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If you are planning on attending the 19th GLOBE Annual Meeting in Los Angeles this summer, July 19-24, make sure you plan on attending one of the sessions about a great new resource we helped develop. Join the GLOBE kids- Anita, Simon, and Dennis- as they learn about aerosols in the latest Elementary GLOBE storybook, […]

Fluid Shifts:  Fluid Shifts operations continued today in the Russian Service Module (SM).  Kelly donned the Lower Body Negative Pressure (LBNP/Chibis) device while Kornienko, with ground support in Moscow, assisted with medical monitoring.  While Kelly was subjected to the negative pressure (pulling the fluid toward the feet), Padalka, with remote guidance in Houston, performed measurements …

The six-member Expedition 43 crew conducted a variety of advanced microgravity science and performed spacesuit maintenance. U.S. astronauts Terry Virts and Scott Kelly also commemorated 50 years of operations in Houston’s Mission Control Center. The orbital lab’s inhabitants explored a complex set of subjects in space including physics, biology and crew health. Flight Engineer Gennady …

Fluid Shifts:  Fluid Shift operations continued today in the Russian Service Module (SM).  Kelly was the first to don the Lower Body Negative Pressure (LBNP/Chibis) device while Kornienko, with ground support in Moscow, assisted with medical monitoring.  While Kelly was subjected to the negative pressure (pulling the fluid toward the feet), Padalka, with remote guidance …

The SAGE III/ISS team completed vibration testing of the Instrument Payload on Wednesday, May 20. Testing started May 14 to ensure the payload will survive the rough trip to the space station. The team conducted post-test inspections and moved the payload back into the clean room and is conducting post-vibration functional testing and alignment checks.

Study of the Impact of Long-Term Space Travel on the Astronauts’ Microbiome (Microbiome): Cristoforetti performed her Return-14 (R-14) Microbiome session. She collected body swab samples, a potable water sample, surface sample, and a perspiration sample following exercise.  All samples were inserted into MELFI.  The Microbiome experiment investigates the impact of space travel on both the …

NASA astronaut and One-Year crew member Scott Kelly gathered hardware today for the start of the Fluid Shifts experiment. For the experiment on Tuesday, both Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko will don the Russian Lower Body Negative Pressure (Chibis) suit and undergo ultrasound measurements. Fluid Shifts is a joint NASA-Russian experiment that investigates the …

Fluid Shifts Baseline Imagery Collection:  Kornienko performed his Flight Day 45 baseline imaging for the Fluid Shifts experiment.  With Padalka as the onboard imager and ground remote guidance, ultrasound imaging was taken of arterial and venous measures of the head and neck, cardiac, ophthalmic and portal vein, and tissue thickness of lower and upper body.  …

The Expedition 43 crew is wrapping up the remodeling of the Leonardo Permanent Multipurpose Module (PMM) at its new location on the forward port of the Tranquility module. The station residents also participated in maintenance and experiments exploring the long-term effects of living in space on the human body. Commander Terry Virts and One-Year crew …