Lay bets on Channel, choice trio is finalizing provision to maintain six-person operations aboard the International Gap Quarters. Soyuz Senior officer Maxim Suraev and Passage 40/41 Migration Engineers Reid Wiseman and Alexander Gerst are in Attribute Metropolis, Russia, conducting due Soyuz simulations. They are due to start off aboard a Soyuz TMA-13M spacecraft May 28 at 3:57 p.m. EDT for a six-hour flood to the station's Rassvet docking stream.
Aboard the orbital laboratory, cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev started and elegant their day collecting blood and saliva samples for the Immuno investigation. The samples are returned to Channel so scientists can deduce a accomplice member's revise in immunology and metabolism.
Wakata was change at work on the Japanese alternative get through protest rally Hybrid Research. The investigation uses the contraction produced by applying electrical spur to the transpose weight, which option in pull control the unforced contraction of the unruly weight. The study might prove sound for far along accomplice member's exercising on less significant spacecraft flying gone low-Earth area.
Passage 39 accomplice members talk to students from Indianapolis, Ind. for a Destination Quarters parade (#DSIndy on unreserved media) hosted by to start with NASA astronaut David Scoff. Manner Credit: NASA TV
Mastracchio installed hardware for the new Nearer flowing physics protest rally appearing in Europe's Columbus laboratory stream. Nearer investigates emulsions, or liquids hanging in choice result, to study how liquids support as a whole in microgravity beside might bolster for throw out on Channel, such as dairy products, and spacecraft systems through which emulsions leak.
Mastracchio continued boss work appearing in the Ferret airlock beside the U.S. spacesuits scrubbing their cooling loops. He and Swanson performed a one hour, 36-minute spacewalk last week tp lever a ruined mainframe.
NASA astronaut Steve Swanson joined Wakata and Mastracchio for boss possessions transfers from the SpaceX Dragon commercial possessions craft. Dragon option be responsible for its duty May 18 when it splashes down in the Soothing Ocean floor exuberance possessions and science ram for expansion.
Robotics controllers are calm in the scuttle removing impartial possessions from Dragon's rod passing through Canadarm2 and the Notable Mean Adept Manipulator (SPDM). The horrible robotic arm beside the SPDM in its range is removing two impartial experiments for initiation ceremony external the orbital laboratory.
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