ISS Daily Summary Report – 3/14/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 3/14/2018
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Veg-03: Today the crew watered the Veg-03 plants and continued with the photo-documentation of plant growth for the Veg-03 investigation. Veg-03 supports the proof-of concept for the Veggie plant growth chamber and the planting pillows. Future long duratio
ISS Daily Summary Report – 3/13/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 3/13/2018
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Fluidics: Today the crew set up the Fluidics experiment hardware and executed Runs 2 and 3. Fluidics is a fluid mechanics experiment with two main objectives: perform a Slosh study to investigate fluid behavior under microgravity during satellite maneuvers
ISS Daily Summary Report – 3/12/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 3/12/2018
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Fluidics: Today the crew set up the Fluidics experiment hardware and executed Run 1. Fluidics is a fluid mechanics experiment with two main objectives: perform a Slosh study to investigate fluid behavior under microgravity during satellite maneuvers, and a
ISS Daily Summary Report – 3/09/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 3/09/2018
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Electro-static Levitation Furnace (ELF): Today the crew exchanged the sample cartridges within ELF to prepare for upcoming ground commanded operations. The newly installed cartridge was found to be slightly misaligned and an activity is planned for next w
ISS Daily Summary Report – 3/08/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 3/08/2018
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Plant Gravity Perception (PGP): Today the crew replaced four of the European Modular Cultivation System (EMCS) Experiment Containers (ECs) for the next Plant Gravity Perception experiment run. Two of the ECs powered up and remained powered. For this investi
ISS Daily Summary Report – 3/07/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 3/07/2018
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Airway Monitoring: In support of the European Space Agency (ESA) Airway Monitoring investigation, today the crew completed calibration of the hardware in the US Laboratory and then completed two different measurement protocols; the low Nitric Oxide (NO) pro
ISS Daily Summary Report – 3/06/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 3/06/2018
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Airway Monitoring: In support of the European Space Agency (ESA) Airway Monitoring investigation, today the crew set up hardware in the US Laboratory for nitric oxide measurements to be taken tomorrow. Airway Monitoring aims to determine the pulmonary nitri
ISS Daily Summary Report – 3/05/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 3/05/2018
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Combustion Integrated Rack (CIR) Advanced Combustion via Microgravity Experiments (ACME) Electric-Field Effects on Laminar Diffusion (E-Field) Flames: The crew replaced the compensator module in the CIR Hi Bit-depth Multi-Spectral (HiBMS) Imaging package to
ISS Daily Summary Report – 3/02/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 3/02/2018
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Node 3 Major Constituent Analyzer (MCA) Calibration Failure: Yesterday, the crew successfully replaced the N3 MCA Verification Gas Assembly (VGA) as part of regularly scheduled maintenance. During calibration, however, data was off-nominal and the planned ful
ISS Daily Summary Report – 3/01/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 3/01/2018
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Plant Gravity Perception (PGP): Today the crew removed the Plant Gravity Perception seed cassettes from Experiment Containers (ECs) on the two European Modular Cultivation System (EMCS) rotors and stowed them in a Minus Eighty Degree Celsius Laboratory Freeze
ISS Daily Summary Report – 2/26/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 2/26/2018
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52Soyuz Landing Preparations: Crew and ground teams continued to prepare for tomorrow’s planned 52S Undock and landing. 52S is scheduled to undock tomorrow at 5:09 PM CST with landing at 8:31 PM CST. Today’s activities included packing 52S with retu
ISS Daily Summary Report – 2/23/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 2/23/2018
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Lighting Effects: Upon wakeup, the 53S subject provided a sleep log entry and conducted a series of three Cognition tests and provided urine samples over a 24-hour period. The samples will be stowed in the MELFI for freezing until their return and analysis. T
ISS Daily Summary Report – 2/21/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 2/21/2018
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Lighting Effects: Upon wakeup, a 53S subject provided a daily sleep log entry to track his sleep patterns and wakefulness. The Lighting Effects experiment hopes to better quantify and qualify how lighting can effect habitability of spacecraft. The light bulb
ISS Daily Summary Report – 2/22/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 2/22/2018
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Lighting Effects: Upon wakeup, a 53S subject provided a daily sleep log entry to track his sleep patterns and wakefulness. The Lighting Effects experiment hopes to better quantify and qualify how lighting can effect habitability of spacecraft. The light bulb
ISS Daily Summary Report – 2/20/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 2/20/2018
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Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS) 52 Soyuz (52S) Survey: Today, ground operators walked the SSRMS off to the Functional Cargo Block (FGB) and conducted a video survey of the exterior 52S prior to return. 52S will return CDR Alexander Misurki
ISS Daily Summary Report – 2/16/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 2/16/2018
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USOS Extra Vehicular Activity (EVA) #48: Today, Mark Vande Hei (as EV1) and Norishige Kanai (as EV2) performed USOS EVA #48 with a Phased Elapsed Time (PET) of 5:57. The primary goal of today’s EVA was to remove and replace the Payload ORU Accommodation (PO
ISS Daily Summary Report – 2/15/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 2/15/2018
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69 Progress (69P) Docking: This morning the 69P vehicle docked to the SM aft port of the ISS. Rendezvous and docking both completed successfully in the automated mode with a preliminary docking capture time of 4:38:43 AM CST. Lighting Effects: Upon wa
ISS Daily Summary Report – 2/14/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 2/14/2018
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Lighting Effects: Upon wakeup, a 53S subject provided a daily sleep log entry to track his sleep patterns and wakefulness. The Lighting Effects experiment hopes to better quantify and qualify how lighting can effect habitability of spacecraft. The light bulb
ISS Daily Summary Report – 2/13/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 2/13/2018
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69 Progress (69P) Launch: 69P launched from the Baikonur, Kazakhstan this morning at 2:13am CST and achieved nominal insertion with all antennas and solar arrays deployed. Due to orbital phasing, this will be a 34-orbit rendezvous profile. 69P docking i
ISS Daily Summary Report – 2/12/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 2/12/2018
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69 Progress (69P) Launch Abort: Over the weekend, the planned launch of 69P did not occur. The vehicle issued an abort command shortly before launch and successfully shut down the launch sequence. The root cause is under investigation, and the forward p
ISS Daily Summary Report – 2/09/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 2/09/2018
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Rodent Research 6 (RR-6): Today the crew performed the fourth day of RR-6 operations where they conducted fixative swaps and processed a series of blood samples from the rodents. The samples from today’s activities were placed in the Minus Eighty Degree C
ISS Daily Summary Report – 2/08/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 2/08/2018
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Communications Issues: This morning, communication with the ISS on Space to Ground (S/G) became intermittent. A failed controller card at White Sands prevented the acquisition of the correct Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS). Nominal communicatio
ISS Daily Summary Report – 2/06/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 2/06/2018
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Common Communications for Visiting Vehicle (C2V2) R2 Upgrade: Due to issues experienced yesterday while loading the C2V2 R2 upgrade, ground controllers were unable to complete the first day of R2 load operations. The attempt to load the software today wa
ISS Daily Summary Report – 2/05/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 2/05/2018
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Microbial Tracking-2 (MT-2): Over the weekend, a 53S subject completed saliva sample collections in support of the MT-2 investigation. The MT-2 series continues the monitoring of the types of microbes that are present on the ISS. It seeks to catalog and chara
ISS Daily Summary Report – 2/02/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 2/02/2018
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Russian Extravehicular Activity (EVA) #44: Alexander Misurkin (as EV1) and Anton Shkaplerov (as EV2) performed RS EVA #44 with a Phased Elapsed Time (PET) of 8 hrs 13 min. During the EVA, the cosmonauts removed and replaced the [OHA] antenna high frequency re
ISS Daily Summary Report – 1/30/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 1/30/2018
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Personal CO2 Monitor Sensor Calibration: Today the crew will perform a single point calibration of the Personal CO2 monitors using and iPad and readings from a Major Constituent Analyzer (MCA) sample port. The Personal CO2 Monitor demonstrates a system capabl
ISS Daily Summary Report – 1/31/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 1/31/2018
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Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites (SPHERES) SmoothNav: The crew set up the SPHERES work area to activate and check out the hardware and EXPRESS laptop computer (ELC) before conducting the SmoothNav experiment run. SmoothNa
ISS Daily Summary Report – 2/01/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 2/01/2018
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NanoRacks DreamUp Xtronaut Crystal Growth (DreamXCG): The crew used hot water from the PWD to dissolve sugar crystals in two pouches and later transfer sugar water into the pouches with seeded dowels. This investigation teaches students about the effects o
ISS Daily Summary Report – 1/23/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 1/23/2018
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USOS Extra Vehicular Activity (EVA) #47: Today, Mark Vande Hei (as EV1) and Scott Tingle (as EV2) successfully completed USOS EVA #47 with a Phased Elapsed Time (PET) of 7 hrs 24 min. The primary goal of the EVA was to swap the Latching End Effector (LEE) f
ISS Daily Summary Report – 1/22/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 1/22/2018
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Light Microscopy Module (LMM) Petri Plants Plate Operations: Over the weekend, the crew used the light meter in the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM) to take light intensity measurements before transporting the plates to the Lab to photograph the plates with a
ISS Daily Summary Report – 1/19/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 1/19/2018
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Vascular Echo: After completing the Cardiolab (CDL) blood pressure measurement earlier this week, today the 53S subject performed the Vascular Echo Exercise Portable Doppler (PDOP) measurement with ground team assistance. Using the CDL PDOP, the crewmember do
ISS Daily Summary Report – 1/17/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 1/17/2018
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CORRECTIONS TO TODAY’s REPORT: Circadian Rhythms activity was deferred due to conflicts with the OFV tomorrow. It will be performed tomorrow. Added ISS Reboost with SM Main Engines Circadian Rhythms [Deferred]: Today a 53S crewmember instrumented themse
ISS Daily Summary Report – 1/18/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 1/18/2018
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Plant Habitat Gaseous Nitrogen (GN2) Hose Connection: Today the crew removed and replaced the acoustic blanket and growth chamber door before retrieving the GN2 filter and connecting it to the EXpedite the PRocessing of Experiments to Space Station (EXPRESS)
ISS Daily Summary Report – 1/16/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 1/16/2018
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Rodent Research 6 (RR-6): In support of the on-going RR-6 investigation, today the crew refilled the rodent habitat water supply using the water refill kit and later remove the mice and restocked the rodent habitats with new food bars in addition to cleanin
ISS Daily Summary Report – 1/15/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 1/15/2018
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Vascular Echo: With ground team assistance, a 53S crewmember performed a Vascular Echo protocol, which included scans of his neck, thigh, portal vein, and heart. Following the scanning activity, the subject completed three consecutive blood pressure measureme
ISS Daily Summary Report – 1/15/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 1/15/2018
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Vascular Echo: With ground team assistance, a 53S crewmember performed a Vascular Echo protocol, which included scans of his neck, thigh, portal vein, and heart. Following the scanning activity, the subject completed three consecutive blood pressure measureme
ISS Daily Summary Report – 1/12/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 1/12/2018
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SpaceX (SpX)-13 Dragon Unberth: Today, the crew completed the final packing of critical items into the Dragon Spacecraft. They then egressed the vehicle and removed utility jumpers, followed by the depressurization of the Node 2 to Dragon vestibule. Groun
ISS Daily Summary Report – 1/11/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 1/11/2018
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Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites (SPHERES) Zero Robotics (ZR): Today the crew provided support for a SPHERES ZR Challenge competition between students from High Schools around the world. The SPHERES-Zero-Robotics investi
ISS Daily Summary Report – 1/10/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 1/10/2018
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Airway Monitoring Measurement Operations: Using the Portable Pulmonary Function System (PPFS) for guidance, today two crewmembers performed two different measurement protocols; the low Nitric Oxide (NO) protocol which determines how much NO is exhaled with th
ISS Daily Summary Report – 1/8/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 1/8/2018
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Human Research Program (HRP) Collections (Biochemical Profile, Repository): Over the weekend, a 52S subject completed his Flight Day (FD) 120 urine sample collections to support the Biochemical Profile and Repository experiments. The samples were placed in th
