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    ISS Daily Summary Report – 6/03/2019

    SpaceX (SpX)-17 Departure: Following yesterday’s cargo transfer, Dragon egress and hatch closure operations, ground controllers successfully unberthed the vehicle from the Node 2 Nadir port at 7:25 AM CT.  After a nominal release at 11:00 AM CT, Dragon completed a series of separation burns and is progressing towards a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean today …

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    Dragon Resupply Ship Leaves Station, Heads for Pacific Splashdown

    The SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft was released from the International Space Station at 12:01 p.m. EDT after flight controllers in Houston delivered remote commands to the station’s Canadarm2 robotic arm. Expedition 59 Flight Engineer David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency monitored Dragon’s systems as it departed the microgravity laboratory. Next up, Dragon will fire …

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    U.S. Cargo Craft Poised to Depart Station and Return to Earth

    The SpaceX Dragon cargo craft approaches the International Space Station

    NASA Television coverage is now underway for departure of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft from the International Space Station. The spacecraft is scheduled for release at 12:09 p.m. EDT. Dragon was detached from the Earth-facing port of the Harmony module at 8:30 a.m. after flight controllers at mission control in Houston delivered remote commands to the …

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    ISS Daily Summary Report – 6/02/2019

    SpaceX-17 Dragon Status: Today the crew completed cargo transfer into the Dragon vehicle followed by a conference with ground teams. Following cargo loading, the crew rotated the Common Berthing Mechanism (CBM) Controller Panel Assemblies (CPAs), installed CPA 4 and closed out the vestibule prior to egressing the vehicle. These activities are in preparation for Dragon …

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    ISS Daily Summary Report – 5/31/2019

    Fluid Shifts: The crew performed eye examinations using the Fundoscope in support of the Fluid Shifts study. Fluid Shifts is a NASA investigation, divided into Dilution Measurements, Baseline Imaging, and Imaging with Chibis. The Chibis hardware is used to perform the Lower Body Negative Pressure (LBNP) part of the experiment. The Fluid Shifts experiment investigates …

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    Science Results Packed for Return to Earth Aboard Dragon Monday

    The SpaceX Dragon cargo craft approaches its capture point

    The Expedition 59 crew is starting the weekend preparing the SpaceX Dragon cargo craft for its departure from the International Space Station on Monday. The space residents are also juggling a variety of research work and lab maintenance tasks today. NASA TV is broadcasting the robotic release of Dragon from the station live on NASA …

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    ISS Daily Summary Report – 5/30/2019

    Bio-Monitor: A crewmember doffed and stowed the BioMonitor hardware. Although the ISS is equipped with health and life sciences research tools, the existing instrumentation for continuous and simultaneous recording of several physiological parameters is lacking. To tackle this issue, the Bio-Monitor Commissioning activity tests the Bio-Monitor facility; a wearable garment capable of monitoring relevant physiological …

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    Light Science Duties as Crew Sleeps in After Spacewalk

    Cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin (foreground) and Oleg Kononenko

    The six-member Expedition 59 crew had a chance to sleep in the day after wrapping up a successful spacewalk on the Russian side of the International Space Station. The cosmonauts are cleaning up this afternoon from yesterday’s excursion while the rest of the orbiting crew focuses on exercise research and other light science duties. NASA …

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    Two Cosmonauts Wrap Up the Fourth Spacewalk at the Station This Year

    Spacewalkers Oleg Kononenko and Alexey Ovchinin

    Expedition 59 Commander Oleg Kononenko and Flight Engineer Alexey Ovchinin of the Russian space agency Roscosmos have completed a spacewalk lasting 6 hours and 1 minute. The two cosmonauts opened the hatch to the Pirs docking compartment to begin the spacewalk at 11:42 a.m. EDT. They re-entered the airlock and closed the hatch at 5:43 …

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    ISS Daily Summary Report – 5/29/2019

    Russian Segment (RS) Extravehicular Activity (EVA) #46: Today CDR Oleg Kononenko and FE-4 Aleksey Ovchinin exited the Docking Compartment (DC)-1 airlock and completed the following tasks during today’s successful 06 hour 01 minute EVA: Installation of MRM2-FGB Handrail Removal of sensor mock-ups from MRM HR6005 Removal of TEST exposure units #15 & #16 installed on …

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