Expedition 69 crew aboard the ISS engaged in a variety of tasks, from space gardening and research to suit preparations and descent training, showcasing the collaborative spirit of space missions. Friday, September 22, was a busy day for the Expedition 69 crew ahead of their off-duty weekend aboa
The Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft that carried NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara and Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub to the International Space Station is pictured docked to the Rassvet module. At far left, is the Soyuz MS-23 crew ship, docked to the Prichal docking module, that will return NASA astronaut Frank Rubio and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin back to Earth on September 27.
Friday, September 22, was a busy day for the Expedition 69 crew ahead of their off-duty weekend aboard the. Preparing for upcoming crew departures and October spacewalks, health exams, and space gardening topped the ten crew members’ research schedules.started her day with orbital plumbing and maintenance on the EXPRESS racks, payloads used for storing research experiments.
Mogensen then moved into some space gardening, harvesting the final round of Arabidopsis plants, part of theinvestigation. The experiment aims to help researchers better understand how adaptations of plants in one generation could transfer to the next, given the environmental stress of the microgravity environment. Research as such provides an array of scientific data that can be applied on future space missions.
Flight Engineer Loral O’Hara of NASA was joined by Mogensen and NASA astronaut Frank Rubio in the morning to replace batteries and install restraint straps and helmet lights to spacesuits in preparation for a round of U.S. spacewalks in October.
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