A snap of ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet throughout the second spacewalk to improve the Worldwide Area Station’s energy system, taken by NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough. The duo carried out the second further vehicular exercise to bolt in place and unfurl an IROSA, or ISS Roll-Out Photo voltaic Array, on June 20, 2021. Credit score: ESA/NASA
Two NASA astronauts are assembling gear at this time they are going to set up on the Worldwide Area Station throughout an upcoming spacewalk. The remainder of the Expedition 66 crew centered on life science, house physics gear, and orbital upkeep.
NASA Flight Engineers Raja Chari and Kayla Barron started assembling modification kits at this time to prepared the station’s truss construction for brand spanking new roll-out photo voltaic arrays throughout the first spacewalk. The roll-out photo voltaic arrays will probably be delivered on an upcoming SpaceX Cargo Dragon mission and put in at a later date. The duo will set their U.S. spacesuits to battery energy at 7:50 a.m. on March 15, signifying the start of their deliberate six-and-a-half-hour spacewalk. The second spacewalk on March 23 will see extra roll-out photo voltaic array preparations by two but to be named astronauts.
The waxing gibbous Moon is pictured on from the house station because it orbited above the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Canada. Credit score: NASA
Roll-out photo voltaic array expertise is not going to solely increase the house station’s current photo voltaic arrays and energy system, they may also be used to energy the Lunar Gateway. Gateway is an area station developed by NASA, the Canadian Area Company, ESA (European Area Company), and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Company that can orbit the Moon and can function a hub for crew visiting the lunar floor and past. Gateway will allow new scientific investigations within the cis-lunar atmosphere throughout crewed and uncrewed intervals.
As regular, science is at all times ongoing aboard the house station, each remotely and with astronaut participation, as crew members explored how microgravity impacts human physiology on Thursday. NASA Flight Engineers Mark Vande Hei and Tom Marshburn partnered collectively within the Kibo laboratory module to check what occurs to eye construction and visible operate in weightlessness. Analysis operations had been carried out contained in the Life Science Glovebox and will present insights and inform remedies for eye circumstances in house and on Earth.
NASA Astronaut Mark Vande Hei. Credit score: NASA
Astronaut Matthias Maurer of ESA (European Area Company) collected his urine samples and stowed them in a science freezer for future evaluation to know how his physique is adapting to the house atmosphere. Maurer then moved on and changed components contained in the Electromagnetic Levitator, a physics analysis facility that allows secure, high-temperature observations of the thermophysical properties of metallic alloys.
Vande Hei reached 328 days in house on March 3, 2022, passing NASA astronaut Christina Koch’s report set again on February 6, 2020. He'll break NASA’s all-time single spaceflight report of 340 days on March 15 set by NASA astronaut Scott Kelly again on March 1, 2016. Vande Hei will return to Earth on March 30 having achieved a NASA record-breaking 355 days on orbit.
Commander Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos was on responsibility on Thursday changing life help gear within the station’s Russian phase. Flight Engineer Pyotr Dubrov labored on laptop and video gear then checked thermal hardware within the Nauka multipurpose laboratory module.
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