By NASA
March 17, 2022
The spacewalking pair was signed up with Thursday afternoon by NASA Flight Engineers Kayla Barron and Tom Marshburn examining robotics procedures essential to support the astronauts during next weeks external upkeep job. Chari and Maurer likewise invested Thursday arranging their spacewalking tools and resizing their U.S. spacesuits.
NASA Flight Engineer Mark Vande Hei worked inside the Kibo laboratory module setting up a little satellite deployer. In the afternoon, Vande Hei studied the effectiveness of detergents in microgravity then strapped sensors to himself to measure his efficiency throughout an exercise study.
Commander Anton Shkaplerov and Flight Engineer Pyotr Dubrov continued evaluating a specialized suit, the lower body unfavorable pressure fit, for its ability to combat the impacts of weightlessness on the human body. Physicians are studying the matchs ability to offset space-caused head and eye pressure by drawing fluids towards the legs and feet while broadening veins and tissues.
NASA TELEVISION, on the app and the website, will begin its live mission protection of the team launch and docking activities at 11:15 a.m. on Friday.
Flight Engineers Raja Chari of NASA and Matthias Maurer of ESA (European Space Agency) will set their spacesuits to battery power at 8:50 a.m. representing the start of their spacewalk. NASA Television will begin its live spacewalk protection at 7:30 a.m. on Wednesday.
Astronaut Tom Marshburn of NASA (center) helps NASA astronaut Raja Chari (from left) and ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer during their U.S. spacesuit fit check. Credit: NASA
A new trio awaits its launch to sign up with the Expedition 66 team on Friday while two astronauts are preparing for next weeks spacewalk. Human research rounded out the science schedule aboard the International Space Station on Thursday.
3 cosmonauts are counting down to their take off aboard the Soyuz MS-21 crew ship at 11:55 a.m. EDT on Friday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Soyuz Commander Oleg Artemyev will lead newbie space-flyers Denis Matveev and Sergey Korsakov on a 10-minute and three-hour trip to the Prichal module where they will dock beginning a six-and-a-half-month objective aboard the station. NASA TELEVISION, on the site and the app, will start its live mission coverage of the crew launch and docking activities at 11:15 a.m. on Friday.
A second spacewalk is arranged for Wednesday, March 23, for more upgrades at the orbiting lab. Flight Engineers Raja Chari of NASA and Matthias Maurer of ESA (European Space Agency) will set their spacesuits to battery power at 8:50 a.m. signifying the start of their spacewalk. The duo will invest about six-and-a-half-hours setting up brand-new thermal system and electronic devices parts. NASA TV will begin its live spacewalk coverage at 7:30 a.m. on Wednesday.
