Well being Actions, Microbial Analysis for Orbital Residents At present; Crew Handovers Proceed – Area Station

Ten orbital residents are protecting busy Wednesday with quite a lot of duties together with eye exams, station upkeep, and coaching. Whereas new members of the Expedition 69 crew familiarize themselves with {hardware} and gear, others are finishing extra prep work forward of their departure from the International Space Station subsequent week.

After donning the Sleep in Orbit {hardware} in a single day, ESA (European Area Company) astronaut Andreas Mogensen began his day filling out a questionnaire that helps researchers achieve perception into astronauts’ sleep in house and evaluate that information to sleep on Earth. Midmorning, he was joined by NASA astronauts and first-time station residents, Loral O’Hara and Jasmin Moghbeli, to make changes to their spacesuits that might be used on future spacewalks.

After lunch, Mogensensen and Moghbeli have been joined by JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Company) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa to conduct ultrasound eye exams. Furukawa spent most of his morning amassing floor samples for microbial evaluation forward of the examination. Afterward, he moved on to amassing air samples to proceed the microbial analysis.

NASA astronaut Frank Rubio spent Wednesday gearing up for his trek house to Earth subsequent week following a record-breaking mission. He spent a part of his day working within the Japanese Experiment Module conducting upkeep earlier than transferring onto departure prep, together with crew handover actions and prepping objects that may return house with the crew on the Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft.

Rubio, in addition to Roscosmos Commander Sergey Prokopyev and Flight Engineer Dmitri Petelin, launched to the house station on Sept. 21, 2022, and can undock on Sept. 27 after spending over one yr in house. The 2 cosmonauts joined Rubio in crew handover and departure prep actions at the moment as they put together for a change in command and proceed to coach the newly arrived crew.

Roscosmos Flight Engineers Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub, who arrived to the orbital outpost final Friday together with O’Hara, accomplished crew orientation early on within the day. Within the night, the 2 have been joined by Mogensen, O’Hara and Prokopyev to familiarize themselves with {hardware} and gear all through numerous station modules.

In the meantime, Flight Engineer Konstantin Borisov of Roscosmos spent many of the day conducting an experiment that research the glow of Earth’s environment at night time in close to ultraviolet.

Be taught extra about station actions by following the house station weblog, @space_station and @ISS_Research on X, in addition to the ISS Facebook and ISS Instagram accounts.

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