The Expedition 75 crew slept in Friday and spent the remainder of the day enjoyable following the Oct. 1 arrival of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 mission. The 4 new crew members, who arrived after a record-setting 7-hour, 55-minute Dragon spacecraft flight from Florida, carry the variety of folks residing aboard the Worldwide House Station to 11.
NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, CSA (Canadian House Company) astronaut Joshua Kutryk, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov will spend the subsequent few days getting used life to in weightlessness and familiarizing themselves with station methods.
On Saturday, Oct. 3, Crew-13 will spend the day unpacking Dragon, transferring commonplace security gear into its spacecraft, and discussing emergency roles and duties.
On Sunday, Oct. 4, the departing Crew-12 crew members will formally switch their mission duties to their new crewmates. NASA astronaut Jessica Meir additionally will hand over command of the house station to Roscosmos cosmonaut Pyotr Dubrov throughout a change-of-command and farewell ceremony starting at 10:20 a.m. EDT.
The crew’s farewell remarks and change-of-command ceremony will stream by quite a lot of platforms. Be taught the place to observe on-line:
The homebound Crew‑12 crew members have spent the previous a number of days packing cargo, configuring Dragon methods, and testing their stress fits in preparation for his or her return.
NASA and SpaceX proceed to watch climate circumstances off the California coast, with further departure climate briefings deliberate over the weekend. Climate allowing, Meir, NASA astronaut Jack Hathaway, ESA (European House Company) astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev might start their journey dwelling as early as Monday, Oct. 5. NASA will share extra info and problem an advisory for Crew‑12’s return to Earth following the upcoming climate briefings.
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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