4 primary components on the Roscosmos segment of the International Space Station are imagined as the orbital outpost soared 260 miles above the Andes range of mountains in Bolivia. From leading to bottom, are the Nauka multipurpose lab module, the European robotic arm connected to Nauka, the Prichal docking module, and the Soyuz MS-23 team ship. Credit: NASA
A freight craft is currently orbiting Earth en route to the International Space Station (ISS). As this unfolds, the seven members of Expedition 69 are diving into research study on the effect of weightlessness on cardiac tissue and the digestion system. Meanwhile, another crew is preparing for its launch, arranged for early Friday.
Three lots of area supplies are jam-packed aboard the Roscosmos Progress 85 cargo craft and en route to the orbital homeowners for a shipment scheduled at 11:50 p.m. EDT on Thursday. When it instantly docks to the Zvezda service modules aft port, Station commander Sergey Prokopyev and Flight Engineer Dmitri Petelin will be on responsibility Thursday night keeping an eye on the Progress 85. The duo will wait about 2 hours during basic leak and pressure checks before opening the resupply ships hatch and start unloading the brand-new food, fuel, and other freight.
SpaceX Crew-7 Mission Details
While the cargo activities get underway, the SpaceX Crew-7 objective will release at 3:50 a.m. on Friday from NASAs Kennedy Space. 4 Commercial Crew astronauts will be seated inside the SpaceX Dragon Endurance spacecraft atop the businesss Falcon 9 rocket waiting for a 24-hour journey to their new home in area.
The seven-member Expedition 69 crew gathers for a portrait inside the International Space Stations Kibo lab module on August 20, 2023. Clockwise from left are, Flight Engineers Woody Hoburg of NASA and Dmitri Petelin of Roscosmos; Commander Sergey Prokopyev from Roscosmos; Flight Engineers Frank Rubio and Stephen Bowen, both from NASA; and Flight Engineers Sultan Alneyadi from UAE (United Arab Emirates) and Andrey Fedyaev from Roscosmos. Credit: NASA
NASA astronaut and Crew-7 Commander Jasmin Moghbeli will be leading Pilot Andreas Mogensen of ESA (European Space Agency) and Mission Specialists Satoshi Furukawa of JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) and Konstantin Borisov of Roscosmos aboard Endurance throughout the ride to the station. Endurance, with the quartet within, will instantly dock to the Harmony modules space-facing port at 2:02 a.m. on Saturday. The foursome will open the hatch about 2 hours later, go into the station, welcome the Expedition 69 team, and start a six-month microgravity research mission.
Microgravity Research and Crew Activities
The crewmates living in area explored how microgravity impacts cardiac cells and the gastrointestinal system to benefit people living on and off the Earth. NASA Flight Engineers Frank Rubio and Woody Hoburg dealt with samples of stem-cell-derived heart micro-tissues on Wednesday in the Kibo laboratory module. The Project EAGLE biology research study occurs in Kibos Life Science Glovebox and may reveal possible therapies for space-caused cardiac irregularities and Earth-bound cardiovascular disease.
Prokopyev and Petelin began the day with ultrasound scans after breakfast to observe how the gastrointestinal system adapts to weightlessness. Prokopyev then partnered with Flight Engineer Andrey Fedyaev in the afternoon for more tests of the lower body negative pressure suit that may assist team members readjust to Earths gravity environment.
End of Mission for Some Astronauts
Fedyaev will be going back to Earth soon with Hoburg and astronauts Stephen Bowen of NASA and Sultan Alneyadi of UAE (United Arab Emirates). The quartet will get in the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft one week after Crew-7 gets here, undock from Harmonys forward port, and splashdown off the coast of Florida to finish a six-month area objective. On Wednesday afternoon, the 4 crewmates checked their SpaceX pressure suits they will wear inside Endeavour when they leave the station for the ride back to Earth.
From leading to bottom, are the Nauka multipurpose laboratory module, the European robotic arm connected to Nauka, the Prichal docking module, and the Soyuz MS-23 crew ship. Station commander Sergey Prokopyev and Flight Engineer Dmitri Petelin will be on responsibility Thursday night keeping track of the Progress 85 when it automatically docks to the Zvezda service modules aft port. The seven-member Expedition 69 crew gathers for a portrait inside the International Space Stations Kibo lab module on August 20, 2023. NASA astronaut and Crew-7 Commander Jasmin Moghbeli will be leading Pilot Andreas Mogensen of ESA (European Space Agency) and Mission Specialists Satoshi Furukawa of JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) and Konstantin Borisov of Roscosmos aboard Endurance during the trip to the station. NASA Flight Engineers Frank Rubio and Woody Hoburg dealt with samples of stem-cell-derived heart micro-tissues on Wednesday in the Kibo laboratory module.
