Three Expedition 74 crew members proceed to reside aboard the Worldwide House Station now following the return to Earth of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission on Thursday. The orbiting trio will conduct analysis and upkeep whereas awaiting the arrival of 4 new crewmates deliberate in February.
NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Company) astronaut Kimiya Yui and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov are again on Earth finishing 167 days in area. The Crew-11 quartet returned in a SpaceX Dragon again to Earth for a parachute-assisted splashdown off the coast of California simply ten-and-a-half-hours after undocking from the station’s Concord module.
In the meantime, NASA Flight Engineer Chris Williams together with station Commander Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Flight Engineer Sergei Mikaev are on the orbital outpost and can keep in area till summer time. The trio arrived on Thanksgiving Day final yr aboard the Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft starting an eight-month area analysis mission.
Williams spent Friday contained in the Quest airlock deconfiguring a pair of spacesuits arrange for final week’s spacewalk earlier than it was postponed. He cleaned and flushed the fits’ inside water-cooling loops that regulate a spacewalker’s physique temperature. Subsequent, he powered down and inspected the fits, then uninstalled go well with {hardware}, elements, and batteries.
Mikaev put in Earth statement {hardware} and programmed it to {photograph} African landmarks from Namibia’s Namib Desert to Kenya’s Nabiyotum Crater on the southern tip of Lake Turkana. Kud-Sverchkov serviced the Elektron oxygen generator contained in the Zvezda service module then documented the placement of {hardware} stowed all through the station’s Roscosmos section.
Again on Earth, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 members are looking forward to subsequent month when they’re focused to launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket aboard a Dragon crew spacecraft and be a part of Expedition 74. Crew-12 might be commanded by Jessica Meir and piloted by Jack Hathaway, each NASA astronauts, with Sophie Adenot of ESA (European House Company) and Andrey Fedyaev of Roscosmos serving as mission specialists. NASA, SpaceX, and worldwide companions are working to advance the launch of Crew-12, which is presently slated for Sunday, Feb. 15, following the early departure of Crew-11.
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