Space physics, aging research, and science hardware filled the schedule at the beginning of the week for the Expedition 70 crew. The International Space Station (ISS) residents are also packing a U.S. cargo craft for its departure and return to Earth at the end of the week.
Advancements in Space Manufacturing
Space manufacturing is the next big step toward commercializing low-Earth orbit. Researchers are taking advantage of the weightless environment to create advanced fiber optic cables that are superior to those manufactured on Earth. NASA Flight Engineer Loral O’Hara worked in the Destiny laboratory module swapping optical fiber samples being produced and drawn inside Destiny’s Microgravity Science Glovebox. The samples are made from zirconium, barium, lanthanum, and aluminum sodium fluoride and provide unique optical transmission capabilities. Results may benefit a range of industries and applications such as atmospheric monitoring from space and laser surgery on Earth.
Research on Aging in Space
NASA Flight Engineer Jasmin Moghbeli spent the afternoon in the Kibo laboratory module researching space-caused aging symptoms like those seen in the elderly on Earth. She removed liver stem cell samples from an incubator and then processed them inside Kibo’s Life Science Glovebox. The Space AGE investigation is observing how aged immune cells affect liver regeneration providing deeper insights into the biology of aging and its effects on disease mechanisms.
Biomedical and Psychological Studies in Space
ESA (European Space Agency) Commander Andreas Mogensen spent the majority of his day on biomedical duties collecting, processing, and stowing his blood and urine samples for future analysis. The two-time station visitor also serviced gear supporting a study investigating how 360-degree virtual reality experiences may benefit crew psychology on long-term space missions.
Satellite Deployment and Cargo Management
Starting his morning in the Kibo lab, astronaut Satoshi Furukawa loaded a small satellite orbital deployer into Kibo’s airlock. The Japanese robotic arm will grapple the deployer and remove it from the airlock after it is depressurized and opened. The deployer will then be positioned outside and pointed away from the station for the release of a series of CubeSats into Earth orbit for educational, private, and governmental research.
Furukawa later joined Moghbeli transferring frozen research samples from station science freezers into the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft. Dragon will return to Earth at the end of the week carrying the preserved samples inside science cargo freezers for retrieval and analysis. O’Hara also packed Dragon with return cargo securing it inside the spacecraft for the descent into Earth’s atmosphere and splashdown off the coast of Florida.
Routine Maintenance and Research by Cosmonauts
Veteran cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko kicked off his day transferring water from the Progress 86 resupply ship into the space station. Cosmonaut Nikolai Chub worked throughout Monday studying how electrical and magnetic fields affect fluid systems in microgravity. Flight Engineer Konstantin Borisov checked out electrical components and control panels, watered plants for a space botany study, then replaced Roscosmos computer software.
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HELLO With greetings and courtesy to dear readers and those who are interested in astronomy and divine knowledge, I have to give you this knowledge or suggestion to you masters and veterans of this science that instead of researching outside of the Milky Way galaxy, you should research andexplore about the lives of those who have passed away on earth.In the current age, mankind has reached the peak of progress and knowledge of the universe, but unfortunately, it is still at the beginning of the way to know the life of the past and the destiny of the earth, especially regarding the knowledge of theobjects of the solar system and the history of the earth, it is still not aware of the reality.Changes in the solar system and the remains of civilized life on earth, how did the scientists of the world, especially the United States, not understand the fact that the earth had an advanced life about a hundred million years ago, now a little more orless than a hundred million years, I know why The internal and external belt was created in the solar system and where did the hydrogen gas join the gas planets, why does Venus rotate in the opposite direction of other planets, and also Mercury, why doesit take 58 days or 1393 hours to go around itself.Why are the continents in the form of humans and quadrupeds, and North America in the form of birds?I know that out of ten million, maybe there is one person like me who is in contact with you, but unfortunately, maybe someone like me, through you, has been exposed to the secrets of the earth and the unseen world.The history of the earth and the destiny of the earth have not been realized and I am very, very sad about this because I cannot open the discoveries that I made without the help of the elders of the world.Let’s find out that they were buried under the ground.I explained it in the previous messages on this site, but it seems that no one either understood my message or the visitors did not see my comments.You should know that the earth has been attacked by meteorites in the past, which were from planets.which had hit the solar bodies and after the disintegration of those planets that come from the two big arms of the galaxy, the elements inside the disintegrated planets hit all the most 240 moons of the solar system, Earth, Venus, Mars, Mercury, Pluto, and the inner and outer belts.The elements inside the planets that exploded due to collisions with the sun and the solar objects of the solar system, I know for sure that more than hundreds or nearly hundreds of planets and stars that were very small have collided with the objects of our solar systemduring tens of billions of years.In the solar system, 100% of the stars and planets from the large arms of the galaxy collided with the solar bodies, and about 243 planets remained intact from the planets that joined the solar bodies from the arm of the galaxy, which are now themoons of the planets of the solar system and the rocky planets of the solar system, that is, those planets Those who do not accept my discoveries should express their reasons on this page.Dr. Mohammad Mehrdad Kasiri.I am the lords of the earth and I have seen dozens of miracles from the lords and angels and I am aware of the nature of God to some extent.
Sf. R. Careaga, creator of EPEMC | December 26, 2023 at 8:01 pm | Reply
Amazing how this is all wrong. Mostly because both Earth and Mars were rocky bodies belonging to Shamash dwarf star which split into our gas giants as it collapsed in a spiral towards the sun. Preliminary simulations show Scholz’s star could have pulled it off. But Saturn has the same angle of declination roughly as Mars and Earth and Earth has water of the same isotopes as Saturn’s rings. We need to stop ignoring mythohistorical evidence when it combines with scientific evidence to create a strong picture of what happened in our incredible history. And that includes the Bible and Babylonian. See epemcgateway dot com and learn more.
sahebzaman iran | January 18, 2024 at 12:42 pm | Reply
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