Le Boeing Starliner s’apprête à être lancé alors que les astronautes de l’ISS travaillent sur la botanique spatiale et la recherche humaine

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Illustration du Boeing Starliner. Crédit : Boeing

La Station spatiale internationale (ISS) se prépare à l’arrivée prévue du vaisseau d’équipage Starliner de Boeing sur la fusée ULA de la société. Test de vol orbital-2 (OFT-2) de la société. Pendant ce temps, l’équipage d’Expedition 67 poursuit ses recherches en sciences de la vie tout en maintenant les systèmes du laboratoire orbital.

Les météorologues prévoient une probabilité de 70 % de conditions météorologiques favorables lors du lancement de la mission OFT-2 de Boeing, prévu à 18 h 54 EDT (15 h 54 PDT) jeudi.. Le vaisseau spatial Starliner décollera au sommet de la fusée Atlas-V de United Launch Alliance à la station spatiale de Cap Canaveral en Floride. Starliner effectuera un voyage automatisé de 24 heures jusqu’à la station, où il s’amarrera au port avant du module Harmony pour cinq à dix jours d’opérations de chargement et de test.

;” data-gt-translate-attributes=”[{” attribute=””>NASA Flight Engineers Kjell Lindgren and Bob Hines spent an hour on Tuesday reviewing protocols for Starliner’s approach and docking. The duo will be on duty Friday monitoring Starliner during its three-and-a-half hours of automated approach maneuvers before docking at 7:10 p.m. EDT (4:10 p.m. PDT) on Friday.

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The Moon, with Earth’s shadow draping across it during a lunar eclipse, is pictured from the International Space Station. Credit: NASA

Lindgren later spent the afternoon participating in a robotics proficiency test before installing seed cartridges and root modules for the xROOTS space botany study. Hines worked on U.S. spacesuit maintenance, partnering with astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti of ESA (European Space Agency), swapping and stowing components planned for return on an upcoming SpaceX cargo mission.

NASA Flight Engineer Jessica Watkins finished wearing a headband and vest after 24 hours for the Bio-Monitor experiment that monitors an astronaut’s health without interfering with mobility. Watkins also checked her blood pressure throughout the day for the Vascular Echo study that examines changes in blood vessels and cardiac activity in microgravity.

The station’s three cosmonauts from Roscosmos focused on their list of science and maintenance tasks in the orbiting lab’s Russian segment. Flight Engineer Sergey Korsakov updated software and replaced a laptop computer then explored ways to improve communications between station crew members and mission controllers from around the world. Commander Oleg Artemyev and Flight Engineer Denis Matveev joined each other Tuesday morning and serviced exercise gear. The duo then split up to work on broadband communications gear and inventory tools.

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