ISS - Expedition 67 Mission patch.
July 15, 2022
International Space Station (ISS). Animation Credit: NASA
More than 5,800 pounds of new science experiments and crew supplies are on their way to the International Space Station after the successful launch of the SpaceX Dragon cargo craft on Thursday. Dragon blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 8:44 p.m. EDT and reached orbit less than nine minutes later beginning its day-and-a-half-long trip to the orbital lab.
The U.S. space freighter is scheduled to dock automatically to the Harmony module’s forward port at 11:20 a.m. on Saturday. NASA astronauts Bob Hines and Jessica Watkins will be on duty monitoring Dragon’s automated rendezvous and docking. NASA will begin live coverage on the agency’s app and website at 10 a.m. as Dragon approaches the station for a monthlong stay.
Image above: Expedition 67 astronauts (clockwise from left) Bob Hines, Jessica Watkins, Kjell Lindgren, and Samantha Cristofroetti pose for a portrait during dinner time aboard the space station. Image Credit: NASA.
Hines and Watkins along with Expedition 67 Flight Engineers Kjell Lindgren of NASA and Samantha Cristoforetti of ESA (European Space Agency) called down to Mission Control today and discussed Saturday morning’s arrival of Dragon. The quartet also spent Friday configuring station systems to accommodate the critical research Dragon is delivering including a human immune system study, a protein production investigation, and a cancer treatment experiment.
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Related links:
NASA TV: https://www.nasa.gov/live
Expedition 67: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition67/index.html
Harmony module: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/structure/elements/harmony
Human immune system study: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=8343
Protein production investigation: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=8703
Cancer treatment experiment: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=8616
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
Image (mentioned), Animation (mentioned), Text, Credits: NASA/Mark Garcia.
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