A cargo spacecraft is in orbit catching as much as the Worldwide Area Station for a docking tomorrow to ship meals and provides to the Expedition 74 crew. Aboard the orbital lab, the seven residents kicked off the week with science operations prep, routine upkeep, and getting programs prepared for a future spacewalk.
Within the morning, three NASA astronauts—Jessica Meir, Chris Williams, and Jack Hathaway—cut up up varied duties. Meir carried out routine orbital plumbing and changed a gasoline entice plug. In the meantime, Williams relocated connection cables, arrange and inserted canisters within the Cell Biology Experiment Facility, and consolidated meals packages. Hathaway set his sights to spacesuit work, stowing batteries and performing a cooling loop scrub on the fits.
Meir and Williams then teamed as much as overview procedures and guidelines objects for an upcoming spacewalk. The duo was later joined by Hathaway and European Area Company (ESA) astronaut Sophie Adenot to assemble the roll-out photo voltaic array mod equipment struts, which will probably be put in to the outside of the orbital lab through the upcoming spacewalk.
Earlier than teaming up along with her crewmates, Adenot accomplished a questionnaire, donned an actigraphy machine, and picked up organic samples for the RelaxPro experiment. The examine exams rest coaching protocols in flight, which might contribute to the event of measures to scale back stress and behavioral dangers for astronauts on future house missions. Adenot then moved into the Kibo module, the place she retrieved and swapped in new cartridges to the Electrostatic Levitation Furnace.
Within the Roscosmos section, two cosmonauts are monitoring and gearing up for the arrival of the Progress 94 cargo spacecraft tomorrow. Progress, loaded with practically three tons of meals, gas, and provides, launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 7:59 a.m. EDT March 22. The cargo spacecraft is ready to dock to the space-facing port of the station’s Poisk module tomorrow, March 24, at 9:34 a.m. NASA’s reside rendezvous and docking protection will start at 8:45 a.m. on NASA+, Amazon Prime, and the company’s YouTube channel.
Commander Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and flight engineer Sergei Mikaev teamed as much as configure and full coaching on TORU, the Telerobotically Operated Rendezvous System, which is a management panel situated within the Zvezda Service Module. One of many two antennas used for an automatic rendezvous and docking didn’t deploy after separation. Progress will arrive 200 meters from the house station autonomously, then transition to guide piloting for its remaining method. Kud-Sverchkov will manually pilot the spacecraft via TORU for rendezvous and docking on the house station’s Poisk module.
Mikaev then moved on to audit stowage, tools, and {hardware} all through the Roscosmos section. In the meantime, flight engineer Andrey Fedyaev charged digital camera batteries, carried out orbital plumbing, then backed up and despatched train information to floor groups for evaluation.
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