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https://tass.ru/kosmos/7091448

8 НОЯ, 04:42
Космонавт Николай Тихонов заявил, что в будущем страны могут создать "единый скафандр"

НЬЮ-ЙОРК, 8 ноября. /ТАСС/. ... российский космонавт Николай Тихонов, который вместе с космонавтом Андреем Бабкиным и астронавтом NASA Крисом Кэссиди отправится на Международную космическую станцию в апреле будущего года.
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Астронавт NASA Крис Кэссиди отметил, что когда они прибудут на МКС, процесс передачи дел займет девять суток. "После этого мы будем работать втроем, и при удаче у нас будут гости - экипажи новых американских кораблей", - сообщил он. "Что же касается предположений о том, что я могу стать последним американцем, совершившим полет на "Союзе" на МКС, то я слышал, что идут какие-то обсуждения возможных будущих полетов, но мне ничего конкретно не известно, - добавил он. - Мы готовы к любому развитию ситуации".
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 Jessica Meir‏ @Astro_Jessica 15 ч. назад

The intricate, mesmerizing pattern of the @Space_Station  solar arrays - one of my tasks today was a photo survey of these beauties.  They harness the sun's energy to provide power for all we need to live and work aboard @Space_Station.
#solarpower #nasa

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Space to Ground: Record-Breaking Delivery: 11/08/2019

 NASA Johnson

8 нояб. 2019 г.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/8CI9GcMUWog (2:47)

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https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2019/11/08/crew-focuses-on-cosmic-repair-spacewalks-practices-medical-emergency/

Crew Focuses on Cosmic Repair Spacewalks, Practices Medical Emergency

Catherine Williams
Posted Nov 8, 2019 at 1:27 pm


Expedition 61 crewmates Christina Koch, Luca Parmitano and Alexander Skvortsov practice emergency response skills aboard the space station. Image Credit: NASA

The Expedition 61 crew is focusing on a complex series of spacewalks set to start soon to repair a cosmic particle detector. The orbital residents also conducted an emergency drill aboard the International Space Station today.

Astronauts Luca Parmitano and Andrew Morgan are familiarizing themselves with new spacewalking gear delivered aboard the Cygnus space freighter. The duo will use the new tools and hardware on a series of spacewalks to repair the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer's (AMS) thermal control system.

The spacewalks will highlight advanced repair techniques, including cutting and reconnecting fluid lines, never performed during a spacewalk. Parmitano and Morgan are set to venture outside the station on Friday Nov. 15 to begin the first of at least four spacewalks to upgrade the AMS, a device that searches for dark matter and antimatter.

NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch joined the upcoming spacewalkers today and reviewed tools and procedures for the excursions. The quartet then called Mission Control for a conference with experts on the ground about their spacewalking duties.

At the end of the workday, all six crew members, including cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Skripochka, practiced responding to an emergency simulation. The crew reviewed safety and medical gear, translated evacuation paths, practiced chest compressions (CPR) and coordinated communications.

The space station raised its orbit during the crew's sleep period Thursday night when Russia's Progress 73 resupply ship fired its thrusters for six minutes and 45 seconds. Now orbiting a mile higher at its perigee, the orbital complex is at the correct altitude for Russia's next resupply ship, Progress 74, to dock on Dec. 3 after it launches Dec. 1.

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https://tass.ru/kosmos/7095705

9 НОЯ, 03:13
Александр Блошенко возглавил Совет по экспериментам на пилотируемых космических комплексах
Источник в ракетно-космической отрасли сообщил, что Совет собирается больше времени уделить работе со студентами и значительно нарастить число коммерческих экспериментов

МОСКВА, 9 ноября. /ТАСС/. Исполнительный директор по перспективным программам и науке Александр Блошенко возглавил Координационный научно-технический совет (КНТС) по программам научно-прикладных исследований и экспериментов на пилотируемых космических комплексах. Об этом говорится в совместном решении президента Российской академии наук Александра Сергеева и генерального директора Роскосмоса Дмитрия Рогозина, имеющемся в распоряжении ТАСС.

"Назначить председателем Координационного научно-технического совета госкорпорации "Роскосмос" по программам научно-прикладных исследований и экспериментов на пилотируемых космических комплексах Блошенко Александра Витальевича - исполнительного директора по перспективным программам и науке", - говорится в решении.

В пресс-службе Роскосмоса подтвердили ТАСС информацию.

В свою очередь, источник в ракетно-космической отрасли сообщил ТАСС, что ключевыми стратегическими задачами в области повышения эффективности космических экспериментов станут проверка существующих экспериментов, повышение их эффективности и отказ от признанных неактуальными. Планируется, что правила подготовки исследований станут проще, а сроки постановки экспериментов - меньше. Совет собирается больше времени уделить работе со студентами и значительно нарастить число коммерческих экспериментов. В целом, КНТС будет больше взаимодействовать с другими странами.

Ранее глава Роскосмоса Дмитрий Рогозин заявил, что госкопрорация не вполне удовлетворена тем, как идут эксперименты. По его словам, некоторые из них идут по 10 лет. Он уточнил, что "нет смысла столько времени проводить эксперименты".

https://ria.ru/20191109/1560744396.html

"Роскосмос" и РАН сменили ответственного за эксперименты на МКС
03:07 09.11.2019

МОСКВА, 9 ноя - РИА Новости. Исполнительный директор по перспективным программам "Роскосмоса" Александр Блошенко возглавил Координационный научно-технический совет (КНТС) по программам исследований и экспериментов на борту Международной космической станции, рассказал РИА Новости сам Блошенко.

На этом посту он сменил космонавта, дважды Героя Советского Союза, руководителя полета российского сегмента МКС Владимира Соловьева.

Как рассказал Блошенко, на должность, которую он будет совмещать с должностью в госкорпорации, он назначен совместным решением "Роскосмоса" и РАН 30 октября.

Среди задач, которые перед ним поставлены, Блошенко отметил повышение эффективности экспериментальных работ. "Во-первых, ревизия экспериментов, отказ от уже неактуального "долгостроя". Введение практики заблаговременной оценки всего жизненного цикла экспериментальных работ. Существенное повышение эффективности и целевой направленности работ. Во-вторых, пересмотр и облегчение правил и требований по подготовке экспериментов, разработке научного оборудования. В-третьих, существенное сокращение сроков постановки экспериментов", - сказал он.

Кроме того, он ставит перед собой задачи наращивания числа коммерческих космических экспериментов, внедрение практики "службы одного окна", организацию системной работы с вузами в более эффективном формате, интенсификацию работ по совместным космическим экспериментам с зарубежными агентствами с целью трансфера научных знаний и технологий в Россию.

КНТС был образован в 1994 году решением Российского авиационно-космического агентства и РАН. Соловьев возглавлял его с 2013 года.

За свою космическую карьеру Соловьев совершил два полета на орбиту, восемь раз выходил в открытый космос. С 1988 года являлся руководителем полета станции "Мир", а с 1999 года - бессменным руководителем полета российского сегмента МКС. В 2011 году избран членом-корреспондентом Российской академии наук.

Александр Блошенко - кандидат физико-математических наук. В 2017 году перешел на работу в секретариат вице-премьера Дмитрия Рогозина. В 2018 году перешел на должность советника по науке генерального директора "Роскосмос", а затем был назначен исполнительным директором по перспективным программам и науке госкорпорации.

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Spacewalks for AMS
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 European Space Agency, ESA

8 нояб 14. 2019 г.

ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano will soon take part in several challenging spacewalks to service the International Space Station's largest scientific instrument.

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) is a sub-atomic particle detector that looks for dark matter, antimatter and measures cosmic rays - high energy particles that travel through space at close to the speed of light.

The AMS took 16 countries nearly 20 years to develop. It was assembled at CERN, tested at ESA's ESTEC facility in The Netherlands and installed on the Space Station in 2011. Since then it has collected over 145 billion cosmic ray events across a range of energy levels and has already provided the first insights into potential antimatter and dark matter.

The maintenance of the AMS' cooling system will ensure it can continue to provide more data and groundbreaking science. This film contains soundbites from the instrument's Principal Investigator, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Professor Samuel Ting (MIT/CERN).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq-QZh3MMHchttps://www.youtube.com/embed/Xq-QZh3MMHc (4:01)

https://www.youtube.com/embed/kz9p3iKKpxo (4:12)

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http://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Luca_to_lead_most_challenging_spacewalks_since_Hubble_repairs

Luca to lead most challenging spacewalks since Hubble repairs
08/11/2019

The date is set for ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano's first spacewalk of his Beyond mission. Friday 15 November marks the start of a series of complex spacewalks to service the cosmic-particle-hunting Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02).

It is the first time a European astronaut will take a leading role and the full spacewalk will be streamed live via ESA Web TV from 12:50 CET (11:50 GMT).


— Location of AMS-02 on the International Space Station

Luca and his spacewalking partner NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan will exit the International Space Station airlock at around 13:05 CET (12:05 GMT). The spacewalking series is expected to be the most challenging since work to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.

As the lead spacewalker, known as 'EV1', Luca will wear a white spacesuit with red stripes while Andrew wears the white spacesuit with no stripes.

The pair will be supported by NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir who will operate the Canadarm2 robotic arm from inside the Station. This will help position the astronauts around their hard-to-reach work site, located on top of the Station's S3 Truss structure between a pair of solar arrays and radiators.

The entire spacewalk is expected to take around six hours and it will set the scene for at least three more.

The hardware

Spacewalks for AMS — Access the video

AMS-02 records the number and characteristics of cosmic ray particles that pass through all of its detectors – over 140 billion particles to date. By tracking down the sources of these particles, scientists aim to gain a better understanding of dark matter and the origins of the Universe.

Installed in 2011 AMS was only ever intended to run for three years and was never designed to be maintained in orbit. It has been so successful that its mission has been extended.

Researchers, astronauts and operations teams have had to develop new procedures and more than 20 custom tools to extend the instrument's life.

The task


— Astronauts Luca Parmitano and Andrew Morgan in Columbus

Luca and Andrew's core task will be to replace the AMS-02 cooling system and fix a coolant leak.

The pair trained extensively for this intricate operation on the ground. It will involve cutting and splicing eight cooling tubes connect them  to the new system and reconnecting a myriad of power and data cables. It is the first time astronauts will cut and reconnect cooling lines in orbit.

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— AMS-02 on Space Station

The first two hours of the spacewalk will be streamed live on ESA Web TV and ESA's Facebook page, featuring commentary from astronaut and operation experts at ESA's astronaut centre in Cologne, Germany, as well as a live cross with scientists at the CERN European Laboratory for Particle Physics.

Speakers include ESA ISS Operations and Astronaut Group leader and first ever European Space Station commander Frank de Winne, Head of ESA EVA and Parabolic Flight Training Unit Herve Stevenin, ESA Eurocom Team Coordinator Andrea Boyd and Stefan Schael, German AMS-02 Project lead and Astrophysicist from RWTH Aachen University.

Viewers are encouraged to tweet their spacewalk questions to @esaspaceflight or @cern using the hashtag #SpacewalkForAMS. Experts will answer on the day.

In the meantime, you can find out more about what it takes to prepare for a spacewalk in the latest episode of the Beyond mission podcast ESA Explores and stay tuned for a special audio message from Luca on the Space Station early next week.

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08.11.2019 Космонавт Тихонов рассказал, как чувство юмора помогает готовиться к полету
Космонавт Роскосмоса Николай Тихонов на пресс-конференции в НАСА рассказал, что юмор помогает в подготовке к предстоящему полету на МКС, передает РИА Новости.

Думаю, только чувством юмора [и терпением] можно преодолеть сложившуюся 3х-летнюю отсрочку полёта на МКС (связанную с модулем «Наука»). Желаю Николаю успехов и отсутствия задержек с полётом!

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https://spaceflightnow.com/2019/11/09/next-three-man-soyuz-crew-training-to-have-space-station-to-themselves/

Next three-man Soyuz crew training to have space station to themselves
November 9, 2019 | Stephen Clark


NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy prepares for a spacewalk training session at the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory in Houston. Credit: NASA/James Blair

The next three-man crew to launch on a Soyuz rocket — comprising two Russian cosmonauts and a veteran NASA astronaut — is training to have the International Space Station to themselves after their arrival at the orbiting research outpost in April, at least until new U.S. commercial crew ships enter service.

The next Soyuz crew is scheduled to launch April 9 fr om the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to kick off an expedition planned to last around six-and-a-half months.

Cosmonaut Nikolai Tikhonov will command the Soyuz MS-16 spacecraft, and Andrei Babkin will serve as the primary flight engineer. Both will launch on their first space missions.

NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy — making this third spaceflight — will join Tikhonov and Babkin on the Soyuz launch. Cassidy will become commander of the space station's Expedition 63 crew once the Soyuz docks with the orbiting complex.

"What we're preparing for ... is a six-month duration where it's just the three of us," Cassidy said Thursday. "That's why we're getting a lot of extra training at specialist levels for Andrei and Nikolai on all the U.S. side equipment."
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Cassidy, Tikhonov and Babkin will join three other crew members on the space station for a little more than a week. After the handover, the outgoing crew will return to Earth, leaving Cassidy and his crewmates in orbit.

Tikhonov is training to use a U.S. spacesuit — known as the Extravehicular Mobility Unit — for possible spacewalks outside the station. Four Russian cosmonauts have performed spacewalks with U.S. spacesuits, most recently in 2007, before the space station crew size was expanded from three to six.

Babkin is training to operate the space station's Canadian-built robotic arm, which would be used to assist the spacewalker if they needed to head outside for repair duties. The arm is also required to capture arriving cargo ships, such as those launched by SpaceX, Northrop Grumman and Japan.

With brief exceptions, the space station has typically been crewed with six people since 2009. The station operated with a three-person crew for two months late last year after a Soyuz crew aborted their launch due to a rocket failure.

"With luck, we'll have commercial crew, whichever one it is, and who knows, but we'll have some visitors, and we'll be excited for that," Cassidy said. "But we're also ready operationally, mentally — all that — prepared to just be the three of us on the space station, which will be a change in operations really if you think about it from what we are used to today, wh ere we have six people.

"The station is still a mechanical system, so it has its hiccups, but we've pretty much flushed those hiccups out really well, and we can focus intently on what the goal is, and that's to do science and research," Cassidy said. "And we can do a lot of it with all those available crew hours.

"There will be less available crew hours (with three crew members) because you still have to devote your baseline hours per week to keeping the thing running," he said. "So it'll be a slight change in philosophy in how we manage crew time, but more or less, the goal is still the same — to maximize science hours and research — and we'll do our best to do that."


Russian cosmonauts Andrei Babkin and Nikolai Tikhonov participated in spacewalk training with NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy. Tikhonov is training to use NASA's Extravehicular Mobility Unit for possible spacewalks outside the station. Babkin is training as a robotic arm operator. Credit: Chris Cassidy via Instagram
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https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-tv-coverage-set-for-complex-spacewalks-briefings

Nov. 7, 2019
MEDIA ADVISORY M19-126

NASA TV Coverage Set for Complex Spacewalks, Briefings


This picture, taken by NASA astronaut Ron Garan during a spacewalk on July 12, 2011, shows the International Space Station with space shuttle Atlantis docked at the edge of the frame on the far right and a Russian Soyuz spacecraft docked to Pirs, below the sun. In the foreground is the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) experiment installed during the STS-134 mission. AMS is a state-of-the-art particle physics detector designed to use the unique environment of space to advance knowledge of the universe and lead to the understanding of the universe's origin by searching for antimatter and dark matter, and measuring cosmic rays.
Credits: NASA/Ron Garan

Two astronauts will venture outside the International Space Station for a series of complex spacewalks this month and next to repair the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS), a cosmic ray detector.

At least four spacewalks currently are planned before the end of this year, the first of which will be conducted Friday, Nov. 15. Dates for the other spacewalks are under review and will be scheduled in the near future.

NASA will provide detailed plans of the spacewalks during a pair of back-to-back briefings at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston beginning at 2 p.m. EST Tuesday, Nov. 12. The briefings and coverage of each spacewalk, which will begin at 5:30 a.m., will air live on NASA Television and the agency's website.
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The first briefing, at 2 p.m., will provide a program and science overview. Participants will be:

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• Kenny Todd, space station operations integration manager
  
• Ken Bollweg, AMS program manager
  

The second briefing, at 3 p.m., will provide details of the tools, techniques and objectives of each spacewalk. Participants of that briefing will be:

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• Jeff Radigan, spacewalk flight director
  
• Tara Jochim, AMS spacewalk repair project manager
  
• John Mularski, lead spacewalk officer
  

Over the course of the spacewalks, Expedition 61 Commander Luca Parmitano of ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA Flight Engineer Drew Morgan will replace a cooling system and fix a coolant leak on AMS, which was delivered to the station in May 2011. The upgraded cooling system will support AMS through the lifetime of the space station.

These spacewalks are considered the most complex of their kind since the Hubble Space Telescope servicing missions, which took place between 1993 and 2009. The AMS originally was designed for a three-year mission and, unlike Hubble, was not designed to be serviced once in space. More than 20 unique tools were designed for the intricate repair work, which will include the cutting and splicing of eight cooling tubes to be connected to the new system, and reconnection of a myriad of power and data cables. Astronauts have never cut and reconnected fluid lines during a spacewalk.

Parmitano and Morgan have spent dozens of hours training specifically for the AMS repair spacewalks. NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir will help Parmitano and Morgan suit up for the spacewalks and will maneuver the Canadarm2 robotic arm to help position the spacewalkers around the AMS repair worksite. Parmitano has conducted two spacewalks in his career and Morgan has logged three spacewalks since his arrival on the station in July.

AMS – whose principal investigator is Nobel laureate physicist Samuel Ting – was constructed and tested, and is operated by an international team of 56 institutes from 16 countries organized under U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science sponsorship. AMS has been capturing high-energy cosmic rays to help researchers answer fundamental questions about the nature of antimatter, the unseen "dark matter" that makes up most of the mass in the universe, and the even-more-mysterious dark energy that is speeding up the expansion of the cosmos. AMS is managed by the AMS Integration Project Office at Johnson.

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Last Updated: Nov. 7, 2019
Editor: Karen Northon

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https://blogs.nasa.gov/stationreport/2019/11/07/iss-daily-summary-report-11072019/

ISS Daily Summary Report – 11/07/2019

BioFabrication Facility (BFF):

The crew replaced the smart pump bracket and smart pump tip. This is a result of an anomaly during the first run that indicated a need to increase the bio ink flow during operations. The Techshot BioFabrication Facility (BFF) is dedicated to manufacturing human organs and tissues in space, primarily for use by patients on Earth. Besides printing tissue, the BFF also can help maintain the health of deep space exploration crews by producing food and personalized pharmaceuticals on demand.

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MISSE-FF (Materials ISS Experiment Flight Facility):

The crew has installed three newly arrived MISSE Sample Carriers (MSCs) onto the MISSE Transfer Tray (MTT-2) currently located on the JEM Airlock slide table. The slide table was extended out of the airlock and will be installed on the MISSE external platform tomorrow. The primary Materials ISS Experiment Flight Facility (MISSE-FF) platform provides the ability to test materials, coatings, and components or other larger experiments in the harsh environment of space, which is virtually impossible to do collectively on Earth. Testing in low-Earth orbit (LEO) allows the integrated testing of how materials react to exposure to ultraviolet radiation (UV), atomic oxygen (AO), ionizing radiation, ultrahigh vacuum (UHV), charged particles, thermal cycles, electromagnetic radiation, and micro-meteoroids in the LEO environment.

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NanoRacks Zero-G Oven:

The crew took historical photos of the Zero-G cookie sample tin. Zero-G Oven examines heat transfer properties and the process of baking food in microgravity. It uses an oven designed specifically for use aboard the space station with a top temperature of 363.3° C. On future long-duration missions, fresh-baked food could have psychological and physiological benefits for crewmembers.

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Lab Common Cabin Air Assembly (CCAA) Scope Installation:

Today, the crew installed a borescope into the Lab P6 CCAA Heat Exchanger (currently the inactive CCAA) in preparation for the eventual installation of the Carbon Dioxide Removal Assembly (CDRA) snorkel. The CDRA snorkel is designed to be installed in a CCAA to protect CDRA and Sabatier from water carryover from the CCAA.

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Inflight Maintenance (IFM) Waste Hygiene Compartment (WHC):

Recently, the ISS crew has observed multiple instances of a Pre-Treat Bad Quality Light (PTBQL). The PTBQLs is a response to the globules in the hose or high pressure on a degraded Dose Pump following flush tank fills. Partial tank fills are currently performed as a workaround in order to protect possible Dose Pump degradation. Today, the ISS crew completed a Waste Hygiene Compartment Pre-Treat Tank Remove and Replace (R&R) to mitigate the PTBQL issue and improve the WHC processing.

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Extravehicular Activity Mobility Unit (EMU):

In order to satisfy maintenance requirements, the crew powered up both EMUs 3006 and 3009 in preparation for a Loop Scrub and then performed a half dump and fill on EMU 3009 feedwater tanks using iodinated water. Iodinated water is used as a biocide to maintain the sterility of the EMU cooling system. The crew also used a camcorder to record audio of EMU 3009's fan before and after start up. These recordings are analyzed by ground teams to monitor fan bearing health.

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ISS Emergency Training:

The ISS crew participated in the Emergency preparation On-board Training (OBT) as part of routine safety operations on the ISS.

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https://blogs.nasa.gov/stationreport/2019/11/08/iss-daily-summary-report-11082019/

ISS Daily Summary Report – 11/08/2019

BioFabrication Facility (BFF):

The crew inserted a BFF Tissue Print Cassette sample into the BFF facility in order for the ground to perform a hardware checkout. The BFF is dedicated to manufacturing human organs and tissues in space, primarily for use by patients on Earth. Besides printing tissue, the BFF also can help maintain the health of deep space exploration crews by producing food and personalized pharmaceuticals on demand.

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ADSEP (ADvanced Space Experiment Processor):

The crew installed an ADSEP Tissue print Cassette sample into the ADSEP facility in order for the ground to perform a Hardware checkout and the crew took historical photos. ADSEP is a thermally controlled single-middeck-locker equivalent that accommodates up to three cassette-based experiments that can be independently operated. Its companion hardware consists of a collection of several experiment cassettes, each doubly or triply contained, that accommodate experiments in cell technology, model organisms, multiphase fluids, solution chemistry, separation science, microencapsulation, and crystal growth.

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Materials on International Space Station Experiment (MISSE):

Today, the ground robotics team, using the Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS), will start the transfer of Material Service Centers (MSCs) between the MISSE Transfer Tray (MTT) to the MISSE-FF.

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Lab Common Cabin Air Assembly (CCAA):

Yesterday, the crew installed a borescope into the Lab P6 CCAA Heat Exchanger (inactive CCAA) in preparation for the eventual installation of the Carbon Dioxide Removal Assembly (CDRA) snorkel. The CDRA snorkel is designed to be installed in a CCAA to protect CDRA and Sabatier from water carryover from the CCAA. Today, the crew performed a switchover of the active Lab CCAA from the Lab S6 CCAA to the Lab P6 CCAA. This will allow the ground characterize the baseline conditions inside the CCAA ducting. This baseline test requires the Lab cabin temperature to be lowered to 20 deg. C overnight. As a result, of the lowered temperatures, water may be observed on the Lab overhead diffusers and will be wiped up with a towel.

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Galley Rack Troubleshooting:

Today, the ISS crew performed the Galley Rack Troubleshooting Part 2. Today's troubleshooting determined that the Galley Rack Power Supply was the source of the overcurrent trip and the crew replaced the Galley Rack Power Supply with a spare. The Galley Rack was restored to nominal operations.

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ISS Emergency Training:

The ISS crew participated in an Emergency preparation and simulation. The simulation is a practice ISS Emergency Response with the crew and ground team based on simulated conditions. In addition, the crew spent some time practicing medical contingencies and reviewed On-board Training (OBT) medical procedures and roles during a medical event requiring Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR).

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Extravehicular Activity (EVA) Preparation:

The ISS crew performed a checkout of the Rechargeable EVA Battery Assembly (REBA) to verify that Extravehicular Activity Mobility Unit (EMU) glove heaters and video systems are powered in preparation for upcoming EVAs.

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https://blogs.nasa.gov/stationreport/2019/11/11/iss-daily-summary-report-11112019/

ISS Daily Summary Report – 11/11/2019

BioFabrication Facility (BFF):

The crew installed a test print cassette (without Cells) into the BFF. Ground teams will then initiate a test run with the cassette sample. The BFF is dedicated to manufacturing human organs and tissues in space, primarily for use by patients on Earth. Besides printing tissue, the BFF also can help maintain the health of deep space exploration crews by producing food and personalized pharmaceuticals on demand.

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PK-4 (Plasma Krystall-4):

The crew initiated a PK-4 session which involves catching cloud of particles with Neon Gas inside the PK-4 chamber using related software. Plasma Krystall-4 (PK-4) is a scientific collaboration between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), performing research in the field of "Complex Plasmas": low temperature gaseous mixtures composed of ionized gas, neutral gas, and micron-sized particles. PK-4 investigates how micro-particles become highly charged in plasma and interact, leading to a self-organized structure of the micro-particles: so-called plasma crystals. Experiments in the facility aim to study Transport Properties, Thermodynamics, Kinetics and Statistical Physics, and Non-linear waves and Instabilities in the plasmas.

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Rodent Research-14 (RR-14):

The crew restocked the Rodent Habitats with water and food bars and checked for leaks.  Rodent Research–14, Microgravity as a Disruptor Of The 12-hour Circatidal Clock (RR-14), uses mice to test the hypothesis that disruptions in a microgravity environment to the circadian rhythm sleep/wake cycle will affect the body on a cellular and key organ level. The importance of this 12-hour clock has been established as a mechanism that controls stress-responsive pathways. The unique environment of the ISS provides an ideal setting to challenge this. In short, exposing cellular systems in mice to the stress of microgravity provides an opportunity to study the response of the 12-hour body clock from cellular adaptation and its effect(s) on organismal behavior.

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Space Biofilms:

The crew activated Group Activation Packs (GAP) to initiate the Processing of the experiment and placed the GAPs into an incubator. The Characterization of Biofilm Formation, Growth, and Gene Expression on Different Materials and Environmental Conditions in Microgravity (Space Biofilms) investigation characterizes the mass, thickness, structure, and associated gene expression of biofilms that form in space by analyzing different microbial species grown on different materials. Biofilm formation can cause equipment malfunction and human illnesses, and could be a serious problem on future long-term human space missions

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Potable Water Dispenser:

Last week, ground teams and the crew performed troubleshooting on the electrical system of the Galley Rack and determined that the Rack Power Supply was causing a trip. The crew replaced the Rack Power Supply with an on-board spare. Over the weekend, the crew relocated the Potable Water Dispenser (PWD) from Express Rack 8 to the Galley Rack thereby, restoring the Galley Rack back to its nominal configuration.

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Mobile Support System (MSS):

On GMT 314, the Robotics Ground Controllers maneuvered the Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS) and the Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator (SPDM) from the park position to the Materials on ISS Experiment (MISSE) – Flight Facility (FF) located on the Express Logistics Carrier-2 (ELC-2). Ground robotic specialists are currently using the MSS to exchange MISSE Sample Containers (MSCs) with the MISSE-FF. SPDM Arm 2 – loaded with the Robo Micro-Conical Tool 2 (RMCT 2) – executed the following sequence of maneuvers:

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• Extract the MISSE Sample Container-9 (MSC-9) from the MISSE-FF slot Z1
  
• Insert the MSC-9 in the MISSE Transfer Tray (MTT) – held by the SPDM Arm 1 – slot T1
  
• Extract the MSC-6 from the MTT slot T3
  
• Insert the MSC-6 in the MISSE-FF slot Z1
  

Today, the MSS robotics team will complete the fourth and final day of the MSCs exchanges. Next, the MISSE Transfer Tray (MTT) will be installed on the JEM JOTI.

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Cygnus Cargo Transfers:

The ISS crew continued with the NG-12 cargo transfers from the Cygnus vehicle to the ISS.

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