Payloads Advanced Plant EXperiment-08 (APEX-08): The crew harvested plant material that that had been growing in Petri Plates in the Veggie Facilities. The plant material grown in the Petri plates in Veggie for 9 days was harvested and fixed into the KFTs. The plant material will perfuse in the KFTs for 24 hours and will …
Cosmonauts Wrap Up Second Spacewalk to Set Up Science Module
Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov of Roscosmos concluded their spacewalk at 6:16 p.m. EDT after 7 hours and 25 minutes. It was the second of up to 11 spacewalks to prepare the new Nauka multipurpose laboratory module for operations in space. Novitskiy and Dubrov finished connecting television, rendezvous system and ethernet cables to the recently arrived …
ISS Daily Summary Report – 9/09/2021
Russian Segment (RS) Extravehicular Activity (EVA) #50: 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 25-minute EVA: Mating of Ethernet cable from ISS USOS to MLM Installation of gap spanner at ПГО-2 along MLM Pl. III Mating …
NASA’s SunRISE Mission Studying Solar Particle Storms Moves Toward Launch
NASA's SunRISE mission — short for the Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment — passed a mission review on Sept. 8, 2021, moving the mission into its next phase. "SunRISE will detect and study eruptions of radio waves from the Sun that often precede major solar events containing high energy particle radiation," said Justin Kasper, SunRISE …
Cosmonauts Start Spacewalk to Work on Science Module
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 10:51 a.m. EDT. Novitskiy, designated extravehicular crew member …
NASA TV Begins Coverage of Russian Spacewalk to Outfit Science Module
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 …
ISS Daily Summary Report – 9/08/2021
Payloads Advanced Combustion via Microgravity Experiments (ACME): A crewmember removed and replaced the ACME Igniter Tip #2. The ACME project is a set of six independent studies of gaseous flames to be conducted in the Combustion Integrated Rack (CIR). ACME’s primary and secondary goals are to (1) improve fuel efficiency and reduce pollutant production in …
Crew Readies for Thursday, Sunday Spacewalks as Science Rolls On
Two Expedition 65 cosmonauts are ready for their second spacewalk to continue outfitting Russia’s new science module on Thursday. Meanwhile, another spacewalk is due to take place on Sunday to modify the International Space Station’s power system. Cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov wrapped up their spacewalk reviews and Orlan spacesuit checks just before lunchtime …
ISS Daily Summary Report – 9/07/2021
Payloads: Four Bed CO2 Scrubber: The crew routed the MSG Aux Power Cable from LAB1O5 UIP to LAB1P4 UIP to provide power to Four Bed CO2 Scrubber. Four Bed CO2 Scrubber demonstrates a technology for removing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere on a spacecraft. The technology is based on the current system in use …