A variety of research that took place on Thursday, November 16 onboard the Astronauts Loral O’Hara and Satoshi Furukawa joined each other in the Columbus laboratory module for vein scans using the Ultrasound 2 device. Doctors on the ground assisted the duo in monitoring how weightlessness affects the neck, shoulder, and leg veins, and learning how to keep crews healthy.
O’Hara from NASA also teamed up with fellow NASA Flight Engineer Jasmin Moghbeli and worked in the Tranquility module throughout Thursday. Both astronauts were clearing hardware from the Bishop airlock to make space for the NanoRacks External Platform. Bishop will open its door to space and the platform will be retrieved by the Canadarm2 robotic arm for scientific operations outside of the orbital laboratory. The external research gear is designed to carry experiments for exposure to the vacuum of outer space.
Furukawa from sense microgravity. He also swapped a gas bottle inside the Electrostatic Levitation Furnace and then assisted O’Hara and Moghbeli with the NanoRacks work.
Commander Andreas Mogensen from ESA (Earth science hardware. The two-time station visitor then supported a student-designed space botany experiment, analyzed station water samples, and serviced spacesuit batteries.
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