Rubio started his day with NASA Flight Engineer Josh Cassada gathering and processing blood samples for spinning in a centrifuge, stowage in a science freezer, and later analysis. The TangoLab cube modules enable a range of area research from microbiology to chemistry. Rubio installed the Sphere Camera-1 inside Destiny to examine its ultra-high resolution abilities that might help future space travelers with lorry inspections, as well as Earth and area observations.
Leader Sergey Prokopyev continued evaluating a 3D printer checking its efficiency while being controlled from a computer system. Roscosmos Flight Engineer Dmitri Petelin worked throughout the day loading the ISS Progress 82 resupply ship with trash and discarded equipment before changing air filters inside the Zvezda service module. Kikina, after turning over radiation detectors in the early morning, worked inside the Nauka multipurpose laboratory module screening operations with the European robotic arm.
Rubio began his day with NASA Flight Engineer Josh Cassada processing and collecting blood samples for spinning in a centrifuge, stowage in a science freezer, and later analysis.
Flight Engineers Nicole Mann of NASA and Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will set their Extravehicular Mobility Units (EMUs), or spacesuits, to battery power at 8:15 a.m. EST (5:15 a.m. PST) on Thursday. Afterward, NASA Flight Engineer Frank Rubio signed up with the duo and began organizing spacewalking tools and hardware prior to a last treatments evaluation and a conference with experts on the ground. NASA TV, on the agencys app and site, will start its live spacewalk coverage at 6:45 a.m. on Thursday.
NASA astronaut and Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Nicole Mann is pictured in her Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU), or spacesuit, after finishing a seven-hour and 21-minute spacewalk on January 20, 23023, setting up an adjustment package on the International Space Stations starboard truss structure preparing the orbital lab for its next roll-out solar range. Credit: NASA
Mission supervisors have provided the “go” for two astronauts to leave the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday, February 2, 2023, and conduct a seven-hour spacewalk. While the spacewalk preparations were underway, the rest of the Expedition 68 team maintained its continuous schedule of human research study, botany, and physics experiments.
Flight Engineers Nicole Mann of NASA and Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will set their Extravehicular Mobility Units (EMUs), or spacesuits, to battery power at 8:15 a.m. EST (5:15 a.m. PST) on Thursday. After their EMUs are set to battery power, the astronauts spacewalk officially starts and they will leave the Quest airlock into the vacuum of area and maneuver to the starboard truss structure. Once they reach the Starboard-4 truss, they will complete a modification set installation job they began on January 20 to prepare the station for its next roll-out solar variety.
Exploration 68 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is visualized in his Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU), or spacesuit, throughout a 21-minute and seven-hour spacewalk on January 20, 2023, to install an adjustment kit on the International Space Stations starboard truss structure preparing the orbital lab for its next roll-out solar range. Credit: NASA
Mann and Wakata started Wednesday readying their spacesuits and their components inside Quest. Later, NASA Flight Engineer Frank Rubio signed up with the duo and started arranging spacewalking tools and hardware before a last treatments review and a conference with experts on the ground. Roscosmos Flight Engineer Anna Kikina likewise handed the spacewalking astronauts dosimeters, or radiation detectors, to connect to their spacesuits. NASA TV, on the firms app and website, will start its live spacewalk protection at 6:45 a.m. on Thursday.