A SpaceX Dragon cargo spaceship will wait one day before leaving the International space station While mission directors monitor the weather conditions on its splash site off the coast of California. In the meantime, the Shipping 73 The crew attenuated its freight loading activities and focused on research during microgravity to improve health on and down.
Dragon will extend his stay at the 24 -hour orbital laboratory and will move his time of disagreement to 12:05 p.m. EDT on Friday. The support staff are waiting for the visibility conditions to improve on the splash site in order to safely recover dragon after their assisted splashes parachute in the waters near California. NASA + will start the disagreement coverage at 11:45 am.
NASA flight engineers Anne McClain,, Nichole AyersAnd Jonny Kim With the commander of the Takuya Onishi station of Jaxa (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) continued to charge Dragon with finished scientific experiences, time research samples and laboratory equipment before closing his hatch. Kim has also installed space vessel surveillance equipment in the cupola And Tranquility module That he will use when he supervises Dragon’s departure on Friday.
At the end of their quarter of work Thursday, Kim and MCClain joined forces to see how the retina is affected by microgravity for the Quantify Continuation of 14 surveys on human research. The duo first set up optical material for the imagery of the retina response to light. Kim then tied sensors around his eyes and the forehead measuring the sensitivity of the light of his retinas. Subsequently, Kim looked in the medical imaging equipment with the help of MCClain while doctors on the ground observed the back of his eye in real time to understand the potential vision problems of space.
Ayers opened the Kibo laboratory moduleBox of life of life and has installed a 3D imaging microscope also known as Volumetric imaging system of existing lifeor Elvis. She then tested bacteria samples under a specialized microscope that could be used to monitor water quality and detect infectious organisms on the spacecraft.
Roscosmos Cosmonaut Alexey Zubritskiy wrapped a 24 -hour session monitoring its cardiac activity and blood pressure for a study monitoring the cardiovascular system of a crew member. Then he helped his compatriot Cosmonaut Kirill Peskov while he was pedaling on an exercise cycle for a regular physical fitness examination. Peskov then spent the rest of his day on computer networking and the maintenance of orbital plumbing. The veteran engineer of the flight engineer Sergey Ryzhikov disabled ultraviolet atmospheric observation equipment, then maintained the oxygen generator Elektron.
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