Payloads: Cerebral Autoregulation: The crew performed a Cerebral Autoregulation science session, and then stowed the experiment hardware. As the body’s most important organ, the brain needs a strong and reliable blood supply, so the brain is capable of self-regulating blood flow even when the heart and blood vessels cannot maintain an ideal blood pressure. The …
Brain Studies on Station Help Astronauts Adjust to Space and Earth
A pair of brain studies were on the research schedule aboard the International Space Station today to learn how the central nervous system adapts to weightlessness. The Expedition 68 crew also worked on variety of household tasks throughout Wednesday including orbital plumbing and electronics system repairs. NASA Flight Engineers Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada worked …
NASA is GO for U.S. Spacewalks Outside International Space Station
NASA completed a flight readiness review in October, and is “GO” to resume routine spacewalks outside of the International Space Station. The first of three planned spacewalks is targeted to begin around mid-November to continue the work to install roll out solar arrays, called iROSA. The review marks the completion of an investigation into the cause …
ISS Daily Summary Report – 10/18/2022
Payloads: Cerebral Autoregulation: The crew set up the appropriate hardware and performed a Cerebral Autoregulation science session. As the body’s most important organ, the brain needs a strong and reliable blood supply, so the brain is capable of self-regulating blood flow even when the heart and blood vessels cannot maintain an ideal blood pressure. The …
Muscle and Crop Studies Helping Crews Adapt to Space Missions
Today aboard the International Space Station, the Expedition 68 crew explored how to maintain healthy bodies and grow crops in the weightless environment of space. Learning to live long-term in microgravity and farther away from Earth orbit requires astronauts to sustain themselves without relying on visiting resupply missions. Humans lose muscle and bone mass much …
Brain Science, BEAM Work as Station Orbits Higher for Cargo Mission
The seven-member Expedition 68 crew was busy aboard the International Space Station at the beginning of the week studying how the central nervous system adapts to microgravity and stowing hardware inside the BEAM module. The orbital residents also trained to operate Europe’s new robotic arm and packed a Russian cargo craft ahead of its upcoming …
NASA’s Geotail Mission Experiences an Anomaly
NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Japan's Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) are determining how to move forward with the joint Geotail mission since discovering the spacecraft's last operational data recorder has failed. Originally, Geotail was equipped with two data recorders to collect the mission's scientific data. One …
ISS Daily Summary Report – 10/17/2022
ISS Reboost: Today, the ISS successfully performed a reboost using the Progress 81P thrusters. The purpose of this reboost is to set up the conditions for Progress 82 34-Orbit rendezvous on October 25, 2022. The burn duration was estimated to be 10 minutes 30 seconds with a Delta-V of 1.0 m/s, and teams are assessing …
SpaceX Crew-4 Returns with Splashdown on Florida’s Atlantic Coast
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 astronauts aboard the Dragon spacecraft safely splashed down Friday off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida, completing the agency’s fourth commercial crew mission to the International Space Station. The international crew of four spent 170 days in orbit. NASA astronauts Bob Hines, Kjell Lindgren, and Jessica Watkins and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut …