The Expedition 73 crew kicked off the work week learning area biology to learn to counteract the results of weightlessness on the human physique. The Worldwide Area Station residents are additionally packing the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft for its departure this week and practising utilizing the European robotic arm.
NASA Flight Engineers Jonny Kim and Anne McClain spent all day Monday testing a thigh cuff that will forestall the space-caused, upward circulation of blood and different fluids towards a crew member’s higher physique. Frequent signs embrace head and eye strain, in addition to the notable “puffy face.” Kim wore the thigh cuff as McClain measured his blood strain and scanned his vessels utilizing the Ultrasound 2 machine. Docs on the bottom monitored in actual time the effectiveness of the biomedical {hardware} to learn to defend an astronaut’s eye construction and imaginative and prescient.
Roscosmos Flight Engineers Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky began their day sporting sensors measuring their exhalation fee following a deep breath serving to medical doctors perceive how microgravity impacts the respiratory system. Subsequent, Ryzhikov swapped neon fuel bottles for argon fuel bottles for the Plasma Crystal-4 area physics research investigating complicated plasmas, or low-temperature gaseous mixtures reminiscent of ionized fuel, impartial fuel, and micron-sized particles. Zubritsky carried out a photographic inspection contained in the Zvezda service module.
Commander Takuya Onishi from JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Company) joined NASA Flight Engineer Nichole Ayers inside Dragon loading cargo forward of its undocking scheduled for 12:05 p.m. EDT on Thursday with NASA+ reside protection starting at 11:45 a.m. They’ll finalize cargo packing on Wednesday when the crew installs time essential, sample-packed moveable science freezers inside Dragon for evaluation again on Earth.
Onishi additionally processed protein crystal samples inside the within the Superior Area Experiment Processor-4 to learn to synthesize medicines throughout deep area missions. Ayers photographed Onishi throughout his science actions then joined McClain on the finish of the day for a listening to examination.
Roscosmos Flight Engineer Kirill Peskov skilled to make use of the European robotic arm (ERA) utilizing a pc interface contained in the Nauka science module. ERA and Nauka each launched on July 21, 2021, inside a Proton rocket from Kazakhstan’s Baikonur Cosmodrome. Nauka with the ERA connected autonomously docked to Zvezda’s Earth-facing port on July 29.
Be taught 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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