The Expedition 73 crew members are cleansing up after a spacewalk on Thursday to improve energy techniques on the Worldwide House Station. The lab residents additionally continued analysis and upkeep actions aboard the orbital outpost.
NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers are reorganizing the Quest airlock and servicing a pair of spacesuits following their five-hour and 44-minute spacewalk on Thursday. The duo began Friday stowing spacewalking {hardware} inside Quest the place they suited up for his or her spacewalk the day earlier than. McClain and Ayers then checked their spacesuit water tanks and picked up water samples from the tanks for chemical evaluation. They had been additionally joined by NASA Flight Engineer Jonny Kim and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Company) station Commander Takuya Onishi for a convention with engineers on the bottom to overview their spacewalking accomplishments.
Throughout their spacewalk, McClain and Ayers put in a modification package on the house station’s port facet truss construction making ready it for the arrival of a brand new rollout photo voltaic array. Afterward, the spacewalkers relocated a communications antenna, put in a jumper cable, and eliminated bolts from a micrometeoroid cowl finishing their tour within the vacuum of house.
Kim additionally spent a while on Friday photographing tomato vegetation rising for an area agricultural examine to study if crops may be cultivated with out photosynthesis. Onishi used a specialised 3D microscope acquiring imagery of the habits of micro organism samples in a liquid to discover ways to monitor water high quality, detect infectious microorganisms, and maintain crews and spacecraft protected.
The three cosmonauts representing the Roscosmos portion of the crew frolicked of their section of the orbiting lab on their contingent of science and maintenance duties.
Three-time house station resident Flight Engineer Sergey Ryzhikov took a chance to {photograph} the results of a landslide in Brazil because the station orbited above the South American nation. Flight Engineer Alexey Zubritsky downloaded information measuring the vibrations the house station experiences throughout spacecraft arrivals and departures, in addition to different orbital operations, which will assist engineers design stronger house buildings. Flight Engineer Kirill Peskov checked radiation detectors that McClain and Ayers wore throughout their spacewalk and cleaned smoke detectors within the Nauka science module.
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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