![]() ![]() In addition, Pesquet added ice bricks into the ESA-built Minus Eighty Laboratory Freezer, or MELFI, for the space station. The ELF is a facility for materials science that melts levitating materials with a very high melting point, measures their properties, and solidifies them from a super-cooled state by taking advantage of the microgravity environment. Hoshide replaced holder and installed cartridges on the Electrostatic Levitation Furnace (ELF) developed by JAXA. Meanwhile, two astronauts worked on maintenance activities. The duo conducted operations, set up, and configured hardware for the botany study that, eventually, may also improve watering systems on Earth. NASA Flight Engineer Megan McArthur and Kimbrough continued to work on the Plant Water Management study, an investigation that demonstrates how to operate hydroponics in microgravity. Space gardening is key to sustaining human spaceflight as NASA and its international partners plan future missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. In support of the first experiment session, Pesquet retrieved all the equipment and successfully completed the session by exercising on the bike with a VR headset. The Immersive Exercise project aims to break the monotony with virtual reality (VR). However, their daily workout can quickly become repetitive in the closed and unchanging environment, leading to lack of motivation. Pesquet, along with NASA Flight Engineers Mark Vande Hei and Shane Kimbrough, continued operations for the Investigating the Structure of Paramagnetic Aggregates from Colloidal Ellipsoids, or InSPACE-4. This physics study investigates ways to produce high-quality protein crystals in microgravity to benefit pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries on Earth.Īstronauts exercise two hours a day to help compensate for the loss of bone and muscle mass from living and working in weightlessness. ![]() EDT on NASA Television, the NASA app, and the agency’s website.Ĭommander Akihiko Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pesquet took turns participating in a study that explores how astronauts perceive time in microgravity, which can impact physical and cognitive performance. Live coverage of tomorrow’s event begins at 8:30 a.m. In preparation of Russia’s Multipurpose Laboratory Module docking to the outpost the following day, July 29, Russian Cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy located and gathered equipment to set up temporary ventilation for the 43-foot long, 23-ton module. Wednesday’s activities aboard the International Space Station remained focused on science and maintenance. Learn more about station activities by following the space station blog, Twitter as well as the ISS Facebook and ISS Instagram accounts.Įxpedition 65 Commander Akihiko Hoshide, pictured inside the Columbus laboratory module, wears virtual reality goggles for a time perception study. Updates on the space station will be provided on and the agency’s social media pages. Teams are also monitoring the impact to tomorrow’s launch of the Boeing Starliner spacecraft. The crew was never and is not in any danger, and flight controllers in Mission Control Houston are monitoring the status of the space station. Ground teams have regained attitude control and the motion of the space station is stable. ![]() At 12:45 pm, the flight control team noticed the unplanned firing of MLM thrusters that caused the station to move out of orientation. The new Nauka Multipurpose Logistics Module (MLM) is now attached to the Zvezda service module’s Earth-facing port.įollowing the docking of the Multipurpose Laboratory Module (MLM), named Nauka, to the International Space Station at 9:29 am EDT, Russian cosmonauts aboard the space station conducted leak checks between Nauka and the service module. Three spaceships are docked at the space station including the SpaceX Crew Dragon and Russia’s Soyuz MS-18 crew ship and ISS Progress 78 resupply ship. ![]() July 29, 2021: International Space Station Configuration. ![]()
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