Orbital upkeep and maintenance occupied Friday’s schedule aboard the International Space Station as the 2 crews went again to work following a time off on Thursday to look at the Independence Day vacation.
In preparation for the longer term set up of recent train tools, Expedition 71 Flight Engineer Matthew Dominick and Boeing Crew Flight Check Commander Butch Wilmore and Pilot Suni Williams labored collectively all through the day contained in the Columbus module to swap out an empty rack that beforehand housed retired train gear.
Afterward, Dominick and Williams moved into the Tranquility module to reinstall the bathroom system after the stress management pump motor was changed on Wednesday. In the meantime, NASA astronaut Mike Barratt centered on further orbital plumbing duties, together with a fluid switch from the wastewater processing system and a guide fill of the water restoration system.
Within the Kibo Laboratory, NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps spent a majority of the day recording a video survey of {hardware} that permits knowledge communications between area and Earth. The video was then downlinked to floor groups for evaluation. After lunch, Epps analyzed water samples that had been collected on Wednesday to evaluate for microbial progress.
NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson kicked off her day by loading new software program onto the Surface Avatar program which permits crew members to remotely management robots on Earth and examine how haptic controls, person interfaces, and digital actuality may command surface-bound robots from lengthy distances. Dyson was then joined by cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub to finish on-orbit emergency coaching.
Kononenko and Chub additionally accomplished listening to assessments on Friday, then loaded trash and discarded gear inside Progress 87, which is slated to undock from the orbiting laboratory in mid-August. Their crewmate, Alexander Grebenkin, labored upkeep on the water restoration system then accomplished some pc work within the Nauka module.
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