The Soyuz rocket that will launch 3 brand-new crew members to the area station stands at its Baikonur Cosmodrome launch pad in Kazakhstan. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
The Soyuz rocket that will release the next crew to the International Space Station (ISS) has presented to its launch pad and is counting down to its liftoff on Wednesday. On the other hand, aboard the ISS, the Expedition 67 crew studied telerobotics and fluid physics on Monday while getting ready for the upcoming crew arrival and next weeks team departure.
NASA astronaut Frank Rubio is preparing for his very first spaceflight set to start at 9:54 a.m. EDT (6:54 a.m. PDT) on Wednesday when he launches to the station aboard the Soyuz MS-22 team ship. He will be riding in addition to Soyuz Commander Sergey Prokopyev and Flight Engineer Dmitri Petelin, both cosmonauts from Roscosmos. The trio will dock to the Rassvet module less than three-and-a-half hours after launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan beginning a six-month area station research study objective.
View photos of the Soyuz rocket presenting by train to the website 31 launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan:
NASA astronaut Frank Rubio is preparing for his very first spaceflight set to start at 9:54 a.m. EDT (6:54 a.m. PDT) on Wednesday when he launches to the station aboard the Soyuz MS-22 team ship. Station Commander Oleg Artemyev will board the Soyuz MS-21 crew ship with Flight Engineers Denis Matveev and Sergey Korsakov, undock from the Prichal module, then reenter Earths atmosphere, and parachute to a landing in the steppe of Kazakhstan. On Monday, the threesome spent the day packaging equipment for packing into their Soyuz spaceship, readying their launch and entry matches for the flight house, and examining Soyuz undocking and descent procedures.
Lindgren also invested the day on space station chores consisting of servicing U.S. spacesuit parts and cleaning up team quarters.
Three cosmonauts who have been on the station since March 18 will go back to Earth just over a week after the brand-new teams arrival. Station Commander Oleg Artemyev will board the Soyuz MS-21 team ship with Flight Engineers Denis Matveev and Sergey Korsakov, undock from the Prichal module, then reenter Earths environment, and parachute to a landing in the steppe of Kazakhstan. On Monday, the threesome spent the day packaging gear for packing into their Soyuz spaceship, preparing their launch and entry fits for the ride house, and examining Soyuz undocking and descent procedures.
Prior to Artemyev leaves, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti will take over for him as station commander during the standard Change of Command event. The management change will be seen live on NASA TELEVISION, the firms app, and its site at 9:35 a.m. EDT (6:35 a.m. PDT) on September 28.
The service structure is raised into position around the Soyuz rocket, Sunday, September 18, 2022, at website 31 of the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Expedition 68 astronaut Frank Rubio of NASA, and cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin of Roscosmos are set up to introduce aboard their Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft on September 21. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Back in space, astronaut Bob Hines, NASA Flight Engineer, spent his day peering at foam samples inside the KERMIT microscopic lense to observe attributes only possible in microgravity. The Emulsions and foams investigation examines how weightlessness affects microstructures and the dispersion of bubbles in liquid with the possibility of expanding commercial opportunities both in space and in the world.
Robotics activities are within both important and beyond the International Space Station. With NASA and its international partners preparing human missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond, scientists are likewise exploring the capability to manage ground-based robotics, likewise called telerobotics, from a spacecraft. Astronaut Jessica Watkins, NASA Flight Engineer, powered up the Surface Avatar laptop on Monday morning and studied a variety of approaches, such as haptic controls, user interfaces, and virtual reality, to command robot lorries from fars away. Watkins later on took part in a cognition test that seeks to measure a crew members ability to carry out robotic activities in microgravity conditions aboard the orbiting laboratory.
Astronaut Kjell Lindgren, NASA Flight Engineer, was beside take part in the robotics cognition research study for the Behavioral Core Measures examination that may notify future spacecraft and space habitat designs. Lindgren likewise spent the day on area station chores including servicing U.S. spacesuit parts and cleaning crew quarters. Cristoforetti focused on laboratory upkeep activities also, examining biology research equipment and replacing parts on the Waste and Hygiene Compartment, also known as the stations toilet.