Expedition 70 Flight Engineers Loral O’Hara (middle) and Jasmin Moghbeli (decrease proper), each from NASA, are pictured tethered to the Worldwide Area Station’s port truss construction throughout a spacewalk to exchange one of many 12 trundle bearing assemblies on the port photo voltaic alpha rotary joint, which permits the arrays to trace the Solar and generate electrical energy to energy the station. Credit score: NASA
The Expedition 70 crew participated in normal post-spacewalk actions on Thursday, November 11, together with well being checks, spacesuit work, and a crew convention. In the meantime, science remained on Thursday’s schedule because the
NASA astronaut and Expedition 70 Flight Engineer Loral O’Hara is pictured (middle) tethered to the Worldwide Area Station’s port truss construction throughout a spacewalk to exchange one of many 12 trundle bearing assemblies on the port photo voltaic alpha rotary joint, which permits the arrays to trace the Solar and generate electrical energy to energy the station. Credit score: NASA
Spacewalk Evaluation and Analysis Actions
Moghbeli additionally downlinked imagery captured utilizing spacewalk cameras on Wednesday. She then photographed the spacesuit gloves for inspection and evaluation by mission controllers on the bottom. O’Hara logged into a pc and took part in a cognitive evaluation.
After lunchtime, the 2 astronauts joined Commander Andreas Mogensen and Flight Engineer Satoshi Furukawa for a convention with floor specialists and mentioned the day prior to this’s spacewalk actions. Mogensen from ESA (
NASA astronaut and Expedition 70 Flight Engineer Jasmin Moghbeli is pictured tethered to the Worldwide Area Station throughout a spacewalk to exchange one of many 12 trundle bearing assemblies on the port photo voltaic alpha rotary joint, which permits the arrays to trace the Solar and generate electrical energy to energy the station. Credit score: NASA
Russian Phase Actions and CRS-29 Mission Replace
The orbiting lab’s three cosmonauts spent Thursday targeted on area analysis and lab upkeep within the orbital outpost’s
Earlier than each Dragon mission, SpaceX conducts intensive prelaunch checkouts at each stage of refurbishment and remaining integration to make sure the spacecraft is able to safely fly its subsequent mission. In the course of the preliminary propellant load in preparation for the CRS-29 mission, groups recognized a leak of NTO (nitrogen tetroxide oxidizer) in a Draco thruster valve, which per normal process required a pause to the operation to troubleshoot. The crew inspected the valve and respective information, and determined to exchange the thruster.
SpaceX continues to maintain NASA knowledgeable all through the method and the joint crew collectively determined to shift launch to account for the preliminary half substitute and subsequent system checkouts and information critiques.
With a November 9 launch, the spacecraft will arrive on the area station about 5:20 a.m. Saturday, November 11.