Spacesuit work and eye checks wrapped up the week for the Expedition 74 crew aboard the Worldwide Area Station. The orbital residents additionally targeted on robotics, cargo transfers, and science {hardware} upkeep on the finish of the week.
ESA (European Area Company) flight engineer Sophie Adenot tried on a spacesuit on Friday with help from NASA flight engineer Jessica Meir contained in the Quest airlock. Adenot wore the go well with in a powered and pressurized configuration and examined it for mobility, consolation, and optimum match. Meir additionally helped Adenot conduct go well with leak and stress checks whereas verifying the go well with’s communications {hardware} and life help techniques.
NASA flight engineers Jack Hathaway and Chris Williams additionally labored on spacewalking gear inspecting tethers and their related elements earlier than stowing them inside Quest. Earlier, Hathaway put in new orbital plumbing gear contained in the Tranquility module’s toilet. On the finish of his shift, he reconfigured the Columbus laboratory module to make room for a brand new experimental train machine as a consequence of be delivered on the following Cygnus XL resupply mission. Williams rearranged cargo packed contained in the Pressurized Mating Adapter-2 the place the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft dock to on the ahead port of the Concord module.
On the finish of his shift, Williams led eye exams inside Concord with Meir and Adenot as his topics. Williams operated medical imaging gear that Meir and Adenot peered into whereas docs on the bottom seen their retina, lens, and cornea in real-time. Docs commonly examine the astronauts’ eyes to counteract the potential results of residing in house.
Station commander Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and flight engineer Sergei Mikaev, each Roscosmos cosmonauts, joined one another on Friday and put in energy and knowledge cables to help upcoming operations of a brand new photo voltaic radiation experiment. Roscosmos flight engineer Andrey Fedyaev kicked off his shift cleansing the Nauka science module’s air flow system earlier than spending the remainder of his day updating the software program that controls and shows info for the European robotic arm.
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