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<\/a>The Expedition 59<\/a> astronauts are moving full speed ahead today with continuous space biology research. Two cosmonauts are also pressing forward with plans to conduct the fourth spacewalk<\/a> this year at the International Space Station<\/a>.<\/p>\n NASA Flight Engineers Anne McClain<\/a> and Christina Koch<\/a> joined fellow astronaut David Saint-Jacques<\/a> of the Canadian Space Agency checking on mice throughout the day Tuesday. Scientists are monitoring the rodents\u2019 immune systems<\/a>, which are similar to humans, for changes that take place due to microgravity.<\/p>\n Saint-Jacques and NASA astronaut Nick Hague<\/a> also explored how weightlessness affects different microbiological phenomena. Hague inoculated culture bags inside the Life Sciences Glovebox<\/a> for research operations to understand why pathogens<\/a> become more virulent in space. Saint-Jacques checked DNA samples for the Genes In Space-6<\/a> experiment that explores how space radiation damages DNA\u00a0and how the cell repair mechanism works.<\/p>\n Commander Oleg Kononenko<\/a> and Flight Engineer Alexey Ovchinin<\/a> are both collecting spacesuit parts and tools, as they get ready for a spacewalk planned for May 29. The duo will spend about six hours outside the station\u2019s Russian segment collecting experiments, cleaning windows and sampling module surfaces. This will be Kononenko\u2019s fifth spacewalk and Ovchinin\u2019s first.<\/p>\n Get The Details…<\/a><\/p>\n Mark Garcia <\/p>\n Powered by WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Expedition 59<\/a> astronauts are moving full speed ahead today with continuous space biology research. Two cosmonauts are also pressing forward with plans to conduct the fourth spacewalk<\/a> this year at the International Space Station<\/a>.<\/p>\n NASA Flight Engineers Anne McClain<\/a> and Christina Koch<\/a> joined fellow astronaut David Saint-Jacques<\/a> of the Canadian Space Agency checking on mice throughout the day Tuesday. Scientists are monitoring the rodents\u2019 immune systems<\/a>, which are similar to humans, for changes that take place due to microgravity.<\/p>\n Saint-Jacques and NASA astronaut Nick Hague<\/a> also explored how weightlessness affects different microbiological phenomena. Hague inoculated culture bags inside the Life Sciences Glovebox<\/a> for research operations to understand why pathogens<\/a> become more virulent in space. Saint-Jacques checked DNA samples for the Continue reading Microbiology Research and Spacewalk Preps on Orbit Today<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
<\/a>NASA astronaut Nick Hague works with the miniPCR hardware for the Genes In Space-6 experiment that is exploring how space radiation damages DNA and the how cell repair mechanism works in microgravity. <\/p>\n