A Dragon cargo spacecraft is orbiting Earth and heading for a docking to the International Space Station. On Friday, the Expedition 70 crew members put in {hardware}, collected knowledge for well being investigations, and ready for Dragon’s supply.
NASA’s SpaceX 30th industrial resupply mission lifted off from House Launch Complicated 40 in Florida on Thursday, March 21 at 4:55 p.m. EDT. The Dragon spacecraft, carrying greater than 6,000 kilos of scientific analysis, meals, and provides, will autonomously dock to the orbital advanced at roughly 7:30 a.m. Saturday, March 23.
To prep for the cargo arrival, NASA astronauts Loral O’Hara and Michael Barratt reviewed Dragon operation procedures on Friday. The duo shall be on console to watch the arrival of the spacecraft, which can keep docked to the zenith port of the Concord module for roughly one month. They have been later joined by NASA astronauts Jeanette Epps and Matthew Dominick for a convention with floor groups to go over cargo unstowing procedures.
As soon as Dragon arrives, the crew will shortly get to work unpacking the cargo, which incorporates an array of new science investigations. A few of the new science consists of a set of sensors for the free-flying Astrobee robots, a botany experiment that may look at how two sorts of grass seize carbon dioxide from the environment, and a CubeSat that may measure world sea ice parameters.
O’Hara additionally had a while to finish CIPHER actions. With help from Dominick, O’Hara had her eye and head actions examined to assist scientists higher perceive the results of spaceflight on an astronaut’s stability and eye well being. CIPHER, or the Complement of Built-in Protocols for Human Exploration Analysis, is an ongoing suite of total-body experiments that may assist researchers pinpoint how the human physique reacts to long-duration missions in house.
Barratt additionally had a while for well being analysis and spent the morning accumulating samples for the Standard Measures investigation. In the meantime, Epps refilled water within the Cell Biology Experiment Facility’s (CBEF) humidifier that was put in a number of days in the past. She then proceeded to put in a second humidifier to CBEF to organize for upcoming Space Organogenesis analysis.
On the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the launch of the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft is now scheduled for 8:36 a.m. Saturday, March 23. NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky, and spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus will spend two days in orbit earlier than docking to the station’s Prichal module at 11:09 a.m. Monday, March 25.
Within the Roscosmos section aboard station, the three cosmonauts—Commander Oleg Kononenko and Flight Engineers Nikolai Chub and Alexander Grebenkin—had the time without work however did schedule in a while to scrub the orbiting laboratory and full their required two hours of every day train.
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