ISS - Expedition 63 Mission patch / NASA & SpaceX - Dragon Demo-2 - Behnken & Hurley patch.
June 5, 2020
The Expedition 63 crew and its two newest crewmates aboard the International Space Station wrapped up the workweek studying a wide range of space phenomena.
Image above: Flying over South Pacific Ocean, seen by EarthCam on ISS, speed: 27'568 Km/h, altitude: 423,60 Km, image captured by Roland Berga (on Earth in Switzerland) from International Space Station (ISS) using ISS-HD Now Live application with EarthCam's from ISS on June 5, 2020 at 18:50 UTC. Image Credits: ISS Live Now/Orbiter.ch Aerospace/Roland Berga.
Commander Chris Cassidy began Friday setting up optical communications gear aboard the Japanese Kibo laboratory module. The new broadband hardware will demonstrate transmitting large amounts of data back and forth from the station to the ground. Afterward, the NASA astronaut swapped out test samples for an experiment taking place inside the Materials Science Laboratory.
Image above: NASA astronauts (from left) Bob Behnken, Doug Hurley and Chris Cassidy are the U.S. members of the Expedition 63 crew. Image Credit: NASA.
New station Flight Engineers Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken are still in a handover period as they wrap up their first work week in space. The astronauts familiarized themselves today with medical kits, the food pantry, communication systems and safety procedures. They also continued researching space bubbles in microfluids and unpacked Japan’s HTV-9 resupply ship, which arrived six days before they did.
Image above: Previously recorded image of HTV-9 resupply ship and Canadarm seen by EarthCam on ISS, speed: 27'568 Km/h, altitude: 423,60 Km, image captured by Roland Berga (on Earth in Switzerland) from International Space Station (ISS) using ISS-HD Now Live application with EarthCam's from ISS on June 5, 2020 at 18:50 UTC. Image Credits: ISS Live Now/Orbiter.ch Aerospace/Roland Berga.
Roscosmos Flight Engineers Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner kept up this week’s research as they photographed natural and man-made impacts on Earth and monitored the station’s radiation environment. The duo also continued inspecting the orbiting lab’s Russian modules while videotaping their station activities for Earth audiences.
Related links:
Expedition 63: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition63/index.html
Optical communications gear: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=7750
Kibo laboratory module: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/structure/elements/japan-kibo-laboratory
Materials Science Laboratory: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Facility.html?#id=1854
Space bubbles in microfluids: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=1939
HTV-9 resupply ship: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/kounotori-htv-launches-arrivals-and-departures
Natural and man-made impacts: https://www.energia.ru/en/iss/researches/study/14.html
Station’s radiation environment: https://www.energia.ru/en/iss/researches/human/03.html
Space Station Research and Technology: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/overview.html
International Space Station (ISS): https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html
Images (mentioned), Text, Credits: NASA/Catherine Williams/Orbiter.ch Aerospace/Roland Berga.
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