Expedition 73 kicked off the week exploring methods to stop space-caused imaginative and prescient issues and what occurs to the respiratory system in microgravity. The Worldwide Area Station residents additionally labored on combustion analysis and Earth remark gear, organized meals and cargo stock, and serviced life help methods.
NASA Flight Engineers Mike Fincke and Jonny Kim spent their day learning methods to tug physique fluids again towards the ft just like Earth’s gravity. In area, the headward fluid shifts can result in well being points together with modifications to an astronaut’s eye construction and imaginative and prescient. The duo examined a thigh cuff that will pull fluids towards the decrease physique and maintain them there lowering mind and eye stress. Fincke led the investigation on Monday gathering Kim’s blood stress and scanning his veins with the Ultrasound 2 system whereas he wore the thigh cuff. Subsequent, Kim peered into medical imaging gear for an eye fixed examination as docs on the monitored in actual time. Outcomes, could present easy instruments and less-invasive countermeasures to guard future crews travelling to the Moon, Mars, and past.
Station Commander Sergey Ryzhikov and Flight Engineer Alexey Zubritsky, each Roscosmos cosmonauts, wore sensors and nostril clips on Monday and exhaled forcefully for a human analysis experiment to grasp how dwelling in area impacts respiratory perform together with lung quantity and airflow price. Afterward, Ryzhikov began a 24-hour blood stress monitoring session and crammed out a questionnaire to doc his interactions with worldwide crews and mission controllers. Zubritsky transferred water from the Progress 92 cargo spacecraft into station tanks then took the identical worldwide interactions questionnaire as Ryzhikov.
Flight Engineers Zena Cardman of NASA and Kimiya Yui of JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Company) started their day reorganizing cargo contained in the Kibo laboratory module making extra stowage area. Cardman then collected meals packs from contained in the Everlasting Multipurpose Module and stowed them contained in the Unity module the place the station’s galley, or kitchen, is positioned. Yui known as right down to Earth and spoke with Japanese elementary, center, and highschool college students to speak about science and engineering matters. Lastly, he swapped out a digicam inside Kibo’s Stable Combustion Experiment Module that research a how supplies burn in weightlessness to enhance hearth security on spacecraft.
Roscosmos Flight Engineer Oleg Platonov kicked off his shift on life help upkeep changing the Vozdukh carbon dioxide removing system positioned contained in the Zvezda service module. Over the past half of Platonov’s shift, he labored on water transfers and put in a specialised digicam to {photograph} Earth landmarks in all kinds of wavelengths.
Study extra about station actions by following the area station weblog, @space_station on X, in addition to the ISS Facebook and ISS Instagram accounts.
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