Flight Engineers Raja Chari of NASA and Matthias Maurer of ESA (European Space Agency) started Tuesday morning with standard medical checkups the day prior to their spacewalk. NASA astronaut Raja Chari and ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer inspect the fit of their Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuits ahead of a spacewalk arranged for March 23, 2022. The pair are helped by NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn. Throughout the afternoon, the spacewalking set were signed up with by NASA astronauts Kayla Barron and Tom Marshburn for a treatments evaluate with engineers on the ground.
(From left) Astronauts Raja Chari and Matthias Maurer will leave the spaceport station on Wednesday for a 6.5-hour upkeep spacewalk. Credit: NASA
Objective supervisors have given the go for two astronauts to leave the International Space Station on Wednesday for a six-and-a-half-hour spacewalk. On the other hand, three Expedition 66 team members are preparing for their go back to Earth at the end of the month.
Flight Engineers Raja Chari of NASA and Matthias Maurer of ESA (European Space Agency) started Tuesday morning with standard medical examinations the day prior to their spacewalk. The duo had an ear examination and measured heart and breathing rate, blood pressure, and temperature. Later, Chari and Maurer staged their U.S. spacesuits and readied their spacewalking tools inside the U.S. Quest airlock.
NASA astronaut Raja Chari and ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer examine the fit of their Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuits ahead of a spacewalk arranged for March 23, 2022. The set are assisted by NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn. Credit: ESA/NASA
During the afternoon, the spacewalking set were signed up with by NASA astronauts Kayla Barron and Tom Marshburn for a treatments examine with engineers on the ground. Barron and Marshburn will also be on robotics duty commanding the Canadarm2 robotics arm to assist the spacewalkers during Wednesdays excursion. Chari and Maurer set their spacesuits to battery power at 8:50 a.m. EDT symbolizing the start of their spacewalk. Their primary goal is to set up thermal system and electronics parts on the outside of the area station. Live NASA television protection starts at 7:30 a.m. on NASA Television, the NASA app and the companys website.
ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer checks the fit of his United States Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuit ahead of a spacewalk arranged for March 23, 2023. This will be the very first spacewalk for Matthias, who will partner with NASA astronaut Raja Chari to carry out a variety of tasks including setup of a power and data cable for external science platform Bartolomeo. Credit: ESA/NASA
When NASA Flight Engineer Mark Vande Hei returns to Earth with Roscosmos cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov, the next major event at the orbital lab will be on March 30. The trio will undock from the Rassvet module inside the Soyuz MS-19 team ship and parachute to a landing in Kazakhstan about three-and-a-half hours later. The 2 cosmonauts practiced Soyuz descent procedures and loaded cargo and individual items inside the car. Vande Hei, who will land with a NASA-record breaking 355 constant days in area, focused mainly on science today studying space archeology and glass optics.
The stations 3 most recent team members are in their first full week on the orbiting laboratory and continue their station familiarization activities. Cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev, on his 3rd spaceport station mission, and very first time space-flyers Sergey Korsakov and Denis Matveev will spend the next few days getting used to life on orbit.
