The 9 residents aboard the Worldwide House Station comprising each the Expedition 71 and NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Take a look at groups had a day stuffed with spacesuit checks, superior microgravity analysis, and orbital lab upkeep.
NASA Flight Engineers Tracy C. Dyson and Mike Barratt stored up their spacewalk preparations following the early finish to Monday’s tour. The duo’s spacewalk solely lasted 31 minutes following a water leak within the service and cooling umbilical unit on Dyson’s spacesuit. Dyson and Barratt safely ended the spacewalk, repressurized the Quest airlock, and eliminated their spacesuits simply over an hour after the spacewalk ended.
Barratt started Tuesday morning troubleshooting Dyson’s spacesuit and inspecting the swimsuit’s parts. Afterward, he joined Dyson for ongoing process critiques with fellow astronauts Matthew Dominick and Jeanette Epps for future spacewalks.
Dyson wrapped up her day swapping out a water resupply tank within the Future laboratory module whereas Barratt serviced spacesuit lithium-ion batteries in Quest. Dominick labored within the Kibo laboratory module testing flight trajectories and gesture-recognition software program on an Astrobee robotic free flyer. Epps traded foam samples contained in the Columbus laboratory module for a fluid physics investigation exploring the hydrodynamics of moist foams probably benefitting mechanical and industrial processes.
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, Starliner Commander and Pilot respectively, spent Tuesday contained in the Concord module sustaining orbital plumbing gear. The Crew Flight Take a look at duo changed the strain management and pump meeting motor that helps the house station’s important restroom, also called the waste and hygiene compartment, within the Tranquility module.
Working within the Roscosmos phase of the orbiting outpost, Station Commander Oleg Kononenko photographed the situation of handrails within the Zvezda, Poisk, and Nauka modules to find out of they want changing. Flight Engineer Nikolai Chub swapped out rest room parts inside Zvezda through the morning. He then spent the afternoon with Flight Engineer Alexander Grebenkin accumulating microbial air samples within the Roscosmos modules for evaluation. Throughout his morning, Grebenkin downloaded radiation information then explored spacecraft and robotic piloting strategies future crews would possibly use on planetary missions.
Study 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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