Five Expedition 64 astronauts had their day packed with microgravity research while the two cosmonauts had a light duty day aboard the International Space Station following last week’s spacewalk.
All seven crew members started the day measuring their body mass with an instrument that follows Newton’s second law of motion to account for the lack of gravity. Known as SLAMMD, or Space Linear Acceleration Mass Measurement Device, it applies a known force to an astronaut with the resulting acceleration used to calculate the person’s mass.
New station Flight Engineers Michael Hopkins and Victor Glover continued studying how microgravity impacts dexterous manipulation today. Their inputs for the Grip study could help scientists and engineers develop safer, more advanced spacecraft systems and interfaces.
Astronaut Soichi Noguchi of JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) removed a CubeSat deployer from the Kibo laboratory module’s airlock during Monday morning. During the afternoon, he configured life support hardware in the Harmony module.
NASA Flight Engineer Shannon Walker relaxed Monday morning before spending the rest of the afternoon exploring how to manufacture high quality, next generation fiber optic cables in space. Kate Rubins, on her second station mission, studied how water droplets behave in space to help engineers design improved spacecraft fuel and life support systems.
The two station cosmonauts worked on a pair of docked Russian Progress cargo ships, but otherwise relaxed Monday. Commander Sergey Ryzhikov and Flight Engineer Sergey Kud-Sverchkov are winding down several days of cleaning their spacesuits and stowing their tools following Wednesday’s six-hour and 48-minute spacewalk.
It a great job done by our Astronauts…my hat off to them keep up the good work.
Best wishes! Very interesting and pleasant article. Thanks for sharing with us these fantastic space exploration news.
My best to all the crew. Enjoy and learn everything and teach use. A blessed tour. Thank you. Craig Van Aken Alabama.
A wonderful job indeed, have been following the updates, since a week.
Many thanks to the all the people involved. .Great Images and everything kicked in perfectly, getting to know many good things.
I wish, all the best and hope to accomplish our mission with flying colors. Hope all my friends are having a good time out there and in a good shape.
Happy Tuesday to the Crew . Hope all is going well and we are cheering for you.
Hello to the crew. AT 5:36 Eastern Daylight Savings Time the ISS shall pass overhead my home and i expect to step out on the porch and wave as you pass by. Hey from down here. great job to the Crew. Tom and Mary say hi. 🙂
Hello to the Crew. I looked outside last evening but cloud cover prevented me from see the ISS pass over our town. Seriously , well done to the Crew. Amazing.
Happy Thanksgiving to the Crew from Peterborough Ontario Canada. hope you have a great dinner . stay well.
Happy Monday to the Crew. As you can see on Monday , it is raining looking like a movie day down here . I bet the view is better up there. cheers. !!