Outside the International Space Station, Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin of the Expedition 68 crew will perform a spacewalk on November 25 to transfer a radiator from the Rassvet module to Nauka. It will be the 256th spacewalk in support of station upkeep and upgrades, the 4th for Prokopyev, and the 2nd for Petelin. Credit: NASA
Later, he unpacked freight from the Cygnus space truck that arrived on November 9. For many of the day Wednesday, NASA Flight Engineer Nicole Mann worked on life assistance maintenance in the Harmony module.
The Dragon resupply ship is connected to the top of the Falcon 9 rocket and is standing at the launch pad. It was arranged for liftoff on Wednesday, however the launch was scrubbed due to bad climate condition in the location along Floridas Space Coast. NASA is now targeting liftoff at 2:20 p.m. EST from Kennedy Space Center on Saturday. It will show up on Sunday for an automated docking at 7:30 a.m. to the Harmony modules space-facing port. Dragon will provide a set of new roll-out solar selections, brand-new space agriculture and biotechnology studies, and food, team, and fuel materials. NASA TELEVISION, on the companys app and website, starts its launch coverage at 2 p.m. on Saturday and docking protection at 6 a.m. on Sunday.
The cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin are outfitting their Orlan spacesuits and checking them for leakages ahead of a spacewalk scheduled to begin at 6:15 a.m. on Friday. The duo will invest about 7 hours on Friday moving a radiator from the Rassvet module to the Nauka multipurpose lab module. Cosmonaut Anna Kikina readied the European robotic arm and practiced the robotics maneuvers today she will use to assist the spacewalkers move the radiator at the end of the week.
The waxing gibbous Moon is envisioned from the area station as it orbited above the Indian Ocean southwest of Australias island state of Tasmania on November 4, 2022. Credit: NASA
On Thanksgiving day, four Expedition 68 astronauts will relax as three cosmonauts continue preparing for a spacewalk on Friday. The residents onboard the International Space Station (ISS) are also expecting an area delivery this weekend bringing new roll-out solar varieties and science experiments.
Wednesday, three NASA astronauts and one astronaut from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) invested the day performing numerous research study, freight, and upkeep jobs. Thursday, the quartet will be off-duty observing the U.S. vacation prior to entering into a hectic weekend.
To observe the impacts of microgravity on humans, NASA Flight Engineer Frank Rubio turned on the Ultrasound 2 gadget on Wednesday and scanned the leg, neck, and shoulder veins of JAXA Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata. Previously, Rubio had partnered with fellow NASA astronaut Josh Cassada and checked spacewalking tethers prior to taking part in a NanoRacks botany experiment. Wakata inspected ethernet connections inside the Columbus lab module.
To observe the results of microgravity on humans, NASA Flight Engineer Frank Rubio turned on the Ultrasound 2 gadget on Wednesday and scanned the shoulder, leg, and neck veins of JAXA Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata. Outside the International Space Station, Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin of the Expedition 68 team will carry out a spacewalk on November 25 to transfer a radiator from the Rassvet module to Nauka. For most of the day Wednesday, NASA Flight Engineer Nicole Mann worked on life assistance upkeep in the Harmony module. NASA is now targeting liftoff at 2:20 p.m. EST from Kennedy Space Center on Saturday.