Expedition 72 will wait a few extra days for the arrival of the SpaceX Crew-10 mission as help personnel work a floor challenge on the launchpad. In the meantime, the Worldwide Area Station stayed busy with host a microgravity analysis exploring robotics, combustion, and adaptation to weightlessness.
Crew-10 is now focused to launch to the orbital outpost no sooner than 7:03 p.m. EDT on Friday. Engineers at Kennedy Area Heart are investigating a hydraulic system challenge with a floor help clamp arm for the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on the launch pad. For an on-time launch, the Dragon crew spacecraft carrying NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Company) astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov would dock to the orbital outpost’s Concord module at 11:30 p.m. on Saturday.
Area science stored the crew aboard the station busy on Thursday because the astronauts and cosmonauts explored a wide range of microgravity phenomena benefitting people residing on and off the Earth.
NASA Flight Engineer Butch Wilmore activated an Astrobee robotic free-flyer within the Kibo laboratory module and outfitted the gadget with tentacle-like grippers. Subsequent, Astrobee demonstrated autonomously detecting and grappling a “seize dice.” Outcomes could allow future house techniques to take away house particles and lengthen the lifetime of satellites.
NASA Flight Engineers Suni Williams and Don Pettit spent their shift servicing gear for 2 totally different combustion experiments. Williams opened up the Electrostatic Levitation Furnace and exchanged samples within the analysis gadget that safely heats supplies to excessive temperatures to watch their thermophysical properties. Pettit swapped samples and put in new {hardware} contained in the Combustion Built-in Rack for an investigation to grasp hearth development and materials flammability in house to advertise spacecraft hearth security.
NASA Flight Engineer Nick Hague spent his day totally on upkeep duties contained in the orbital outpost. Hague first measured the airflow coming from the air flow system situated in Concord’s overhead crew quarters. He then spent the remainder of the day inspecting and cleansing hatch seals all through the house station’s U.S. section.
Roscosmos cosmonauts Aleksandr Gorbunov and Ivan Vagner as soon as once more examined the lower body negative pressure suit which will assist pull fluids from the higher physique and counteract space-caused head and eye stress. Vagner later studied how a crew member’s imaginative and prescient, stability, and spatial orientation adjusts to microgravity whereas hooked up to electrodes and carrying digital actuality goggles. Station Commander Alexey Ovchinin began his day servicing Roscosmos life help gear earlier than persevering with to test communications and energy elements on Orlan spacesuits.
Study extra about station actions by following the house station weblog, @space_station and @ISS_Research on X, in addition to the ISS Facebook and ISS Instagram accounts.
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