The 11-member Expedition 72 crew wrapped up the workweek with gentle science duties and normal housekeeping duties aboard the Worldwide House Station. In the meantime, 4 members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission proceed making ready for his or her return to Earth.
A lot of the orbiting crew had a light-weight obligation day with analysis taking a again seat to orbital upkeep on Friday. NASA Flight Engineers Don Pettit, Nick Hague, and Matthew Dominick primarily centered on lab maintenance stowing {hardware} for an superior life assist investigation, swapping orbital plumbing parts, and changing a failed air flow fan. Pettit and Dominick additionally collected their blood, saliva, and urine samples for processing and evaluation whereas Hague measured the temperature of a biology imaging system.
Commander Suni Williams and Struggle Engineer Butch Wilmore, each from NASA, each labored half a day on Friday with experimental work and upkeep duties. Williams first took a cognition check measuring her talents equivalent to reminiscence, reasoning, decision-making and extra then checked connections on radio frequency identification {hardware}. Wilmore activated a fluorescence microscope to watch how particles of various sizes gel and coarsen.
NASA Flight Engineers Mike Barratt and Jeanette Epps additionally had a light-weight shift on Friday. Barratt spent about an hour servicing spacesuit helmet parts whereas Epps assisted with blood pattern collections then swapped cables on a station pc.
Within the Roscosmos section of the orbiting lab, Flight Engineers Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner partnered collectively for a blood strain research then break up up for all times assist upkeep and cargo stowage. Flight Engineer Aleksandr Gorbunov checked strain studying readings within the Nauka science module whereas fellow cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin labored on the air flow system contained in the Rassvet module.
Within the meantime, climate circumstances stay unfavorable for the departure of the SpaceX Crew-8 mission. Dominick, Barratt, Epps, and Grebenkin at the moment are focusing on their undocking for no sooner than 3:05 a.m. EDT on Monday. The Industrial Crew quartet are making ready to finish a seven-month analysis mission and return to Earth aboard the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft.
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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