A jam-packed day of orbital maintenance saved the Worldwide Area Station residents busy on Monday. The Expedition 71 and Boeing Crew Flight Take a look at crews labored an array of upkeep and cleansing duties after taking a weekend off.
NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson and Matthew Dominick kicked off the day by loading trash and discarded gear inside Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft, which will probably be launched from the Unity module by robotics floor controllers this month for disposal over the South Pacific Ocean. Later within the afternoon, the duo was joined by NASA astronauts Jeanette Epps and Mike Barratt to arrange and relocate station gear and eliminate trash in parts of the orbital outpost.
Earlier, Epps carried out an Newbie Radio session with college students from the Moroccan Faculty of Engineering Sciences in Casablanca, Morocco. Afterward, she and Barratt labored contained in the Future module to scrub parts of the air duct system and exchange fasteners on a number of the panels that home the duct work. Barratt then moved on to examine and {photograph} headset extension cables and audio gear for floor groups to investigate.
Starliner’s Commander and Pilot, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, spent the morning within the Everlasting Multipurpose Module, organizing stowage and tidying up. Wilmore then moved into the Japanese Experiment Module to disassemble an empty NanoRacks CubeSat Deployer in preparation of upcoming NanoRacks missions.
In a while, Wilmore prepped and seen samples for Moon Microscope, an illustration that enables flight surgeons on Earth to diagnose sicknesses and will present diagnostic capabilities for crews on future missions to the Moon and Mars. In the meantime, Williams carried out some routine orbital plumbing, then audited U.S. stowage gadgets housed contained in the Zarya module.
The following spacewalk outdoors the orbiting advanced is scheduled for July 29 with Dyson and Barratt. This modification permits groups on the bottom to proceed to troubleshoot and perceive the water leak within the service and cooling umbilical unit that compelled an early finish to a spacewalk on Monday, June 24.
Within the Roscosmos phase, three cosmonauts continued orbital maintenance duties. Commander Oleg Kononenko and Flight Engineer Nikolai Chub teamed as much as stock headsets and audio tools crews use to speak with floor groups. Afterward, Chub accomplished some routine cleansing within the Zvezda Service Module. Flight Engineer Alexander Grebenkin changed just a few hoses on the Roscosmos water processing system, then charged the tablets the crew makes use of to finish and monitor each day duties.
The house station is orbiting a bit increased at present after the Progress 87 cargo craft fired its thrusters for 9 minutes and 10 seconds on Saturday, June 29. This orbital reboost units up the proper phasing for the launch and rendezvous of Progress 89 slated for arrival mid-August.
Be taught extra about station actions by following the house station weblog, @space_station and @ISS_Research on X, in addition to the ISS Fb and ISS Instagram accounts.
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