The Soyuz MS-23 team ship is imagined docked to the Prichal docking module as the International Space Station orbited 262 miles above a cloudy Nigeria on the African continent. Credit: NASA
The Expedition 69 crew started its day on Friday, August 18, with health checks before proceeding to biology and physics research at the end of the week. The International Space Station (ISS) homeowners likewise maintained their upkeep activities while preparing for next weeks cargo and team missions.
Health Checks
NASA Flight Engineer Stephen Bowen began his early morning establishing a routine health assessment for himself and fellow astronauts Woody Hoburg of NASA and Sultan Alneyadi of UAE (United Arab Emirates). The trio attached sensing units to themselves connected to a tablet computer determining crucial signs such as temperature level, high blood pressure, pulse, and breathing rate.
Upkeep and Experiments
Later on, Bowen worked in the Kibo lab module and set up the Multi-use Variable-g Platform Cell-02 hardware to explore the advancement of microbes in area. Hoburg invested a couple of minutes servicing seeds for the Plant Habitat-03 research study before testing the ability to use Sidekick augmented reality safety glasses for upkeep on the COLBERT treadmill.
Glaciers in the Pamir range of mountains located in The Republic of Tajikistan are envisioned from the International Space Station as it orbited 264 miles above Central Asia. Credit: NASA
Alneyadi, with Bowens help, once again switched graphene aerogel samples in the Microgravity Science Glovebox for a space manufacturing study. After changing orbital plumbing equipment, the UAE astronaut recorded short videos depicting area interaction activities for junior high trainees.
NASAs Upcoming Record and Roscosmos Activities
NASA astronaut Frank Rubio took the day off on Friday to invest time on individual activities and his day-to-day exercise program. On September 11, Rubio is due to break NASAs single spaceflight record of 355 days set previously by astronaut Mark Vande Hei on March 30, 2022.
Prokopyev ended his week evaluating a 3D printer and then checking out piloting and robotic techniques that might be used on future planetary objectives. Petelin took a stock of equipment situated throughout the stations Roscosmos section and then tested methods global teams and mission controllers can improve interactions.
Roscosmos Flight Engineer Andrey Fedyaev spent Friday morning fixing a water regrowth system. He then spent the remainder of the afternoon checking and cleaning up laptop.
Upcoming Missions
On Sunday, the ISS Progress 83 freight craft will end its six-month stay at the orbital lab when it undocks from the Zvezda service modules aft port at 7:48 p.m. EDT. The ISS Progress 85 freight craft will change it on Thursday, August 24, when it docks to the very same Zvezda port 2 days after releasing from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Simply 4 hours after the Progress 85 shows up, four crew members aboard the SpaceX Dragon crew spacecraft will launch from the Kennedy Space Center to the orbital station. The SpaceX Crew-7 objective will dock to the Harmony modules space-facing simply one day after its liftoff and the four crew mates will enter the orbiting laboratory to begin a six-month area research study mission.