A busy week of critical research benefitting humans living on and off the Earth kicked off for the seven Expedition 67 residents of the International Space Station (ISS). The orbital residents also continued supporting the ISS’s vast array of flight, research, and life support systems. Astronauts
space agriculture study to begin a 30-day growth period of radishes and mizuna greens. The research uses hydroponics and aeroponics techniques to learn how to produce crops on a larger scale on future manned missions to the Moon,Spacewalker Samantha Cristoforetti of ESA works outside the Nauka multipurpose laboratory module on the International Space Station while wearing a Russian Orlan spacesuit.
NASA Flight Engineer Kjell Lindgren opened up the Kibo laboratory module’s airlock and retrieved an external science platform. He also installed a small satellite deployer on the research gear. The deployer will be placed outside Kibo in the vacuum of space before deploying a set of CubeSats into low-Earth orbit for a variety of research and education programs.
NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins started her morning with cable connections inside a refrigerator-sized research rack called the