The 11-member Expedition 72 crew wrapped up the workweek with mild science duties and customary housekeeping duties aboard the International Space Station. In the meantime, 4 members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission proceed getting ready for his or her return to Earth.
Many of the orbiting crew had a lightweight responsibility day with analysis taking a again seat to orbital upkeep on Friday. NASA Flight Engineers Don Pettit, Nick Hague, and Matthew Dominick primarily centered on lab maintenance stowing {hardware} for an advanced life support investigation, swapping orbital plumbing parts, and changing a failed air flow fan. Pettit and Dominick additionally collected their blood, saliva, and urine samples for processing and evaluation whereas Hague measured the temperature of a biology imaging device.
Commander Suni Williams and Struggle Engineer Butch Wilmore, each from NASA, each labored half a day on Friday with experimental work and upkeep duties. Williams first took a cognition test measuring her talents corresponding to reminiscence, reasoning, decision-making and extra then checked connections on radio frequency identification {hardware}. Wilmore activated a fluorescence microscope to watch how particles of various sizes gel and coarsen.
NASA Flight Engineers Mike Barratt and Jeanette Epps additionally had a lightweight shift on Friday. Barratt spent about an hour servicing spacesuit helmet parts whereas Epps assisted with blood pattern collections then swapped cables on a station pc.
Within the Roscosmos phase of the orbiting lab, Flight Engineers Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner partnered collectively for a blood stress research then break up up for all times assist upkeep and cargo stowage. Flight Engineer Aleksandr Gorbunov checked stress studying readings within the Nauka science module whereas fellow cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin labored on the air flow system contained in the Rassvet module.
Within the meantime, climate situations stay unfavorable for the departure of the SpaceX Crew-8 mission. Dominick, Barratt, Epps, and Grebenkin are actually focusing on their undocking for no sooner than 3:05 a.m. EDT on Monday. The Industrial Crew quartet are getting ready to finish a seven-month analysis mission and return to Earth aboard the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft.
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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