Cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev waves to the camera whereas working outdoors the Nauka multipurpose laboratory module throughout a spacewalk that lasted for six hours and 37 minutes to outfit Nauka and configure the European robotic arm on the World Set apart Role’s Russian segment. Credit: NASA
The Expedition 67 crew is gearing up for the advent of the SpaceX Crew-4 mission following Sunday’s departure of the Axiom Mission 1 (Ax-1) crew. The World Set apart Role would possibly per chance also look one other spacewalk to blueprint up a brand contemporary robotic arm, following up on the 6-hour and 37-minute spacewalk on April 18.
The orbiting lab’s four astronauts from NASA and ESA (European Set apart Company) slept in on Monday after seeing off the Ax-1 crew on Sunday evening. Commander Tom Marshburn and Flight Engineers Raja Chari, Kayla Barron, and Matthias Maurer aroused from sleep precise forward of lunchtime on the orbital lab and labored on housecleaning tasks whereas checking out a garment that can prevent house-induced dizziness and blurred vision, also is named orthostatic intolerance.
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 astronauts steal half in a coaching session at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, CA. From left to fair true: NASA astronaut and SpaceX Crew-4 mission specialist Jessica Watkins; NASA astronaut and SpaceX Crew-4 pilot Robert “Bob” Hines; NASA astronaut and SpaceX Crew-4 commander Kjell Lindgren; and ESA (European Set apart Company) astronaut and Crew-4 mission specialist Samantha Cristoforetti of Italy. Credit: NASA
The next mission, SpaceX Crew-4, to chat about with the house mutter is on the Kennedy Set apart Heart in Florida. The four business crew astronauts are in remaining preparations for launch aboard the Dragon Freedom focused for 3: 52 a.m. EDT on Wednesday. Commander Kjell Lindgren, Pilot Robert Hines, and Mission Consultants Jessica Watkins and Samantha Cristoforetti, would dock to the mutter several hours later to start up a four-and-a-half month preserve on the orbiting lab.
Two cosmonauts are all every other time getting ready for a spacewalk to spark off the European robotic arm (ERA) hooked as much as the Nauka multipurpose laboratory module. Flight Engineer Oleg Artemyev and Denis Matveev are scheduled to exit the Poisk module’s airlock at 10: 30 a.m. EDT on Thursday for a six-and-a-half hour tour to blueprint up the ERA for its first motion. The ERA is the mutter’s third robotic arm and would possibly per chance well operate on the house lab’s Russian segment for both payload and spacewalk operations.
Roscosmos Flight Engineer Sergey Korsakov joined his cosmonaut crewmates this day and reviewed the spacewalk projects planned for Thursday. Korsakov will most definitely be all the arrangement throughout the mutter helping the spacewalkers and helping them out and in of their Orlan spacesuits. Artemyev and Matveev will launch the ERA launch locks on Nauka, set up contemporary handrails, and display screen the robotic arm’s first motion.