ISS – Expedition 69 Mission patch.
Could 19, 2023
The seven-member Expedition 69 crew break up up on Wednesday with 4 astronauts having fun with a while off and three cosmonauts staying busy with cargo transfers and lab upkeep. The astronauts did have a while for spacewalk security coaching and preparations for the arrival of 4 personal astronauts to the Worldwide House Station.
NASA Flight Engineers Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg every placed on a pair of digital actuality goggles on Friday and practiced controlling the jet packs hooked up to Extravehicular Mobility Models, or spacesuits. The jetpacks, additionally referred to as SAFERs (Simplified Assist for EVA Rescue), would offer an astronaut the flexibility to maneuver again to the station within the unlikely occasion they grew to become untethered throughout a spacewalk. The duo additionally reviewed the Enhanced Warning and Warning System that displays the spacesuit’s situation together with oxygen, water, and battery energy ranges.
Worldwide House Station (ISS). Animation Credit score: ESA
UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi took Friday morning off then spent the afternoon reviewing procedures and coaching on a pc for the strategy and docking of Axiom Mission-2 (Ax-2). He additionally arrange computer systems within the seven-window cupola and the Future laboratory module that can assist the monitoring of the Ax-2 mission’s arrival aboard the SpaceX Dragon Freedom crew ship.
The 4 Ax-2 personal astronauts are scheduled to raise off aboard Freedom from Kennedy House Middle at 5:37 p.m. on Sunday and dock to the Concord module’s space-facing port on Monday at 9:24 a.m. Ax-2 Commander Peggy Whitson will lead Pilot John Shoffner and Mission Specialists Ali Alqarni and Rayyanah Barnawi in the course of the trip to the station for a number of days of analysis, outreach, and business actions earlier than returning to Earth.
Picture above: The SpaceX Dragon Endeavour carrying 4 Axiom Mission 1 astronauts approaches the area station above the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Morocco on April 9, 2022. Picture Credit score: NASA.
NASA Flight Engineer Frank Rubio had Friday off in anticipation of supporting the Ax-2 crew arrival subsequent week, taking day trip for a pair of exercise periods on the superior resistive train machine and the train cycle. Bowen and Hoburg additionally had a few hours of off-duty time in between their spacewalk security coaching, putting in further sleeping models for the Ax-2 crew, and servicing combustion analysis {hardware}.
Commander Sergey Prokopyev, with help from Flight Engineer Andrey Fedyaev, continued cargo transfers from the ISS Progress 83 (83P) resupply ship docked to the Zvezda service module. The duo then break up up the remainder of the day for quite a lot of Roscosmos lab upkeep duties. Flight Engineer Dmitri Petelin spent his day configuring video and electronics gear earlier than inspecting home windows on the Nauka science module.
Picture above: Cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev waves to the digital camera whereas working exterior the Nauka multipurpose laboratory module throughout a spacewalk that lasted for six hours and 37 minutes to outfit Nauka and configure the European robotic arm on the Worldwide House Station’s Russian section. Picture Credit score: NASA.
The area station is orbiting barely larger after the 83P fired its engines for six minutes on Thursday. The orbital reboost raises the station to the proper altitude for the upcoming docking of the ISS Progress 84 resupply mission.
Associated article (NASA):
NASA Units Protection for Axiom Mission 2 Briefings, Occasions, Broadcast
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-sets-coverage-for-axiom-mission-2-briefings-events-broadcast
Associated hyperlinks:
Expedition 69: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition69/index.html
Seven-window cupola: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/construction/components/cupola.html
Future laboratory module: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/construction/components/us-destiny-laboratory
Concord module: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/construction/components/concord
Superior resistive train machine: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/analysis/experiments/explorer/Facility.html?#id=973
Train cycle: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/analysis/experiments/explorer/Facility.html?#id=821
Combustion analysis: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/analysis/experiments/explorer/Facility.html?#id=2060
Zvezda service module: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/construction/components/zvezda-service-module.html
Nauka multipurpose laboratory module: https://www.roscosmos.ru/tag/nauka/
House Station Analysis and Know-how: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/analysis/overview.html
Worldwide House Station (ISS): https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/major/index.html
Pictures (talked about), Animation (talked about), Textual content, Credit: NASA/Mark Garcia.
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