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The Expedition 67 crew continued its ongoing human analysis immediately with ultrasound eye exams and blood movement measurements within the mind. The orbital residents additionally explored robotics and area navigation methods.
The 4 astronauts aboard the Worldwide House Station took turns Friday morning scanning one another’s eyes utilizing the Ultrasound 2 system. Flight Engineers Kjell Lindgren, Bob Hines, Samantha Cristoforetti, and Jessica Watkins gathered within the Columbus laboratory module for the attention scans with actual time help from personnel on the bottom. Outcomes will assist medical doctors perceive how dwelling in weightlessness impacts the attention, the retina, and imaginative and prescient.
Earlier, Hines accomplished a session that required him to put on electrodes and sensors that measured blood movement in his head and chest. The Cerebral Autoregulation investigation is exploring how the human mind regulates its blood movement in microgravity. Outcomes might profit astronauts who expertise lightheadedness and a change in blood strain after returning to Earth’s gravity.
Watkins turned on an Astrobee robotic free-flyer contained in the Kibo laboratory module testing its autonomous maneuvers forward of the Kibo Robotic Programming Problem three for college kids. Lindgren labored within the cupola establishing a digital camera to photograph Moon imagery for a research which will assist future Artemis astronauts navigate their technique to the lunar floor.
Cristoforetti transferred the AstroPi laptop from the Concord module to the Columbus module through the morning. She then spent the afternoon trying out a robotics management system earlier than terminating lithium-ion battery charging operations on pistol grip instruments.
Commander Oleg Artemyev joined Flight Engineer Denis Matveev and spent Friday changing elements on the Zvezda service module’s treadmill vibration isolation system. Flight Engineer Sergey Korsakov labored on two completely different Russian experiments on Friday, one exploring the cardiovascular system’s adaptation to microgravity and the opposite researching superior Earth images methods.
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