9 astronauts and cosmonauts live aboard the Worldwide Area Station following the arrival of two crewmates aboard Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft for the primary time on Thursday. The Expedition 71 crewmates slept in on Friday then cut up up their day on spacewalk preparations, human analysis, and Starliner configurations.
Starliner crew members Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, each veteran NASA astronauts, boarded the orbital outpost after docking the spacecraft to the Concord module’s ahead port at 1:34 p.m. EDT on Thursday. The duo will spend a weeklong mission on the outpost testing the brand new spacecraft’s methods and conducting microgravity analysis.
Wilmore and Williams slept in on Friday earlier than starting their first full day on the station transferring cargo and emergency gear out and in of Starliner. The Starliner crew will go into the weekend testing the brand new car’s docked capabilities and methods.
In the meantime, a trio of spacewalks are deliberate this month for science and upkeep on the orbital lab. NASA Flight Engineer Tracy C. Dyson labored all through Friday reviewing spacewalk procedures and configuring spacewalk instruments contained in the Quest airlock with help from fellow flight engineers Mike Barratt and Jeanette Epps.
Mission managers will talk about the upcoming spacewalks on NASA TV at 4 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, June 11. Watch stay on the NASA+ streaming service by way of the online or the NASA app. Mission protection additionally will air stay on NASA Tv, YouTube, and on the company’s web site. Learn to stream NASA TV by way of a wide range of platforms together with social media.
Barratt additionally helped the Starliner astronauts unpack new station cargo earlier than servicing life help tools within the Future, Tranquility, and Concord modules. Epps spent the remainder of her day processing blood and saliva samples for the Immunity Assay investigation that’s exploring how microgravity impacts mobile immunity. NASA Flight Engineer Matthew Dominick assisted the Starliner crew with emergency {hardware} then wrapped up his day in Tranquility changing orbital plumbing parts.
Roscosmos station Commander Oleg Kononenko began his day getting accustomed to the Plasma Crystal-4 house physics experiment that explores low-temperature fuel mixtures. Subsequent, he examined a 3D printer’s means to fabricate {hardware} in house. Flight Engineers Nikolai Chub and Alexander Grebenkin took turns scanning one another’s stomachs after breakfast to watch how the digestion system adapts to long-term weightlessness. The duo cut up up afterward and labored the remainder of Friday on a wide range of life help upkeep all through the house station’s Roscosmos phase.
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