ISS - Expedition 65 Mission patch.
September 2, 2021
Two cosmonauts will exit the International Space Station on Friday to begin powering up the new Russian science module. While they prepare today for the excursion, the rest of the Expedition 65 crew focused on new science experiments and reviewed an upcoming U.S. spacewalk.
International Space Station (ISS). Animation Credit: ESA
Russia’s Nauka multipurpose laboratory module, attached to the station since July 29, will be connected to the station’s ethernet and power systems during a spacewalk set to start Friday at 10:35 a.m. EDT. Roscosmos Flight Engineers Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov will exit the Poisk airlock to begin about seven hours of routing and mating cables on the outside of Nauka.
The spacewalking cosmonauts were joined on Thursday by NASA Flight Engineer Mark Vande Hei and Commander Akihiko Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) for a review of Friday’s spacewalk procedures. Vande Hei will also assist the spacewalkers in and out of their Russian Orlan spacesuits inside the Poisk module.
Image above: Cosmonauts (from left) Pyotr Dubrov and Oleg Novitskiy prepare Russian Orlan spacesuits. Image Credits: ROSCOSMOS/NASA.
Novitskiy and Dubrov have another spacewalk scheduled on Sept. 9 to continue outfitting Nauka with handrails and cables. Both spacewalks will be broadcast live on NASA TV, the NASA app, and the agency’s website.
New space investigations recently delivered aboard the SpaceX Cargo Dragon are just getting under way aboard the orbiting lab. NASA Flight Engineer Megan McArthur kicked off the Genes In Space-8 study today to explore how medicines may act differently in microgravity. A student-designed experiment, started today by NASA Flight Engineer Shane Kimbrough, looks at the mating habits of tardigrades living inside mixture tubes and stowed in a NanoRacks research device.
Kimbrough also swapped out science components inside the Fluids Integrated Rack. Hoshide worked in the Electrostatic Levitation Furnace cleaning and removing sample cartridges. Vande Hei installed a new incubator, a temperature controlled device that supports a variety of biology and physics research, in JAXA’s Kibo laboratory module.
The next spacewalk following the Russian excursions is planned for Sept. 12 with Hoshide and Pesquet. The duo reviewed procedures today tasked for the scheduled six-and-a-half hour excursion. They will exit the U.S. Quest airlock to modify the Port-4 (P4) truss structure preparing it for a new Roll-Out Solar Array due to arrive next year aboard the Space Cargo Dragon space freighter.
On Approach to the Space Station
In this image from Aug, 30, 2021, the SpaceX Cargo Dragon vehicle approaches the International Space Station for an autonomous docking to the Harmony module's forward international docking adapter. Image Credit: NASA.
SpaceX CRS-23 Dragon docking
Cosmonauts will go to spacewalk on September 3, 2021
In accordance with the schedule of work on the Russian segment of the International Space Station on Friday, September 3, 2021, the 49th planned EVA is planned (EVA No. 49). It will be performed by Russian crew members of the ISS-65 expedition, Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky and Pyotr Dubrov.
Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky and Pyotr Dubrov
This spacewalk will be the first in a series devoted to the integration of the multipurpose laboratory module "Science", which became part of the International Space Station at the end of July 2021. The Russian cosmonauts will have to spend more than 7 hours on the outer board of the station. From the ground, from the Mission Control Center of TsNIIMash, they will be assisted by specialists of the Main Operational Control Group of the Rocket and Space Corporation Energia named after S.P. Queen (included in Roscosmos).
During EVA, the cosmonauts must connect the cables of the power supply system to the multipurpose laboratory module "Nauka", mount a cross-over handrail on the second instrument-cargo compartment of the module and two cross-over handrails to move from the second to the first instrument and cargo compartment, and connect an Ethernet cable to the new Russian module.
Multipurpose Laboratory Module "Nauka"
If the crew has time, they will install an installation platform with three Biorisk-MSN containers on the Poisk small research module. In the course of this experiment, the resistance of microorganisms to the extreme conditions of outer space is tested.
According to the plan, the exit hatch of the Search module is to be opened at 17:35 Moscow time, after which the cosmonauts will begin work. Oleg Novitsky and Pyotr Dubrov should return to the station at 00:10 Moscow time on September 4, 2021.
Cosmonauts Get Suits Ready for Next Spacewalk
The live broadcast will begin at 17:00 Moscow time on the official website (https://vk.com/video-30315369_456242564) and on the pages in the social networks of the State Corporation Roscosmos. As part of the broadcast, we will tell you what the multipurpose laboratory module "Science" (Nauka) is, how it will be integrated into the Russian segment of the ISS, how many spacewalks will be required for this, what experiments will be carried out later, and much more. We will be joined by test cosmonaut Mark Serov, first deputy editor-in-chief of the Russian space magazine Igor Marinin, cosmonaut instructor on extravehicular activities at the Yu.A. Gagarin, Anatoly Panin, Hero of Russia, pilot-cosmonaut of the Russian Federation, deputy director of the Institute of Biomedical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences Oleg Kotov.
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Related links:
ROSCOSMOS Press Release: https://www.roscosmos.ru/32415/
NASA TV: https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html
Expedition 65: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition65/index.html
Poisk airlock: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/structure/elements/poisk-mini-research-module-2
Genes In Space-8: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=8438
Mating habits of tardigrades: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=8620
Fluids Integrated Rack: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Facility.html?#id=351
Electrostatic Levitation Furnace: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Facility.html?#id=1536
Incubator: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Facility.html?#id=8508
Kibo laboratory module: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/structure/elements/japan-kibo-laboratory
U.S. Quest airlock: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/structure/elements/joint-quest-airlock
Port-4 (P4) truss structure: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/structure/elements/truss-structure
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, Video, Text, Credits: NASA/Mark Garcia/Yvette Smith/NASA TV/SciNews/ROSCOSMOS/Orbiter.ch Aerospace/Roland Berga.
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