Space Station Crew Unpacks Space X Cargo Dragon and Gears Up for Spacewalks

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Spacewalker Thomas Pesquet

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Astronaut Thomas Pesquet works throughout a spacewalk on June 25 to set up the 2nd present solar range on the station’s Port -6 truss structure. Credit: NASA

The Expedition 65 team is unloading brand name brand-new science experiments that showed up Monday when the Space X Cargo Dragon docked to the International SpaceStation Two cosmonauts are likewise preparing yourself for the very first of 2 spacewalks to power up Russia’s brand-new science module.

NASA Flight Engineer Megan McArthur opened the Cargo Dragon’s hatch and went into the U.S. area truck about 2 hours after it docked to the Harmony module’s forward port on Monday early morning. Thomas Pesquet of ESA (European Space Agency) followed her quickly after and started discharging over 4,800 pounds of freight consisting of a few of the 2,300 pounds of brand-new science experiments.

NASA Flight Engineers Shane Kimbrough and Mark Vande Hei began moving research study equipment and maintained samples Tuesday early morning from Dragon into science freezers, incubators, and other places. The brand-new experiments will take a look at how microgravity impacts plant genes, robotic assistants, bone tissue, and astronaut vision to name a few phenomena.

Commander Akihiko Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency ( JAXA) likewise joined his crewmates and assisted to unload the brand-new area delivery. The three-time station visitor is likewise getting ready for another spacewalk set forSept 12 withPesquet He dealt with a 360- degree virtual truth cam that will movie him and Pesquet throughout the spacewalk and started filling U.S. spacesuit water tanks. The duo will start preparing the Port -4 (P4) truss structure for a brand-new Roll-Out Solar Array.

Two cosmonauts are preparing for the very first set of approximately 11 spacewalks to equip the Nauka multipurpose lab for science operations. Roscosmos Flight Engineers Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov will leave the Poisk airlock on Friday at 10: 35 a.m. EDT to path and mate power and ethernet cable televisions onNauka The duo will head out once again onSept 9 to set up hand rails and end up the cable television deal with the brand-new module that docked to the Zvezda service module on July 29.