On Thanksgiving day, four Expedition 68 astronauts will relax as three cosmonauts continue preparing for a spacewalk on Friday. The residents onboard the International Space Station (ISS) are also expecting a space delivery this weekend bringing new roll-out solar arrays and science experiments.
To observe the effects of microgravity on humans, NASA Flight Engineer Frank Rubio turned on thedevice on Wednesday and scanned the leg, neck, and shoulder veins of JAXA Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata. Earlier, Rubio had partnered with fellow NASA astronaut Josh Cassada and inspected spacewalking tethers before participating in a NanoRacks botany experiment. Wakata checked ethernet connections inside the Columbus laboratory module.
Outside the International Space Station, Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin of the Expedition 68 crew will conduct a spacewalk on November 25 to relocate a radiator from the Rassvet module to Nauka. It will be the 256th spacewalk in support of station maintenance and upgrades, the fourth for Prokopyev, and the second for Petelin. Credit: NASA
Cassada began his day filming a demonstration showing how to measure the mass of everyday objects in weightlessness. Afterward, he unpacked cargo from the Cygnus space freighter that . For most of the day Wednesday, NASA Flight Engineer Nicole Mann worked on life support maintenance in the Harmony module. She wrapped up her day organizing cargo that will be packed inside theThe Dragon resupply ship is attached to the top of the Falcon 9 rocket and is standing at the launch pad. It was scheduled for liftoff on Wednesday, but the
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How the search for a downed plane led to a fallen space shuttle and vice versaRobert Pearlman is a space historian, journalist and the founder and editor of collectSPACE.com, an online publication and community devoted to space history with a particular focus on how and where space exploration intersects with pop culture. Pearlman is also a contributing writer for Space.com and co-author of 'Space Stations: The Art, Science, and Reality of Working in Space” published by Smithsonian Books in 2018. He previously developed online content for the National Space Society and Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin, helped establish the space tourism company Space Adventures and currently serves on the History Committee of the American Astronautical Society, the advisory committee for The Mars Generation and leadership board of For All Moonkind. In 2009, he was inducted into the U.S. Space Camp Hall of Fame in Huntsville, Alabama. In 2021, he was honored by the American Astronautical Society with the Ordway Award for Sustained Excellence in Spaceflight History.
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