Three crewmates are making ready to finish their keep aboard the Worldwide Area Station and return to Earth subsequent week. In the meantime, the remainder of the Expedition 71 crew spent Monday exploring how area impacts their our bodies, engaged on a spacesuit, and transferring cargo.
NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson is nearing her mission’s completion together with Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub. Dyson packed private objects that will likely be going again to Earth together with her on the Soyuz MS-25 crew ship and on future SpaceX Dragon missions. Dyson began her mission when she launched to the orbital outpost on March 23 aboard the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft. Kononenko and Chub practiced piloting the Soyuz MS-25 on a simulator for a descent to Earth. The Roscosmos duo additionally examined the decrease physique damaging strain swimsuit that will alleviate the signs of residing in area and assist crews modify faster to the return Earth’s gravity. Kononenko and Chub have been orbiting Earth since Sept. 15, 2023, once they lifted off towards the area station on the Soyuz MS-24 crew ship.
On the finish of her crew shift, Dyson arrange medical imaging {hardware} and seen NASA Flight Engineer Mike Barratt’s eyes with floor docs observing his optic nerve, retina, cornea to know and counteract potential space-caused imaginative and prescient points. Barratt additionally connected sensors to his chest earlier than floor docs remotely guided the Vascular Echo machine and scanned his stomach within the Columbus laboratory module. He additionally labored out on the superior resistive train machine whereas sporting electrodes that recorded his coronary heart fee.
Cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner connected sensors to their foreheads and fingers on Monday to observe how blood flows all through their our bodies in weightlessness. The duo additionally continued unpacking cargo delivered aboard the Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft that transported them and NASA astronaut Don Pettit to the area station on Sept. 11. Pettit continued familiarizing himself with station operations and orbital medical procedures and tools throughout Monday.
NASA Flight Engineer Matthew Dominick examined the efficiency of lithium-ion battery chargers within the Quest airlock earlier than putting in a battery on a spacesuit. NASA astronauts Jeanette Epps and Butch Wilmore took turns all through Monday unpacking cargo from contained in the Cygnus area freighter that was captured and put in to the Unity module on Aug. 6, 2024.
Expedition 71 Flight Engineers Suni Williams of NASA and Alexander Grebenkin of Roscosmos targeted most of their day on orbital upkeep. Williams labored totally on cleansing and inspecting hatch seals whereas additionally becoming a member of Wilmore for a brief SpaceX Dragon spacecraft techniques evaluation. Grebenkin checked out air flow techniques within the Nauka science module earlier than aiding Ovchinin and Vagner throughout their blood move examine.
Study extra about station actions by following the area station weblog, @space_station and @ISS_Research on X, in addition to the ISS Fb and ISS Instagram accounts.
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