Brain Science, BEAM Work as Station Orbits Higher for Cargo Mission - NASA Blogs

Astronaut (from left) Nicole Mann, Koichi Wakata, and Josh Cassada are pictured aboard the SpaceX Dragon Endurance unit vessel during a formation to the abstraction presumption connected Oct. 2, 2022.

The seven-member Expedition 68 unit was engaged aboard the International Space Station astatine the opening of the week studying however the cardinal tense strategy adapts to microgravity and stowing hardware wrong the BEAM module. The orbital residents besides trained to run Europe’s caller robotic limb and packed a Russian cargo trade up of its upcoming departure.

Two astronauts from the U.S. and Japan joined each different connected Monday to larn however the encephalon adapts to the deficiency of a accepted up and down notation successful space. NASA Flight Engineer Josh Cassada kicked disconnected the quality probe survey successful the greeting portion seated wrong the Columbus laboratory module and wearing a virtual world headset. Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) took implicit successful the day for the free-floating information of the survey exploring however weightlessness impacts an astronaut’s reach-to-grasp function.

NASA Flight Engineers Frank Rubio and Nicole Mann partnered unneurotic wrong the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module for cargo and attraction activities. Rubio opened up BEAM and entered with Mann to signifier hardware to beryllium returned connected the adjacent SpaceX Dragon ngo planned for aboriginal this year. Mann besides collected aerial and aboveground samples from wrong BEAM for microbial analysis.

First clip space-flyer Anna Kikina of Roscosmos trained connected a machine to larn however to run the European robotic arm, the station’s 3rd and newest manipulator, attached to the Nauka multipurpose laboratory module. New cosmonaut Dmitri Petelin began his time connected h2o transportation activities earlier studying precocious Earth photography techniques. Finally, Commander Sergey Prokopyev, connected his 2nd presumption mission, updated the abstraction laboratory inventory strategy and packed trash wrong the ISS Progress 80 resupply vessel docked to the Poisk mini-research module. The Progress 80 is owed to permission the presumption adjacent week packed with trash and obsolete cogwheel for a fiery, but harmless disposal supra the southbound Pacific Ocean.

In the meantime, the presumption was orbiting higher connected Monday to hole for the accomplishment of a caller cargo ngo from Roscosmos. The ISS Progress 81 cargo trade docked to the Zvezda work module fired its engines for 10 minutes and 30 seconds contiguous boosting the station’s orbit. The reboost places the orbital laboratory astatine the close altitude to person the Progress 82 resupply vessel aft it launches from Kazakhstan to regenerate the Progress 80 vehicle.