Tout en continuant à accueillir une série d’expériences scientifiques de pointe, la Station spatiale internationale (ISS) est également occupée par les préparatifs des sorties dans l’espace. Les sept membres de l’équipage Expedition 67 ont également veillé au bon fonctionnement du matériel de recherche et de l’équipement électronique tout en vérifiant les fournitures de bureau de la station.
En microgravité, l’absence de référence vers le haut et vers le bas peut affecter le système nerveux humain, ce qui pourrait potentiellement avoir un impact sur la façon dont les membres de l’équipage interagissent avec les instruments de l’engin spatial. ;” data-gt-translate-attributes=”[{” attribute=””>NASA Flight Engineers Bob Hines and Jessica Watkins studied how weightlessness influences an astronaut’s ability to grip and manipulate objects with continued work on the GRIP experiment in the Columbus laboratory module on Thursday. Hines and Watkins took turns conducting the investigation while lying flat on their backs as scientists monitored from the ground. The pair of astronauts had performed research operations from a seated position earlier in the week.
Jessica Watkins then spent the rest of the day working on electronics gear and connections inside the Harmony module. Bob Hines swapped air supply hoses ensuring the proper airflow inside the Quest airlock.
NASA Flight Engineer Kjell Lindgren started his morning in the Kibo laboratory module servicing a specialized microscope that uses spatial filtering techniques to observe cellular and tissue structures. Afterward, he moved on to a space manufacturing study observing a run of the Intelligent Glass Optics study that incorporates artificial intelligence into its methodology.
Two veteran station crew members, ESA (European Space Agency) Flight Engineer Samantha Cristoforetti and Roscosmos Commander Oleg Artemyev, resumed their preparations today for an upcoming spacewalk. The duo from Italy and Russia will exit the station Poisk airlock at 10 a.m. on June 21 and spend approximately seven hours continuing to outfit the European robotic arm attached to the Nauka multipurpose laboratory module.
Cosmonaut and Flight Engineer Denis Matveev inventoried station supplies, including printing paper, ink cartridges, and batteries, throughout the station’s Russian segment. Roscosmos Flight Engineer Sergey Korsakov configured nanosatellites that will be deployed during the upcoming July 21 spacewalk.