NASA Flight Engineer Mark Vande Hei photographed operations for the Plant Habitat-05 experiment that is studying cotton genetics. Space botany is an important area of study as NASA and its global partners find out to sustain healthy teams on long-term missions to the Moon, Mars and beyond.
As of Thursday, Vande Hei has actually resided in area continually for 273 days, surpassing NASA astronaut Andrew Morgans record of 272 days which was set on April 17, 2020. He will go on to break three more NASA records prior to the end of his objective at the end of March.
Vande Hei, together with Roscosmos Flight Engineer Pyotr Dubrov, got to the station on April 9, 2021, and are remaining on the station for 355 days. Cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, who has actually been aboard the station because October 5, 2021, will lead Vande Hei and Dubrov to a parachuted landing in Kazakhstan inside the Soyuz MS-19 crew ship on March 30.
NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei is arranged to go back to Earth on March 30 after 355 days in area. Credit: NASA
Biology and farming were the dominant research themes aboard the International Space Station on Thursday. Also, an Expedition 66 Flight Engineer is starting a set of record-breaking turning points prior to returning to Earth at the end March.
NASA astronauts Raja Chari and Kayla Barron started work Thursday morning inside the Kibo lab module taking a look at mice for the Rodent Research-18 research study. NASA Flight Engineer Thomas Marshburn took over the mice examination throughout the afternoon.
Flight Engineer Matthias Maurer of ESA (European Space Agency) started his day with a hearing test for the Acoustics Diagnostics study. The human research study investigation seeks to understand how sound levels on the station affect astronauts. Maurer then spent the afternoon setting up AstroPi hardware to promote coding and engineering education on Earth.
NASA astronauts Raja Chari and Kayla Barron started work Thursday early morning inside the Kibo laboratory module analyzing mice for the Rodent Research-18 study. NASA Flight Engineer Thomas Marshburn took over the mice investigation throughout the afternoon.
Flight Engineer Matthias Maurer of ESA (European Space Agency) began his day with a hearing test for the Acoustics Diagnostics research study.