Astronauts Thomas Marshburn of NASA and Matthias Maurer of ESA (European Space Agency) worked throughout the day on research study hardware supporting examinations into how space impacts biology. Marshburn set up a centrifuge inside the Cell Biology Experiment Facility, an incubator with an artificial gravity generator that cultivates cells and plants inside the Kibo laboratory module. Maurer stowed science gear utilized for a visual function study after the experiment samples were returned to Earth on Monday inside the SpaceX Cargo Dragon resupply ship.
Leader Anton Shkaplerov from Roscosmos continued his exercise research the other day studying how to preserve the physical conditioning of crew members in weightlessness. Flight Engineer Pyotr Dubrov assisted the commander throughout the exercise research study and likewise switched fuel bottles inside the Combustion Integrated Rack.
The waning gibbous Moon is visualized above the Earths horizon from the International Space Station. Credit: NASA
Space farming dominated the research schedule aboard the International Space Station yesterday to learn how to sustain long-lasting teams far beyond low-Earth orbit. The Expedition 66 crew likewise had time reserved for ongoing life science work to help keep astronauts and Earthlings healthy.
NASA Flight Engineers Raja Chari and Kayla Barron spent Wednesday afternoon servicing cotton plant cell samples for the Plant Habitat-5 area botany study. The experiment is examining how microgravity impacts cotton genetic expression potentially affecting plant regeneration on and off the Earth.
NASA Flight Engineer Mark Vande Hei worked on a similar botany study yesterday nourishing Arabidopsis plants grown on petri plates. That study is checking out how plant molecular mechanisms and regulative networks adapt to the weightless environment of area.
By NASA
January 27, 2022