深空视界
深空视界
The Expedition 73 crew briefly grew to 11 members last Saturday (Aug. 2) but then quickly receded back to seven with the (Aug. 8) of SpaceX's four-person Crew-10 mission. Most of this week was spent familiarizing the new arrivals with their home for the next six to eight months and preparing for the departure of Endurance, Crew-10's Dragon capsule..
Orbital observation
"Want to go to or even Mars? I do!""
with SpaceX's last Saturday (Aug. 2). A veteran space traveller — this is his fourth time on the ISS — Fincke quickly settled into his orbital home and began preparing for the day that he and others can go farther away from Earth.."I contributed to the science that will help humans thrive in the . Today was my first blood draw!" Fincke on Thursday (Aug. 7), captioning this photo of him holding up his contribution. "The samples are now frozen and will be studied on Earth. More samples are in my future.""
Science status
Among the research that was conducted by the Expedition 73 crew aboard the space station this week was:
Muscle Stimulation — Before departing for home, flight engineer Nichole Ayers took one more turn using electrical pulses to stimulate her leg muscles in an attempt to find a way to augment daily exercise as a protection against bone and . Fellow NASA astronaut Jonny Kim assisted Ayers in sending the signals and collecting the data returned.
Drain Brain 2.0 — Newly arrived flight engineers Mike Fincke of NASA and Kimiya Yui of JAXA picked up where prior crew members left off, now becoming the subject of an experiment to measure how blood flows from the heart to her brain in . Both astronauts wore electrodes on their necks and chests to collect data on the changes to their bodies as a result of blood pooling nearing their heads.