ISS Daily Summary Report – 8/24/2020

Payloads

ISS HAM: The crew participated in an ISS HAM contact with Information and Technologies Branch, Department of Education-Queensland Government, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.  Some of the questions asked included if the crew ever has any arguments, what it’s like to go on a spacewalk for the first time, and what brought Chris Cassidy from being a Navy SEAL to NASA and spaceflight.  ISS Ham Radio provides opportunities to engage and educate students, teachers, parents and other members of the community in science, technology, engineering and math by providing a means to communicate between astronauts and the ground HAM radio units.

Systems

USOS Isolation Operations: The crew remained isolated in the Russian Segment (SM/ MRM2/ Soyuz/ Progress) today. The crew closed several module hatches on GMT 234 to allow the ground team to monitor pressures throughout the weekend. The IMMT opted to extend the leak isolation period to Tuesday morning. Items deferred on today’s timeline will be performed tomorrow after the morning daily planning conference (mDPC). The Environmental Control and Life Support (ECLS) community has been tracking an increase in nominal atmosphere leakage since October 2019. The motivation for finding the leak is to reduce the amount of consumables required to maintain the ISS pressure.

Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) Glove Thermal Micrometeoroid Garment (TMG) Repair & Replace (R&R) Developmental Test Objective (DTO): Today the crew performed an R&R of the EMU glove by removing the TMG in the glove and installing a new one. The DTO is part of an effort to determine whether a glove TMG should be R&R’ed on-orbit. Since TMG damage during EVAs is the most common reason gloves are declared no-go, successful completion will save on mass, cost, glove processing, and logistics. A post-flight inspection/verification will be performed following today’s on-orbit R&R.

Completed Task List Activities:

  • Extravehicular Activity (EVA) Caps Cargo Transfer Bag (CTB) Audit
  • Story Time Book SNOOPY, First Beagle on the Moon Read
  • Story Time Book Shoot for the Moon, SNOOPY Read
  • Three Payload Rack Transfer Big Picture Words Review
  • EVA On-Orbit Replaceable Unit (ORU) Cargo Transfer Bag (CTB) Cleanup

Today’s Ground Activities:
All activities are complete unless otherwise noted.

  • Ground Support for MT Translate

Look Ahead Plan

Tuesday, 8/25 (GMT 238)
Payloads:

  • SCRAM MCA Plug Removal 

Systems:

  • Isolation Hatch Opening
  • WHC Reactivation
  • USOS Isolation Restow
  • CEVIS Isolator Inspection 

Wednesday, 8/26 (GMT 239)
Payloads:

  • CIR/ACME Bottle Exchange

Systems:

  • UPA Software Transition Gather/Setup
  • UPA Software Transition 

Thursday, 8/27 (GMT 240)
Payloads:

  • CIR/ACME Reconfiguration for BRE-2

Systems:

  • ROBoT Proficiency OBT
  • Post iOS iPAD Config

Today’s Planned Activities:
All activities are complete unless otherwise noted.

  • TBU (Universal Bioengineering Thermostat). Thermostat ТБУ-В #07 temperature monitoring and free zone availability in front of inlet and outlet orifices of ТБУ-В
  • БМП Ф1 absorption cartridge cycling (start)
  • Kazbek Fit Check
  • Photo TV Starboard Radiator Imagery
  • SM ventilation systems preventive maintenance. Group В1
  • Health Maintenance System (HMS) Spaceflight Cognitive Assessment Tool for Windows (WinSCAT) Test [ABORTED]
  • Nikon camera sync with station time
  • ISS HAM Service Module Pass
  • URAGAN. Earth photo ops
  • PILOT-T. Experiment Ops
  • EVA Extravehicular Mobility Unit Glove Thermal Micrometeoroid Garment Repair & Replace Developmental Test Objective
  • Preparation for SM РО-ПхО КВД valve, MRM2 КСД valves control circuit activation and MRM2 pressure control circuit activation
  • Laptop FS1 maintenance
  • Monthly Maintenance of Smart Switch Router (БРИ)
  • Current converter fan (ВПТ) screen cleaning
  • ROS and USOS volumes combining [ABORTED]
  • VIZIR. Photo image coordinate referencing system (СКПФ-УМ) Session
  • USOS Ingress [ABORTED]
  • DC1+Progress #444 volume opening [ABORTED]
  • MRM1 volume opening [ABORTED]
  • Galley Reactivation [ABORTED]
  • Waste & Hygiene Compartment (WHC) Reactivation [ABORTED]
  • USOS Item Transfer [ABORTED]
  • USOS Isolation Restow [ABORTED]