The Worldwide Area Station is orbiting increased at the moment after the Progress 91 cargo craft fired its thrusters for over 17 minutes whereas docked to the Zvezda service module. The reboost locations the orbital outpost on the appropriate altitude for the arrival of the Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft and its three crew members subsequent week.
NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexander Zubritsky will raise off aboard the Soyuz MS-27 at 1:47 a.m. on April 8 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. They may orbit Earth twice earlier than docking to the Pirs docking compartment simply over three hours later. The trio will keep in area for an eight-month analysis mission.
Lower than two weeks after the brand new crew’s arrival, NASA Flight Engineer Don Pettit will return to Earth with Expedition 72 Commander Alexey Ovchinin and Flight Engineer Ivan Vagner, each Roscosmos cosmonauts. The veteran crewmates will board the Soyuz MS-26 crew ship, undock from the Rassvet module, and parachute to a touchdown within the steppe of Kazakhstan lower than three-and-a-half hours later ending a seven-month mission.
JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Company) astronaut Takuya Onishi will take over command of the area station from Ovchinin the day earlier than he leaves with Pettit and Vagner. Expedition 72 will finish and Expedition 73 will formally start the second the Soyuz MS-26 undocks from Rassvet.
Onishi stayed centered on lab maintenance on Wednesday first putting in an air high quality monitor within the Zarya module, with help from Pettit, then organizing meals packs stowed within the station’s U.S. section. Pettit cleaned crew quarters and put in airflow sensors within the Concord module.
Ovchinin labored all through Wednesday gathering objects for return to Earth aboard the Soyuz MS-26 that he’ll command throughout the experience again to Earth. Vagner spent his day with fellow cosmonaut Kirill Peskov checking digital techniques within the Nauka science module. Peskov additionally performed a listening to check then put in {hardware} to picture Earth’s nighttime ambiance in ultraviolet wavelengths.
NASA Flight Engineer Anne McClain spent a part of her day servicing life assist gear and gathering water samples from an oxygen generator within the Unity and Future modules. She additionally examined streaming and downlinking ultra-high-definition video from a digital camera aboard the Kibo laboratory module.
NASA Flight Engineer Nichole Ayers additionally spent her day on lab upkeep first inspecting and cleansing the air flow system within the Future lab module. Subsequent, she recorded the acoustic atmosphere and measured the temperature and humidity of life assist gear within the Future and Concord modules.
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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