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<\/a>The Expedition 62<\/a> crew wrapped up the workweek with more space biology research to understand what living in space does to the human body. The International Space Station<\/a> is also getting ready to send off a U.S. cargo craft and swap crews.<\/p>\n A 3D bioprinter inside the station’s Columbus laboratory module<\/a> is being deactivated and stowed today after a week of test runs without using human cells. NASA Flight Engineer Jessica Meir<\/a> packed up the device that seeks to demonstrate manufacturing human organs to help patients on Earth. The Bio-Fabrication Facility<\/a> may even lead to future crews printing their own food and medicines on missions farther away from Earth.<\/p>\n NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan<\/a> checked out hardware for an experiment exploring how to create heart cells<\/a> on the orbiting lab. The investigation may lead to advanced treatments for cardiac conditions on Earth and in space.<\/p>\n Morgan and Meir are also getting the SpaceX Dragon<\/a> resupply ship ready for its departure on April 6. The duo gathered U.S. spacesuit components and packed them inside Dragon for engineering analysis on the ground.<\/p>\n During the morning, Commander Oleg Skripochka<\/a> continued servicing a variety of laptop computers in the station’s Russian segment. After lunchtime, the veteran cosmonaut serviced hardware for a pair of experiments, one looking at the Earth’s upper atmosphere<\/a> and the other to understand the degradation of station gear<\/a>.<\/p>\n Back on Earth at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, three new Expedition 63 crewmembers are in final preparations for their April 9 launch to the station. NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy<\/a> and Roscosmos cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin<\/a> and Ivan Vagner<\/a> stepped out of the Cosmonaut Hotel today for pre-launch activities celebrating spaceflight heroes such as Yuri Gagarin.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Get The Details…<\/a><\/p>\n Mark Garcia <\/p>\n Powered by WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Expedition 62<\/a> crew wrapped up the workweek with more space biology research to understand what living in space does to the human body. The International Space Station<\/a> is also getting ready to send off a U.S. cargo craft and swap crews.<\/p>\n A 3D bioprinter inside the station’s Columbus laboratory module<\/a> is being deactivated and stowed today after a week of test runs without using human cells. NASA Flight Engineer Jessica Meir<\/a> packed up the device that seeks to demonstrate manufacturing human organs to help patients on Earth. The Bio-Fabrication Facility<\/a> may even lead to future crews printing their own food and medicines on missions farther away from Earth.<\/p>\n NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan<\/a> checked out hardware \u2026 Continue reading Space Biology on Station Ahead of Cargo and Crew Ship Activities<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
<\/a>NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Andrew Morgan are pictured in front of the hatch to the Space Dragon resupply ship shortly after it was attached to the Harmony module on March 9. <\/p>\n