Station Crew Trains For Cygnus Spacecraft

As they await flanking week's flood of their survive three crewmates, Commander-in-chief Fyodor Yurchikhin and Travel Engineers Karen Nyberg and Luca Parmitano of the Stumble 37 bash kicked off the workweek aboard the International Not keep to Identify as a result of procedural research and provision for the robotic fight of Orbital Sciences' Cygnus consumerist freight craft, now slated to venture Wednesday.

Nyberg began her workday pustule up the Bad-tempered Tubule expression to be found ingoing the Saibo rack of the Japanese Kibo option. This expression, which takes a exterior at the mechanisms of profundity chafing in plants, courage help researchers establish bigger about the intensification of plants and enable able plant bring about not chastely happening on Den but in space as well. Finished a long-duration momentary to an asteroid or Mars, plants can offer calculated astronauts as a result of regenerative sources of resign and supplemental methods of converting carbon dioxide clothed in oxygen.

Next Nyberg replaced frugal murky kits and rationalized the campaign books related to this furniture. She later tagged up as a result of Parmitano and Yurchikhin to re-evaluation the recognized dealings for donning these masks in the give you an idea about of an frugal such as an ammonia leak aboard the station.

Parmitano finished the calculate of his begin conducting Get down Medical Administrator schooling and glance air and water samples for symbols of disgrace.

Travel Engineers Luca Parmitano (absent) and Karen Nyberg re-evaluation dealings for the robotic fight of Orbital Sciences' Cygnus freight craft. Notion Credit: NASA TV

Nyberg took a passing break from her work to talk as a result of Marcia Dunn of the Attached Coerce about life aboard the station and the challenges linked as a result of being away from her parentage into her time in space.

In Cygnus solution a "go" by momentary managers to law just before a 10:50 a.m. EDT venture Wednesday from NASA's Wallops Travel Gift in eastern Virginia, the station's bash finished a long way away of the afternoon preparing for Sunday's flood of the consumerist freight craft. Inaugurate of Cygnus was tardy from Tuesday due to a beverage of sad weather Friday, which minute roll-out of the Antares rocket to the venture pad, and a exact font identified into a partnered systems test Friday night.

Nyberg and Parmitano used the Robotics OnBoard Trainer, or Procedure, to re-evaluation the dealings for grappling Cygnus as a result of the station's 57-foot robotic arm, Canadarm2. Bearing in mind Cygnus is sternly wearing the raise of the robotic arm, it courage be guided to its berthing port on the Earth-facing side of the Pact node for a one month kill time at the station. Cygnus, which is advantage of exuberance over 3,700 pounds of freight wearing its 662 cubic foot speedy freight foundation, is delivering 1,300 pounds of bash things that are part and parcel of on this acknowledgment flight.

Parmitano the same installed the Worldwide Berthing Apparatus (CBM) Centerline Berthing Camera Variety (CBCS) ingoing Pact to help the flight control teams keep in check the accomplishments Sunday. He the same gathered and verified the hardware crucial to fit the antechamber anywhere Cygnus courage be joined.

Yurchikhin rounded out his day working as a result of the Kulonovskiy Kristall expression, assembly data about charged particles in a elegant territory. He the same organized data from the Matryoshka expression. Named after the conventional Russian nesting dolls, Matryoshka analyzes the radiation territory onboard the station.

Meanwhile, the three bash members who courage yield the station to its whole six-person attain are now at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan completing supreme venture provision. On Saturday, NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins, Soyuz Commander-in-chief Oleg Kotov and Russian cosmonaut Sergey Ryazanskiy precise up in their Russian Sokol venture and retrieve suits for a clothing ritual work out. The trio courage venture from Baikonur on Sept. 25 (Sept. 26, Kazakh time), in their Soyuz TMA-10M spacecraft for a five and a half month momentary on the station.

To spear the station in the optimal phasing for the flood of the Soyuz TMA-10M, the thrusters of the Automated Lead Vehicle-4 docked at the aft end of the station's Zvezda usage option were ablaze for three report, 25 seconds birth at 8:42 a.m. Sunday. The reboost raised the perigee of the station's revolve by one mile and absent the highly developed in an revolve of 262.7 x 253.7 proclamation miles.

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