A set of remote South Atlantic islands, the Falkland Islands, peek through the clouds as the spaceport station orbits 270 miles above Earth off the coast of South America. The Russian sector of the International Space Station can be seen to the right of the image, while a pair of solar ranges are partly shown on the. Credit: NASA
The International Space Station (ISS) Expedition 69 crew has been busily taken part in station upgrades, hardware updates, and scientific research study.
A week of station upgrades and science has actually kicked off on the International Space Station (ISS). The Expedition 69 crew kept hectic on Monday, July 10, with hardware updates, science tech sets up, Earth observations, and training.
NASA astronaut Stephen Bowen began his morning getting ready for an upcoming water fill up and science install of Plant Habitat-03B, an investigation that examines if adaptations in one generation of plants grown in area can move to the next. In the afternoon, he installed new science in the environment and included water to its reservoir. Bowen then spent his night organizing and stowing day/night glasses which help secure astronauts from radiation.
NASA astronaut Woody Hoburg began his early morning getting rid of CubeSat deployers from the Multipurpose Experiment Platform located inside the Kibo Laboratory following recentlys deployment of 6 CubeSats. Hoburg then transferred to install a Small Satellite Orbital Deployer for future mini satellites inside the Japanese Experiment Module.
The southeast Chinese port city of Xiamen, on the coast of the South China Sea with a population of over 5.1 million individuals, is visualized from the International Space Station as it orbited 258 miles above throughout an orbital night pass. Credit: NASA
United Arab Emirates (UAE) Flight Engineer Sultan Alneyadi prepared the Dreams headband for an upcoming assessment that will keep an eye on astronauts sleep quality. Alneyadi then spent time with Hoburg to examine procedures for upcoming upkeep that will be completed in the stations Tranquility module. He ended his day reconfiguring Extravehicular Mobility Units.
Flight Engineer Frank Rubio of NASA invested his morning, in addition to Commander Sergey Prokopyev and Flight Engineer Dmitri Petelin of Roscosmos finishing training on station egress procedures. Following a morning training series, Rubio moved into the Window Observational Research Facility to observe and photo Earth. In the afternoon, he examined water from the orbital laboratorys Water Recovery System and had a look at surface and air microbial samples that were previously swabbed.
Following training, Petelin continued preparing a freight discharge strategy he began recently for the upcoming ISS Progress 85 mission. Cosmonaut Flight Engineer Andrey Fedyaev started the EarthKAM software application, a program that enables trainees to from another location control a digital cam mounted on the station to take pictures of range of mountains, shorelines, and other Earth views that capture their eyes.
A set of remote South Atlantic islands, the Falkland Islands, peek through the clouds as the area station orbits 270 miles above Earth off the coast of South America. The Russian sector of the International Space Station can be seen to the right of the image, while a pair of solar varieties are partly shown on the. Alneyadi then spent time with Hoburg to review procedures for forthcoming maintenance that will be finished in the stations Tranquility module. Flight Engineer Frank Rubio of NASA invested his early morning, along with Commander Sergey Prokopyev and Flight Engineer Dmitri Petelin of Roscosmos completing training on station egress treatments.