The orbital residents representing Expedition 71 and NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Check switched gears on Friday and turned their consideration to a number of lab upkeep actions. The 9 astronauts and cosmonauts dwelling and dealing aboard the Worldwide House Station targeted on spacewalking instruments, laptop networks, housecleaning, and inspections on the finish of the week.
NASA Flight Engineers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, and Jeanette Epps joined one another noon Friday and reorganized cargo contained in the Unity module forward of the Aug. 5 arrival of Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus area freighter. Dyson and Barratt then completed the afternoon contained in the Quest airlock accumulating and stowing instruments used throughout earlier spacewalk preparations.
Epps started her day with NASA astronaut and Starliner Commander Butch Wilmore inspecting the Everlasting Multipurpose Module for open areas earlier than spending her afternoon exercising. NASA Flight Engineer Matthew Dominick checked the overhead crew quarters within the Concord module and measured its air flow system airflows after spending his morning figuring out.
Wilmore additionally joined Starliner Pilot Suni Williams and examined cloud community connectivity utilizing a pair of laptop tablets linked to mission purposes and different laptop companies. Williams then recorded a video for junior excessive and highschool college students demonstrating 3D printing operations in microgravity. Towards the top of the day, the NASA duo referred to as right down to Boeing mission personnel and mentioned Starliner spacecraft methods and operations. The day earlier than, NASA and Boeing managers offered a Starliner standing replace throughout a televised information convention.
Station Commander Oleg Kononenko kicked off his day synchronizing digital cameras with area station clocks. The five-time customer to the orbital outpost labored the remainder of the day with Flight Engineer Nikolai Chub persevering with ongoing inspections within the aft-end of the Zvezda service module. Chub started his day conducting analysis actions in Zvezda earlier than the inspection work.
The subsequent crew to go to the Worldwide House Station, SpaceX Crew-9, launched itself in the present day throughout a televised crew information convention dwell on NASA TV on Friday. Commander Zena Cardman, Pilot Nick Hague, and Mission Specialists Stephanie Wilson and Aleksander Gorbunov are counting right down to a mid-August launch to the orbital lab aboard the SpaceX Dragon Endurance for a six-month mission. Earlier, mission managers from NASA and SpaceX mentioned the Crew-9 mission and different upcoming missions to the orbiting lab. Watch the SpaceX Crew-9 Crew Information Convention and the Mission Overview on YouTube.
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