Новости МКС

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2 минуты до отделения от МКС

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Окно открылось

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Dragon released!

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Дракон - снова самостоятельный космический объект. Отделение на подлёте к Большому Австралийскому заливу

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SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft Departs Space Station
Posted on March 19, 2017 at 5:30 am by Hayley Fick.


The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft was released fr om space station at 5:11 a.m. ET on March 19 after delivering more than 5,500 pounds of cargo.

Expedition 50 astronauts Thomas Pesquet of ESA (European Space Agency) and Shane Kimbrough of NASA released the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft from the International Space Station's robotic arm at 5:11 a.m. EDT.

With the spacecraft a safe distance from the station, SpaceX flight controllers in Hawthorne, California, will command its deorbit burn around 10 a.m. The capsule will splash down at about 10:54 a.m. in the Pacific Ocean, wh ere recovery forces will retrieve the capsule and its more than 5,400 pounds of cargo. The cargo includes science samples from human and animal research, external payloads, biology and biotechnology studies, physical science investigations and education activities.

The deorbit burn and splashdown will not be broadcast on NASA TV.

NASA and the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS), the non-profit organization that manages research aboard the U.S. national laboratory portion of the space station, will receive time-sensitive samples and begin working with researchers to process and distribute them within 48 hours of splashdown.

Dragon, the only space station resupply spacecraft able to return to Earth intact, launched Feb. 19 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from historic Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and arrived at the station Feb. 23 for the company's 10th NASA-contracted commercial resupply mission.

This entry was posted in Expedition 50 and tagged dragon, European Space Agency, Expedition 50, International Space Station, NASA, spacex on March 19, 2017 by Hayley Fick.

https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2017/03/19/spacex-dragon-spacecraft-departs-space-station/

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Thomas Pesquet‏Подлинная учетная запись @Thom_astro 1 ч назад

Today we said good bye to #Dragon! She is taking part of us back to ground with her – important scientific samples, some from the crew!
 

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Себяшечка на память

Thomas Pesquet‏Подлинная учетная запись @Thom_astro 2 ч. назад

 It has become somewhat of a tradition with all the visiting vehicles recently: please bear with us for the requisite selfie    
 
 SpaceX, Shane Kimbrough и Intl. Space Station

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Intl. Space Station‏Подлинная учетная запись @Space_Station 18 мин. назад

The Expedition 50 crew is gearing up for three spacewalks as the @SpaceX #Dragon returns to port today. https://go.nasa.gov/2nWF1i0 

https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2017/03/20/crew-gears-up-for-three-spacewalks-as-dragon-heads-to-port/

Crew Gears Up for Three Spacewalks as Dragon Heads to Port
Posted on March 20, 2017 at 12:36 pm by Mark Garcia.

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NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough is photographed during a spacewalk in January 2017.

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The Expedition 50 crew is gearing up for three spacewalks over two weeks to continue the external maintenance at the International Space Station. Also, the SpaceX Dragon is returning to port today after completing a month-long stay at the station.

Astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Thomas Pesquet will begin the first spacewalk Friday at 8 a.m. EDT. NASA TV will begin live coverage of the 198th spacewalk in support of station assembly and maintenance Friday at 6:30 a.m.

The two spacewalkers will spend 6.5 hours disconnecting cables from the Pressurized Mating Adapter-3 (PMA-3), lubricating the tip of the Canadarm2, inspecting a radiator and replacing cameras. Computer relay boxes will also be replaced. The new hardware contains software upgrades for future dockings of commercial crew vehicles.

Friday's cable work on the PMA-3 will prepare it for its relocation from the Tranquility module to the Harmony module on March 30. The relocation opens up the Tranquility port for the future installation of the new International Docking Adapter-3 set to be delivered on a future cargo mission.

The SpaceX Dragon is heading to its port today in southern California after a successful splashdown in the Pacific Ocean Sunday morning. NASA support personnel will retrieve the numerous research samples stowed in Dragon's cargo hold and deliver them to scientists for analysis. The results of the advanced space science may improve disease therapies and injury treatments on Earth.

This entry was posted in Expedition 50 and tagged dragon, European Space Agency, Expedition 50, International Space Station, NASA, Roscosmos, spacewalk, spacex on March 20, 2017 by Mark Garcia.

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Задержка Лебедя, концентрация на выходе в открытый космос...

Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight 23 мин.23 минуты назад

The Cygnus slip frees Friday for concentration on US EVA-40. However, watching for impact to Falcon 9 Static Fire and launch dates (SES-10).

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Intl. Space Station‏Подлинная учетная запись @Space_Station 1 ч. назад

To everything there is a season, including the time when a small video camera makes its first trip into the void of space with @Thom_Astro!
 
 
I Am a Camera: On a Spacewalk
Thomas Pesquet​ wore this camera during a nearly six-hour-long walk around the outside of the space station. Here's that day boiled down to three minutes, from the point of view of the camera!

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Какую "науку" должен привезти на МКС очередной Лебедь...

ISS Research‏Подлинная учетная запись @ISS_Research 40 мин. назад

Read about the @ISS_Research heading to your orbiting laboratory aboard #Cygnus: https://go.nasa.gov/2mCQS4C

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/oa7_research_launches

March 17, 2017
 
 Orbital ATK Cygnus Set to Deliver Research to Space Station
 

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 The Cygnus spacecraft reenters the Earth's atmosphere, as observed by Expedition 40 crewmembers aboard the space station. RED-Data2, a soccer-ball sized companion to a spacecraft reentering the Earth's atmosphere, will be a test-bed for the testing and demonstration of high-heat materials.
Credits: NASA
 

 NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson installs the original SUBSA hardware on Expedition 5. SUBSA Furnace and Inserts, an updated and modernized version of SUBSA, will soon join Whitson on her current expedition as well.
Credits: NASA

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Orbital ATK is targeted to launch its Cygnus spacecraft into orbit for a resupply mission to the International Space Station March 24, 2017 fr om Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Cygnus will launch atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying crew supplies, equipment and scientific research to crew members aboard the station. The flight will deliver investigations that study magnetic cell culturing, crystal growth and atmospheric reentry.

Here are some highlights of research scheduled to be delivered to the station:

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ADCs in Microgravity could provide better drug designs for cancer patients

In microgravity, cancer cells grow in 3-D, spheroid structures that closely resemble their form in the human body, allowing to better test the efficacy of a drug. The Efficacy and Metabolism of Azonafide Antibody-Drug Conjugates in Microgravity (ADCs in Microgravity) investigation tests new antibody drug conjugates, developed by Oncolinx.

These conjugates combine an immune-activating drug with antibodies and target only cancer cells, which could potentially increase the effectiveness of chemotherapy and potentially reduce the associated side-effects. Results fr om this investigation could help inform drug design for cancer patients, as well as more insight into how microgravity effects a drug's performance.

3-D cell culturing in space may lead to improved drug development costs

Cells cultured in space spontaneously grow in 3-D, as opposed to cells cultured on Earth which grow in 2-D, resulting in characteristics more representative of how cells grow and function in living organisms.  The Magnetic 3-D Cell Culture for Biological Research in Microgravity (Magnetic 3-D Cell Culturing) investigation will test magnetized cells and tools that may make it easier to handle cells and cell cultures. As a result, this could help investigators improving the ability to reproduce similar investigations on Earth.

This investigation will test ways to manipulate and culture cells in 2-D and 3-D in space and on the ground, which may help isolate the effects of gravity in experiments. If investigators can identify these effects on the cell's growth, data will be used to help design environments on Earth which mimic microgravity, which could reduce the cost of drug development.

SUBSA Furnace and Inserts provide for improved crystal growth in microgravity

The Solidification Using a Baffle in Sealed Ampoules (SUBSA) investigation was originally operated successfully aboard the space station in 2002. Although it has been updated with modernized software, data acquisition, high definition video and communication interfaces, its objective remains the same: advance our understanding of the processes involved in semiconductor crystal growth.

Many crystal growth investigations, such as CLYC Crystal Growth and Detached Melt and Vapor Growth of InI, will occur within SUBSA Furnace and Inserts. Samples can be observed with high-definition video in real-time, along with remote commanding of thermal control parameters by investigation teams.

Understanding how space debris reenters the atmosphere can lead to improved spacecraft materials

Out-of-function satellites, spent rocket stages and other debris frequently reenter Earth's atmosphere, wh ere most of it breaks up and disintegrates before hitting the ground. However, some larger objects can survive atmospheric reentry. The ability to predict how an object will break apart is valuable in the protection of people and property. The Thermal Protection Material Flight Test and Reentry Data Collection (RED-Data2) investigation studies a new type of recording device that rides alongside of a spacecraft reentering the Earth's atmosphere, recording data about the extreme conditions it encounters during reentry, something scientists have been unable to test on a large scale thus far.

Understanding what happens to a spacecraft as it reenters the atmosphere could lead to increased accuracy of spacecraft breakup predictions, an improved design of future spacecraft and the development of materials that can resist the extreme heat and pressure of returning to Earth.

IceCube CubeSat seeks to improve understanding of weather and climate models

IceCube, a small satellite known as a CubeSat, will measure cloud ice using an 883-Gigahertz radiometer. Used to predict weather and climate models, IceCube will collect the first global map of cloud-induced radiances. The key objective for this investigation is to raise the technology readiness level, a NASA assessment that measures a technology's maturity level.

Advanced Plant Habitat supports plant research

Joining the space station's growing list of facilities is the Advanced Plant Habitat, a fully enclosed, environmentally controlled plant habitat used to conduct plant bioscience research. The habitat integrates proven microgravity plant growth processes with newly-developed technologies to increase overall efficiency and reliability. The ability to cultivate plants for food and oxygen generation aboard the space station is a key step in the planning of longer-duration, deep space missions wh ere frequent resupply missions may not be a possibility.

This flight marks Orbital ATK's seventh cargo delivery mission to the space station, and the research on board will join many other investigations currently happening aboard the orbiting laboratory. Follow @ISS_Research for more information about the science happening on station. 

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Jenny Howard
International Space Station Program Science Office
Johnson Space Center

 
Last Updated: March 17, 2017
Editor: Kristine Rainey

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https://ria.ru/science/20170321/1490449838.html

Экипаж МКС проведет плановый выход в открытый космос
ВАШИНГТОН, 21 мар – РИА Новости. Находящиеся на орбите астронавты НАСА и ЕКА Кимброу и Песке совершат 24 марта выход в открытый космос для подготовки установки нового международного стыковочного адаптера, сообщило НАСА в понедельник.
По информации ведомства, работы на внешней поверхности Международной космической станции (МКС) также запланированы на 2 и 7 апреля. Предстоящие выходы в открытый космос станут 198, 199 и 200-ым соответственно с начала работы МКС.
В ходе предстоящего выхода в открытый космос командир 50-го экипажа астронавт НАСА Шейн Кимброу и борт-инженер астронавт ЕКА Тома Песке подготовят герметичный стыковочный переходник (PMA-3) для установки второго международного стыковочного адаптера (IDA) станции, который будет использоваться для будущих стыковок с пилотируемыми кораблями. Астронавтам предстоит отключить находящийся на модуле "Спокойствие" (Tranquility) PMA-3 для того, чтобы затем (ориентировочно 30 марта) специалисты Земли с помощью манипулятора станции перенесли его на модуль "Гармония" (Harmony) для последующего крепления на него Международного стыковочного адаптера IDA, который будет позднее доставлен на МКС на борту грузового корабля Dragon.
Кимброу и Песке также предстоит смазать манипулятор Canadarm2, провести техническое обслуживание клапанов радиатора станции, где ранее была выявлена незначительная утечка аммиака, а также заменить камеры на японском модуле МКС.
Второго апреля на внешней поверхности станции будут работать Кимброу и борт-инженер станции астронавт НАСА Пегги Уитсон. Они осуществят подключение PMA-3.
В ходе третьего выхода на внешнюю поверхность, который предварительно запланирован на 7 апреля, Уитсон и Песке проведут замену находящегося на внешней поверхности станции (ExPRESS Logistics Carrier) бортового блока с электронной аппаратурой.
Каждый выход в открытый космос будет традиционно продолжаться около 6,5 часов, его трансляцию будет вести сайт НАСА.

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ISS Daily Summary Report – 3/20/2017
Posted on March 20, 2017 at 4:00 pm by HQ.
          
With the decision today to move the OA7 launch to NET March 27, we have decided to move the IMMT OA7 Readiness Review from March 22 to March 27.  We will have the IMMT OA7 RR at 08:00 CDT on March 27 and if OA7 launches later that day, it would be around 18:49 CDT.   We will still have an IMMT this Wednesday, March 22, but the focus will be on the EVA Readiness Review, including the EPIC Ext R9 Transition Readiness Review.

This entry was posted in 2017, March on March 20, 2017 by HQ.                        

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Tuesday morning.

Cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Andrey Borisenko documented what they ate for breakfast and lunch today for a pair of nutrition studies. The experiments are researching how diet affects a crew member's metabolism and bone structure while living in space. Flight Engineer Sergey Ryzhikov spent the day checking Russian life support gear and sampling drinking water.

Get weekly video highlights at: http://jscfeatures.jsc.nasa.gov/videoupdate/

This entry was posted in Expedition 50 and tagged European Space Agency, Expedition 50, International Space Station, NASA, Roscosmos on March 21, 2017 by Mark Garcia.

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США. Слушание с небольшим количеством участников. МКС после 2024 года. 

Space Subcommittee Hearing- The ISS after 2024: Options and Impacts

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http://spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=50645
Chairman Babin Opening Statement The ISS after 2024: Options and Impacts
U.S. Rep. Brian Babin (R-Texas), chairman of the U.S. House Science, Space, and Technology Committee's Subcommittee on Space
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Once such pioneering challenges are overcome, it is time to reexamine where the frontier really lies. In 2015, Congress extended ISS operations until 2024. Congress recently passed and the President just yesterday, enacted the NASA Transition Authorization Act of 2017 which requires NASA to develop a transition plan for the ISS after 2024. NASA has estimated that the ISS will cost taxpayers between three and four billion dollars annually through 2024 — roughly half of NASA's total human spaceflight budget. A 2014 report fr om the NASA Inspector General calls this figure optimistic. That report also noted several hardware concerns, including the degradation of the station's solar power arrays. If NASA stays on the ISS beyond 2024, we ought to be aware that remaining on the ISS will come at a cost.
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Aside from private sector impacts, the international aspect is also a critical part of the puzzle. The European Space Agency has already shifted its focus from the ISS, changing its contribution from ISS resupply to collaborating with NASA on the Orion Crew Vehicle. Meanwhile, China will be putting their first space station into operation just as the presence of NASA (and its international partners) on the ISS could be ending, effectively turning over human presence in low-Earth orbit to China.

Continuing NASA's involvement on the ISS could arbitrarily lim it or delay human exploration of deep space by the US. Let us not forget that China also plans to launch a crewed mission to the Moon in the 2030s. What we do in low-Earth orbit will dramatically influence global efforts in space exploration.
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http://spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=50646
Ranking Member Johnson Opening Statement for Hearing on ISS after 2024

 http://spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=49970
Statement by William Gerstenmaier: The ISS After 20204
Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Options for the Future
The ISS continues to be a healthy system that is operating well within prudent technical margins while consistently demonstrating outstanding steady-state performance that meets or exceeds prior engineering estimates. U.S.-built Station modules were designed for a 30-year on-orbit lifetime, and the lifetime extension data that NASA and the ISS Partnership have reviewed to date indicates that extension to 2028 is technically feasible. Further, as NASA has moved into Station's intensive utilization phase, we have become more cost-efficient in ISS operations and continue to look for further efficiencies.
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 http://spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=49969
Statement by Mary Lynne Dittmar: The ISS After 2024
Executive Director Coalition for Deep Space Exploration 

 http://spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=49967
Statement by Eric Stalmer: The ISS After 20204
STATEMENT OFERIC W. STALLMER/rPRESIDENT, COMMERCIAL SPACEFLIGHT FEDERATION
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The Commercial Spaceflight Federation is concerned that a premature termination of the ISS would harm the scientific community, American industry, and, most importantly, the Nation's ambitions to be the world's leader in deep space exploration. Only now are we finally reaching the full operational level for which ISS had been designed. An early retirement of the station prior to 2028 would not allow sufficient time to leverage the asset appropriately. It would be folly to deorbit ISS in 2024 on the promise of future space capabilities; the ISS should fly throughout a transition period until such time as we have a sustainable orbital economy, more likely to be in place by 2028. Understandably, in this era of fiscal constraint, it is prudent to review opportunities that exist to introduce additional efficiency. But, to be very clear, the ISS and NASA's deep space exploration programs are not in competition, but, rather, are complementary. Certainly, there exist numerous opportunities to streamline ISS operations and reduce costs, all the while increasing utilization. These should be explored and pursued.
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Private companies are now developing the technologies required for a fully private low Earth orbit economy, complete with space stations and routine transportation. But, this is far more likely to be ready by 2028, rather than 2024. In the intervening period, a reliable commercial crew marketplace to fully grow and demonstrate the sustainability of the marketplace for private passengers is necessary. Opening the ISS to private businesses now, and continuing this agenda past 2024, will deliver an assured transition to a sustained private American presence in LEO that can untether NASA from the fixed costs of future space stations while continuing to make capabilities available whenever needed.
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 http://spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=49968
Statement by Robert J Ferl: The ISS After 2024
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https://twitter.com/NASAWatch/status/844553251026599936
Rep. Bera slipped and talked about moving the ISS lifetime up to 2033 ...

https://twitter.com/NASAWatch/status/844568926415720449
Gerst says cost to build/operate ISS (w/shuttle costs) is $67B - spend $3B/yr to operate ISS. Other partners contribute $1B/yr

 https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/844568862536454145
Gerst: we've spent $67B to date on ISS, including shuttle transport costs; spending about $3B a year on it now.

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NASA Press Briefing Previews Three U.S. Spacewalks

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Трансляция НАСА ТВ выхода в открытый космос (EVA40) 2017-03-24

Coverage of ISS Expedition 50 U.S. Spacewalk # 40 (Kimbrough and Pesquet; spacewalk begins at appx. 8 a.m. ET; will last appx. 6 ½ hours)
6:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

2017-03-24 с 6:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. EDT (10:30 - 20:00 UTC, 13:30 - 23:00 ДМВ)

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Олег пишет:
Одаренный вьюноша нашел ошибку у НАСА - ссыла

http://www.aif.ru/society/science/britanskiy_shkolnik_ukazal_nasa_na_oshibku_v_rabote_datchikov_radiacii_na_mks

Британский школьник указал NASA на ошибку в работе датчиков радиации на МКС
Москва, 23 марта - АиФ-Москва.      
Британский школьник помог NASA выявить ошибочный алгоритм, искажающий данные об уровнях радиации на МКС, передает BBC.
17-летний учащийся школы в Шеффилде Майлс Соломон участвует в TimPix project – проекте, позволяющем школьникам следить за показаниями датчиков радиации, установленными в различных участках космической станции.     
Когда ученики получили очередную порцию данных, Соломон обнаружил в документе показания с отсчетом энергии –1 там, где радиации не должно было быть.
В результате школьник со своим учителем отправил письмо с описаниями наблюдений в NASA. Там их поблагодарили за внимательность, при этом отметив, что ранее уже замечали подобные отсчеты, однако полагали, что подобное случается раз в год.
По словам Соломона, им было установлено, что на самом деле отрицательный отсчет происходил несколько раз в день. Проблема оказалась в ошибочных алгоритмах, обрабатывающих сырые данные с датчиков и допускающих отрицательные отсчеты.

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Чуть побольше подробностей

 http://www.sciencealert.com/a-british-teenager-has-corrected-a-mistake-in-nasa-s-data
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Miles Soloman, a 17-year-old student from Tapton School in Sheffield, was working on the TimPix project, which lets school students in the UK access data recorded by radiation detectors during British astronaut Tim Peake's six-month stay on the ISS.
Amongst other projects, Peake participated in a research program that aims to understand the impact of space radiation on humans. Radiation on the ISS is monitored with USB-shaped Timepix detectors, which are plugged into computers and regularly send data back to Earth.
Soloman and his fellow students were given these Timepix measurements in a giant pile of Excel spreadsheets, allowing them to practice data analysis on real-world scientific information.
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https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2017/03/23/fridays-spacewalk-continues-commercial-crew-readiness/

Friday's Spacewalk Continues Commercial Crew Readiness
Posted on March 23, 2017 at 12:47 pm by Mark Garcia.


Astronaut Thomas Pesquet works on spacewalk gear inside the U.S. Quest airlock.

 Two astronauts are getting the Quest airlock and their equipment ready for a Friday morning spacewalk. The cosmonauts continued their human research program today exploring the various affects of living in space.

Spacewalkers Shane Kimbrough and Thomas Pesquet will exit the Quest airlock Friday at 8 a.m. EDT to begin setting up the International Space Station for future commercial crew missions. The duo will work outside for about 6.5 hours on the first of three spacewalks scheduled to take place over the next two weeks.

Friday's major tasks include disconnecting cables from the Pressurized Mating Adapter-3 ahead of its relocation from the Tranquility module to the Harmony module on Sunday.  The latching end of the Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator will also be lubricated and computer relay boxes with commercial crew software upgrades will be replaced. NASA TV will cover the spacewalk activities live beginning Friday at 6:30 a.m.

Cosmonauts Andrey Borisenko and Oleg Novitskiy collected their blood, saliva and urine samples today for a metabolism study and an immunity experiment. Researchers will analyze these samples to learn how microgravity affects humans and provide countermeasures to keep crew members healthy.

 This entry was posted in Expedition 50 and tagged European Space Agency, Expedition 50, International Space Station, NASA, Roscosmos, spacewalk on March 23, 2017 by Mark Garcia.