Four astronauts from Axiom Mission 3 (front row) and seven crew members from Expedition 70 wave to the camera. Crew greeting ceremony January 20, 2024. Credit: NASA TV
The crew of Extended Expedition 70 spent Tuesday performing numerous research activities and maintaining their spacesuits while assisting guests of Axiom Mission 3 (Ax-3). Her Ax-3 crew of four had their hands full with research in cancer research, astrobotany, and robotics for the benefit of Earth and space.
Astronauts Andreas Mogensen, Loral O’Hara, and Satoshi Furukawa devoted part of their schedules to the Ax-3 mission on Tuesday. The trio helped four commercial astronauts understand life in orbit and perform advanced microgravity science.
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Lake Maule (left) and Lake Fair (right) are among the volcanic regions of Chile in the Andes Mountains. The International Space Station was orbiting 437 miles above the Earth when this photo was taken. Credit: NASA
Mogensen of ESA (european space agency) spent several hours familiarizing the Ax-3 crew with the entire orbital laboratory system.From Ohara NASA Setting up the Life Science Glovebox (LSG) for the Ax-3 Astrobotanical Survey, Furukawa JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) operated a microscope to view cell samples for the Ax-3 cancer study.
Ax-3 commander Michael López Alegría and mission specialist Alper Gezerafcz work in the LSG of the Kibo laboratory module. Gene editing of plants grown in space. As a result, plants could be genetically modified to adapt to weightlessness and promote the health of the crew. Ax-3 pilot Walter Villaday learned how by peering into a cell sample inside a Kermit microscope. Predict and prevent cancer Both on earth and in space.
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Argentina’s Valdez Peninsula, located between San Matias Bay and Nuevo Bay, is home to a wide variety of marine and land wildlife, photographed from the International Space Station orbiting 430 miles above the Argentine Sea. . Credit: NASA
Ax-3 mission specialist Marcus Wandt tested the ability to remotely control robots on Earth from the space station. Mr. Want, who worked in the Columbus Experimental Module, used his computer laptop to direct a team of robots bound for Earth, simulating a robotic exploration mission on another planet controlled from a spacecraft. .
Mogensen will continue to organize food packs and pay for virtual reality hardware. mental health research, and record video demonstrations of astrophysics for middle school students. Furukawa Electric serviced the scientific freezer and combustion research equipment before cleaning the vents inside the Unity module. Mr. Furukawa ended his day with an eye test with NASA flight engineer Jasmine Moghbeli. O’Hara operated medical imaging equipment to examine both astronauts’ optic nerves, retinas, and corneas. Moghbeli previously tested a camera and light attached to the helmet of his spacesuit.
Three astronauts in the orbiting laboratory Roscosmos Focus on business in own segment international space station. Veteran flight engineer Oleg Kononenko spent the day inspecting the Zvezda service module and servicing the communications and computer systems of the Nauka science module. Flight engineer Nikolai Chubut photographed conditions in Zvezda’s windows to study how microgravity conditions, such as magnetic and electric fields, affect fluid physics. Flight engineer Konstantin Borisov shut down Earth observation equipment, downloaded data on the vibrations experienced by the station as it orbited Earth, and worked on plumbing in orbit.