An uncrewed Soyuz crew ship will depart the Worldwide House Station on Tuesday morning. Within the meantime, the seven-member Expedition 68 crew targeted on new science experiments and {hardware} not too long ago delivered aboard the SpaceX Dragon cargo car.
Three area station residents who arrived on the orbiting lab on Sept. 21 final 12 months aboard the Soyuz MS-22 crew ship will proceed their keep in area after their spacecraft departs with out them at 5:57 a.m. EDT on Tuesday. The passengerless car will parachute to a touchdown in Kazakhstan lower than two hours later finishing a six-month mission docked to the Rassvet module. NASA will present stay protection solely of undocking actions starting at 5:30 a.m. on NASA TV, the company’s app and web site..
Station Commander Sergey Prokopyev with Roscosmos Flight Engineer Dmitri Petelin and NASA Flight Engineer Frank Rubio are extending their keep in area for a yearlong mission. The trio is because of return to Earth contained in the Soyuz MS-23 crew ship, which arrived unoccupied in February, on the finish of summer time.
In the meantime, the station’s crew members have begun activating new science experiments and servicing spacesuit gear delivered aboard the SpaceX Cargo Dragon car on March 16.
NASA Flight Engineer Stephen Bowen labored within the Kibo laboratory module organising biology {hardware} that can home samples uncovered to synthetic gravity to doubtlessly deal with muscle and bone points on Earth and in area. Flight Engineer Woody Hoburg processed samples for a research exploring methods to provide new prescribed drugs in area and remoted areas on Earth. UAE (United Arab Emirates) Flight Engineer Sultan Alneyadi unpacked a brand new spacesuit, or Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU), contained in the recently-arrived Cargo Dragon area freighter.
Rubio checked on elements contained in the Fluid Science Laboratory situated within the Columbus laboratory module earlier than persevering with to unload a few of the 6,200 kilos of cargo packed contained in the Cargo Dragon. Prokopyev readied the MS-22 for its undocking early Tuesday whereas his fellow cosmonauts Petelin and Andrey Fedyaev labored on regular orbital plumbing and lab upkeep duties.
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