The Expedition 69 crew pointed its analysis program towards most cancers therapies, vein scans, and area manufacturing on Thursday. The International Space Station will even see a Roscosmos cargo craft and a SpaceX crew spacecraft arrive subsequent week.
Science on the orbital outpost will help docs develop revolutionary therapies for quite a lot of well being circumstances on Earth. The weightless atmosphere can reveal new phenomena providing distinctive insights not possible to find in laboratories on Earth.
Flight Engineers Frank Rubio of NASA and Sultan Alneyadi of UAE (United Arab Emirates), figuring out of the Microgravity Science Glovebox, serviced stem cell samples to learn to improve their manufacturing in area. Scientists will use the analysis knowledge to grasp the potential of those space-grown stem cells for growing improved blood illness and most cancers therapies.
Rubio later joined NASA Flight Engineer Woody Hoburg for vein scans utilizing the Ultrasound 2 system within the Columbus laboratory module. The duo imaged their neck, shoulder, and knee areas searching for potential space-caused blood clots with real-time help from flight surgeons on the bottom.
Hoburg earlier within the day assisted NASA Flight Engineer Stephen Bowen as he swapped graphene aerogel samples for a space manufacturing study. The physics investigation seeks to supply a superior, uniform materials construction benefitting energy storage, environmental safety, and chemical sensing.
Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Andrey Fedyaev as soon as once more tried on a specialised swimsuit on Thursday testing its capability to assist them adapt to Earth’s gravity. The cosmonauts are evaluating the decrease physique adverse stress swimsuit for its potential to redistribute fluids which have pooled within the higher physique attributable to microgravity towards the decrease physique.
Roscosmos Flight Engineer Dmitri Petelin examined piloting and robotic methods which may be used on future planetary missions. He additionally labored all through the day on Earth images and science {hardware} upkeep.
The ISS Progress 83 cargo craft is because of finish it six-month keep on the orbital lab on Sunday when it undocks from the Zvezda service module’s aft port at 7:48 p.m. EDT. Will probably be changed on Thursday Aug. 24, when the ISS Progress 85 cargo craft docks to the identical port on Zvezda two days after its launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Simply 4 hours after the Progress 85 arrives, 4 crew members aboard the SpaceX Dragon crew spacecraft will launch from the Kennedy Area Heart to the area station. The SpaceX Crew-7 mission will dock to the Harmony module’s space-facing port simply someday after its liftoff and the 4 crew mates will enter the orbiting lab to start a six-month area analysis mission.
Be taught extra about station actions by following the area station weblog, @space_station and @ISS_Research on Twitter, in addition to the ISS Facebook and ISS Instagram accounts.
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