Orbital commentary
“To the most recent astronaut class, from the crew of Expedition 73 onboard the Worldwide House Station, congratulations and welcome to the Astronaut Corps!” wrote Jonny Kim, a fellow NASA astronaut.
The “ascans” will turn into eligible for flight assignments after about two years of primary coaching.
Science standing
Among the many analysis that was performed by the Expedition 73 crew aboard the house station this week was:
Voyager DNA Decryption — NASA’s Jonny Kim sequenced DNA samples as a part of a research into utilizing the polymer to securely retailer and transmit information in house. The outcomes of this analysis might assist allow longer period missions into deep house by changing extra cumbersome information storage methods.
VIRTUAL —The Spatial Orientation and Interplay of Eisodic Programs Below Circumstances of Weightlessness (Digital) investigation collects information on crew members’ vestibular features “on the disposition of gaze and visible monitoring throughout the course of a long-duration house mission.” Cosmonaut Oleg Platonov wore digital actuality glasses and “responded to computer-generated visible stimuli as his eye actions and different physiological reactions had been recorded,” in response to NASA.
SPLANKH — Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky, each Roscosmos cosmonauts, scanned one another’s bellies with an ultrasound system after breakfast on Friday (Sept. 26) to assemble information on their digestion, metabolism and nutrient supply as they regulate to the microgravity surroundings of house.
Station preserving
The Expedition 73 crewmates additionally took half in actions to keep up the house station’s methods and put together for future analysis.
NG-23 Cygnus — Mike Fincke and Kimiya Yui on Friday (Sept. 26) continued to unload new science and provides delivered aboard the S.S. William C. “Willie” McCool, an uncrewed cargo automobile.
Cubesat — Mike Fincke put in a small satellite tv for pc (cubesat) on the NanoRacks exterior platform that may quickly be positioned exterior the house station.
Dragon reboost —A SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft fired its thrusters for quarter-hour on Friday (Sept. 26), reboosting the station’s orbit. The maneuver got here a day after a primary try on the reboost was aborted after it was seen a change of gasoline tanks didn’t happen as anticipated.
Astronaut exercise
Expedition 73 flight engineer and NASA astronaut Jonny Kim spoke with the chief of the Korea Aerospace Administration (KASA) on Thursday (Sept. 25).
“I consider that the phrases that you just share with us at present shall be significant steering and inspiration for our future generations who dream of house,” stated Yoon Youngbin, KASA administrator.
“There may be a lot to find out about house, and I’m very impressed by what Korea is doing to push ahead that envelope,” stated Kim.
The 2 spoke for about 20 minutes, which you’ll watch above.
By the numbers
As of Friday (Sep. 26), there are 7 folks aboard the Worldwide House Station: Expedition 73 commander Sergey Ryzhikov of Roscosmos; fellow cosmonauts Alexey Zubritsky and Oleg Platonov; Jonny Kim, Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke of NASA; and Kimiya Yui of JAXA, all flight engineers.
There are two docked crew spacecraft: SpaceX’s Dragon “Endeavour” hooked up to the zenith port of the Concord module and Roscosmos’ Soyuz MS-27 hooked up to the Earth-facing port of the Prichal node.
There are 4 docked cargo spacecraft: Roscosmos’ Progress MS-31 (92P) docked to the space-facing port of the Poisk module and Progress M-32 (93P) docked to the aft port of the Zvezda service module, SpaceX’s CRS-33 Dragon spacecraft docked to the ahead port of Concord Node 2 and Northrop Grumman’s NG-23 Cygnus XL, the “SS William C. ‘Willie’ McCool,” berthed to the Unity node.
As of Friday, the house station has been repeatedly crewed for 24 years, 10 months and 24 days.
