Spacewalk Preps and Science Work on Space Station As SpaceX Dragon Counts Down To Launch — NASA astronauts aboard the |
The SpaceX Dragon Freedom spacecraft is pictured docked to the space-facing port on the International Space Station’s Harmony module. Dragon Freedom carried four Axiom Mission-2 astronauts to the orbital lab on May 22, 2023, including Commander Peggy Whitson, Pilot John Shoffner, and Mission Specialists Ali Alqarni and Rayyanah Barnawi. Credit: NASAare preparing for a June 9 spacewalk to install new solar arrays, while conducting various health and scientific studies.
Spacesuits and science filled the Expedition 69 schedule at the end of the workweek aboard the International Space Station . Back on Earth, a cargo-filled U.S. resupply ship is counting down to its launch to replenish the residents living on the orbital outpost. NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg are preparing for a June 9 spacewalk to install one of two new roll-out solar arrays on the space station’s starboard-side truss structure. The duo spent Friday morning configuring Extravehicular Mobility Units , or spacesuits, and readying spacewalk tools inside the Quest airlock. Hoburg then joined NASA Flight Engineer Frank Rubio in the afternoon for a fit check of his EMU.
UAE astronaut and Expedition 69 Flight Engineer Sultan Alneyadi sets up hardware for the Monoclonal Antibodies Protein Crystal Growth-2 experiment on May 30, 2023. PCG2 crystallizes biotherapeutics in microgravity and analyzes the process development potentially improving in-space and Earth production techniques that may shorten the development cycle for new drugs. Credit: NASA
The crew also continued its ongoing microgravity research to improve health on Earth and in space. Bowen set up blood samples in a centrifuge before stowing them in a science freezer to learn how spaceflight affects
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