Expedition 72 Astronauts Chill out as Cosmonauts Preserve Up Analysis, Upkeep

4 Expedition 72 astronauts took a well-deserved break on Monday following final week’s busy interval of crew swap actions and superior microgravity analysis. The remainder of the Worldwide Area Station residents kicked off the week with ongoing house science and life help upkeep duties.

NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers together with JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Company) astronaut Takuya Onishi and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov are of their second week aboard the orbiting lab. They arrived on the house station on March 15 as SpaceX Crew-10 members inside a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft. McClain and Onishi are each house veterans on their second station mission whereas Ayers and Peskov are first-time house flyers.

The 4 crewmates proceed getting on top of things with dwelling in weightlessness and the quite a few house station methods they may use day-after-day. They’re additionally starting a sequence of each new and ongoing station experiments benefiting people dwelling on and off the Earth.

Nevertheless, McClain, Ayers, and Onishi relaxed on Monday with NASA Flight Engineer Don Pettit who has been aboard the house station since Sept. 11, 2024. Pettit assisted the brand new crewmates final week serving to them modify to life on orbit and begin their first house science investigations. The quartet used the free time for catching up with household on the bottom, private actions comparable to studying and listening to music, and looking out on the Earth beneath from the cupola.

Peskov stayed busy on Monday alongside along with his fellow cosmonauts station Commander Alexey Ovchinin and Flight Engineer Ivan Vagner. Peskov started his day with water transfers then ended his shift inspecting and cleansing the station’s Roscosmos modules. Ovchinin put in and activated a digital camera remotely managed by college students to {photograph} landmarks on Earth from the Concord module. Vagner labored within the Nauka science module’s glovebox exploring strategies to create sterile circumstances aboard spacecraft for protected organic analysis actions.

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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March 24, 2025