NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn handed over command of the Worldwide House Station to Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev in a conventional Change of Command ceremony in the present day forward of Crew-3’s departure tonight. Credit score: NASA TV.
NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn handed over command of the Worldwide House Station (ISS) to Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev in a conventional Change of Command ceremony which started at 2:35 p.m. EDT (11:35 a.m. PDT) in the present day. Artemyev, a veteran of three spaceflights to the area station, will lead the Expedition 67 crew till the tip of summer season.
Marshburn and his Crew-3 crewmates Kayla Barron, Raja Chari, and ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer have been residing aboard the orbital lab since November 11, 2021, and are set to depart tonight. Hatch closure is ready for 11:20 p.m. EDT (8:20 p.m. PDT), with undocking following at 1:05 a.m. EDT (10:05 p.m. PDT). The business crew quartet is because of splashdown off the coast of Florida at 12:43 a.m. EDT on Friday, Could 6 (9:43 p.m. EDT on Thursday, Could 5). Watch reside on NASA TV, the company’s web site, and the app.
Expedition 65 backup crew member 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
The Crew-3 astronauts labored on closing Dragon cargo operations and configuring Dragon for departure, closing egress, and hatch closure, in addition to transferring emergency hardware from Dragon to the area station previous to departure. The Endurancecrew closed out analysis operations which included transferring and packing frozen samples and ice bricks from the Minus Eighty (Levels Celsius) Laboratory Freezer for ISS (MELFI) into coldbags in preparation for the return to Earth. MELFI offers the area station storage and fast-freezing of life science and organic samples. The Crew-3 astronauts additionally eliminated and stowed their Actiwatches, small, light-weight, wrist-worn gadgets that concurrently detect physique motion and lightweight depth. They're used to judge sleep-wake adaptation and circadian cycle and decide if area journey has an impression on the sleep-wake patterns of crewmembers.
The station’s 4 latest astronauts, Kjell Lindgren, Bob Hines, Jessica Watkins, and Samantha Cristoforetti, had a light-duty day performing some life science, lab upkeep, and stock duties. The foursome and their three Russian crewmates are on account of have an off-duty day following the departure of the SpaceX Crew-3 mission.
Within the station’s Russian section, Artemyev and Flight Engineers Sergey Korsakov and Denis Matveev carried out month-to-month upkeep checks on laptops and video tools, in addition to bodily coaching, and a robotic piloting experiment.
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