A cargo-packed SpaceX Dragon spacecraft is orbiting Earth right this moment heading towards the Worldwide Area Station for a docking on Tuesday. The Expedition 73 crew ready on Monday for Dragon’s arrival and in addition reviewed procedures for an upcoming spacewalk.
Roughly 6,700 kilos of recent science experiments and provides are on the way in which to the orbital lab following Dragon’s launch at 4:15 a.m. EDT on Monday from NASA’s Kennedy Area Heart in Florida. Astronauts Jonny Kim of NASA and Takuya Onishi of JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Company) shall be on responsibility monitoring Dragon when it mechanically docks to the station’s space-facing port on the Concord module at round 8:20 a.m. on Tuesday reside on NASA+. The duo joined NASA Flight Engineers Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers on Monday and studied plans to retrieve crucial analysis investigations for activation and crew meals packs and extra for stowage aboard the orbital outpost.
McClain and Ayers are additionally preparing for a Might 1 spacewalk when they’ll put together the station for a brand new rollout photo voltaic array and relocate an antenna that communicates with business autos. The NASA pair reviewed on Monday commonplace security procedures, their device configurations, and the spacewalking maneuvers and paths they’ll use to entry their worksites. Additionally they joined Kim and Onishi and known as right down to mission controllers on the finish of their shift and mentioned spacewalk operations. Mission managers will present an summary of the upcoming spacewalk throughout a information convention from NASA’s Johnson Area Heart at 2 p.m. on Thursday.
Kim earlier arrange two student-controlled computer systems for a European Area Company instructional occasion. One pc outfitted with a digital camera was identified a window towards Earth for college kids with intermediate coding expertise to remotely seize imagery and precisely calculate the house station’s velocity. The second pc was focused to youthful college students with newbie coding expertise and examined their skill to create pixel-art photographs on the pc’s LED display.
Onishi, the station’s commander, began his day recording a video for Japanese college students to encourage them as they determine on space-related careers. Subsequent, he performed leak checks on combustion science {hardware} then arrange the Inner Ball Digicam-2 for distant operations, each situated contained in the Kibo laboratory module. Lastly, the two-time house station resident labored contained in the Future laboratory module adjusting science {hardware} within the Combustion Built-in Rack.
The orbiting lab’s three cosmonauts took a well-deserved break on Monday following two weeks of Soyuz crew swap actions. Roscosmos Flight Engineers Sergey Ryzhikov and Ivan Vagner have adjusted to life in house after arriving on the station with Jonny Kim on April 8 contained in the Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft. Flight Engineer Kirill Peskov has been aboard the station since March 15 arriving with the SpaceX Crew-10 mission and helped his cosmonaut crewmates get oriented to microgravity. Kirill and his crewmates additionally mentioned goodbye to a few Expedition 72 crew members, NASA astronaut Don Pettit and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, after they undocked from the station and returned to Earth on April 19 contained in the Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft.
Study 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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