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    Two Flight Engineers’ Stay Extended; Biology, Maintenance Work Pick Up

    Astronaut Mark Vande Hei conducted kidney cell research inside the Kibo laboratory module's Life Science Glovebox back in June 2021.

    Two International Space Station crew members have had their stay onboard the orbiting lab extended to nearly a year. Meanwhile, space biology and life support maintenance kept the Expedition 65 crew busy on Tuesday. With the plans for Russian spaceflight participants to visit the space station as part of the Soyuz MS-19 crew in October …

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    ISS Daily Summary Report – 9/13/2021

    Payloads 4-Bed CO2 scrubber:  The crew reviewed the big picture words and procedures for the installation planned later this week.  The Four Bed CO2 Scrubber demonstrates a technology for removing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere on a spacecraft. The technology is based on the current system in use on the International Space Station (ISS) with …

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    Crew Turns Attention to Research Following Trio of Spacewalks

    Astronaut Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency works on the ring-sheared drop experiment.

    The Expedition 65 crew is back on microgravity research aboard the International Space Station today after kicking off September with three spacewalks in less than two weeks. International astronauts Akihiko Hoshide and Thomas Pesquet relaxed Monday morning following their six-hour and 54-minute spacewalk on Sunday to install a modification kit on the station’s Port-4 (P4) …

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    International Astronauts Complete Power System Mods Spacewalk

    Spacewalker Akihiko Hoshide works on the station's Port-4 truss structure installing a modification kit and preparing it for a future Roll-Out Solar Array. Credit: NASA TV

    Astronauts Akihiko Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Thomas Pesquet of ESA (European Space Agency) have concluded the first spacewalk conducted by two international partner astronauts out of the International Space Station’s Quest airlock at 3:09 p.m. EDT, after 6 hours and 54 minutes. Hoshide and Pesquet successfully assembled and attached a …

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    International Astronauts Begin Spacewalk to Modify Station’s Power System

    Astronauts (from left) Akihiko Hoshide and Thomas Pesquet are pictured outside of the space station with their U.S. spacesuit helmet visors up during earlier spacewalks.

    Astronauts Akihiko Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Thomas Pesquet of ESA (European Space Agency) have begun the first International Space Station spacewalk conducted by two international partner astronauts out of the station’s Quest airlock. The spacewalkers switched their spacesuits to battery power at 8:15 a.m. EDT to begin the spacewalk, which …

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    NASA TV Coverage Begins for Power System Mods Spacewalk

    Astronauts (from left) Akihiko Hoshide and Thomas Pesquet are pictured in their U.S. spacesuits preparing for earlier spacewalks.

    NASA Television coverage of today’s spacewalk with astronauts Akihiko Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Thomas Pesquet of ESA (European Space Agency) is now underway and is also available on the NASA app and the agency’s website. The crew members of Expedition 65 are preparing to go outside the International Space Station …

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    Station Busy with Sunday Spacewalk Preps and Biology, Botany Research

    ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pesquet is pictured during a spacewalk in January 2017 when he was an Expedition 50 flight engineer.

    Two Expedition 65 astronauts are getting ready for a Sunday spacewalk to modify the International Space Station’s power system. Meanwhile, the orbiting lab is hosting a variety of biology and botany research today as two cosmonauts clean up following Thursday’s spacewalk. International astronauts Akihiko Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Thomas Pesquet …

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    ISS Daily Summary Report – 9/10/2021

    Payloads Advanced Plant EXperiment-08 (APEX-08):  The crew harvested plant material that that had been growing in Petri Plates in the Veggie Facilities. The plant material grown in the Petri plates in Veggie for 9 days was harvested and fixed into the KFTs.  The plant material will perfuse in the KFTs for 24 hours and will …

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    Cosmonauts Wrap Up Second Spacewalk to Set Up Science Module

    Russian spacewalkers (from left) Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov work over 250 miles above the Earth to configure the Nauka multipurpose laboratory for science operations. Credit: NASA TV

    Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov of Roscosmos concluded their spacewalk at 6:16 p.m. EDT after 7 hours and 25 minutes. It was the second of up to 11 spacewalks to prepare the new Nauka multipurpose laboratory module for operations in space. Novitskiy and Dubrov finished connecting television, rendezvous system and ethernet cables to the recently arrived …

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    ISS Daily Summary Report – 9/09/2021

    Russian Segment (RS) Extravehicular Activity (EVA) #50: Today, FE-4 Oleg Novitskiy (EV1) and FE-5 Petr Dubrov (EV2) egressed the Mini-Research Module (MRM)-2 airlock and completed the following tasks during today’s 7 hour and 25-minute EVA: Mating of Ethernet cable from ISS USOS to MLM Installation of gap spanner at ПГО-2 along MLM Pl. III Mating …

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