Mission managers have given the go for the launch of three new crew members aboard the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft to the International Space Station at 11:44 a.m. EDT on Friday. NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara and Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub will trip the Soyuz crew ship and dock to the Rassvet module simply over three hours later at 2:56 p.m.
Expedition 69 Commander Sergey Prokopyev and Flight Engineers Dmitri Petelin might be on obligation Friday monitoring the arrival of the brand new Soyuz. After the brand new crew docks and after leak and stress checks, Prokopyev will open the station’s Rassvet hatch whereas Kononenko and Chub will open the Soyuz hatch. The brand new trio will enter the orbital outpost, be a part of the station crew for a welcoming ceremony, take part in a security briefing, and start a six-month house analysis mission.
Prokopyev and Petelin continued making ready for the arrival of the brand new trio by organising crew quarters for the brand new cosmonauts contained in the orbital lab’s Roscosmos phase on Thursday. NASA Flight Engineer Frank Rubio will configure O’Hara’s new crew quarters within the Columbus laboratory module on Friday earlier than she arrives.
Prokopyev, Petelin, and Rubio are additionally making ready for his or her return to Earth contained in the Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft on Sept. 27. The 2 cosmonauts have been testing the decrease physique adverse stress go well with that will assist their our bodies alter faster to Earth’s gravity after dwelling in weightlessness for simply over one 12 months. When Rubio lands along with his Soyuz crewmates, he can have the report for the longest single spaceflight by a NASA astronaut at 371 days, surpassing astronaut Mark Vande Hei’s report of 355 days.
Rubio joined a number of of his Expedition 69 crewmates on Thursday for the Vascular Aging research amassing blood, urine, and saliva samples for evaluation. Rubio together with astronauts Jasmin Moghbeli, Andreas Mogensen, and Satoshi Furukawa assisted one another with the blood attracts. Moghbeli of NASA closed out the research spinning samples in a centrifuge then stowing them in a science freezer.
Mogensen of ESA (European Area Company) later educated to function the Canadarm2 robotic arm and serviced laptop computer computer systems within the Columbus lab. Furukawa from JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Company) arrange meals and drinks for the coming crew and picked up water samples for evaluation from the Kibo laboratory module.
Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov targeted his actions on orbital plumbing and electronics upkeep in the course of the first a part of his day. Within the afternoon, he checked out video {hardware} and laptop computer computer systems.
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