Rest and a bunch of lab upkeep duties stuffed the tip of the day for the twin crews residing and dealing aboard the International Space Station.
4 NASA astronauts, all Expedition 71 Flight Engineers, are taking Friday and Saturday off in house following a number of days of spacesuit checks and spacewalking process opinions. Tracy C. Dyson and Mike Barratt can be stress-free for 2 days earlier than a busy day of spacewalk preparations on Sunday. The duo is scheduled to start a spacewalk at 8 a.m. EDT on Monday to retrieve defective radio {hardware} and gather samples of microorganisms.
The opposite two stress-free astronauts, Matthew Dominick and Jeanette Epps, will be part of the spacewalkers on Sunday for the preparations earlier than working towards Canadarm2 robotic arm maneuvers they may use to assist Dyson and Barratt on Monday. Dominick and Epps additionally will assist the spacewalkers go well with up within the Quest airlock in addition to monitor Dyson and Barratt throughout their six-and-a-half-hour tour.
NASA TV will start its spacewalk broadcast at 6:30 a.m. on Monday. Reside protection will air on NASA+, NASA Tv, the NASA app, YouTube, and the company’s website. Discover ways to stream NASA TV by way of a wide range of platforms together with social media.
Boeing Crew Flight Check Commander Butch Wilmore and Pilot Suni Williams, each NASA astronauts, spent Friday testing programs contained in the Starliner spacecraft. The pair entered Starliner on Friday and labored all through the day contained in the spacecraft’s cabin. The skilled astronauts powered up Starliner whereas docked to the Harmony module’s ahead port, checked its operations and {hardware}, then packed cargo contained in the crew ship for a return to Earth.
Within the Roscosmos facet of the orbital outpost, cosmonaut and station Commander Oleg Kononenko spent his day configuring video tools, establishing Earth monitoring {hardware}, then cleansing smoke detectors within the Nauka science module. Flight Engineer Nikolai Chub changed medical and electronics {hardware} then wrapped up his day within the Zarya module inventorying house behind its panels. Flight Engineer Alexander Grebenkin pointed a pair of cameras exterior a station window and programmed them to routinely take photos of the Earth.
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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