The residents aboard the International Space Station continued unpacking a number of tons of science and provides packed inside Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus cargo craft on Wednesday. The seven-member Expedition 71 crew additionally studied an array of house analysis whereas the 2 Boeing Crew Flight Check astronauts from NASA reviewed their Starliner spacecraft’s methods.
NASA Flight Engineers Matthew Dominick, Mike Barratt, and Jeanette Epps spent the afternoon transferring cargo out of the newly arrived Cygnus house freighter. Starliner Pilot Suni Williams began the cargo work throughout the morning starting the job of replenishing the orbital outpost with meals, gas, provides, and new science experiments.
Earlier within the day, Dominick and Barratt performed science operations to study extra about Earth’s local weather and set up a brand new analysis incubator. Dominick photographed the Moon from contained in the cupola to measure sunshine reflected from the Earth. Outcomes might present scientists insights into local weather change. Barratt put in and activated the Space Automated Lab Incubator (SALI) contained in the Kibo laboratory module. The SALI can host quite a lot of samples at a spread of temperatures supporting quite a few house investigations into biology and physics.
Epps and NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson additionally spent their day on quite a lot of station science and upkeep duties. Epps transferred water between life help methods, configured a radiation detector, then wrapped up her shift with biomedical checks. Dyson labored contained in the Destiny laboratory module all through Wednesday configuring analysis {hardware} to check stem cells for remedy functions and business use.
Williams joined Starliner Commander Butch Wilmore and reviewed on a pair of pill computer systems the Boeing Starliner crew flight procedures and methods to take care of their operational proficiency. NASA managers additionally offered mission updates and answered reporter’s questions on Starliner and house station operations throughout a media teleconference on Wednesday.
Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub examined the telerobotically operated rendezvous unit’s, or TORU, skill to speak with the Progress 87 house freighter docked to the Zvezda service module’s rear port. The Progress 87 is because of depart the orbital outpost early subsequent week making house for the arrival of the Progress 89 cargo craft with a recent load of meals, gas, and provides simply over every week later. The TORU can be used to remotely management a Roscosmos spaceship within the unlikely occasion the spacecraft can be unable to finish its automated arrival or departure.
Roscosmos Flight Engineer Alexander Grebenkin spent a portion of his day on a number of orbital family duties together with plumbing and digital camera battery charging. He later partnered with Kononenko and Chub and recorded a sequence of congratulatory and greeting movies for his or her house house company.
Be taught 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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