The 12 crew members of Expedition 71 aboard the International Space Station spent Tuesday observing how their bodies adjust to the weight, setting up life support systems, and training to use the equipment. safety.
NASA and its international partners have collected and analyzed decades of data from hundreds of space crew members. Whether it’s just a few days or a year or more living and working in space, researchers are taking these important facts and using new knowledge to keep astronauts healthy and promote advanced treatments for of diseases on Earth.
The four astronauts due to return to Earth in October tested a special suit today that will help them quickly adapt to the 1G magnetic environment after six months of space work and half. This suit, called the permanent intolerance suit, can reduce blood pressure problems and other astrological symptoms in the first few hours and days after returning to Earth. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 quartet with NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Mike Barratt, and Jeanette Epps and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin began their mission to the station on March 5 when they docked at the orbital station on the SpaceX Dragon Endeavor spacecraft.
However, before the SpaceX crew leaves the three will leave the space station next week. NASA Flight Engineer Tracy C. Dyson will ride the Soyuz MS-25 crew back to Earth with cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub. The trio stepped up their preparations for takeoff this week packing their supplies and equipment into the Soyuz and testing the flight’s descent and landing procedures. Dyson will complete his third mission after six months in space while Kononenko, a veteran of five space missions, and Chub, a first-time astronaut, will he will be orbiting the Earth for more than a year.
The station’s two new cosmonauts, Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, have also been helping doctors understand how astronauts adapt to microgravity since they arrived at the space station in Sept. 11 and NASA astronaut Don Pettit. The cosmonauts on Tuesday attached sensors to their foreheads and wore glasses that tracked their eye movements, providing information about how the crew member’s balance was adjusting to lack of gravity. The experienced couple later learned how space affects circulation and how blood flows to the extremities.
Pettit, who is on his fourth space station trip, began his day exploring ways to improve the effectiveness of weightless exercises. Later, at the end of his career, he joined Ovchinin and Vagner and became familiar with the safety equipment and equipment areas throughout the orbital lab.
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who have been stationed since June 6, spent most of the day doing lab maintenance. Wilmore worked on the Permanent Multipurpose Module to organize and deploy food packages and studied the Dragon spacecraft’s operations. Williams worked with Dominick throughout the day to service the oxygen generator and prepare it for future parts upgrades.
15 years ago today, Canadarm2’s robotic arm reached out to handle a visiting cargo ship and launch it into the space station for the first time. That spacecraft, Japan’s HII-Transfer Vehicle 1, was also the first JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) spacecraft to launch and manned the then-Expedition 20. Program Manager NASA’s International Space Station Administrator Dana Weigel spoke about the achievement today. to X.
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