The Expedition 68 crew took a break from its intense area analysis actions and targeted on spacesuits, biomedical exams, and lab upkeep on Wednesday. 4 Worldwide House Station flight engineers additionally reviewed the procedures essential to depart the orbiting lab within the unlikely occasion of an emergency.
Flight Engineers Josh Cassada and Nicole Mann spent a while in the course of the afternoon learning directions to interchange life assist parts inside Extravehicular Mobility Items, or the spacesuits that astronauts put on throughout spacewalks. Cassada gathered instruments firstly of the day to assist the spacesuit upkeep work. Mann then took a couple of minutes shaking analysis baggage containing particle-filled fluids for a research to grasp the formation of asteroids and planets and presumably inform superior manufacturing strategies on Earth.
Cassada additionally had time after lunch to hitch Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Company (JAXA) for vein scans utilizing the Ultrasound 2 machine. Cassada carried out the medical duties scanning Wakata’s leg, neck, and shoulder veins with distant steering from a flight surgeon on the bottom. Earlier, Wakata took a robotics take a look at for a behavioral research that measures crew efficiency. On the finish of the day, he photographed sutured organic samples to research wound therapeutic in area.
NASA astronaut Frank Rubio spent the day working within the Combustion Built-in Rack relieving strain, changing parts, and checking cable connections contained in the machine that allows protected analysis into flames, gasoline, and soot in microgravity.
Mann, Cassada, Wakata, and Roscosmos Flight Engineer Anna Kikina, who rode aboard the SpaceX Dragon Endurance crew ship to the station on Oct. 6, gathered collectively for an emergency procedures evaluate on Wednesday afternoon. The quartet studied collectively on a pc the steps essential to board Endurance and shortly evacuate the station throughout an unlikely emergency occasion similar to a depressurization or a hearth.
Cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin spent all day Wednesday persevering with work on Orlan spacesuit upkeep. The duo serviced and changed life assist parts contained in the fits they may put on on an upcoming spacewalk to relocate a radiator from the Rassvet module to the Nauka multipurpose laboratory module. Kikina began her day engaged on electronics and pc {hardware} earlier than wrapping up her shift learning pilot robots or spacecraft on future planetary missions.
Be taught extra about station actions by following the area station weblog, @space_station and @ISS_Research on Twitter, in addition to the ISS Fb and ISS Instagram accounts.
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