Orbital sunset envelopes Earth as the International Space Station orbited 262 miles above southern Africa. In the foreground is the Canadarm2 robotic arm. Credit: NASAon Thursday, March 21 from Space Launch Complex 40 in Florida. The Dragon cargo craft will deliver food, supplies, andto examine how two types of grass capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Dragon will autonomously dock to the zenith port of the Harmony module at 7:30 a.m. Saturday, March 23.
NASA astronauts Jasmin Moghbeli, Matthew Dominick, and Loral O’Hara pose for a selfie inside the International Space Station’s cupola, or “window to the world.” Credit: NASAAhead of Dragon’s liftoff, three crew members—NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson, cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky, and Flight Engineer Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus—will launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 9:21 a.m. on Thursday, March 21.
Aboard station, the crew is back to work following a few days off-duty. Throughout the day, O’Hara and two of her NASA crewmates, Michael Barratt and Matthew Dominick, completed a round of SpaceX Dragon rendezvous training ahead of Dragon’s cargo arrival. The boot of Italy and the Mediterranean Sea were photographed by NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara as the International Space Station soared 260 miles above. Credit: NASAinvestigation. O’Hara then moved on to complete additional CIPHER tasks, including a Robotics On-Board Trainer research session to assess her cognitive performance and spatial cognition changes while conducting robotics maneuvers such as grappling and docking a spacecraft.
Later on, Barratt installed the Space Automated Bioproducts Lab for future life, physical, and material science investigations. Dominick installed a new humidifier in the Cell Biology Experiment Facility for upcomingresearch. This investigation uses the microgravity environment to enable 3D cell growth to promote regenerative technology that could someday help people in need of transplants on Earth..
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