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    CATS Installed, Eye Checks and Science Maintenance for Crew

    Samantha Cristoforetti and Barry Wilmore

    With CATS successfully installed to an external platform on Japan’s Kibo laboratory, the Expedition 42 crew spent Friday working life science, combustion and a variety of other experiments. › Read more about CATS The Combustion Integrated Rack (CIR), located inside the Destiny lab module, needs fuel so scientists can ignite materials to study the behavior …

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    Robotic Arms Move CATS While Crew Studies Life Science

    Kibo and CATS Installation

    Ground controllers overnight remotely guided the Canadarm2, with its Dextre robotic hand attached, to deftly remove the CATS experiment from the SpaceX Dragon trunk. They then handed it off to the Japanese robotic arm for installation on the Kibo laboratory’s external platform. CATS, or Cloud-Aerosol Transport System, will collect data on the pollution, dust, smoke, …

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    Crew Works Botany and Physics as Robotic Arm Preps New Experiment

    Kibo Laboratory

    The six-member Expedition 42 crew worked Dragon cargo transfers and science on the International Space Station Wednesday. Commander Barry Wilmore conducted botany research and harvested plants grown for the Advanced Plant Experiments-03-1 (APEX-03-1). The thale cress plants are photographed and preserved in a science freezer for analysis on the ground. › Read more about APEX-03-1 …

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    Specialists Discuss Spacesuit Work, Crew Investigates ATV Odor

    Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti

    Ground controllers have completed troubleshooting work after last week’s false alarm indicating an ammonia leak. Heat exchangers and thermal control systems on the U.S. side of the International Space Station have been recovered and reintegrated and are operating in excellent shape. Commander Barry Wilmore was scrubbing cooling loops on a U.S. spacesuit when he heard …

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    Crew Back at Work Studying Immune System in Space

    Astronaut Terry Virts

    The International Space Station residents were back at work Thursday after an ammonia leak indication sent the crew over to the Russian segment. Flight controllers determined there was no leak and NASA managers allowed the crew to resume normal activities and open the U.S. segment back up. This week, the orbital residents kicked off several …

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    Astronauts Back in Station’s U.S. Segment

    Astronauts wearing protective masks

    The crew opened the hatch to the U.S. segment and returned inside at 2:05 p.m. Central time. Wearing protective masks, Virts and Cristoforetti sampled the cabin atmosphere and reported no indications of any ammonia.

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    Station Managers Allow Crew Back In U.S. Segment

    exp42_01141Mike Suffredini, International Space Station Program Manager5_blog

    The International Space Station mission management team, including all of the station Partners, met this afternoon and directed the station’s residents to return to the U.S. segment of the complex before the end of the day, systems permitting. The decision was made hours after the crew members were isolated in the Russian segment following an …

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    Manager of NASA’s Station Program Discusses Alarm

    The six-member Expedition 42 crew is safe in the Russian segment of the International Space Station after an alarm went off in the U.S. segment of the orbital laboratory Wednesday morning. Flight controllers are seeing no direct evidence of an ammonia leak and are exploring the likelihood a faulty sensor or computer relay set off …

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    Space Station Update

    The Expedition 42 crew members are safe and in good shape inside the Russian segment of the International Space Station following an alarm in the U.S. segment at about 4 a.m. EST. The crew received an update from spacecraft communicator James Kelly that it’s starting to look like a false indication, either a faulty sensor …

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    Space Station Update

    The Expedition 42 crew members are safe and in good shape inside the Russian segment of the International Space Station following an alarm in the U.S. segment at about 4 a.m. EST. Flight controllers in Mission Control at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston saw an increase in pressure in the station’s water loop for …

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