Astronauts Pack Dragon for Return; Cosmonauts Observe Spacewalk – Area Station

Pores and skin therapeutic processes and spacewalk preparations stuffed the work schedule aboard the Worldwide Area Station on Friday. The Expedition 67 crew members are additionally readying a U.S. house freighter for its return to Earth subsequent week.

4 astronauts aboard the orbiting lab practiced surgical methods to heal wounds in microgravity on Friday within the Kibo laboratory module. The quartet cut up up in teams of two with NASA astronaut Bob Hines becoming a member of ESA (European Area Company) Flight Engineer Samantha Cristoforetti for the primary follow session throughout the morning. Within the afternoon, NASA Flight Engineers Kjell Lindgren and Jessica Watkins started their session finding out the right way to take biopsies and suture wounds contained in the Life Science Glovebox.

In the course of the center of the day, the foursome had time put aside time for gathering frozen analysis samples inside science freezers and making ready them for departure again to Earth contained in the SpaceX Dragon resupply ship. Dragon is because of go away the station on Aug. 18 loaded with over 4,000 kilos of station provides and science experiments after 33 days docked to the Concord module’s ahead port. The business cargo craft will parachute to a splashdown off the coast of Florida the following day for retrieval by NASA and SpaceX personnel.

Watkins and Cristoforetti began the day gathering blood samples for spinning in a centrifuge then stowing them in a science freezer. Lindgren  evaluated the effectiveness of the Butterfly IQ Ultrasound gadget that makes use of mobile-computing expertise to advertise crew autonomy. Hines wrapped up his day with gentle orbital plumbing duties and spacewalk tether inspections.

Two cosmonauts are gearing up for a spacewalk on Aug. 17 to proceed configuring the European robotic arm (ERA) for operations on the station’s Russian section. Commander Oleg Artemyev and Flight Engineer Denis Matveev tried on their Orlan spacesuits, examined communications gear, checked for leaks, and practiced maneuvers deliberate for subsequent week’s six-and-half-hour tour. Flight Engineer Sergey Korsakov assisted the duo throughout the spacewalking dry run and will likely be on responsibility monitoring his two crewmates after they exit the Poisk module’s airlock subsequent week for the continued ERA work.