On Jan. 17, NASA Flight Engineer Josh Cassada, with help from NASA Flight Engineer Nicole Mann, labored contained in the SpaceX Dragon Endurance crew ship accumulating instruments and readying the spacecraft for a seat liner transfer. The seat liner transfer, accomplished at present, Jan. 18, ensures NASA Flight Engineer Frank Rubio will be capable of return to Earth within the unlikely occasion of an emergency evacuation from the Worldwide Area Station. Rubio initially launched to the station with cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin aboard the Soyuz MS-22 crew ship on Sept. 21, 2022. The change permits for elevated crew safety by lowering the warmth load contained in the MS-22 spacecraft for Prokopyev and Petelin in case of an emergency return to Earth.
Study extra about station actions by following the house station weblog, @space_station and @ISS_Research on Twitter, in addition to the ISS Fb and ISS Instagram accounts.
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