Friday was largely a light-duty day for the seven-member Expedition 73 crew aboard the Worldwide Area Station. Nevertheless, the orbital residents did put aside a while on the finish of the week for analysis, an emergency drill, and a convention with mission managers on the bottom.
NASA flight engineers Anne McClain, Nichole Ayers, and Jonny Kim joined station Commander Takuya Onishi of JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Company) and wrapped up their shift with a pair of space-to-ground conferences. The quartet’s first convention was with the chief of NASA’s astronaut workplace adopted by a second convention with their expedition’s flight director. The quick bi-weekly conferences are held so the astronauts and mission managers can talk about a spread of matters together with upcoming missions and crew actions.
Earlier within the day, Ayers spent a number of moments swapping syringes containing protein samples and putting in take a look at cells contained in the Microgravity Science Glovebox. She was sustaining a fluid physics research exploring floor rigidity to comprise liquids and observe proteins with out contacting strong partitions. Outcomes could profit pharmaceutical manufacturing and 3D printing strategies on and off the Earth.
Kim accomplished a 48-hour session sporting the sensor-packed Bio-Monitor vest and headband that repeatedly measured his well being knowledge as he labored, exercised, and slept. Docs are testing the health-monitoring {hardware} for its consolation and reviewing the downlinked knowledge that features coronary heart charge, blood strain, and physique temperature. He additionally joined cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky to follow an emergency drill on station.
Flight Engineer Kirill Peskov labored a half-shift on Friday, servicing Earth commentary gear that captures imagery of landmarks on the bottom in quite a lot of wavelengths. Ryzhikov spent the second half of his day on electronics upkeep within the station’s Roscosmos section.
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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