The Expedition 68 crew kicked off the new year with an array of microgravity research aboard the International Space Station aimed at sustaining future crews farther away from Earth. The seven orbital residents from the United States, Japan, and Russia explored a wide variety of phenomena including
Providing adequate nutrition for crews is critical asinvestigation is using genetically engineered microbes to provide nutrients, and potentially other compounds and pharmaceuticals, on-demand in space. NASA Flight Engineer Nicole Mann nourished and incubated genetically engineered yeast samples for the study in the Space Automated Bioproduct Laboratory on Tuesday.
Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Nicole Mann of NASA poses with NASA spacewalkers Josh Cassada and Frank Rubio who were suited up and ready to begin a spacewalk to install a roll-out solar array on the International Space Station’s Port-4 truss segment on December 21, 2022. The spacewalk was ultimately postponed for 24 hours so that the orbiting lab’s ISS Progress 81 cargo craft could fire its engines to maneuver the station and avoid an approaching piece of rocket debris.
The way humans adapt to the lack of an up-and-down reference in weightlessness is also important as researchers study how astronauts. NASA Flight Engineer Josh Cassada seated himself in a specialized chair in the Columbus laboratory module and performed different tasks using a controller device. Scientists may gain insights and use the observations to design intelligent spacecraft interfaces benefitting future astronauts as they venture into deep space visiting planets, moons, and asteroids.
Understanding the microbial environment on the space station is another vital activity to ensure healthy crews and safe, successful missions. NASA Flight Engineer Frank Rubio analyzed microbe samples on Tuesday morning that were collected from the station’s atmosphere and surfaces and grown in an incubator. Those samples will be returned to Earth next week on theDragon cargo craft for additional analysis.
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