Friday’s schedule aboard the Worldwide House Station included upkeep and tech demonstration arrange for the Expedition 73 crew.
Within the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM), NASA Flight Engineers Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers teamed up within the morning to take away MISSE {hardware} and pattern carriers earlier than bagging them for return to Earth. The power offers a singular platform for the testing of supplies, coatings, and elements within the house atmosphere.
Afterward, the duo cut up up for a majority of the afternoon to give attention to different duties. McClain photographed tomato vegetation for an area agricultural examine, whereas Ayers arrange ELVIS—a microscope for 3D imaging of objects comparable to micro organism—within the Life Sciences Glovebox. She then inserted Colwellia micro organism samples into GLACIER, one of many station’s ultra-cold freezers, earlier than conducting a pattern run to investigate the lively conduct and genetic modifications within the micro organism. Ayers and McClain had been then joined by NASA Flight Engineer Jonny Kim and present station commander Takuya Onishi of JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Company) for a convention with floor help.
Kim spent many of the day on upkeep and IT actions. He first arrange {hardware} on the orbital lab’s bicycle, CEVIS, then scanned the disk drive of the Microgravity Science Glovebox for any system errors. In a while, he performed some laptop exhausting drive exams, then took stock of provides within the Human Analysis Facility.
Onishi had a light-duty morning earlier than work picked up within the afternoon. Within the Concord Module, he put in a crystallizer within the ADvanced House Experiment Processor, or ADSEP, a biotech facility that incorporates three thermal zones to accommodate quite a lot of experiments, together with crystal progress. He then changed the controller card within the Potable Water Dispenser earlier than establishing a tech demo in JEM that may extra effectively switch space-to-ground knowledge.
The station’s three Roscosmos cosmonauts, Alexey Zubritsky, Sergey Ryzhikov, and Kirill Peskov, all loved a day without work, stress-free and finishing their routine two hours of each day train.
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