Thursday operations aboard the Worldwide Area Station noticed the Expedition 73 crew centered on a spread of mission-critical duties, from coaching and cargo dealing with to microgravity analysis, instructional outreach on the HAM Radio, and upkeep of orbital methods.
Every day, the crew works to compensate for the physiological results of the microgravity atmosphere on the human physique, such because the lack of muscle and bone mass. They accomplish that by coaching for about two hours a day on long-duration missions. NASA Flight Engineers Jonny Kim, Nichole Ayers, Anne McClain, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Company) astronaut and station commander Takuya Onishi spent their two hours using totally different train gear just like the Superior Resistive Train Machine (ARED), a resistive train used as a countermeasure to musculoskeletal deconditioning in microgravity. The crew additionally carried out an immersive train exercise referred to as the Cycle Ergometer with Vibration Isolation and Stabilization (CEVIS). This exercise makes use of digital actuality goggles to assist to extend crew motivation for his or her each day train.
Kim and Ayers continued work with cargo stowage inside SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft. The spacecraft is part of the 32nd cargo resupply mission and scheduled for undocking no sooner than Thursday, Could 22 after being docked to the zenith, or space-facing port, of the Worldwide Area Station’s Concord module for a couple of month.
Within the U.S. Columbus Module, Kim configured the HAM radio, which is a part of Newbie Radio on the Worldwide Area Station to speak with college students about life in house, to interact on Earth observations, house station orbits, and radio science. He additionally carried out extra visible station inspections, strengthened further cables, and labored to alleviate stress to guard the dose pump within the Waste and Hygiene Compartment.
Ayers labored with the Materials Science Laboratory (MSL) which is a multi-user facility for prime temperature analysis in supplies science. She eliminated a Low Gradient Furnace pattern cartridge, put in the following pattern cartridge and ready the ability for the following pattern run. Later, she returned to the MSL to take away the cartridge and put together the ability for an additional experiment run.
McClain labored with the Microgravity Science Glovebox (MSG) to put in a Life Sciences Glovebox (LSG) flash drive into the LSG Laptop computer pc then later loaded extra software program. The ability is nicely fitted to dealing with hazardous supplies when crew are current. It’s also able to accommodating each bodily science and organic analysis payloads. McClain additionally collected air samples for post-flight evaluation taken from the middle of the U.S. Laboratory and Columbus modules after which returned to her work recording the progress of tomato plant progress as a part of an area agricultural research.
Onishi labored within the Japanese Experiment Module with the Electrostatic Levitation Furnace (ELF) to take away misplaced samples from the experiment quantity pattern cartridge and exchanged the pattern holder 2. The Electrostatic Levitation Furnace makes use of the electrostatic levitation technique to levitate, soften, and solidify supplies with out crucibles.
Within the Russian section, the three cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov, Alexey Zubritskiy, and Kirill Peskov labored on more room station upkeep. Ryzhikov labored to audit the Russian section storage areas and ready and assembled a circuit for reflashing with the Napor-miniRSA. Zubritskiy labored with the regeneration of Micropurification System via the termination of a cartridge. Peskov labored to reconfigure the air flow system that connects the Russian and U.S. segments.
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