The SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour with four Crew-6 members aboard techniques the International Space Station for an automated docking to the Harmony modules space-facing port. Aboard Endeavour, were Commander Stephen Bowen and Pilot Woody Hoburg, both from NASA, and Mission Specialists Sultan Alneyadi from UAE (United Arab Emirates) and Andrey Fedyaev from Roscosmos, who signed up with the Expedition 68 crew quickly after docking to the orbital lab. Credit: NASA
The newly-expanded International Space Station (ISS) team of 11 members began a busy work week on Monday, March 6, performing a variety of research and visiting automobile activities. At the exact same time, 4 members of Expedition 68 are preparing to conclude their objective and leave from the spaceport station back to Earth.
New station residents Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg of NASA, who commanded and piloted the SpaceX Crew-6 mission respectively, examined docked Crew Dragon procedures first thing on Monday. The duo, along with Crew-6 objective expert Sultan Alneyadi of UAE (United Arab Emirates) and Andrey Fedyaev of Roscosmos, immediately docked Crew Dragon Endeavour to the Harmony modules space-facing port at 1:40 a.m. EST on Friday. The quartet will work and live aboard the orbital station for six months.
The four latest team members continue getting up to speed with life on orbit familiarizing themselves with area station operations and systems. The foursome also spent Monday installing brand-new area biology hardware, changing electronic elements, and updating emergency procedures for the broadened team.
The SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour with 4 Crew-6 members aboard approaches the International Space Station for an automated docking to the Harmony modules space-facing port. New station homeowners Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg of NASA, who commanded and piloted the SpaceX Crew-6 objective respectively, examined docked Crew Dragon procedures very first thing on Monday. The SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour with 4 Crew-6 members aboard techniques the International Space Station for an automated docking to the Harmony modules space-facing port. Flight Engineers Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada of NASA, along with Koichi Wakata of JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) and Anna Kikina of Roscosmos, launched to the station as the SpaceX Crew-5 objective on October 5 signing up with the Expedition 68 crew one day later on.
The SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour with four Crew-6 members aboard techniques the International Space Station for an automated docking to the Harmony modules space-facing port. Aboard Endeavour, were Commander Stephen Bowen and Pilot Woody Hoburg, both from NASA, and Mission Specialists Sultan Alneyadi from UAE (United Arab Emirates) and Andrey Fedyaev from Roscosmos, who joined the Expedition 68 team soon after docking to the orbital laboratory. Credit: NASA
The orbiting team will soon go back to a seven-member status when four station citizens finalize their objective that began in 2015. Flight Engineers Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada of NASA, along with Koichi Wakata of JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) and Anna Kikina of Roscosmos, introduced to the station as the SpaceX Crew-5 mission on October 5 signing up with the Expedition 68 team one day later. All four homebound team members have begun their handover activities. They will go into the Crew Dragon Endurance, undock from the Harmony modules forward port, then crash off the coast of Florida on a soon-to-be-announced date.
The next Dragon mission to the station will be the SpaceX CRS-27 resupply objective arranged for March 14 at 8:30 p.m. EDT. When it undocks a couple of days previously, the Dragon freight craft will instantly dock about 24 hours later to the Harmony port vacated by the Crew Dragon Endurance.
The spaceport stations other 3 crewmates, Commander Sergey Prokopyev and Flight Engineer Dmitri Petelin of Roscosmos, and NASA Flight Engineer Frank Rubio joined each other and practiced on a computer the treatments for returning to Earth inside the Soyuz MS-23 crew ship. Rubio earlier had removed his seat liner from the Crew Dragon Endurance and installed it inside the MS-23. Prokopyev and Petelin also carried out tests inside the Soyuz MS-22 crew ship that will return to Earth empty in late March.
The orbital outpost steered out of the method of an Earth observation satellite early Monday. The docked ISS Progress 83 resupply ship fired its engines for simply over 6 minutes slightly raising the stations orbit to prevent the approaching satellite. The new orbital trajectory will not impact the upcoming departure of the Crew-5 mission.