NASA groups supporting the Artemis I mission polled “go” today to continue with the damp gown wedding rehearsal, prepared for Friday, April 1, through Sunday, April 3, on Launch Pad 39B at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA, Axiom and SpaceX are now taking a look at no earlier than April 6 for the launch of Axiom Mission 1 (Ax-1), the very first private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, pending range approval. For an April 6 launch, Ax-1 static fire would happen on April 4. NASAs SpaceX Crew-4 objective remains set up to introduce no earlier than Tuesday, April 19.
Science is always continuous aboard the station whether its team members tending to experiments, or researchers submitting commands, or even investigations that are developed to run autonomously.
Mondays research program aboard the station covered human research, space botany and glass optics. NASA Flight Engineers Raja Chari and Kayla Barron assisted researchers comprehend how astronauts control things perhaps notifying the design of spacecraft user interfaces for a range of gravity environments. The duo also signed up with astronauts Tom Marshburn of NASA and Matthias Maurer of ESA (European Space Agency) for a basic vision test utilizing an eye chart.
Chari also collected cotton cultures grown for the Plant Habitat-05 experiment and prepared them for return analysis back on Earth. Marshburn serviced samples for a physics study checking out using artificial intelligence to improve the advancement of advanced glass optics with ramifications for Earth and space industries.
The orbiting laboratorys 3 latest crew members invested the day on a variety of activities in the Russian segment consisting of an exercise study, ventilation maintenance, and station orientation activities. Cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev, Sergey Korsakov, and Denis Matveev are in the second week of a six-and-a-half-month mission that began on March 18.
After effectively completing a spacewalk on March 23 at the International Space Station, a thin layer of water was found on the inner surface of the helmet and on an absorption pad inside ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Matthias Maurers helmet following airlock re-pressurization. The area station crew sped up Maurers helmet elimination and then gathered information in coordination with ground assistance groups. The space station group is looking into the cause, and any possible repairs that may be required.
The Soyuz MS-19 crew ship, in between the Cygnus freight craft and the Prichal module, that will take 3 Expedition 66 crewmates home is visualized docked to the Rassvet module. It was imagined before the Soyuz MS-21 team ship docked to Prichal on March 18. Credit: NASA
Three Expedition 66 Flight Engineers are going back to Earth in less than two days as 4 private astronauts get ready for their objective to the International Space Station. The crew activities havent stopped the continuous space research as the orbital residents studied biology, botany, and physics on Monday.
NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei is nearing completion of his objective as he prepares to return to Earth on Wednesday after a NASA-record breaking 355 days in space. Soyuz Commander Anton Shkaplerov will lead Vande Hei and Flight Engineer Pyotr Dubrov inside the Soyuz MS-19 team ship when they undock from the Rassvet module at 3:21 a.m. EDT on Wednesday. The trio will parachute to a landing simply over four hours later.
The next objective to the orbiting lab will be the Axiom Space-1 objective, or Ax-1, bring a former NASA astronaut and 3 U.S. team members. Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria will be making his fifth see to space and his third check out to the area station while commanding the first private objective for Axiom Space. He will lead very first time space visitors Pilot Larry Connor and Mission Specialists Eytan Stibbe and Mark Pathy aboard Endeavour, throughout the vehicles 2nd mission to the station.
Leader Michael Lopez-Alegria will be making his 5th visit to area and his third check out to the space station while commanding the first private objective for Axiom Space. NASA groups supporting the Artemis I mission polled “go” today to proceed with the damp gown practice session, prepared for Friday, April 1, through Sunday, April 3, on Launch Pad 39B at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA, Axiom and SpaceX are now looking at no earlier than April 6 for the launch of Axiom Mission 1 (Ax-1), the very first private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, pending range approval. After effectively completing a spacewalk on March 23 at the International Space Station, a thin layer of water was found on the inner surface area of the helmet and on an absorption pad inside ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Matthias Maurers helmet following airlock re-pressurization. The space station crew sped up Maurers helmet removal and then gathered information in coordination with ground assistance teams.
