The Worldwide House Station is a busy place internet hosting ten crewmates from NASA, Roscosmos, and ESA (European House Company) via the tip of July. The expanded Expedition 74 crew is continuous its microgravity analysis, serving to three new arrivals modify to life in house, and making ready for the departure of one other three crew members.
NASA flight engineer Anil Menon spent Thursday on station adaptation actions unpacking his private objects, familiarizing himself with lab techniques, and adjusting to life in weightlessness. Menon additionally hooked up thermo-mini-sensors to his physique that measure how his physique temperature and sleep patterns are affected by weightlessness.
The 2 newly-arrived flight engineers from Roscosmos, veteran cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina who’re on their second station mission, wore digital actuality goggles and electrodes monitoring their mind alerts and eye motion. The Digital experiment is testing how a crew member’s sense of stability and route adapts to weightlessness. The pair additionally resumed unpacking cargo from the brand new Soyuz MS-29 spacecraft and getting used to station life.
NASA flight engineer Chris Williams and cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev are nearing the tip of their mission that started on Nov. 27, 2025. The trio carried out leak checks on the Sokol fits they may put on on the journey again to Earth contained in the Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft. The homebound crewmates are additionally reviewing their Soyuz descent and touchdown procedures, packing cargo and private objects for return, and making ready handy over their duties to the brand new arrivals.
Flight engineer Jessica Meir of NASA continued testing methods to make saline answer in microgravity utilizing the station’s water provide. Flight engineers Jack Hathaway of NASA and Sophie Adenot of ESA took turns swapping cargo out and in of the Cygnus XL spacecraft then break up their day servicing life assist gear, recording academic movies for college students on the bottom, and coaching the brand new crew to make use of station train gear. Roscosmos flight engineer Andrey Fedyaev spent his shift photographing and nourishing microbe samples for the Aseptic biotechnology examine exploring methods to maintain spacecraft protected and sterile throughout analysis operations.
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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