A collection of on-orbit coaching topped Tuesday’s schedule aboard the International Space Station because the Expedition 71 crew will get prepared for a spacecraft relocation on Thursday and a crew arrival subsequent week. 4 crew members additionally spent a while conducting ongoing well being analysis to assist scientists on Earth higher perceive the results of spaceflight on the human physique.
Within the morning, NASA Flight Engineers Mike Barratt and Jeanette Epps assisted each other with ultrasound scans of veins of their necks, shoulders, clavicles, and again of the knees. The duo was then joined by their different Crew-8 crewmates, Flight Engineers Matthew Dominick of NASA and Alexander Grebenkin of Roscosmos, to evaluate procedures and full coaching for the upcoming relocation of their SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.
The quartet will go well with up Thursday, Might 2 and enter Dragon for an undocking from the ahead port of the Concord module at 7:45 a.m. EDT. They may then take a brief trip aboard Dragon earlier than redocking to the zenith port of Concord round 8:28 a.m.
This relocation will make room for the Starliner spacecraft as a part of NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Check, scheduled to launch Monday, Might 6 at 10:34 p.m. Starliner will carry NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the station for a docking round 12:48 a.m. Wednesday, Might 8. The duo will be a part of the Expedition 71 crew in low Earth orbit for a couple of week earlier than returning residence.
After lunch, the Crew-8 cadre was joined by astronaut Tracy C. Dyson of NASA, area station Commander Oleg Kononenko, and Flight Engineer Nikolai Chub of Roscosmos to finish a hearth coaching session within the occasion an emergency had been to happen aboard station. The septet then spent a while discussing the coaching and holding a convention with floor groups.
Within the night, Dominick arrange tomography {hardware} and assisted Dyson with a watch examination. Dyson then shut down and stowed the {hardware}, wrapping up a spherical of well being exams for the week.
On Earth, a SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft, which spent a couple of month docked to the orbiting laboratory, splashed down off the coast of Florida at 1:38 a.m. Tuesday, April 30, returning greater than 4,100 kilos of provides and scientific experiments again to researchers.
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