ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/22/2021
ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/22/2021
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Payloads Exploration Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS) – Toilet: The crew completed a fit-check of the Collapsible Contingency Urinal (CCU) with the Toilet. Additionally, the crew inspected Toilet air filters for loose particulates a
ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/21/2021
ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/21/2021
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Crew Dragon Endeavour Port Relocation: Today, NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, and JAXA astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, undocked Crew Dragon Endeavour from the Node 2 Forward International Docking Adapter (IDA) at 5
ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/19/2021
ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/19/2021
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Payloads Combustion Integrated Rack (CIR) – Fluids and Combustion Facility: The crew exchanged the manifold #4 bottle with a bottle containing 100% C2H6. The CIR includes an optics bench, combustion chamber, fuel, and oxidizer control, and five differen
ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/20/2021
ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/20/2021
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Payloads Cold Atom Lab (CAL): The crew completed the closeout procedures for the CAL Slice-7 Removal & Replacement (R&R). The CAL produces clouds of atoms that are chilled to about one ten billionth of a degree above absolute zero, much colder than th
ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/16/2021
ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/16/2021
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Payloads Human Research Facility-2 (HRF-2): The crew removed the Payload Ethernet Hub Bridge (PEHB) from the HRF-2 rack and replaced it with an improved Payload Ethernet Hub Gateway (PEHG). HRF-2 provides an on-orbit laboratory that enables human life scienc
ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/15/2021
ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/15/2021
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Payloads Cold Atom Lab (CAL): The crew performed the CAL Slice-7 Removal and Replacement (R&R). The closeout procedures were only partially completed due to the crew running out of time for the activity. The remainder of the closeout will be completed at
ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/13/2021
ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/13/2021
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Payloads Cold Atom Lab (CAL): The crew prepared the CAL facility in preparation for the Slice-7 Removal and Replacement (R&R) activity. The CAL produces clouds of atoms that are chilled to about one ten billionth of a degree above absolute zero, much cold
ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/12/2021
ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/12/2021
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Payloads Combustion Integrated Rack (CIR) – Fluids and Combustion Facility: The crew removed the O2 Bottle from the CIR Manifold #2 rack and replaced it with a high percentage oxygen bottle containing 85% O2 and 15% N2. The crew also replaced the fuel b
ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/09/2021
ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/09/2021
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Payloads Expedite the Processing of Experiments to Space Station (EXPRESS) Rack 4 (ER4) International Subrack Interface Standard (ISIS) Drawer Check: Following an Iceberg-1 noise reported by the crew in early July, the issue was determined to be caused by a l
ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/08/2021
ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/08/2021
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SpaceX-22 Undock and Return: Cargo Dragon SpaceX-22 (SpX-22) undocked from the ISS today at 9:45 AM CT to return cargo and payloads to the ground concluding the 33-day mission aboard the ISS. SpX-22 will complete departure phasing through Friday evening, jett
ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/07/2021
ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/07/2021
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Payloads Astrobee/SoundSee: The crew participated in a crew conference, set up the appropriate hardware, and initiated the SoundSee science session. Investigation of Deep Audio Analytics on the ISS (SoundSee Mission) tests monitoring of the acoustic environme
ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/06/2021
ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/06/2021
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Payloads Collapsible Contingency Urinal (CCU) Demo: The crew performed multiple handheld fill and drain cycles of the CCU using fruit punch as a test fluid. The ground team guided and observed the operations to analyze performance characteristics and observe
ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/02/2021
ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/02/2021
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78 Progress (78P) Docking: Following the completion of a 33-orbit rendezvous, 78P successfully docked to the MRM2 SM Zenith docking port last night at 8:00 PM CT. Prior to docking, MCC-H lost command capability to ISS. Therefore, the onboard crew performed th
ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/05/2021
ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/05/2021
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Payloads Electrostatic Levitation Furnace (ELF): The crew performed the steps necessary to gain access to the internal areas of ELF, change out the sample holder, and replace a gas bottle. JAXA’s ELF is an experimental facility designed to levitate, melt an
ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/01/2021
ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/01/2021
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Payloads Cold Atom Lab (CAL): The crew attached CAL science module 2 to a battery and packed it for return to the ground. The CAL produces clouds of atoms that are chilled to about one ten billionth of a degree above absolute zero, much colder than the averag
ISS Daily Summary Report – 6/30/2021
ISS Daily Summary Report – 6/30/2021
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78 Progress (78P) Launch: Yesterday at 6:27 PM CT, 78P launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome carrying food, fuel, and supplies to the ISS. 78P will dock to the ISS on Thursday, July 1st at 8:03 PM CT after completing a 33-orbit rendezvous. Payloads Antimicrob
ISS Daily Summary Report – 6/29/2021
ISS Daily Summary Report – 6/29/2021
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Cygnus Northrup Grumman-15 (NG-15) Release: NG-15 (named the S.S. Katherine Johnson) was successfully released by the Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS) and departed the ISS today at 11:31 AM CT while the crew monitored from the Cupola. The compl
ISS Daily Summary Report – 6/28/2021
ISS Daily Summary Report – 6/28/2021
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Payloads Behavioral Core Measures (BCM): The crew set up the appropriate robotics hardware and performed the BCM testing. These sessions are nominally planned to be completed once per month, starting two weeks after a crewmember’s arrival on ISS. The Standa
ISS Daily Summary Report – 6/25/2021
ISS Daily Summary Report – 6/25/2021
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United States On-orbit Segment (USOS) Extravehicular Activity (EVA) #76 – ISS Roll-Out Solar Array (IROSA) 4B Install: Today, EV1 (Thomas Pesquet) and EV2 (Shane Kimbrough) performed a 6-hour and 45-minute EVA and completed the following tasks with the supp
ISS Daily Summary Report – 6/24/2021
ISS Daily Summary Report – 6/24/2021
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ISS Reboost: Last night at 10:40 PM CT, the ISS performed a 7 minute and 25 second reboost using the DC-1 77P Mid-Ring thrusters resulting in a 0.5 m/s increase in ISS velocity. This reboost set up the phasing for 78P, Multipurpose Laboratory Module (MLM), an
ISS Daily Summary Report – 6/23/2021
ISS Daily Summary Report – 6/23/2021
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Payloads Plasma Krystall-4 (PK-4): The crew executed two Run 2 operations by catching clouds of particles inside the PK-4 chamber using the PK-4 Human Computer Interface (HCI) software on the European Physiology Module (EPM) laptop. PK-4 is a scientific colla
ISS Daily Summary Report – 6/21/2021
ISS Daily Summary Report – 6/21/2021
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United States On-orbit Segment (USOS) Extravehicular Activity (EVA) #75 – ISS Roll-Out Solar Array (IROSA) 2B Install 2: EV1 (Thomas Pesquet) and EV2 (Shane Kimbrough) performed a 6 hour and 28 minute EVA on Sunday, June 20th and completed the following tas
ISS Daily Summary Report – 6/22/2021
ISS Daily Summary Report – 6/22/2021
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Payloads Lyophilization-2: The crew removed the sample tray from the sample chamber and then removed and stowed the hardware from the Microgravity Science Glovebox (MSG), completing the investigation Lyophilization-2 in Microgravity (Lyophilization-2) examine
ISS Daily Summary Report – 6/17/2021
ISS Daily Summary Report – 6/17/2021
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Payloads: ISS HAM: The crew initiated a contact with Collège Albert Camus, La Norville and Université Paris-Saclay, Saint-Aubin, France. ISS Ham Radio provides opportunities to engage and educate students, teachers, parents and other members of the communit
ISS Daily Summary Report – 6/18/2021
ISS Daily Summary Report – 6/18/2021
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Payloads: JAXA Moderate Temperature Protein Crystallization Growth (Moderate Temp PCG): The crew retrieved JAXA PCG Sample Tube 1 from Freezer-Refrigerator Of STirling cycle (FROST), started the protein crystallization and then stowed the samples in FROST2 .
ISS Daily Summary Report – 6/16/2021
ISS Daily Summary Report – 6/16/2021
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USOS Extravehicular Activity (EVA) #74 – 2B IROSA Install: EV1 (Thomas Pesquet) and EV2 (Shane Kimbrough) performed a 7 hour and 15 minute EVA and completed the following tasks in support of Integrated Roll-Out Solar Array (IROSA) installation. Release IROS
ISS Daily Summary Report – 6/15/2021
ISS Daily Summary Report – 6/15/2021
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Payloads: Oral Biofilms in Space (OBIS): The crew hydrated the OBIS assembly session packs 6-10 with fluid flow from Fluid Bag 1 into the Fluid Chamber for 30 minutes. The mixture was allowed to sit for 4 hours and then the fluid flow was reinitiated. The ses
ISS Daily Summary Report – 6/14/2021
ISS Daily Summary Report – 6/14/2021
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Payloads: Advanced Plant EXperiment-07 (APEX -07): The crew configured the Veggie facility for initial APEX-07 operations and inserted data loggers and Petri Plates into the facility. APEX-07 examines how changes in gravity and other environmental factors ass
ISS Daily Summary Report – 6/11/2021
ISS Daily Summary Report – 6/11/2021
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Payloads: AC Touch: Per standard procedure, the crew touched both the coated and uncoated coupons for this long-term investigation. Boeing Environment Responding Antimicrobial Coatings tests an antimicrobial coating on several different materials that repre
ISS Daily Summary Report – 6/10/2021
ISS Daily Summary Report – 6/10/2021
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Payloads: Bioculture system: The crew removed the Bioculture system from Dragon, installed it into EXPRESS rack 4, and successfully powered it up. This facility will be used to support the Cell Science-04 investigation in mid-July. The tardigrade (water b
ISS Daily Summary Report – 6/09/2021
ISS Daily Summary Report – 6/09/2021
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Payloads: AC Touch: Per standard procedure, the crew touched both the coated and uncoated coupons for this long-term investigation. Boeing Environment Responding Antimicrobial Coatings tests an antimicrobial coating on several different materials that repre
ISS Daily Summary Report – 6/08/2021
ISS Daily Summary Report – 6/08/2021
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Payloads: FIR/LMM (Fluids Integrated Rack/Light Microscopy Module): Following the completion of several weeks of observations of the ACE-T-2 science module, the crew performed the steps necessary to remove ACE-T-2 and install the ACE-T-11 science module. Adva
ISS Daily Summary Report – 6/07/2021
ISS Daily Summary Report – 6/07/2021
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SpaceX (SpX)-22 Docking: Following last Thursday’s successful launch, Dragon was docked on Saturday at 4:20 AM CT at the Node 2 Zenith port. Prior to docking the crew gathered and set up necessary tools required for the crew to monitor vehicle approach.
ISS Daily Summary Report – 6/03/2021
ISS Daily Summary Report – 6/03/2021
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SpaceX-22 Cargo Dragon Launch: Today, SpaceX-22 Cargo Dragon launched on the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from LC- 39A at Kennedy Space Center, Florida at 12:29 PM CT and is set to dock to the ISS on Saturday, June 5 at 4:13 AM CT. The Crew will be off-duty tomorro
ISS Daily Summary Report – 6/02/2021
ISS Daily Summary Report – 6/02/2021
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Russian Segment (RS) Extravehicular Activity (EVA) #48: Today, FE-4 Oleg Novitskiy (EV1) and FE-5 Petr Dubrov (EV2) egressed the Mini-Research Module (MRM)-2 airlock and completed the following tasks during today’s 7 hour and 19 minute EVA Demonstration of
ISS Daily Summary Report – 6/01/2021
ISS Daily Summary Report – 6/01/2021
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Payloads: COSMIC (Confocal Space Microscopy): The crew removed the 2 checkout samples and installed 2 temperature loggers in the COSMIC system. COSMIC will be used to support upcoming Cell Gravisensing investigation. The Elucidation of the Gravisensing
ISS Daily Summary Report – 5/28/2021
ISS Daily Summary Report – 5/28/2021
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Payloads: Behavioral Core Measures: A crewmember performed the Robotic On-Board Trainer test. The Standardized Behavioral Measures for Detecting Behavioral Health Risks during Exploration Missions (Behavioral Core Measures) experiment initially examined a sui
ISS Daily Summary Report – 5/31/2021
ISS Daily Summary Report – 5/31/2021
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Payloads: AC Touch: Per standard procedure, the crew touched both the coated and uncoated coupons for this long-term investigation. Boeing Environment Responding Antimicrobial Coatings tests an antimicrobial coating on several different materials that repre
ISS Daily Summary Report – 5/27/2021
ISS Daily Summary Report – 5/27/2021
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Payloads: A-HoSS (Artemis HERA on Space Station): The crew powered on the Adlink Mini PC for Artemis HERA (Hybrid Electronic Radiation Assessor on Space Station) radiation data gathering. Artemis HERA on Space Station (A-HoSS) demonstrates software to refine
ISS Daily Summary Report – 5/26/2021
ISS Daily Summary Report – 5/26/2021
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Payloads: Astrobee: A crewmember prepared the Astrobee free flyers and the JEM Module for remote video capture and live stream operations. Astrobee is made up of three free-flying, cube-shaped robots which are designed to help scientists and engineers develo
