Expedition 74 was off obligation on Monday following a weekend of crew handover actions, cargo packing, and microbiology analysis. A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft may even depart the Worldwide House Station for return to Earth later this week.
The orbital outpost’s latest residents spent Saturday and Sunday familiarizing themselves with area station methods and procedures following a busy first week of scientific operations. Normal housekeeping duties akin to trash gathering, vacuuming modules and vents for mud, and wiping down surfaces with a disinfectant rounded out the weekend actions.
NASA Flight Engineer Chris Williams, who has been orbiting Earth since November, assisted the station’s latest crewmates Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, each from NASA, and Sophie Adenot of ESA (European House Company) serving to them stand up to hurry with dwelling and dealing in weightlessness. Williams confirmed the trio the situation of meals, drinks, and emergency gear, demonstrated the operation of medical gear, communications gear, and laptop networking {hardware}, and gave a tour of the modules whereas describing the operations and methods that happen in every. Williams additionally joined Meir and Adenot on Saturday and explored utilizing ultraviolet mild as a technique to disinfect spacecraft inhibiting microbial development to guard crew well being and area gear.
The quartet may even step up the tempo of cargo transfers contained in the Dragon cargo spacecraft because it nears its departure later this week. Dragon will return to Earth loaded with accomplished science experiments and station {hardware} for evaluation. The astronauts additionally continued unloading crew provides from the Dragon crew spacecraft delivered on Feb. 14.
Roscosmos Flight Engineer Andrey Fedyaev, who’s starting his second spaceflight, joined his cosmonaut crewmates over the weekend, Commander Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev, cleansing air flow methods and inspecting laptop computer computer systems and energy provide methods. Fedyaev additionally continued his respiratory analysis on Saturday attaching an acoustic sensor to his neck that recorded his speedy exhalation to know how microgravity impacts his respiration.
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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