Expedition 65 backup crew member Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos is seen in quarantine, behind glass, throughout a press convention, Thursday, April 8, 2021, on the Cosmonaut Resort in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Expedition 65 NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei, Roscosmos cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Oleg Novitskiy are scheduled to launch to the Worldwide House Station aboard the Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft on April 9. Credit score: NASA/Invoice Ingalls
4 astronauts who've been aboard the Worldwide House Station (ISS) since November proceed to arrange for his or her return to Earth. This comes similtaneously 4 new astronauts are starting their mission and getting used to dwelling and dealing aboard the orbiting lab.
Portrait of Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev. Credit score: Spektor Irina
Expedition 67 Commander Tom Marshburn is on the point of hand over station management to Roscosmos Flight Engineer Oleg Artemyev. The standard change of command ceremony will happen Tuesday (Could 3, 2022) at 2:45 p.m. EDT (11:45 a.m. PDT) dwell on NASA TV’s app and web site, when the station’s 9 flight engineers witness Marshburn handing over the station’s management function to Russian cosmonaut Artemyev.
Within the meantime, Marshburn and Flight Engineers Raja Chari, Kayla Barron, and Matthias Maurer, are packing up and getting ready for his or her return to Earth. The quartet will board the SpaceX Dragon Endurance later this week after which undock from the Concord module’s ahead port, ending their keep on the house station. Chari will command the trip again residence when the foursome parachutes to a splashdown off the coast of Florida a couple of day after undocking.
In the meantime, the station’s 4 latest crew members, who've been on the station lower than per week, are kicking off their first science experiments whereas additionally getting in control with lab programs and operations.
NASA’s first time space-flyers Robert Hines and Jessica Watkins labored within the Columbus laboratory module on Monday and explored how microgravity impacts their dexterous manipulation. NASA Flight Engineer Kjell Lindgren, on his second mission, collected and saved his blood and urine samples then spent the remainder of the day on station familiarization and handover actions. ESA (European House Company) Flight Engineer Samantha Cristoforetti serviced life assist tools whereas additionally spending time adapting to life on the house station.
Oleg Artemyev, on his third house station mission, is about to take command of the Expedition 67 crew till late summer time. Yesterday, he labored on a pair of Russian experiments exploring future spacecraft and robotic piloting strategies, in addition to efficient methods to train in weightlessness. Flight Engineer Denis Matveev inspected the ISS Progress 80 cargo craft after which continued cleansing up after April 28’s spacewalk to activate the European robotic arm. Flight Engineer Sergey Korsakov swapped out a Russian pc earlier than collaborating in extra space train analysis on the finish of the day.
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