![]() Learn more about station activities by following the space station blog, and on Twitter as well as the ISS Facebook and ISS Instagram accounts. The space station was flying over the south Atlantic Ocean at the time of the launch. Live coverage on NASA TV of rendezvous and docking will begin at 8:45 p.m.Ĭarrying more than three tons of food, fuel, and supplies for the Expedition 66 crew, the Progress 79 resupply spacecraft will spend about seven months at the station. ![]() The resupply ship reached preliminary orbit and deployed its solar arrays and navigational antennas as planned for a two-day rendezvous on its way to meet up with the orbiting laboratory and its Expedition 66 crew members.Īfter making 33 orbits of Earth on its journey, Progress will dock to the aft port of the station’s Zvezda module at 9:34 p.m. 28, Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The uncrewed Russian Progress 79 is safely in orbit headed for the International Space Station following launch at 8 p.m. Russia’s ISS Progress 79 resupply ship blasts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the space station. Vande Hei reinstalled the Light Ions Detector, an advanced radiation detection device, that provides data into the health risk astronauts are exposed to. Pesquet restocked the Human Research Facility with electrodes, needles, and biological sample kits. The other observes the cardiovascular health risks of a long-term spaceflight.Ĭommander Thomas Pesquet and Flight Engineer Mark Vande Hei worked in the Columbus laboratory module on different science maintenance tasks. ![]() One long-running study looks at how an astronaut’s body adapts to microgravity before, during and after a space mission. While the station awaits the new cargo and crewmates, the orbital residents continued their intense schedule of advanced microgravity research.įlight Engineers Megan McArthur, Shane Kimbrough and Akihiko Hoshide collected and stowed their blood samples for a pair of human research studies this morning. Dubrov also continued his space exercise research while Shkaplerov was back on plasma-dust structures physics research. The Roscosmos duo practiced and reviewed procedures on a computer in Zvezda for Friday’s Progress 79 arrival. Cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anton Shkaplerov will be on duty Friday monitoring the Progress 79’s arrival when it automatically docks to the Zvezda service module’s aft port on at 9:34 p.m. The quartet will then open the hatches at 1:45 a.m., enter the station, and begin a six-month orbital research mission as Expedition 66 flight engineers.īack in space, the ISS Progress 79 resupply ship, with nearly three tons of food, fuel and supplies packed inside, is racing toward the station after launching Wednesday at 8 p.m. EDT for a 22-hour ride to the orbiting lab.Ĭrew-3 Commander Raja Chari, along with Pilot Thomas Marshburn and Mission Specialists Kayla Barron and Matthias Maurer, will automatically dock inside Endurance to the Harmony module’s forward docking port on Monday at 12:10 a.m. The SpaceX Crew-3 mission, with its four commercial crew astronauts inside Endurance, will blast off on Sunday at 2:21 a.m. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with the Crew Dragon Endurance attached at top, stands at its launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. ![]() Meanwhile, the seven station residents orbiting the Earth today are headlong into a series of life science and physics experiments. Credit: NASA/Joel Kowskyįour commercial crew astronauts await their launch to join the Expedition 66 crew this weekend as a Russian space cargo mission is on its way to the International Space Station. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Crew Dragon Endurance atop is pictured at its launch pad in Florida during sunset. ![]()
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