By NASA
January 24, 2022
. On the other hand, area science advanced the orbital lab as the crew checked out a wide array of microgravity phenomena today. A set of botany research studies kept NASA Flight Engineers Raja Chari and Kayla Barron busy with the duo investigating how to grow crops in area and how microgravity affects cotton genes. ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Matthias Maurer set up hardware for the Fluidics experiment to study how to optimize fuel systems for spacecraft.
Upkeep is constantly ongoing aboard the station making sure the crew remains healthy and lab systems run effectively. NASA Flight Engineer Mark Vande Hei began the day taking apart and stowing unused life assistance equipment then photographed payload racks to record their present configurations. NASA Flight Engineer Thomas Marshburn worked throughout the day on U.S. spacesuit batteries and chargers.
Cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov spent the day conducting their complement of science and maintenance in the orbiting labs Russian section. Shkaplerov utilized a myograph to measure his muscle strength in microgravity before routing duct inside the ISS Progress 79 cargo craft. Dubrov had some small post-spacewalk clean-up work to do prior to switching fuel bottles inside the Combustion Integrated Rack.
A set of botany research studies kept NASA Flight Engineers Raja Chari and Kayla Barron busy with the duo investigating how to grow crops in space and how microgravity impacts cotton genes. NASA Flight Engineer Mark Vande Hei started the day tearing down and stowing unused life assistance equipment then photographed payload racks to document their present configurations. NASA Flight Engineer Thomas Marshburn worked throughout the day on U.S. spacesuit batteries and battery chargers.
The SpaceX Cargo Dragon resupply ship is imagined departing the station in September of 2021 during a previous freight mission. Credit: NASA
A U.S. space freighter returned to Earth today after undocking from the International Space Station on Sunday morning. Back on the orbiting lab, the seven-member Expedition 66 team researched area farming and physics.
The SpaceX Cargo Dragon resupply ship ended its objective today returning to Earth over 4,900 pounds of science experiments and station hardware for analysis and examination. Dragon had undocked from the station on Sunday at 10:40 a.m. EST
. Dragon fired its braking engines Monday afternoon dropping the cargo craft out of orbit and back into Earths atmosphere. The U.S. spacecraft parachuted to a splashdown off the coast Florida at 4:05 p.m. EST
