attention.

@StationCDRKelly/ Twitter (Purple Filter)

Kelly Completed 383 Days in Space on October 16 from the ISS

Scott Kelly is the longest living astronaut on the ISS, and he would have gotten to a total of 415 days by November 17, and as of October 16, he became the longest living American in space.

Kelly is set to return from his year in space at the ISS on March 6th, 2016.

 

Boredom Strikes at ISS

NASA Astronauts Go On First Spacewalk at ISS - http://clapway.com/2015/10/28/nasa-astronauts-go-on-first-spacewalk-at-iss123/

Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren went out on their first spacewalk this Wednesday to kick off a series of repairs and upgrades to the International Space Station. Kelly, spaceflight veteran on a year-long gig at the ISS, was shown on a live NASA Television broadcast as he embarked on the very first spacewalk of his career, joined by flight engineer and colleague Lindgren.

The Spacewalk Wasn’t Entirely A Cakewalk

It was all fun and excitement for Kjell Lindgren, who accidentally turned on his spacesuit’s water switch too early as he prepared to float outside the airlock. NASA experts in Houston monitored the status of the cooling system of his spacesuit to assert there was no danger or even any changes.

Astronaut Scott Kelly is pictured on a space walk on Oct. 28, 2015. Courtesy of NASA

The six hour spacewalk will consist of several tasks to be carried out by the astronauts, including the installation of a thermal over on the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, a top of the line particle physics detector. This equipment has been attached to the ISS since 2011. The astronauts are also assigned to apply grease to components on the space station’s robotic Canadarm2, and to route cables in preparation for new docking ports for US commercial crew spacecraft, according to NASA.

This Isn’t the ISS’s First Round of TLC

Despite this being the very first time Kelly and Lindgren engage in a period of physical activity engaged outside a spacecraft, this is the 189th time that the ISS does through maintenance and support of space station assembly, but the agency’s excitement and close monitoring never falters.

NASA has recently increased its efforts toward interesting the public with space exploration and man-made missions, and this surely is another attempt to entice the people. Lately, there’s been a lot of focus with engaging the younger generation, since pop culture has recently brought back the trend of space exploration through films such as The Martian, Interstellar and Gravity, as well as TV shows like Cosmos: A Spacetime Oddyssey. Through NASA television, which broadcasts Agency activities and missions, these astronauts’ first spacewalk was celebrated, and one more exciting aspect of space travel and exploration gets revealed to the public. The schedule of all coverage can be found in the NASA Television website.

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NASA Astronauts Go On First Spacewalk at ISS

If you"ve ever wondered what happens to #feces in space, #NASA"s #ScottKelly can give you the answer. - http://clapway.com/2015/09/15/astronaut-poop-space-nasa123/

Have you ever been on a flight, only to wonder where all our human-produced waste goes? Well, it’s certainly not released into the atmosphere, unlike the feces produced by astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) currently floating around in low-Earth orbit.

HEY NASA…HOW MUCH WASTE DOES AN ASTRONAUT PRODUCE?

Yes, you heard right. According to NASA, the human waste that is ejected from the station burns up in Earth’s atmosphere as “rather gross shooting stars,” as Forbes so eloquently puts it. The fun fact comes straight from an infographic, recently released by NASA in celebration of the mid-way point in astronaut Scott Kelly’s landmark one-year mission in space.

Photo courtesy of NASA

Russian cosmonaut, Mikhail Kornienko, joins Kelly on the expedition, which was initiated in order to help researchers study the effects of extended interstellar travel on the human body. Scientists hope the mission will ultimately provide useful information about human physiology and behavioral health, in anticipation for longer trips to Mars and other parts of the unexplored solar system. Kelly’s participation in the study, as Live Mint points out, is particularly useful, as his health can be compared with that of his twin brother, Mark, who is also taking part in the study on Earth.

Now, with six more months left to go on Kelly’s journey, NASA’s infographic clues us in about what to expect in the next coming months. Throughout the duration of his tenure, for example, Kelly is anticipated to consume about 730 liters of recycled urine and sweat, exercise over 700 hours, run about 648 miles and produce over 180 of feces.

HOW YA HOLDING UP SCOTT?

For someone who has been floating in microgravity conditions for six-months, Kelly seems to be enjoying himself, “I feel pretty good overall,” he stated in an interview from the ISS, which was broadcasted on NASA television.

“What I am looking most forward to is just getting to the end of it with as much energy and enthusiasm as I had at the beginning,” added Kelly.

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LET’S HAVE A MOMENT OF APPRECIATION FOR NASA FOR ALWAYS MAKING SPACE FUN, JUST LIKE SPACE SCOUTS SUMMER ADVENTURE:

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Astronaut Poop Gets Burned Up in Space Says NASA

No more #astronaut ice cream: #SpaceFood takes a new form! - http://clapway.com/2015/08/23/space-food-nasa-astronauts-get-a-taste-test-232/

Expedition 44 crew members, including NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, have successfully eaten the first space-grown food in the history of ever, and it took the form of simple romaine lettuce.

How Did it Taste?

On August 10 Kelly and fellow Expedition 44 crew members harvested the second batch of space crops sent up to the International Space Station (ISS). This batch was planted in July–a whopping 15 months after the pillow seeds had been brought aboard the ISS–and took 33 days to grow before the crops were harvested by the NASA astronaut.

Astronaut Kjell Lindgren tweeted a photo of the space lettuce saying that he was almost sad to see it go. A follow-up tweet in regards to eating the lettuce was simply, “That’s awesome,” as the astronaut gave a thumbs up to the camera in an accompanying photograph.

Read more about NASA’s space food initiatives here!

Some Background

NASA is calling this space gardening experiment Veg-01, and its goal is to test out the space station’s veggie facility in preparation of long-term space missions. In the experiment, seeds and fertilizer are “planted” in pillow seeds, which are flown up to the ISS in typical cargo missions. When it’s time to plant the crops, they’ll need approximately 33 days to grow before they can be harvested and eaten.

In the photographs of the romaine lettuce, you’ll see a lot of weird colors. The NASA astronauts shine a combination of red, blue, and green light through LEDs. The green LEDs aren’t necessary, but they do add a familiar light to the crop that would otherwise have a purple color to them. This was done in an effort to make them look more edible.

The first batch of crop was brought up with Expedition 39, and has already been grown, frozen, and sent back to NASA for study. The latest batch was consumed by the astronauts, though half of the harvest will again be sent back to NASA for study.

What’s Next?

This first step in sustainable foods is huge. The ability for astronauts to grow food on their own means NASA can sustain crews in long-duration space missions to places like Mars, or even further. NASA isn’t putting all of its eggs in one basket, though. The organization recently received $200,000 in grants to study how NASA may be able to turn human waste into an alternative food source.

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Before you go, check out the week in review in video form:

 

Space Food: NASA Astronauts Get a Taste Test