4 of the seven Expedition 72 crew members aboard the Worldwide Area Station had a lightweight obligation day on Monday awaiting an area supply attributable to arrive Tuesday morning. Nevertheless, there was nonetheless time aboard the orbital outpost for a coronary heart well being examine, DNA analysis, spacesuit work, and extra.
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Dragon cargo spacecraft atop is on the Kennedy Area Middle in Florida counting right down to a raise off at 9:29 p.m. EST at present. Dragon is filled with over 6,000 kilos of science, provides, and {hardware} to replenish the lab residents. NASA Flight Engineers Nick Hague and Butch Wilmore shall be on obligation monitoring Dragon’s automated rendezvous and docking scheduled for 10:15 a.m. on Tuesday. Afterward, station Commander Suni Williams and Flight Engineer Don Pettit, each NASA astronauts, will be part of the duo and start unloading vital analysis samples and {hardware} to start exploring the photo voltaic wind, radiation tolerance in crops, and extra aboard the orbital outpost.
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The NASA quartet principally had an off-duty day on Monday following Sunday morning’s quick trip aboard the SpaceX Dragon crew spacecraft to completely different house station docking port. Hague commanded Williams, Wilmore, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov inside Dragon because it undocked from the Concord module’s ahead port at 6:35 a.m. then redocked to Concord’s adjoining space-facing port at 7:25 a.m. opening it up for Tuesday’s Dragon cargo supply. Pettit remained contained in the house station monitoring the crew’s automated relocation maneuver aboard the Dragon crew spacecraft.
Nevertheless, Hague spent about an hour on Monday gathering {hardware} that may measure his coronary heart and respiratory exercise throughout an upcoming train session for the Cardiobreath human analysis examine. Wilmore had a fast activity establishing a student-designed DNA experiment that may discover the genetic dangers, together with most cancers, of residing and dealing in house. Williams was on spacesuit obligation through the second a part of her day inspecting the spacewalking gear for leaks. Pettit spent a couple of moments logging his each day meals in an area well being app for the EveryWear know-how demonstration.
Gorbunov had a full schedule aboard the station on Monday working quite a lot of Earth remark gear imaging the nighttime environment and landmarks on the bottom in several wavelengths. Flight Engineer Alexey Ovchinin inventoried private cosmonaut gadgets then labored on air flow methods within the Nauka science module. Flight Engineer Ivan Vagner charged video digicam batteries then stowed trash and different discarded gadgets contained in the Progress 88 resupply ship earlier than its departure later this month.
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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