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    ISS Daily Summary Report – 8/11/2023

    Northrup Grumman – 19 (NG-19) Cygnus Reboost: Today, the ISS successfully performed a 1.345 m/s reboost using Cygnus Delta Velocity Engine (DVE) thruster starting at 9:35 CT with a burn duration of 22 minutes and 48 seconds. This reboost sets up phasing for 85P launch and rendezvous on GMT 235, and is one of two …

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    Crops and Manufacturing Studies as Station Orbits Higher

    Astronaut Sultan Alneyadi sets up physics research hardware in the Destiny laboratory module's Microgravity Science Glovebox to create a superior graphene aerogel.

    Botany and physics topped the research schedule as spacewalk cleanup duties continued aboard the International Space Station on Friday. The Expedition 69 crew also focused on life support maintenance as a U.S. cargo craft fired it engines to boost the orbital outpost. Sustaining crews independently of cargo missions and taking advantage of microgravity for better …

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    Crew-7 Starts Health Stabilization, Visits Dragon Ahead of Launch

    NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 crew members are photographed inside the crew access arm, which they will walk across on launch day to enter SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft, at NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A in Florida during a launch site familiarization tour on July 22, 2023. From left are Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov, mission specialist; ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Andreas Mogensen, pilot; NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, commander; and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, mission specialist.

    Crew members who will soon fly aboard NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 mission will enter quarantine Friday in one of the major milestones before they head to the launch site in Florida to start their mission to the International Space Station. The process of flight crew health stabilization is a routine part of final preparations for all …

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    Following Science, Spacewalk Cleanup a Planned Cygnus Boost Approaches

    Astronaut Woody Hoburg poses for a portrait inside the vestibule that separates the Unity module from the Cygnus space freighter's hatch.

    The Expedition 69 crew is continuing to unpack a U.S. cargo craft before it fires engines to reboost the International Space Station on Friday. The orbital residents are also continuing their science and maintenance activities while cleaning up the day after a spacewalk. NASA astronauts Frank Rubio and Stephen Bowen continued unpacking some of the …

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    ISS Daily Summary Report – 8/10/2023

    Payloads: Combustion Integration Rack (CIR): The crew gained access to the CIR and continued troubleshooting efforts on the Input/Output Processor (IOP). Today’s troubleshooting was designed to force the IOP to start up from a different boot-up script than was previously used, but was not successful. CIR includes an optics bench, combustion chamber, fuel and oxidizer …

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    Six Weeks at Sea: NASA Scientists Double-Check Satellite Ocean Color Data

    NASA researcher Joaquin Chaves calls it “ground truthing,” even though land is nowhere in sight. This spring, Chaves boarded the Atlantic Meridional Transect (AMT) research cruise for six weeks of sampling water and taking measurements as the ship traversed the Atlantic Ocean. His team, based at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, uses …

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    Cosmonauts Finish Spacewalk Installing Shields and Relocating Hardware

    Cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev rides the European robotic arm for the first time during a spacewalk in this view from fellow cosmonaut Dmitri Petelin's helmet cam. Credit: NASA TV

    Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin concluded their spacewalk outside the International Space Station at 5:19 p.m. EDT after 6 hours and 35 minutes. Prokopyev and Petelin attached three debris shields to the Rassvet module and tested the sturdiness of a work platform affixed to the end of the European robotic arm attached to the Nauka multipurpose …

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