The Expedition 73 crew kicked off the week monitoring well being in microgravity and dealing on spacesuit gear. The orbital residents additionally will quickly see the arrival of a cargo craft and the departure of one other on the Worldwide Area Station.
NASA Flight Engineers Jonny Kim and Zena Cardman took turns attaching a wide range of sensors to themselves on Monday for a pair of research measuring their well being information in microgravity. Kim started a 48-hour session sporting the Bio-Monitor vest and headband monitoring his cardiovascular well being for the CIPHER suite of 14 human analysis investigations. Cardman wore electrodes and respiratory gear measuring her coronary heart and respiratory fee whereas pedaling on the Future laboratory module’s train cycle. Docs monitor the astronauts’ cardio well being to make sure their our bodies can deal with sustained bodily actions equivalent to lengthy spacewalks or the return to Earth’s gravity after a number of months in house.
After the well being monitoring periods, Kim joined JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Company) Flight Engineer Kimiya Yui within the Columbus laboratory module the place they arrange a pair of analysis incubators and linked them to a transportable energy provide. Cardman assisted NASA Flight Engineer Mike Fincke within the Quest airlock, servicing high-definition digicam {hardware} worn on spacesuit helmets.
Yui, a veteran of two spaceflights, started his shift within the Kibo laboratory module establishing botany {hardware} for the Plant Cell Division experiment that’s investigating house agricultural strategies. He additionally readied gear for Tuesday’s Immunity Assay examine when he’ll acquire his blood and saliva samples for evaluation again on Earth to grasp how residing in house impacts mobile immunity.
Within the Roscosmos phase of the orbital outpost, cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky gathered trash and outdated gear for disposal aboard the Progress 91 resupply ship docked to the rear port of the Zvezda service module. The Progress 91 is because of wrap up a six-month cargo mission in September when it’s going to undock from Zvezda and reenter Earth’s ambiance above the South Pacific Ocean for a fiery, however protected destruction.
Roscosmos cosmonaut and first-time space-flyer Oleg Platonov skilled to make use of the COLBERT treadmill with help from Yui who additionally arrange a Bluetooth monitor measuring Platonov’s coronary heart fee throughout his exercise. Afterward, Platonov put in and activated Earth commentary gear to seize multispectral imagery of landmarks on the bottom.
Preparations aboard the station and on the bottom proceed for the following launch to ship science investigations, provides, and gear to the orbital outpost. NASA and SpaceX are focusing on 2:45 a.m. EDT, Sunday, Aug. 24, to launch greater than 5,000 kilos of cargo aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft from Cape Canaveral Area Power Station in Florida.
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