The Expedition 74 crew is wrapping up its remaining weekend along with biomedical checks, spacesuit cleansing, and cargo packing contained in the Soyuz MS-28 crew spacecraft. The orbital residents will swap commanders on Saturday the day earlier than three crewmates depart the Worldwide House Station for a journey again to Earth.
Blood pattern processing and vein scans have been the principle scientific actions aboard the orbital outpost on Friday. Docs are constantly amassing crew biomedical information to assist astronauts keep wholesome whereas dwelling and dealing long-term in area. The distinctive insights are solely doable in microgravity and now have the potential to advance well being on Earth.
NASA flight engineer Anil Menon was again on cell immunity analysis spinning crew blood samples in a centrifuge then stowing them in a science freezer for preservation and later evaluation. Docs will study the samples to watch crew well being and mobile immune operate for the Immunity Assay investigation.
NASA flight engineer Jessica Meir took her flip as crew medical officer and operated the Ultrasound 3 gadget to scan the veins of flight engineers Sophie Adenot of ESA (European House Company) and Andrey Fedyaev of Roscosmos. NASA flight engineer Chris Williams then took over from Meir and scanned her veins with the Ultrasound 3 as a part of his remaining duties aboard the area station.
NASA flight engineer Jack Hathway spent his shift contained in the Quest airlock cleansing a pair of spacesuits. Hathaway first cleaned the water-cooling loops that preserve the swimsuit’s temperature steady throughout a spacewalk. Then he checked the spacesuits for operability earlier than refilling their tanks and liquid cooling air flow clothes with water.
Roscosmos flight engineers Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina are nonetheless persevering with lab orientation actions as they adapt to weightlessness and be taught new technical abilities. Dubrov additionally checked the Elektron oxygen generator’s exterior tanks for water and air bubbles. Kikina assisted cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev as they examined the decrease physique unfavorable stress swimsuit which will ease the duo’s adjustment to gravity after returning to Earth on Sunday.
Kud-Sverchkov will hand over command of the orbital outpost to Meir at 9:40 a.m. EDT on Saturday. Then he, Mikaev, and Williams will finish their eight-month area analysis mission at 3:03 a.m. on Sunday after they undock from the Rassvet module aboard the Soyuz MS-28. Expedition 75 formally begins and Expedition 74 ends when the Soyuz departs the orbital outpost. They are going to parachute again to Earth contained in the Soyuz and land in Kazakhstan at 6:25 a.m. (3:25 p.m. native time). All mission occasions can be streamed reside on NASA+ and different platforms.
Be taught 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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