Human Research Program (HRP) Collections: The crew continued a urine collection session today and performed the first blood draw in support of the Biochemical Profile and Repository experiments. Collected samples are placed in Minus Eighty Degree Celsius Laboratory Freezer for ISS (MELFI) for return at a later date. The Biochemical Profile experiment tests blood and …
ISS Daily Summary Report – 11/03/2016
Orbital ATK (OA)-5 Cargo Operations: Today, CDR continued transferring cargo from Cygnus to ISS. Afterwards, CDR participated in a cargo conference with ground specialists. At last report approximately 9.5 hours of cargo operations had been completed and an estimated 16 hours of operations remaining. Human Research Program (HRP) Collections: CDR began 24-hour urine collections this …
New Trio Settles In Before Next Crew Launches
A new set of Expedition 50 crew members is in Kazakhstan just two weeks away from a launch to the International Space Station. The three orbiting station inhabitants are in the second week of their four-month stay in space. Thomas Pesquet, Peggy Whitson and Oleg Novitskiy have tried on their spacesuits and checked out the …
ISS Daily Summary Report – 11/02/2016
Group Combustion Leak Check: CDR retrieved the Combustion Chamber from the Multi-Purpose Small Payload Rack (MSPR) Work Volume and installed a top plate on the Combustion Chamber. The crew then installed a gas bottles and air supply lines to configure for a leak check. Ground specialists are focusing the leak check on the Group Combustion …
Mission Operations Team Stays Prepped and Ready
The Mission Operations team, Science team and Science Computing Facility team participated in a week-in-the-life simulation from October 21-28, 2016. The simulation included mission planning, twice daily payload checks, weekly science team and planning meetings, and data processing and transfers. The simulation also involved handling ISS activities, including operations for a Soyuz docking and a […]
Station Trio Continues Research, Awaits New Crewmates
The new Expedition 50 crew is in its first week aboard the International Space Station after a trio of Expedition 49 crew members left for Earth Saturday night. Commander Shane Kimbrough and Flight Engineers Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko are the sole occupants of the station right now awaiting three more crewmates due to launch …
ISS Daily Summary Report – 11/01/2016
Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) Maintenance: The crew performed a half water dump and fill on EMU 3006 feedwater tanks and a full water dump and refill of EMUs 3003 and 3010 feeedwater tanks. These activities satisfy maintenance requirements for on-orbit stowage of the EMUs. Urine Processing Assembly (UPA): Last week, the crew demated the connection …
Expedition 49 Lands After 115 Day Mission
NASA astronaut Kate Rubins of NASA, Anatoly Ivanishin of Roscosmos and Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency safely landed their Soyuz MS-01 spacecraft in Kazakhstan southeast of the remote town of Dzhezkazgan at 11:58 p.m. EDT on Saturday, Oct. 29. Russian recovery teams are helping the crew exit the Soyuz spacecraft and adjust …
Expedition 49 Departs Station, Begins Ride Home
NASA astronaut Kate Rubins of NASA, Anatoly Ivanishin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency undocked from the International Space Station at 8:35 p.m. EDT to begin their journey home. Ivanishin, the Soyuz commander, is at the controls of the MS-01 spacecraft. The trio’s spacecraft completed …