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    Robotics and Space Biology Today as Cosmonauts Look to Next Spacewalk

    Astronaut Anne McClain checks out the new Astrobee hardware

    A pair of robotic arms from Canada and Japan continued swapping experiment hardware on the International Space Station over the weekend. Meanwhile, the Expedition 59 crew started the week exploring robotics and biology today while a pair of cosmonauts look to the next spacewalk. The 57.7-foot-long Canadarm2 robotic arm started removing a pair of external …

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    Human Research as Canadian, Japanese Robot Arms Swap Experiments

    Four Expedition 59 astronauts

    The Expedition 59 crew focused intensely on human research today to improve the health of people on Earth and in space. The residents aboard the International Space Station are busy exploring how the human body and other organisms adapt to space helping NASA prepare to go to the moon by 2024. Astronauts Christina Koch and …

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    Crew Relaxes as Two Robotic Arms Prepare for Payload Handoffs

    The three crewmates who rode the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft

    The Expedition 59 crew has a light duty day today with some science work on the schedule. Meanwhile, robotics controllers are preparing to swap external payloads in the unpressurized trunk of the SpaceX Dragon cargo craft. NASA Flight Engineer Christina Koch checked samples today as she continued exploring why pathogens become more virulent in space. …

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    Science Aboard Station Today Impacts Astronaut Health Long-Term

    Expedition 59 Flight Engineers (from left) Anne McClain, David Saint-Jacques and Christina Koch

    The International Space Station has all but one of its seven ports occupied by two crew ships and four cargo ships today. With plenty of food, fuel and supplies, the Expedition 59 crew is busy conducting new science experiments delivered to the orbital lab. The crew researched an array of space biology today including pathogen …

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    New Science Being Unpacked and Worked Aboard Orbital Lab

    The SpaceX Dragon cargo craft is installed to the Harmony module

    Six spaceships are now parked at the International Space Station and the Expedition 59 crew is working on the newest science delivered Monday. Astronauts will continue to live and work in space longer and scientists want to know how humans and a variety of other organisms adapt to support these missions. NASA astronaut Anne McClain …

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    Busy Monday as Astronauts Grapple Dragon and Store Critical Experiments

    At the Mission Control Center in Houston, Expedition 59 flight controllers monitor the capture and berthing of the SpaceX Dragon cargo craft to the Harmony module of the International Space Station on May 6. Image Credit: NASA/Josh Valcarcel

    This morning, just two days following its nighttime launch from the Florida coast, SpaceX’s Dragon cargo spacecraft was captured and installed on the Earth-facing side of the International Space Station’s Harmony module at 9:32 a.m. EDT. Expedition 59 astronauts David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency and Nick Hague of NASA successfully employed the space …

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    SpaceX Cargo Craft Attached to Station

    May 4, 2019: International Space Station Configuration.

    Two days after its launch from Florida, the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft was installed on the Earth-facing side of the International Space Station’s Harmony module at 9:32 a.m. EDT. The 17th contracted commercial resupply mission from SpaceX (CRS-17) delivers more than 5,500 pounds of research, crew supplies and hardware to the orbiting laboratory. Here’s some …

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    Astronaut Commands Robotic Arm to Capture Dragon Cargo Craft

    SpaceX Dragon Cargo Craft Captured

    While the International Space Station was traveling over the north Atlantic Ocean, astronauts David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency and Nick Hague of NASA grappled Dragon at 7:01 a.m. EDT using the space station’s robotic arm Canadarm2. Ground controllers will now send commands to begin the robotic installation of the spacecraft on bottom of …

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    NASA TV Coverage Begins of the SpaceX Dragon Approaching Station

    SpaceX Dragon Cargo Craft

    Flight control teams for the International Space Station and SpaceX are proceeding toward grapple of the Dragon cargo spacecraft this morning. Capture is expected around 7 a.m. EDT. NASA Television coverage has begun. Watch live at http://www.nasa.gov/live. Expedition 59 astronauts David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency and Nick Hague of NASA will use the space …

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