NASA astronauts Raja Chari and Kayla Barron swapped freight in and out of the U.S. Cygnus area truck today. The astronauts were also signed up with by NASA Commander Tom Marshburn and ESA (European Space Agency) Flight Engineer Matthias Maurer during some of the cargo work.
Former NASA astronaut and Ax-1 Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria is on his 4th area flight and his first as an Axiom Space astronaut.
Former NASA astronaut and Ax-1 Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria is on his 4th area flight and his first as an Axiom Space astronaut. He partnered with Ax-1 Pilot Larry Connor today exploring how living in microgravity impacts cellular aging and heart cells. The other 2 Ax-1 astronauts, Mark Pathy and Eytan Stibbe, explored DNA sequencing, brain characteristics, the cardiovascular system, and checked holoportation, or transferring mixed-reality, 360-degree images of people to space.
Two cosmonauts continue gearing up for a set of spacewalks later this month to set up the Nauka multipurpose lab module for the European Robotic Arm (ERA). Roscosmos Flight Engineers Oleg Artemyev and Denis Matveev had a fitness test, inspected their Orlan spacesuits, and installed pressure tanks in the Poisk module as part of standard pre-spacewalk preparations. Russian Flight Engineer Sergey Korsakov established hardware to help the spacewalkers throughout the ERA work outside Nauka.
By NASA
April 11, 2022
The 11-member team aboard the station is made up of the seven-member Expediton 67 team and the four-member Axiom Mission 1 team. Credit: NASA
It was extremely hectic on the International Space Station on Monday with the orbiting laboratory hosting 11 crew members consisting of the four-member Axiom Mission 1 (Ax-1) crew. The private astronauts and the seven-member Expedition 67 team were taken part in a wide range of jobs today such as loading a U.S. freight ship, looking into life science, and getting ready for a pair of Russian spacewalks.
NASA astronauts Raja Chari and Kayla Barron swapped cargo in and out of the U.S. Cygnus area truck today. The duo renewed the stations galley with food from Cygnus while stowing garbage and other discarded products inside the resupply ship ahead of its departure at the end of May. The astronauts were likewise joined by NASA Commander Tom Marshburn and ESA (European Space Agency) Flight Engineer Matthias Maurer during a few of the cargo work.
Maurer spent the bulk of Monday establishing hardware for the Transparent Alloys physics study and the AstroPi computer that students can program from Earth to comprehend the area environment. Marshburn assisted the 4 Ax-1 astronauts get up to speed with area station operations and emergency situation procedures.