As the Roscosmos resupply ship approached the station, four SpaceX Crew-7 team members in Florida were notified their launch to sign up with the Expedition 69 team would wait one more day. The Moon is seen over a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the businesss Dragon spacecraft on top is seen on the launch pad at Launch Complex 39A, Thursday, August 24, 2023, at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASAs SpaceX Crew-7 mission is the seventh crew rotation objective of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the firms Commercial Crew Program. NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Andreas Mogensen, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov are scheduled to release at 3:27 a.m. EDT on Saturday, August 26, from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space.
The Moon is seen over a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the businesss Dragon spacecraft on top is seen on the launch pad at Launch Complex 39A, Thursday, August 24, 2023, at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Andreas Mogensen, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov are set up to release at 3:27 a.m. EDT on Saturday, August 26, from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space.
Crew-7s Upcoming Journey
NASA SpaceX Crew-7 Commander Jasmin Moghbeli will lead Pilot Andreas Mogensen of ESA (European Space Agency) and Mission Specialists Satoshi Furukawa of JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) and Konstantin Borisov of Roscosmos, during their flight to the station. The Commercial Crew foursome aboard Endurance will automatically dock to the Harmony modules space-facing port at 8:39 a.m. on Sunday. Quickly after, the quartet will enter the station, welcome the Expedition 69 crew, and start a six-month microgravity research mission.
Existing Activities on the ISS
Meanwhile, the 7 station crew members presently orbiting Earth are all however prepared to welcome their four new crewmates. While the 2 cosmonauts were concluding Progress 85 activities and preparing for bed, the other five lab citizens dealt with advanced research hardware and investigated methods to treat heart ailments.
NASA Flight Engineers Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg operated in the Tranquility module preparing the NanoRacks Bishop airlock for its upcoming depressurization and demating. The Canadarm2 robotic arm will remove and grapple Bishop from Tranquility early next week for an experiment to determine temperature level, vibrations, and radiation on external payload websites.
UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi stowed hardware and reconfigured the Microgravity Science Glovebox following an investigation to make remarkable material structures in area. Flight Engineer Frank Rubio of NASA worked in the Kibo laboratory module switching samples of stem-cell-derived heart micro-tissues inside the Life Science Glovebox. Rubios research study work may assist doctors find brand-new treatments for space-caused heart abnormalities and Earth-bound cardiovascular disease.
The Moon and the star Antares are seen in the sky above a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the businesss Dragon spacecraft on top is seen on the launch pad at Launch Complex 39A on Thursday, August 24, 2023, at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky
The International Space Station (ISS) welcomed a brand-new freight craft over night as objective supervisors delayed the launch of the SpaceX Crew-7 mission for 24 hours. The Expedition 69 team members have started unloading the brand-new cargo while servicing a variety of science devices aboard the orbital laboratory.
Roscosmos Progress 85 Resupply Activities
Cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin went to bed at mid-afternoon on Friday after monitoring the Roscosmos Progress 85 resupply ship as it docked to the Zvezda service modules aft port at 11:45 p.m. EDT on Thursday. The set resolved leakage and pressure checks, opened the Progress 85 hatch, and after that invested the next numerous hours offloading a few of the almost three lots of food, fuel, and supplies to replenish the laboratory residents.
As the Roscosmos resupply ship approached the station, 4 SpaceX Crew-7 crew members in Florida were informed their launch to join the Expedition 69 crew would wait one more day. Liftoff of the SpaceX Dragon Endurance spacecraft atop the companys Falcon 9 rocket is now set up for 3:27 a.m. EDT on Saturday from NASAs Kennedy Space. Mission supervisors chose to utilize the additional day to evaluate Dragons safety and life support group.