The ten crew members aboard the International Space Station, together with 5 NASA astronauts, 4 Roscosmos cosmonauts, and one Belarus spaceflight participant, turned their consideration on Tuesday towards cargo transfers and spacesuit work. There was nonetheless time for science on the orbital outpost because the Expedition 70 crew continued extra human analysis.
The NASA astronauts labored all through the day swapping cargo out and in of the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft docked to the Harmony module’s space-facing port. Flight Engineer Loral O’Hara kicked off Tuesday’s cargo work releasing launch restraints that had secured payloads throughout Dragon’s ascent to house. Subsequent, Matthew Dominick and Jeanette Epps took over unstrapping extra cargo to maneuver into the station.
O’Hara then unpacked a brand new U.S. spacesuit helmet from Dragon and swapped it with an older helmet for return to Earth aboard the spacecraft. Dominick packed the higher torso of a U.S. spacesuit in a field then labeled and ready it for stowing on Dragon for evaluation and servicing again on Earth. NASA Flight Engineer Tracy C. Dyson assisted the duo through the spacesuit cargo work then finalized battery charging duties in preparation for an upcoming Roscosmos spacewalk.
NASA Flight Engineer Mike Barratt launched and transferred science {hardware} from inside Dragon for set up on an area station EXPRESS rack. The EXPRESS racks are multipurpose analysis amenities enabling astronaut-operated or ground-controlled experiments. Barratt additionally put in and arrange new analysis gear within the Concord module increasing protein crystallization research.
The Roscosmos phase’s 4 cosmonauts slot in an array of house science whereas additionally engaged on their contingent of cargo actions. Flight Engineer Alexander Grebenkin operated gear monitoring Flight Engineer Oleg Novitskiy whereas has was connected to sensors recording his blood circulation. Novitskiy additionally partnered with spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya photographing Earth landmarks and filming instructional actions. Flight Engineer Nikolai Chub continued accumulating his blood and saliva samples for an area immunity examine.
Novitskiy additionally packed cargo contained in the Soyuz MS-24 crew ship that he, Vasilevskaya, and O’Hara will return to Earth in on April 6. Chub stowed extra cargo contained in the Progress 86 resupply ship and up to date the house station’s stock administration system. Expedition 70 Commander Oleg Kononenko spent his day on electronics upkeep checking video gear and laptop {hardware}.
Study 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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