The Expedition 70 crew will end packing a U.S. cargo craft right now earlier than it departs the International Space Station. The seven orbital residents additionally collaborated on a wide range of human analysis research to discover ways to maintain people wholesome in house.
4 astronauts labored collectively on Wednesday coordinating remaining cargo transfers contained in the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft. Dragon, which has been docked to the station since Nov. 11, is slated to undock at 9:05 p.m. EST on Wednesday from the orbital outpost’s ahead port on the Harmony module. The company will present reside protection of Dragon’s undocking and departure beginning at 8:45 p.m. on the NASA+ streaming service through the web or the NASA app. Protection additionally will air reside on NASA Tv, YouTube, and on the company’s website. Discover ways to stream NASA TV via a wide range of platforms together with social media.
Astronauts Jasmin Moghbeli and Andreas Mogensen started the science return work within the morning transferring frozen analysis samples from station science freezers and into insulated Dragon science transport bags. Astronauts Loral O’Hara and Satoshi Furukawa continued the pattern handovers contained in the Destiny, Kibo, and Columbus laboratory modules and packed them aboard Dragon. NASA flight engineers O’Hara and Moghbeli wrapped up the analysis stowing recent astronaut blood samples inside Dragon for retrieval and evaluation on Earth. Moghbeli would be the final crew member inside Dragon earlier than exiting and shutting its hatch a number of hours earlier than its departure.
All 4 crewmates began their shifts gathering blood and saliva samples for the CIPHER suite of 14 experiments inspecting how residing in weightlessness have an effect on’s the human physique. O’Hara additionally took a cognition check to grasp how the mind capabilities in house. Moghbeli downloaded medical information saved on a health-monitoring vest and headband. On the finish of the day, Furukawa and Mogensen, from JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Company) and ESA (European House Company) respectively, used the Ultrasound 2 machine and scanned one another’s neck, shoulder and leg veins.
The three cosmonauts residing and dealing aboard the station stayed centered on their contingent of Roscosmos-based science experiments and lab upkeep. Flight Engineers Konstantin Borisov and Nikolai Chub took half in a pair of various health evaluations. Borisov began first pedaling on an train cycle earlier than Chub jogged on a treadmill whereas each have been connected to sensors measuring their cardio output. Flight Engineer Oleg Kononenko performed one other 3D printing session to exhibit manufacturing instruments and provides in microgravity.
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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