Rest, Housekeeping Wrap Up Work Week Aboard the Station – Area Station

The Expedition 72 crew wrapped up the work week with housekeeping duties and leisure following a number of days of spacewalk cleanup actions and superior analysis aboard the International Space Station.

Station Commander Suni Williams and Flight Engineer Butch Wilmore, each NASA astronauts, have been off responsibility on Friday after stowing spacewalk instruments and deconfiguring spacesuits earlier within the week. The duo used the instruments and wore the fits throughout a 5 hour and 26-minute spacewalk on Jan. 30 for science and upkeep. Williams and Wilmore additionally labored all through the week on robotics research, laptop updates, and life help upkeep.

NASA Flight Engineers Nick Hague and Don Pettit took turns on the finish of the week measuring the airflow of their crew quarters making certain a secure respiratory atmosphere contained in the orbital lab. Hague first checked his overhead crew quarters then Pettit checked his starboard crew quarters, each within the Harmony module, measuring the airflows at totally different places and at totally different speeds. Hague earlier collected organic samples for processing whereas Pettit carried out a photographic inspection of stowage areas contained in the Columbus laboratory module.

Roscosmos Flight Engineer Aleksandr Gorbunov spent his day on number of science actions. He first ready drives to seize analysis knowledge collected from a plasma crystal study, swapped a lens on a student-controlled Earth observation camera, then checked video recording gear. Flight Engineers Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner spent their day on life help upkeep duties all through the orbital outpost’s Roscosmos phase.

Study extra about station actions by following the area station weblog, @space_station and @ISS_Research on X, in addition to the ISS Facebook and ISS Instagram accounts.

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