The prime Expedition 63 crewmembers posture for a picture at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia. From left are, NASA astronaut and Commander Chris Cassidy and Roscosmos cosmonauts and Flight Engineers Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner. Credit: NASA Johnson
The 3Â Expedition 63 team members invested another day inside the Russian section of the International Space Station. This enabled Mission controllers to continue their leakage detection work Monday to gather more information.
All of the orbiting laboratory’s hatches stayed closed up until Tuesday early morning to provide ground experts extra time to gather information and keep an eye on pressure readings in each module. The rate is still well within section specs and provides no risk to the team or the spaceport station.
The station’s environment is preserved at pressure comfy for the team members, and a little bit of that air leakages with time, needing regular repressurization from nitrogen tanks provided on freight resupply objectives. In September 2019, NASA and its worldwide partners initially saw signs of a minor boost above the basic cabin air leakage rate. Because of regular station operations like spacewalks and spacecraft arrivals and departures, it required time to collect sufficient information to identify those measurements. That rate has actually somewhat increased, so the groups are working a strategy to separate, determine, and possibly fix the source.
While this took place, the station trio is remained comfy in the Zvezda service module with access to the Poisk mini-research module,  the Progress 76 freight craft and their Soyuz MS-16 team ship. Commander Chris Cassidy of NASA and Roscosmos Flight Engineers Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner generally concentrated on Earth photography Monday. The station’s Russian section has a range of windows the team can keep an eye out with innovative electronic camera equipment for their Earth observation activities.
The Expedition 63 team ended its stay separated in the Russian section of the International Space Station Tuesday early morning after a prolonged leakage test. Mission Control likewise released remote groups to preserve 24/7 assistance for the station and its team as Hurricane Laura approaches the Texas Gulf Coast.
