Boeing CST-100 Starliner Illustration. Credit score: NASA
The Worldwide House Station (ISS) is on the brink of welcome Boeing’s new Starliner crew ship on account of carry off subsequent week on the corporate’s Orbital Flight Check-2 mission. In the meantime, the seven-member Expedition 67 crew continued its human analysis and robotics work at present.
NASA Flight Engineers Kjell Lindgren and Bob Hines continued coaching for the arrival of the Starliner spacecraft focused for 7:10 p.m. EDT (4:10 p.m. EDT) on Friday, Might 20. The duo reviewed the OFT-2 mission profile and rehearsed the distant commanding of Starliner on a pc. The system that sends and receives information from approaching business crew autos, Frequent Communications for Visiting Autos (C2V2), was activated earlier this week. Starliner will carry off atop the Atlas-V rocket from United Launch Alliance at 6:54 p.m. EDT (3:54 p.m. PDT) on Thursday, Might 19, from Cape Canaveral House Power Station in Florida.
The Worldwide House Station flies into an orbital sundown at an altitude of 266 miles above the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of South Africa. Credit score: NASA
Lindgren and Hines additionally started the day accumulating and stowing their blood samples for later evaluation. Hines then activated the Astrobee robotic free-flyer assistants contained in the Kibo laboratory module. Lindgren later stowed the toaster-sized, cube-shaped robots after the autonomous gadgets spent the day demonstrating methods to detect and restore defective station hardware.
Astronaut Jessica Watkins grew to become acquainted with Astrobee procedures and swapped parts within the station’s waste and hygiene compartment positioned within the Tranquility module. Flight Engineer Samantha Cristoforetti from ESA (European House Company) spent all day Friday testing the rHEALTH ONE medical system for its potential to establish cells, microorganisms, and proteins in microgravity.
Over within the station’s Russian section, Commander Oleg Artemyev labored all through Friday transferring water from the ISS Progress 80 cargo craft into the Zvezda service module. He additionally packed previous station gear for disposal contained in the ISS Progress 79 resupply ship. Denis Matveev, a flight engineer, labored on air flow techniques and photographed the situation of panels inside Zvezda. Flight Engineer Sergey Korsakov continued testing the mobility of the European robotic arm hooked up to the Nauka multipurpose laboratory module.
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