Space station astronauts have fulfilling with many pints of ice cream that recently arrived on a SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft. (Image credit score rating: Thomas Pesquet/ESA/NASA/Flickr)
NASA astronauts on the Worldwide Space Station will solely benefit from a half-day off from work on Labor Day instantly (Sept. 5).
Whereas most federal employees all through the U.S. are having enjoyable with the nationwide trip off, the three NASA astronauts on the orbiting laboratory — Mark Vande Hei, Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur — have a few science duties on their schedules, Dan Huot, a NASA spokesperson with the Johnson Space Center in Houston, suggested Space.com.
“Correct now appears similar to the crew has a half-day off on Monday,” Huot talked about. “As abnormal, the flight administration group will uncover a make-up day in the end to offer them time without work,” he added.
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Astronauts on the Worldwide Space Station pose with a newly put in cargo compartment contained within the Quest airlock, on Aug. 27, 2021. From left to correct: ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, NASA astronauts Megan McArthur and Shane Kimbrough, and JAXA astronaut Akihiko Hoshide. (Image credit score rating: Thomas Pesquet/ESA/NASA/Flickr)
Space station astronauts conduct a lot of of scientific experiments whereas dwelling and dealing on the Worldwide Space Station, and some experiments require daily consideration — even on nationwide holidays. The Expedition 65 crew merely obtained a current cargo of science gear and totally different cargo ultimate week with the arrival of SpaceX’s Dargon CRS-23 cargo resupply mission. Along with bone, plant and provides science investigations, the astronauts moreover obtained a specific take care of with SpaceX’s cargo cargo: a great deal of ice cream.
There are in the meanwhile seven worldwide crewmembers dwelling and dealing on the orbiting laboratory. Along with the three U.S. astronauts, the Expedition 65 crew incorporates cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov of the Russian home firm Roscosmos, Japanese Aerospace Exploration Firm (JAXA) astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, and French astronaut Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Firm.
In pictures: The astronauts of Expedition 65 to the Worldwide Space Station
Vande Hei, Dubrov and Novitskiy arrived on the home station April 9 on the Russian Soyuz MS-18 mission. About two weeks later, Kimbrough, McArthur, Pesquet and Hoshide arrived on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Endeavour with the Crew-2 mission.
The Crew Dragon is predicted to return to Earth with the an identical four-person crew in November. Vande Hei and Dubrov are anticipated to remain on the station until March; their two seats on the returning Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft subsequent month is perhaps stuffed by Russian filmmakers Kim Shipenko and Yulia Peresild, who will launch on a two-week mission to the ISS on Oct. 5.
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