29 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy, arriving at the station the following day. This shorter transportation timeframe allows researchers to collect data with minimal loss of microgravity effects.ĭragon launched Aug. Splashing down off the coast of Florida enables quick transportation of the science aboard the capsule to the agency’s Kennedy Space Center’s Space Station Processing Facility, delivering some science back into the hands of the researchers hours after splashdown. NASA Television will not broadcast the splashdown live, but will provide updates on the space station blog. The spacecraft will make parachute-assisted splashdown around 11 p.m. EDT.Ĭargo Dragon will fire its thrusters to move a safe distance away from the station prior to a deorbit burn later in the day that will begin its re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere. With NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough monitoring aboard the International Space Station, a SpaceX cargo Dragon spacecraft undocked from the station’s forward port of the Harmony module at 9:12 a.m. Four spaceships are parked at the space station including Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus space freighter the SpaceX Crew Dragon vehicle and Russia’s Soyuz MS-18 crew ship and ISS Progress 78 resupply ship. 30, 2021: International Space Station Configuration. Roscosmos Flight Engineer Pyotr Dubrov photographed microbe samples swabbed from station surfaces to understand the risk to spacecraft and future human missions. Vande Hei started his morning processing blood samples in a centrifuge then spent the afternoon stowing biological samples in a science freezer for the Food Physiology experiment.Ĭosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy monitored his blood pressure while wearing the lower body negative pressure suit that counteracts the effect of microgravity pulling fluids toward the human head. McArthur cleaned up debris and took photographs of Hatch chile plants growing inside the Plant Habitat. NASA Flight Engineers Megan McArthur and Mark Vande Hei spent their day on botany and biology studies. Commander Akihiko Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration installed a deployer loaded with small satellites inside the Kibo laboratory module’s airlock. Flight Engineer Thomas Pesquet of ESA (European Space Agency) swapped samples inside the Fluids Science Laboratory to study the dynamics of granular materials in weightlessness. Meanwhile, microgravity science activities are ongoing aboard the space station today. The Russian trio will dock to the station’s Rassvet module less than three-and-a-half hours after launch. The Soyuz MS-19 crew ship will carry veteran cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov leading spaceflight participants Klim Shipenko and Yulia Peresild. EDT from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The next mission to the orbiting lab will blast off on Tuesday at 4:55 a.m. NASA and SpaceX personnel will be on support boats ready to retrieve the cargo craft containing station hardware and completed science experiments for analysis. It will orbit Earth for several more hours before parachuting to a splashdown off the coast of Florida later tonight. NASA Flight Engineer Shane Kimbrough was on duty monitoring the SpaceX Cargo Dragon vehicle during its automated undocking from the Harmony module’s forward international docking adapter today at 9:12 a.m. A Russian rocket is scheduled to roll out on Friday to prepare for next week’s launch with the crew members to the orbiting lab. resupply ship departed the International Space Station on Thursday morning and will return to Earth in the evening. 30 for an autonomous docking to the Harmony module’s forward international docking adapter.Ī U.S. The SpaceX Cargo Dragon vehicle is pictured approaching the station on Aug.
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