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Payloads Genes in Space-8:  The crew performed the setup of the Fluorescence Viewer and mini-PCR and performed Freeze and Fly Ops #3 to demonstrate the heating and fluorescent visualization functions of the Genes in Space experiment.  Some pharmaceuticals used to maintain astronaut health do not work as well in space, which may be linked to …

Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov of Roscosmos concluded their spacewalk at 6:35 p.m. EDT after 7 hours and 54 minutes. It is the first of up to 11 spacewalks to prepare the new Nauka multipurpose laboratory module for operations in space. Novitskiy and Dubrov completed the major objective for today to connect power cables …

Russian Segment (RS) Extravehicular Activity (EVA) #49: Today, FE-4 Oleg Novitskiy (EV1) and FE-5 Petr Dubrov (EV2) egressed the Mini-Research Module (MRM)-2 airlock and completed the following tasks during today’s 7 hour and 54 minute EVA: Retrieve, route, and mate Power Cable Bundles #1 & #2 from MRM2 to MLM (eight Russian Connectors total) Mate …

Expedition 65 Flight Engineers Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos began a spacewalk to prepare the new Nauka multipurpose laboratory module for operations in space when they opened the hatch of the Poisk docking compartment airlock of the International Space Station at 10:41 a.m. EDT. Novitskiy, designated extravehicular crew member …

NASA Television coverage of today’s spacewalk with cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos is now underway and is also available on the NASA app and the agency’s website. The crew members of Expedition 65 are preparing to exit the International Space Station‘s Poisk module on the space-facing side of …

Two cosmonauts will exit the International Space Station on Friday to begin powering up the new Russian science module. While they prepare today for the excursion, the rest of the Expedition 65 crew focused on new science experiments and reviewed an upcoming U.S. spacewalk. Russia’s Nauka multipurpose laboratory module, attached to the station since July …

Payloads Blob: Following the conclusion of the 7-day experiment session, the crew removed the Blob box hardware and transferred the experiment data.  Unfortunately, corrupted data files were found; so, the experiment will be extended to gather more data.  The goal of the Blob investigation is to observe the influence of microgravity on the Blob’s (a …

Engineer Andy Hynous is back in the saddle in Fort Sumner, New Mexico, where NASA’s Scientific Balloon Program is making flights for the fall 2021 balloon campaign.

Payloads APEX-8: The crew gathered the appropriate hardware and installed thirty APEX-08 petri plate plant growth chambers into the Veggie facility.  Compounds known as polyamines contribute to plant stress mitigation on Earth, and plants grown in microgravity display evidence of stress at the morphological level and gene-expression changes suggestive of stress response. Advanced Plant EXperiment-08 …