The Earths horizon is barely visible as the International Space Station soars into an orbital sunset 261 miles above northeastern China. In the foreground, are the Canadarm2 robotic arm (left) with the Dextre fine-tuned robotic hand attached and the orbital stations main solar arrays (right) and shorter roll-out solar selections. Credit: NASAThe Expedition 70 team is expecting the arrival of a U.S. freight craft due to get to the International Space Station (ISS) next week. The Axiom Space 3 (Ax-3) crew finished its very first week in orbit with a busy schedule of research, education, and media activities.Northrop Grummans Cygnus cargo craft will take its first ride atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket when it lifts off no earlier than 12:07 p.m. EST on Tuesday, January 30, from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The personal space freighter will be rollovering 8,200 pounds of science experiments, team supplies, and lab hardware to the orbiting station. NASA Flight Engineer Jasmin Moghbeli is because of record Cygnus with the Canadarm 2 robotic arm at 4:15 a.m. on Thursday, February 1. She will be on duty that morning in addition to fellow NASA astronaut Loral OHara who will monitor Cygnus automatic technique and rendezvous.NASA astronaut and Expedition 70 Flight Engineer Loral OHara presents in front of the Kibo lab modules Advanced Plant Habitat housing tomato plants for an experiment examining how the plant immune system adapts to spaceflight and how spaceflight impacts plant production. Credit: NASABoth astronauts including JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) Flight Engineer Satoshi Furukawa unwinded on Friday following the weeklong Cygnus preparations and Ax-3 orientation activities. Station Commander Andreas Mogensen of ESA (European Space Agency) had a light responsibility day at the end of the week investing a couple of hours assisting the Ax-3 foursome during its science and maintenance-filled itinerary.Ax-3 Commander and former NASA astronaut Michael López-Alegría joined his crewmates Walter Villadei and Alper Gezeravcı at the start of their shift with blood draws for stowage in a science freezer and later analysis. Afterward, the five-time station visitor partnered with Italian astronaut Villadei setting up hardware that monitors space radiation and how it affects astronauts. At the end of the day, López-Alegría tested a digital voice assistant for its possible to assist with team operations.JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut and Expedition 70 Flight Engineer Satoshi Furukawa pedals on a workout cycle, also called the Cycle Ergometer Vibration Isolation System (or CEVIS), inside the International Space Stations Destiny lab module. Credit: NASAGezeravcı, Turkeys first astronaut, tended to algae samples growing in petri meals for an antibacterial examination and after that photographed his Ax-3 crewmates as they worked throughout the day. Mission Specialist Marcus Wandt representing ESA invested Friday juggling a variety of science experiments. The Swedish astronaut powered on plasma physics hardware, gathered station air samples for chemical analysis, and taped high frame rate video of thunderstorm conditions in Earths stratosphere.In the Roscosmos sector of the orbiting lab, veteran cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko invested his morning upgrading laptop computer system software before inventorying cargo in the Prichal docking module. First time area flyers Nikolai Chub and Konstantin Borisov divided their day studying fluid physics, life span assistance parts, and preserving communications and computer system systems.
