A U.S. area freighter is being packed with cargo ahead of its departure and go back to Earth later on this month. Rubio and Flight Engineer Sultan Alneyadi of UAE (United Arab Emirates) have begun filling the SpaceX Dragon cargo craft with finished science experiments and used station hardware for retrieval and analysis by researchers and engineers on the ground. Dragon docked to the orbiting laboratory on March 16 packed with 6,200 pounds of research study gear, crew supplies, and other cargo to replenish the station team.
The International Space Station is visualized from the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour during a fly-around of the orbiting laboratory that occurred following its undocking from the Harmony modules space-facing port on November 8, 2021. Credit: NASA Johnson
NASA Flight Engineers Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg spent their day on biology research to comprehend how the human body modifications in space. Hundreds of investigations have actually taken location aboard the orbital outpost since Expedition One to gain increasing understanding about how people adapt to long-lasting weightlessness and find out more efficient ways to neutralize space-caused signs.
Roscosmos Flight Engineer Andrey Fedyaev took part in a pair of heart studies and a team habits experiment on Wednesday. The first-time space leaflet initially completed a 24-hour session that monitored his heart activity and blood pressure.
The Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft is seen approaching the Poisk module of the space station prior to docking at 7:58 p.m. EST as the spaceport station was flying 260 miles above northern Mongolia. Credit: NASA TV
Three Expedition 69 crew members had a brief day on Wednesday and went to sleep early ahead of the moving of their Soyuz team ship on Thursday early morning. The remainder of the International Space Station (ISS) team had their hands full throughout the day performing biology research study and packing a freight craft.
Two Roscosmos cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut will take a short ride around the spaceport station inside the Soyuz MS-23 team ship relocating it from the Poisk module to the Prichal docking module early Thursday. Leader Sergey Prokopyev will assist the MS-23 to its brand-new docking port flanked by flight engineers Dmitri Petelin and Frank Rubio. The moving opens up Poisks airlock for future Roscosmos spacewalks in Orlan spacesuits and frees its docking port for the upcoming ISS Progress 84 resupply objective.
( From left) NASA astronaut Frank Rubio and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin will take a short trip around the area station inside the Soyuz MS-23 crew ship. Credit: NASA
The Soyuz vehicle with the three crewmates will undock from Poisks space-facing port at 4:45 a.m. EDT on Thursday, maneuver behind and under the space station, then dock to Prichals Earth-facing port at 5:23 a.m. After leakage and pressure checks are carried out, the trio will reenter the orbiting laboratory, and go to sleep early before continuing their space research study mission on Friday.
2 Roscosmos cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut will take a brief trip around the space station inside the Soyuz MS-23 crew ship moving it from the Poisk module to the Prichal docking module early Thursday. A U.S. area truck is being loaded with cargo ahead of its departure and return to Earth later on this month. Dragon docked to the orbiting laboratory on March 16 packed with 6,200 pounds of research study gear, crew materials, and other freight to renew the station crew.
The novice space flyer first finished a 24-hour session that monitored his heart activity and blood pressure.