Russian Segment (RS) EVA 37A: Kotov (EV1) and Ryazansky (EV2) performed RS EVA 37A within 6 hours and 8 minutes duration. During the EVA, Flight Engineer (FE)-3 Hopkins was isolated in the Mini-Research Module (MRM)-2/36S while FE-4 Tyurin, FE-5 Mastracchio, and FE-6 Wakata had access to all modules forward of the Service Module (SM). Tasks completed …
USOS Food Warmer Troubleshooting: On January 16th, the Express Rack 6 drawer in which the Lab Food Warmer resides, experienced an over current condition. Since then, the crew had been using a degraded Food Warmer within the Lab. Today, Flight Engineer (FE)-3 Hopkins replaced a damaged cabled associated with the non-degraded warmer then performed a successful …
Editor’s Note: Jeffrey Kargel is a hydrologist at the University of Arizona and for the Global Land Ice Measurements from Space project. This is his account of the research he did during the aftermath of a deadly flash flood in Nepal’s Seti River Valley to determine its cause. You can read more about the event […]
Body Measures Investigation: Flight Engineer (FE)-6 Wakata, with operator assistance from FE-3 Hopkins, set up cameras and cabin video, performed body marker instrumentation, and collected calibration and body pose photos and circumference measurements. This is Wakata’s flight day 80 session, and is the third of six times he will conduct these measurements. The goal of …
Ocular Health (OH) Tonometry Examination: Flight Engineer (FE)-6 Wakata acting as Crew Medical Officer (CMO) helped measure Hopkins’s blood pressure and vital signs and then conducted a vision and tonometry test on Hopkins. This was Hopkins’s Flight Day 120 session, which is the final session he will conduct on-orbit for this test. The Ocular Health protocol …
Cosmo Shoot Operations: Flight Engineer (FE)-6 Wakata has set up the Cosmo Shoot laptop and 4K camera in the Cupola to capture images of the Earth surface. He later removed the hardware and temporarily stowed it in the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM). ENERGY (Astronaut’s Energy Requirements for Long-Term Space Flight): FE-3 Hopkins has started his …
Ocular Health (OH) Vision Test: With assistance from ground medical support personnel, Flight Engineer (FE)-3 Hopkins completed a vision test today as part of his Flight Day 120 Ocular Health session that will be completed over multiple days. This was the first use of the new Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) laptop that arrived on Orb-1 …
Congratulations to Dillion and Eric J.F. Kelijssen for solving the January Puzzler the fastest. The answer is Oobloyah Valley on Canada’s Ellesmere Island. The image features four glaciers—Nukapingwa, Arklio, Perkeo, and Midget—flowing into the valley from the Krieger mountains to the north. At the end of each glacier, all of which are retreating, there are […]
USOS Food Warmer Status: Yesterday the Express Rack 6 Solid State Power Control Module (SSPCM) to the USOS Food Warmer experience an over current trip. The ground teams continue to investigate the failure, in the meantime the crew has deployed a spare USOS food warmer in the Lab. Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites …
A connection to deep waters to the north gives a trench near the Bahamas the shape of a tongue.
