The week kicked off with lab upkeep aboard the International Space Station because the Expedition 71 and Starliner crews relocated science gear, cleaned crew quarters, and carried out inspections. Eye checks have been additionally on the schedule on the finish of the day for 4 orbital residents.
Three NASA astronauts took turns in the course of the first half of Monday shifting the NanoRacks exterior platform from the Tranquility module to the Kibo laboratory module. Starliner Commander Butch Wilmore of Boeing’s Crew Flight Check began the work shifting gear and making house to entry the NanoRacks Bishop airlock in Tranquility the place the exterior platform was stowed. Afterward, station Flight Engineers Mike Barratt and Matthew Dominick eliminated the exterior platform from Tranquility’s airlock and put in it inside Kibo’s airlock. The platform from NanoRacks can host a wide range of payloads uncovered to the exterior house setting for science experiments, know-how demonstrations, and extra.
Dominick then spent the remainder of the afternoon cleansing his crew quarters positioned within the overhead compartment of the Harmony module. NASA Flight Engineer Jeanette Epps began her morning additionally cleansing her crew quarters in Concord’s deck compartment. The pair every labored half a day cleansing their residing areas’ air flow programs and airflow sensors. Epps later arrange the camera robot, which may seize imagery and real-time video for downloading to mission controllers, and checked out its free-flying operations in Kibo.
NASA Flight Engineer Tracy C. Dyson began her day servicing a research furnace earlier than configuring panels contained in the Destiny laboratory module. Dyson spent the remainder of the afternoon deep cleansing the Unity module vacuuming mud and wiping down surfaces with disinfectant wipes. Starliner Pilot Suni Williams of NASA reconfigured energy programs within the Columbus laboratory module, loaded software program on a Microgravity Science Glovebox pc, then wrapped up her shift amassing station air samples for evaluation.
On the finish of the day, Dominick, Barratt, and Epps joined Roscosmos Flight Engineer Alexander Grebenkin for a often scheduled eye examination. The quartet took turns taking a look at a regular eye chart and studying characters off of it to check their imaginative and prescient acuity and contrasty sensitivity.
Commander Oleg Kononenko and Flight Engineer Nikolai Chub cut up their day on inspection actions within the aft finish of the Zvezda service module the place the Progress 87 cargo craft is docked. Kononenko additionally arrange {hardware} to look at luminous clouds and Earth’s higher ambiance whereas Chub checked out batteries and their cables inside Zvezda.
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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