ISS Daily Summary Report – 11/15/2017
ISS Daily Summary Report – 11/15/2017
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Probiotics Operations: The crew completed the second half of the second sampling phase that began on GMT 316 with fecal sample collections. Today’s activities included saliva sample collections, a questionnaire, and a capsule intake. This sampling phase wa
ISS Daily Summary Report – 11/15/2017
ISS Daily Summary Report – 11/15/2017
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Probiotics Operations: The crew completed the second half of the second sampling phase that began on GMT 316 with fecal sample collections. Today’s activities included saliva sample collections, a questionnaire, and a capsule intake. This sampling phase wa
ISS Daily Summary Report – 11/14/2017
ISS Daily Summary Report – 11/14/2017
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Orbital 8 (OA-8) Capture/Berthing: Monday night, Robotics Ground Controllers maneuvered the Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS) to inspect the Node 1 Nadir Active Common Berthing Mechanism (CBM). They then maneuvered the SSRMS to the Cygnus hig
ISS Daily Summary Report – 11/13/2017
ISS Daily Summary Report – 11/13/2017
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Orbital-ATK 8 (OA-8) Launch: Following a 24 hour delay, OA-8 launched successfully from Wallops Island, Virginia atop an Antares rocket on Sunday at 6:19 AM CST. Capture and berthing to Node 1 Nadir is planned for Tuesday, November 14th starting at 3:50 A
ISS Daily Summary Report – 11/09/2017
ISS Daily Summary Report – 11/09/2017
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Lighting Effects: Upon wakeup, a 52S subject provided a sleep log entry, and then conducted a series of three Cognition tests throughout the day. The Lighting Effects experiment hopes to better quantify and qualify how lighting can effect habitability of spac
ISS Daily Summary Report – 11/10/2017
ISS Daily Summary Report – 11/10/2017
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Human Research Program (HRP) Collections (Biochemical Profile, Repository): A 51S crewmember completed Flight Day (FD) 120 blood and urine sample collections to support the Biochemical Profile and Repository experiments. The samples were placed in the Minus E
ISS Daily Summary Report – 11/02/2017
ISS Daily Summary Report – 11/02/2017
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Astronaut’s Energy Requirements for Long-Term Space Flight (Energy): Today the subject performed day 10, which is the last day of the 11-day (Day 0 through Day 10) Energy investigation, by collecting ISS tap water samples form the Potable Water Dispenser, c
ISS Daily Summary Report – 11/03/2017
ISS Daily Summary Report – 11/03/2017
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VEG-03 Science Harvest: The crew cut one to three leaves from each plant for consumption and then preserved them in foil and inserted them into cold stowage for science data. The remainder of the plants will be left to grow and sprout new leaves. The Veg-0
ISS Daily Summary Report – 11/06/2017
ISS Daily Summary Report – 11/06/2017
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MBSU transfer and installation: On Friday, ground controllers attempted to transfer the recently repaired spare Main Bus Switching Unit (MBSU) through the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM) Airlock (A/L) and install it on its stowage location on External Stow
ISS Daily Summary Report – 11/07/2017
ISS Daily Summary Report – 11/07/2017
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Personal Radiation Shielding for Interplanetary Missions (PERSEO): Today the crew performed an initial checkout of a radiation shielding garment for the Italian Space Agency (ASI) PERSEO Project. They filled the garment with water, donned the garment, and l
ISS Daily Summary Report – 11/08/2017
ISS Daily Summary Report – 11/08/2017
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Airway Monitoring: Using the Portable Pulmonary Function System (PFS), the crew performed calibrations and conducted high and low nitric oxide (NO) measurements in the US Laboratory. The Airway Monitoring investigation aims to determine the pulmonary nitri
ISS Daily Summary Report – 10/24/2017
ISS Daily Summary Report – 10/24/2017
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Extravehicular Mobility Unit Loop Scrub: Today, the crew configured Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) suits 3003 and 3008 for loop scrubbing. Once the scrubbing activity was complete, they reconfigured hardware and performed iodination of Ion Filters fo
ISS Daily Summary Report – 10/25/2017
ISS Daily Summary Report – 10/25/2017
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Node 3 Waste and Hygiene Compartment (WHC) Photos: This morning, the crew removed the WHC Kabin, took photographs of surrounding areas, and then replaced the WHC Kabin. These high-resolution, high-quality photos of seat track locations in the vicinity of th
ISS Daily Summary Report – 10/23/2017
ISS Daily Summary Report – 10/23/2017
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Lighting Effects: A 51S crewmember conducted a Visual Performance Test by stowing the hardware in their crew quarters, setting the light to the correct mode, turning all other light sources in the crew quarters off, and performing a Numerical Verification T
ISS Daily Summary Report – 10/20/2017
ISS Daily Summary Report – 10/20/2017
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USOS Extra Vehicular Activity (EVA) #46: Randy Bresnik (as EV1) and Joe Acaba (as EV2) successfully performed US EVA #46 with a Phased Elapsed Time (PET) of 6 hrs 49 min. The primary goals of the EVA were to Remove and Replace (R&R) a fuse in the Specia
ISS Daily Summary Report – 10/19/2017
ISS Daily Summary Report – 10/19/2017
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Circadian Rhythms: Yesterday a crewmember instrumented themselves with Thermolab Double Sensors and mounted the Thermolab Unit to their belt, which began 36 hours of monitoring for the Circadian Rhythm investigation. Circadian Rhythms investigates the rol
ISS Daily Summary Report – 10/17/2017
ISS Daily Summary Report – 10/17/2017
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Miniature Exercise Device (MED-2): Today crewmembers set up cameras in Node 3 to capture video from multiple views of the Advanced Resistive Exercise Device (ARED) and MED-2 hardware. They also applied body markers, and performed exercises before transfer
ISS Daily Summary Report – 10/16/2017
ISS Daily Summary Report – 10/16/2017
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68 Progress (68P) docking: Saturday morning, 68P launched from Baikonur after a two day delay. This morning, 68P docked successfully to DC1 nadir, bringing supplies to the ISS. JAXA Protein Crystal Growth (PCG) #13 Installation: Following the docking o
ISS Daily Summary Report – 10/13/2017
ISS Daily Summary Report – 10/13/2017
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Advanced Nano Step Troubleshooting: Today the crew successfully completed troubleshooting operations by retrieving the Advanced Nano Step cartridge from the Solution Crystallization Observation Facility (SCOF) to access and adjust the position of the cell sta
ISS Daily Summary Report – 10/12/2017
ISS Daily Summary Report – 10/12/2017
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68P Launch and Dock Delay: 68P was planned for launch at 04:30 AM Central time, but the launch was aborted during final countdown. Russian teams are looking into the cause of the abort. The next launch opportunity is Saturday morning at 03:47 AM Central
ISS Daily Summary Report – 10/11/2017
ISS Daily Summary Report – 10/11/2017
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NeuroMapping: Today two 52S crewmembers set up the NeuroMapping hardware and performed their Flight Day 30 tests in “strapped in” and “free floating” body configurations. During the test, the crewmembers executed three Behavioral Assessments: mental r
ISS Daily Summary Report – 10/10/2017
ISS Daily Summary Report – 10/10/2017
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USOS Extra Vehicular Activity (EVA) #45: Today Randy Bresnik (as EV1) and Mark Vande Hei (as EV2) successfully performed US EVA #45 with a Phased Elapsed Time (PET) of 6:26. The primary goal of today’s EVA was to Remove and Replace (R&R) the External Te
ISS Daily Summary Report – 10/09/2017
ISS Daily Summary Report – 10/09/2017
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Multi-Omics Sample Collections: A 52S crewmember collected fecal samples for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Multi-Omics experiment. The samples were placed into the Minus Eighty Degree Celsius Laboratory Freezer for ISS (MELFI). The Multi-omic
ISS Daily Summary Report – 10/05/2017
ISS Daily Summary Report – 10/05/2017
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USOS Extra Vehicular Activity (EVA) #44: Today Randy Bresnik (as EV1) and Mark Vande Hei (as EV2) exited the airlock and successfully performed US EVA #44 with a Phased Elapsed Time (PET) of 6:55. The primary goal of today’s EVA was to remove the degraded L
ISS Daily Summary Report – 10/04/2017
ISS Daily Summary Report – 10/04/2017
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Radiation Dosimetry Inside ISS-Neutron (RaDI-N) Retrieval: Today a USOS crewmember retrieved all 8 of the Space Bubble Detectors that were deployed last week for the RaDI-N experiment, and transferred them to the Russian crewmember for processing in the Bub
ISS Daily Summary Report – 10/03/2017
ISS Daily Summary Report – 10/03/2017
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VEG-03 Operations: Today the crew continued to conduct Veg-03 operations that began last week by thinning out the plants to one plant per pillow, in order to promote growth of the larger plants. The crew then watered the plant pillows. The crew will now begi
ISS Daily Summary Report – 10/02/2017
ISS Daily Summary Report – 10/02/2017
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VEG-03: Following the installation of the Root Mat and Plant Pillows earlier this week, the crew opened the wicks of each Veg-03 Plant Pillow. The Veg-03 investigation uses the Veggie plant growth facility to cultivate types of cabbage, lettuce, and mizuna fo
ISS Daily Summary Report – 9/29/2017
ISS Daily Summary Report – 9/29/2017
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VEG-03: Following the installation of the Root Mat and Plant Pillows earlier this week, the crew opened the wicks of each Veg-03 Plant Pillow. The Veg-03 investigation uses the Veggie plant growth facility to cultivate types of cabbage, lettuce, and mizuna fo
ISS Daily Summary Report – 9/28/2017
ISS Daily Summary Report – 9/28/2017
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MagVector: The crew completed setup activities and began the 7-day MagVector #14 experiment run. The European Space Agency (ESA) MagVector investigation studies how Earth’s magnetic field interacts with an electrical conductor. Using extremely sensitive mag
ISS Daily Summary Report – 9/27/2017
ISS Daily Summary Report – 9/27/2017
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Radiation Dosimetry Inside ISS-Neutron (RaDI-N): After retrieving the RaDI-N hardware from the Russian crewmembers, a USOS crewmember deployed eight Space Bubble Detectors around the ISS for the Radi-N experiment. The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) RaDI-N invest
ISS Daily Summary Report – 9/26/2017
ISS Daily Summary Report – 9/26/2017
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Marrow: Today a 51S crewmember completed their Flight Day (FD) 60 breath and ambient air sample collections for the Marrow investigation, which looks at the effect of microgravity on bone marrow. It is believed that microgravity, like long-duration bed res
ISS Daily Summary Report – 9/25/2017
ISS Daily Summary Report – 9/25/2017
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Human Research Program (HRP) Collections (Biochemical Profile, Repository): Over the weekend a 52S crewmember completed Flight Day (FD) 15 urine sample collections in support of the Biochemical Profile and Repository experiments. Today another 52S crewmember
ISS Daily Summary Report – 9/22/2017
ISS Daily Summary Report – 9/22/2017
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Marrow: Today a 52S crewmember conducted breath and ambient air sample collections for the Marrow investigation, which looks at the effect of microgravity on bone marrow. It is believed that microgravity, like long-duration bed rest on Earth, has a negativ
ISS Daily Summary Report – 9/21/2017
ISS Daily Summary Report – 9/21/2017
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Sarcolab-3: After successfully completing three days of the ankle configuration exercises, today USOS and Russian subjects conducted the knee protocol for Sarcolab-3. The subjects ingressed the Muscle Atrophy Research & Exercise System (MARES) chair, inst
ISS Daily Summary Report – 9/20/2017
ISS Daily Summary Report – 9/20/2017
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Marrow: Today a 51S crewmember collected breath and ambient air samples for the Marrow investigation which looks at the effect of microgravity on bone marrow. It is believed that microgravity, like long-duration bed rest on Earth, has a negative effect on t
ISS Daily Summary Report – 9/19/2017
ISS Daily Summary Report – 9/19/2017
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Space Headaches: The daily questionnaire for the ESA Space Headaches investigation was completed by a 52S crewmember. The Space Headaches investigation collects information that may help in the development of methods to alleviate associated symptoms and imp
ISS Daily Summary Report – 9/18/2017
ISS Daily Summary Report – 9/18/2017
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Dragon SpaceX (SpX)-12 Unberth: Over the weekend, the crew packed critical items and egressed the vehicle in preparation for Dragon departure. Dragon was unberthed from the ISS via ground commanding on Saturday at approximately 5:06 PM CDT. Ground team
ISS Daily Summary Report – 9/15/2017
ISS Daily Summary Report – 9/15/2017
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Node 1 Communication: Ground teams utilized the video conferencing system to patch Space to Ground channel 2 (S/G2) to an SSC in Node 1, and asked the crew to confirm that S/G2 voice was audible in Node 1. Two separate configurations were tested, and bot
ISS Daily Summary Report – 9/13/2017
ISS Daily Summary Report – 9/13/2017
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52 Soyuz (52S) Dock: 52S launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome this evening, and docked to the ISS bringing Misurkin, Acaba, and Vande Hei to the ISS. Docking to the Mini Research Module-2 (MRM-2) module was completed at 09:55 PM CDT with hatch opening at 12:
ISS Daily Summary Report – 9/14/2017
ISS Daily Summary Report – 9/14/2017
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iPad Operating System (iOS) Upgrade: Today the crew connected the iPad Air 2 to an Space Station Computer (SSC), allowing ground controllers to update the operating system. Dragon Departure Preparations: Today the crew completed a computer based training
