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https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2019/08/16/station-preps-for-new-docking-port-during-science-and-soyuz-checks/

Station Preps for New Docking Port During Science and Soyuz Checks

Mark Garcia
Posted Aug 16, 2019 at 3:47 pm


The SpaceX Dragon resupply ship is pictured attached to the International Space Station's Harmony module as the orbital complex flew 260 miles above the Nile River Delta in Egypt.

Three NASA astronauts remain focused on preparations for next week's spacewalk at the International Space Station. The rest of the Expedition 60 focused on biology research and a pair of docked spaceships.

Flight Engineer Christina Koch has been supporting spacewalkers Nick Hague and Andrew Morgan, as they get ready for the fifth spacewalk of the year on Aug. 21. The pair will install the new International Docking Adapter-3 (IDA-3) to the Harmony module's space-facing port during the six-and-a-half-hour job.

Koch printed out checklists the spacewalkers will wear on their spacesuit cuffs and verified the spacesuits are the correct size. She also joined Hague and Morgan reviewing next week's spacewalk procedures. The spacewalking duo also set up the Quest airlock where they will collect their tools and suit up ahead of their excursion.

Robotics controllers will remotely command the Canadarm2 to detach the IDA-3 from the rear portion of the SpaceX Dragon on Monday. They will maneuver the new docking port to a pressurized mating adapter on top of Harmony readying it for Wednesday's spacewalk. Hague and Morgan in their U.S. spacesuits will then route cables and configure hardware readying the IDA-3 for new SpaceX and Boeing crew ships.

Luca Parmitano, a European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut on his second station mission, worked on a biology experiment today with potential benefits for the medicine industry. He tended to stem cell samples growing in a specialized incubator to help researchers understand cell behavior in space.

Cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Alexander Skvortsov checked out two docked Soyuz crew ships today. The duo tested and recharged communications gear in the vehicles and continued packing gear for return to Earth.

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https://tass.ru/kosmos/6771491

16 АВГ, 23:45
Астронавты NASA выйдут в открытый космос для установки нового стыковочного модуля на МКС

Ник Хейг и Эндрю Морган совершат выход в космос 21 августа

НЬЮ-ЙОРК, 16 августа. /ТАСС/. Астронавты NASA Ник Хейг и Эндрю Морган совершат 21 августа выход в открытый космос с Международной космической станции для установки нового стыковочного модуля на американском сегменте МКС Harmony. Об этом сообщили в пятницу в ходе брифинга в Центре космических полетов имени Джонсона в Хьюстоне (штат Техас) руководитель программы полета Кирк Ширман, руководитель программы выхода в открытый космос Скотт Стовер и эксперт NASA Алекс Канилакос. Трансляция брифинга шла на сайте NASA.

"Установка второго стыковочного устройства International Docking Adapter на американском сегменте открывает совершенно новые возможности, - отметил Кирк Ширман. - Это особенно важно в условиях, когда к МКС будут летать коммерческие корабли Boeing CST-100 Starliner и Crew Dragon компании Space X.

Как сообщил руководитель программы выхода в космос Скотт Стовер, американские астронавты уже подготовили скафандры для предстоящей работы на поверхности станции. 19 августа, продолжал он, астронавты с помощью дистанционного манипулятора осуществят захват нового стыковочного модуля, доставленного в июле космическим грузовиком Crew Dragon и разместят его рядом с тем местом, где он должны быть установлен, а за несколько часов до начала выхода в открытый космос Центр управления полетом проконтролирует операцию по сцеплению замков модуля с переходной шлюзовой камерой. Во время работы на поверхности станции астронавты подключат к стыковочному модулю кабели энергопитания и связи.

По словам эксперта NASA Алекса Канилакоса, перед полетом астронавты NASA в течение почти 200 часов обучались в специальном бассейне операциям в открытом космосе. Предстоящий выход в космос будет уже третьим для Ника Хейга и первым - для Эндрю Моргана.

В предстоящие четыре - шесть месяцев, по словам представителей NASA, американские астронавты должны совершить еще несколько выходов в открытый космос, в частности для замены батарей на поверхности МКС и для замены спектрометра. "МКС в ближайшее время будет часто принимать корабли, - отметил Кирк Ширман. - В частности, на будущей неделе прибывает российский грузовой корабль с роботом "Федором" на борту". Российский корабль "Союз МС-14", как ожидается, отправится к МКС 22 августа. На его борту на станцию прибудет человекоподобный робот "Федор", созданный компанией "Андроидная техника" и Фондом перспективных исследований по техническому заданию МЧС.

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IDA 3 Spacewalk Preview

 NASA Video

Опубликовано: 16 авг. 2019 г.

Experts from NASA preview an upcoming spacewalk with two American astronauts outside the International Space Station to complete the outfitting of docking ports during a briefing on Friday, Aug. 16, at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.

Expedition 60 Flight Engineers Nick Hague and Andrew Morgan of NASA will begin their planned six-and-a-half-hour spacewalk from inside the Quest airlock about 8:20 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 21. Live NASA Television coverage will begin at 6:30 a.m. The duo will assist in the installation of International Docking Adapter-3 (IDA-3) to Pressurized Mating Adapter-3 on the space-facing side of the station's Harmony module.

IDA-3 will provide a second docking port to the International Space Station to accommodate the future arrivals of Boeing CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX Crew Dragon  commercial crew spacecraft. The docking port was launched to the station last month on a SpaceX Dragon on the company's 18th commercial cargo resupply services mission to the station. IDA-2 was installed to the forward end of the Harmony module in the summer of 2016.

NASA's commercial crew partnership with Boeing and SpaceX will restore launches of American astronauts from American soil on American rockets and maximize the time U.S. crews can dedicate to scientific research and technological advances aboard the orbiting laboratory to enable the agency's ambitious goals for the Artemis lunar exploration program and future missions to the Moon and Mars.

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 FEDOR‏ @FEDOR37516789 2 ч. назад
Кстати, вчера в последней укладке загрузили коробку с тульскими пряниками. Хорошо, что не пирожки. Иначе пришлось бы на шлем натягивать красную шапочку. Шутка.

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 Andrew Morgan ‏Подлинная учетная запись @AstroDrewMorgan 10 ч. назад
.@AstroHague and I are getting our spacesuits ready for next week's spacewalk to install an adapter that will allow U.S. @Commercial_Crew vehicles to dock with the @Space_Station. It will be Nick's third spacewalk and my first! Tune in on @NASA TV: http://nasa.gov/live .

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 Luca Parmitano‏ Подлинная учетная запись @astro_luca 44 мин. назад
Sometimes you wear the experiment: the Bio-Monitor smart shirt system measures vital signs like temperature, heart rate, respiration and movement, and transmits the data to a tablet application. #MissionBeyond @csa_asc

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https://www.nasa.gov/feature/robotic-tool-operations-bring-in-space-refueling-closer-to-reality

Aug. 16, 2019

Robotic Tool Operations Bring In-Space Refueling Closer to Reality


Robotic Refueling Mission 3's Multi-Function Tool 2, operated by Dextre, demonstrates robotic refueling operations on the outside of space station.
Credits: NASA

NASA's Robotic Refueling Mission 3 (RRM3) completed an initial set of tool operations, bringing the idea of using water ice or methane from other worlds as fuel for spacecraft one step closer to reality. The ability to store and transfer cryogens (super-cold hydrogen, oxygen and methane) will help spacecraft journey father into our solar system and beyond.


The RRM3 team manages operations from the Goddard Satellite Servicing Control Center at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD.
Credits: NASA/Taylor Mickal

The successful operations demonstrated the first of three tools designed by the Satellite Servicing Projects Division to robotically transfer liquid methane from one tank to another in space. Operated by space station's Dextre robot, the Multi-function Tool 2 unstowed the cryogen coupler adapter and inserted it into the cryogen coupler adapter port. This operation would make it possible to then transfer cryogenic fuel using the remaining RRM3 tools. Additional RRM3 tool operations will be carried out later this year.

RRM3 launched to the International Space Station in December 2018. While the mission is no longer capable of transferring liquid methane due to a hardware issue in April, it has achieved several objectives. RRM3 demonstrated the longest storage of a cryogen without loss due to a process called boil off. Boil off is a loss of fluid that occurs when the cryogen is not maintained at a low enough temperature. Special coolers within RRM3 kept the liquid cold for four months

By Vanessa Lloyd and Peter Jacobs
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.

Last Updated: Aug. 16, 2019
Editor: Karl Hille

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https://ria.ru/20190819/1557631940.html

НАСА рассказало, когда российский робот "Федор" вернется на Землю
12:27 19.08.2019

МОСКВА, 19 авг - РИА Новости. Космический корабль "Союз МС-14" с человекообразным роботом "Федор" вернется на Землю после посещения Международной космической станции после полуночи 7 сентября, говорится в сообщении на сайте НАСА.

Согласно обнародованной НАСА информации, отстыковка корабля от станции планируется на 21.13 мск 6 сентября, посадка в Казахстан - в 00.35 мск 7 сентября. Ранее в госкорпорации "Роскосмос" РИА Новости рассказали о дате возвращения робота без указания времени.

Ранее НАСА также официально сообщило время запуска "Федора" на МКС. Запуск корабля "Союз МС-14" с роботом "Федор" планируется на 22 августа в 6.38 мск, его стыковка к МКС - на 24 августа в 8.31 мск. В понедельник на сайте "Роскосмоса" также появилось время запуска робота на орбиту.
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https://blogs.nasa.gov/stationreport/2019/08/16/iss-daily-summary-report-8162019/

ISS Daily Summary Report – 8/16/2019

Bio-Monitor:

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A crewmember removed and stowed the Garment hardware. Although the ISS is equipped with health and life sciences research tools, the existing instrumentation for continuous and simultaneous recording of several physiological parameters is lacking. To address this issue, the Bio-Monitor Commissioning activity tests the Bio-Monitor facility; a wearable garment capable of monitoring relevant physiological parameters for up to 48 hours in a non-invasive and non-interfering way.  The physiological parameters which can be monitored consist of heart rate, respiration rate, ECG (Electrocardiogram), skin temperature, peripheral blood oxygen saturation, etc.

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Micro-15:

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The crew performed the Session A2 of the Drug Injections into Micro-15 Culture bags which were then placed back and incubation facility. The goal of this investigation is to better understand the effects of gravity on the differentiation of mammalian cells using 3-D cultures of induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells. Past flight experiments and ground-based simulations have demonstrated that microgravity influences gene expression, cell proliferation, and differentiation in stem cells but the mechanism behind these observations is not clearly understood. This study investigates how exposure to microgravity fundamentally alters cell regulation and how these changes can affect the timing, progression, and outcomes of cell differentiation.

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International Docking Adapter (IDA)3 Extravehicular Activity (EVA):

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In preparation for the IDA3 EVA scheduled for next Wednesday, August 21, the completed the following:

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• EVA procedure conference with ground teams
  
• Equipment Lock preparation
  
• EMU 3008 On-orbit Fit Check Verification (OFV)
  
• Cuff checklist print 
  

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Thermal Amine Blower Motor Removal:

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Following several Thermal Amine blower motor overcurrent failures this year, the crew successfully removed the blower motor today. The unit was then packed and will be returned on SpX-18 for potential refurbishment. Thermal Amine System tests a method to remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from air aboard the ISS, using actively heated and cooled amine beds. Carbon Dioxide Removal Assemblies (CDRA) are operating nominally and remain the primary method for removing CO2 from ISS atmosphere.

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IDA 3 Spacewalk Animation

 NASA Johnson

Опубликовано: 19 авг. 2019 г.

An animation of the planned procedures for a spacewalk with Expedition 60 Flight Engineers Nick Hague and Andrew Morgan of NASA. The duo will assist in the installation of International Docking Adapter-3 (IDA-3) to Pressurized Mating Adapter-3 on the space-facing side of the station's Harmony module.

IDA-3 will provide a second docking port to the International Space Station to accommodate the future arrivals of Boeing CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX Crew Dragon commercial crew spacecraft. The docking port was launched to the station in July 2019 on a SpaceX Dragon on the company's 18th commercial cargo resupply services mission to the station. IDA-2 was installed to the forward end of the Harmony module in the summer of 2016.

NASA's commercial crew partnership with Boeing and SpaceX will restore launches of American astronauts from American soil on American rockets and maximize the time U.S. crews can dedicate to scientific research and technological advances aboard the orbiting laboratory to enable the agency's ambitious goals for the Artemis lunar exploration program and future missions to the Moon and Mars.

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https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2019/08/19/robotics-work-prepping-docking-port-ahead-of-wednesdays-spacewalk/

Robotics Work Prepping Docking Port Ahead of Wednesday's Spacewalk

Mark Garcia
Posted Aug 19, 2019 at 1:35 pm


NASA astronaut Nick Hague takes an out-of-this-world "space-selfie" during a spacewalk on March 22, 2019.

Robotics controllers are preparing a new commercial crew docking port for installation during a spacewalk on Wednesday. Meanwhile, the Expedition 60 crew is researching life science and physics while packing a cargo ship for return to Earth next week.

The Canadarm2 robotic arm will extract the International Docking Adapter-3 (IDA-3) fr om the trunk of the Space Dragon cargo craft during the crew's sleep shift tonight. Ground controllers will remotely position the IDA-3 on top of the Harmony module wh ere it will soon become a permanent part of the orbiting lab.

Spacewalkers Nick Hague and Andrew Morgan will exit the station Wednesday about 8:20 a.m. EDT to finish the IDA-3 installation job. The duo will work outside Harmony for about six and a half hours routing cables and configuring the IDA-3 in preparation for the arrival of future SpaceX and Boeing crew vehicles. See an animation of their planned activities.

Hague had time on Monday afternoon to research ways to improve tire manufacturing and performance on Earth. Morgan and NASA astronaut Christina Koch were packing Dragon and readying the space freighter for its return to Earth on Aug. 27.

Flight Engineer Luca Parmitano of ESA (European Space Agency) spent the day on a variety of life science studies. He first collected his blood and urine samples for analysis, and then he tested his blood sugar for the Vascular Aging study observing cardiovascular health and insulin resistance in space. Finally, he spun cell culture samples in a centrifuge for the Micro-15 study investigating cell differentiation.

The two cosmonauts, Alexey Ovchinin and Alexander Skvortsov, kept up the Russian segment of the orbiting lab today. Commander Ovchinin checked out a treadmill in the Zvezda service module before gathering items for return to Earth on a Soyuz spaceship. Flight Engineer Skvortsov is recording his heart activity for the next 24 hours while also maintaining Russian life support hardware.

Russia's Soyuz MS-14 crew ship has rolled out to its launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan today. It will launch Wednesday with no crew onboard at 11:38 p.m. EDT to test its 2.1a booster segment during ascent. The unpiloted Soyuz spacecraft will automatically dock Saturday at 1:30 a.m. to the station's Poisk module.

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Expedition 60 Inflight with Twin Cities PBS SciGirls - August 19, 2019

 NASA Video

Опубликовано: 19 авг. 2019 г.

SPACE STATION ASTRONAUT DISCUSSES LIFE IN SPACE WITH NEW YORK STUDENTS

Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 60 Flight Engineer Christina Koch of NASA discussed life and research on the orbiting laboratory during an in-flight educational event Aug. 19 with young female students participating in the "SciGirl" program in Airmont, New York. Koch is in the midst of a nearly year-long mission aboard the station that will continue through next February.

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 Jonathan McDowell‏ Подлинная учетная запись @planet4589 1 ч. назад
IDA-3 has been extracted from the Dragon CRS-18 trunk.  Unberthing was probably around 0100- 0200 UTC? (anyone catch it?)

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 Kam Bahrami‏ @ROBO_Kam 56 мин. назад
This view is a bit more artsy lighting-wise ;-) IDA3 will be installed on PMA3 (the spare docking adapter goes on the spare pressurized mating adapter). The PMAs were designed for the good old space shuttle orbiters. The IDA allows the future US vehicles to dock @Space_Station

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Работы с IDA-3

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