Are you curious about what it would be like to live on the International Space station?
You can find out this week when NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station answer questions from orbit as they prepare to return to Earth.
Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada of NASA arrived at the space station in October, along with Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Anna Kikina of Roscosmos. Together, they make up the SpaceX Crew-5 mission.
They will answer media questions at 12:30 p.m. EST Wednesday, March 1. Those interested can view the in-orbit news conference here.
“Interested media must contact the newsroom at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston no later than 5 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 28, by calling 281-483-5111 or emailing jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov,” said NASA. “To ask questions, reporters must dial into the news conference no later than 12:15 p.m. Questions may also be submitted on social media using #AskNASA.”
Crew-5 is the fifth crew rotation mission with SpaceX for the agency’s Commercial Crew Program, NASA explained. When they arrived at the station, there were already seven other astronauts living there. NASA has provided video tours through reach of the space station segments and explained how the astronauts do things like work and sleep in space.
According to NASA, SpaceX Crew-5 had “a long list of space experiments,” to conduct during their stay on the orbital lab. These included a study on how microgravity affects the cardiorespiratory system, “modeling heart tissue to improve therapies for spaceflight-caused health issues,” as well as “3D bioprinting of human organs and tissues for implantation.”
NASA said that, as of this week, the team has “contributed to hundreds of experiments and technology demonstrations,” and that their work is expected to help humans on Earth as well as prepare for future space exploration.
“Regular commercial crew rotation missions enable NASA to continue the important research and technology investigations taking place aboard the station,” said the agency. “Such research benefits people on Earth and lays the groundwork for future human exploration through the agency’s Artemis missions, which will send astronauts to the Moon to prepare for future expeditions to Mars.”
Early next month, the SpaceX Dragon Endurance spacecraft is expected to undock from the space station. It is set to land back on Earth by splashing down off the coast of Florida.
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