The seven-member Expedition 74 crew is in its first full week collectively aboard the Worldwide House Station following Saturday’s arrival of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission. The orbital septet is resuming its full complement of superior house science and lab upkeep because the Crew-12 quartet familiarizes itself with station operations.
Crew-12 members Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway of NASA, Sophie Adenot of ESA (European House Company), and Andrey Fedyaev of Roscosmos started their mission with a launch aboard a SpaceX Dragon on Friday, Feb. 13, and docked to the orbital outpost a day-and-a-half later. After an ordinary security evaluate, the business crew foursome spent the weekend and labored into Monday unpacking science and cargo from Dragon and getting used to life in weightlessness. The brand new crew members are additionally starting their superior analysis duties to profit people residing on and off the Earth.
Meir, on her second spaceflight, swapped a digicam contained in the Future laboratory module‘s Microgravity Science Glovebox to discover methods to regulate a spacecraft’s gas tank stress attributable to cryogenic gas propellants evaporating. First-time house flyer Hathaway readied gear that can measure how a crew member’s physique temperature adapts to microgravity then reviewed operations with the Kibo laboratory module’s Life Science Glovebox with help from NASA Flight Engineer Chris Williams.
Adenot, France’s second feminine astronaut to fly in house, swapped out pc {hardware} supporting analysis into manufacturing drugs in house then exercised for analysis as superior video gear monitored her musculoskeletal system throughout her microgravity exercise. Fedyaev, who final rode to house in March of 2023 aboard a Dragon to hitch Expedition 69, started exploring how his sense of steadiness, orientation, and cognition, in addition to his respiration, are affected by residing in weightlessness.
Williams, who has been aboard the station since November with Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev, started the week serving to Crew-12 get used to station {hardware}, methods, and procedures. On Tuesday, he continued serving to the brand new crew unpack Dragon then investigated utilizing ultraviolet mild as a way to disinfect spacecraft inhibiting microbial development to guard crew well being and house gear.
Station Commander Kud-Sverchkov and Flight Engineer Mikaev uninstalled {hardware} and wrapped up a session of automated Earth images taken in a wide range of wavelengths because the crew slept. Kud-Sverchkov then labored on orbital plumbing and life assist upkeep duties contained in the Nauka science module. Mikaev positioned and inventoried a wide range of Roscosmos station {hardware} then explored utilizing synthetic intelligence-assisted instruments to spice up crew effectivity aboard the orbital outpost.
Be taught extra about station actions by following the house station weblog, @space_station on X, in addition to the ISS Facebook and ISS Instagram accounts.
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