{"id":5884,"date":"2021-01-07T19:40:28","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T23:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zobi.alcowep.com\/bourtagshdrevxnls658739\/crew-relaxing-ahead-of-cargo-dragon-departure-and-spacewalks\/"},"modified":"2021-01-07T19:40:28","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T23:40:28","slug":"crew-relaxing-ahead-of-cargo-dragon-departure-and-spacewalks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zobi.alcowep.com\/bourtagshdrevxnls658739\/crew-relaxing-ahead-of-cargo-dragon-departure-and-spacewalks\/","title":{"rendered":"Crew Relaxing Ahead of Cargo Dragon Departure and Spacewalks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Crew Relaxing Ahead of Cargo Dragon Departure and Spacewalks<\/h2>\n

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The space station flies into an orbital sunrise 264 miles above the North Pacific.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Expedition 64<\/a> crew had a light duty day Thursday following a busy holiday season filled with space research and U.S. cargo ship departure preparations. Soon the astronauts will be ramping up for a set of International Space Station<\/a> maintenance and upgrades spacewalks planned for January and February.<\/p>\n

Final science experiments are wrapping up this week waiting to be packed inside the SpaceX Dragon<\/a> cargo spacecraft and returned to Earth no earlier than Monday for analysis. NASA Flight Engineer Kate Rubins<\/a> stowed microbial cultures in science freezers today that will soon be loaded inside the Cargo Dragon. The samples will be analyzed by scientists on the ground to understand the microbial risk<\/a> to a spacecraft\u2019s environment.<\/p>\n

The Dragon is due to undock from the Harmony module<\/a>\u2019s space-facing international docking adapter on Monday at 9:25 a.m. EST<\/a> live on NASA TV. Rubins will be on duty Monday monitoring Dragon\u2019s undocking as it departs the station carrying several tons of hardware and completed space studies. NASA and SpaceX engineers will be on hand to retrieve the Dragon after its splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n

A pair of spacewalks is targeted for the end of January for upgrades on the outside of the orbiting lab. U.S. astronauts Michael Hopkins<\/a> and Victor Glover<\/a> will be ramping up their preparations for the two spacewalks over the next several days. The duo will be outfitting science hardware<\/a> on Europe\u2019s Columbus laboratory module<\/a> during the first spacewalk and will upgrade high definition video and camera gear on the second.<\/p>\n

Two more spacewalks are planned in February for electrical work and to set up experimental hardware for a technology demonstration.<\/p>\n

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Mark Garcia <\/p>\n

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The Expedition 64 crew had a light duty day Thursday following a busy holiday season filled with space research and U.S. cargo ship departure preparations. Soon the astronauts will be ramping up for a set of International Space Station maintenance and upgrades spacewalks planned for January and February. Final science experiments are wrapping up this \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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