Three Expedition 53 astronauts conducted eye exams Tuesday morning two days ahead of a spacewalk. The crew is also preparing for a pair of upcoming commercial cargo missions.
Commander Randy Bresnik, who is leading all three spacewalks this month, joined his fellow spacewalkers for a periodic eye exam. Bresnik and Flight Engineers Mark Vande Hei and Joe Acaba scanned their eyes using an ultrasound device with guidance from doctors on the ground monitoring the crew’s health.
Paolo Nespoli, from the European Space Agency, did some rearranging inside the Japanese Kibo laboratory module today. He is preparing Kibo for new science gear arriving on a pair of private space freighters in November. Orbital ATK’s Cygnus resupply ship is due to launch mid-November and the SpaceX Dragon is planned to launch at the end of November.
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Spacewalks are so cool. I will be watching! Good luck guys!
I look at you guy’s everyday when I get online for school. Everything you guys do is just awsome to me and i just think it is very interesting and you guys make the scariest things into the most coolest things. I myself would not be in outterspace but just floating in the gravity and just to see different things is just wonderful and inspiring.
These people have to be in perfect health. Congratulations