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<\/a>The Expedition 70<\/a> crew is unpacking the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft following its arrival early Saturday morning<\/a>. Meanwhile, the orbital residents are also continuing their research and maintenance activities following the International Space Station<\/a>\u2019s debris avoidance maneuver last week.<\/p>\n The hatches are open between Dragon and the orbital outpost following its arrival on Saturday. NASA Flight Engineers Jasmin Moghbeli<\/a> and Loral O\u2019Hara<\/a> monitored Dragon\u2019s arrival and entered the cargo spacecraft less than two hours after its docking. The duo along with Commander Andreas Mogensen<\/a> and Flight Engineer Satoshi Furukawa<\/a> spent a busy weekend unloading time-sensitive experiments for installation and activation aboard the orbital outpost.<\/p>\n The foursome worked throughout Monday transferring science freezers stocked with research samples from Dragon into the station and kicking off some of the new investigations. Mogensen from ESA (European Space Agency) and Furukawa from JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) configured space biology hardware and began offloading some of the 6,500 pounds of new crew supplies and hardware.<\/p>\n O\u2019Hara and Moghbeli assisted the two international astronauts with both the science freezer work and the cargo transfers during the morning. O\u2019Hara then spent the afternoon servicing components on a biological printer, the BioFabrication Facility (BFF)<\/a>, that is testing the printing of organ-like tissues in microgravity. Moghbeli set up new life science hardware, helped with the BFF work, and maintained standard life support and electronics hardware.<\/p>\n At the end of the day, the four astronauts joined the space station\u2019s three cosmonauts reviewing updated emergency procedures while the new Dragon cargo spacecraft is docked to the Harmony module<\/a>\u2019s forward. Dragon will stay attached to Harmony until early December when it will return to Earth filed with station hardware and completed research for retrieval and analysis.<\/p>\n Veteran cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko began his day inside the Poisk airlock<\/a> checking pressurization gear, then inspected windows on the Zvezda service module<\/a>, and finally jogged on Zvezda\u2019s treadmill for a fitness evaluation. Flight Engineer Nikolai Chub spent much of his day testing a 3D printer to make tools and supplies without depending on cargo missions from Earth. Flight Engineer Konstantin Borisov deactivated a camera remotely controlled by students<\/a> on Earth, inspected Roscosmos laptop computers, and cleaned ventilation systems.<\/p>\n On Nov. 10, the International Space Station\u2019s Zvezda service module engines were fired for five minutes and 16 seconds beginning at 10:07 a.m. to maneuver the complex away from the predicted track of an orbital debris fragment. \u00a0The maneuver had no effect on the rendezvous and docking of NASA\u2019s SpaceX 29th commercial resupply mission, which docked to the space station at 5:07 a.m. Nov. 11 after launching two days prior.<\/p>\n Learn more about station activities by following the\u00a0space station blog<\/a>,\u00a0@space_station<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0@ISS_Research<\/a>\u00a0on X, as well as the\u00a0ISS Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0ISS Instagram<\/a>\u00a0accounts.<\/p>\n Get weekly video highlights at:\u00a0https:\/\/roundupreads.jsc.nasa.gov\/videoupdate\/<\/a><\/p>\n Get the latest from NASA delivered every week. Subscribe here:\u00a0www.nasa.gov\/subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n Powered by WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n Get The Details…<\/a><\/p>\n Mark Garcia <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Expedition 70 crew is unpacking the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft following its arrival early Saturday morning. Meanwhile, the orbital residents are also continuing their research and maintenance activities following the International Space Station\u2019s debris avoidance maneuver last week. The hatches are open between Dragon and the orbital outpost following its arrival on Saturday. NASA \u2026 Continue reading
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