NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei research cotton genetics for the Plant Habitat-5 house agriculture experiment. (January 6, 2022) Credit score: NASA
NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei has lived in house constantly for 300 days since launching and docking to the orbiting lab on April 9, 2021. He's on his strategy to surpassing Christina Koch’s 328-day mission on March 3 and Scott Kelly’s 340 days on March 15. Vande Hei will return to Earth on March 30 with a NASA astronaut record-breaking 355 consecutive days in Earth orbit.
CAPCOM Woody Hobaugh from Mission Management in Houston congratulated each Vande Hei and Flight Engineer Pyotr Dubrov on reaching their 300-day milestone immediately. Hearken to the audio downlink.
Vande Hei arrived on the station aboard the Soyuz MS-18 crew ship with Dubrov and Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy. Novitskiy returned to Earth on October 17, 2021, with spaceflight individuals Yulia Peresild and Klim Shipenko. Dubrov will stay onboard the station with Vande Hei and parachute to a touchdown with station Commander Anton Shkaplerov in Kazakhstan aboard the Soyuz MS-19 crew ship on the finish of March.
In the meantime, aboard the Worldwide Area Station yesterday (February 3, 2022) the Expedition 66 crew continued its house biology and human analysis actions. Scientists will use the info to discover ways to enhance well being in house and Earth.
NASA astronaut and Expedition 53 Flight Engineer Mark Vande Hei is pictured throughout a spacewalk to service parts on the Canadarm2 robotic arm throughout a spacewalk with NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik (out of body). (October 10, 2017) Credit score: NASA
Flight Engineers Raja Chari of NASA and Matthias Maurer of ESA (European Area Company) joined one another Wednesday afternoon for a visible perform research contained in the Kibo laboratory module. The investigation explores how microgravity impacts the vascular perform and tissue transforming within the eye. NASA Flight Engineer Kayla Barron participated in one other imaginative and prescient research exploring how an astronaut visually interprets movement, orientation, and distance in house.
Chari then examined the eyes of NASA Flight Engineer Thomas Marshburn utilizing medical imaging gear, or optical coherence tomography. Maurer assisted the pair within the afternoon, however began his day establishing digital actuality gear for a coaching session within the Columbus laboratory module.
Shkaplerov spent Thursday servicing video gear, transferring cargo from contained in the Prichal docking module, and establishing Earth commentary hardware. Dubrov and Vande Hei partnered collectively and put in inside wi-fi gear within the station’s Russian phase through the afternoon.
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