Astronauts Relax After Dragon Leaves, Cosmonauts Study Heart Activity in Space
Atharva Kodag
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Four?Expedition 68?astronauts are enjoying Tuesday off after spending the weekend packing a U.S. cargo craft and readying it for departure on Monday. The?International Space Station’s three cosmonauts spent their day concentrating on cardiac research while servicing a variety of orbital lab systems.
NASA astronauts?Nicole Mann,?Josh Cassada, and?Frank Rubio?along with Flight Engineer?Koichi Wakata?of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) completed loading Dragon a couple of hours before it departed on Monday. The quartet worked over the weekend and into Monday carefully preserving and packing sensitive biological and physical research samples inside Dragon for retrieval and analysis in laboratories on Earth. All four flight engineers relaxed throughout Tuesday taking time off for quick medical checks, watering plants, and calling down to family members.
Meanwhile, the orbiting lab’s three Roscosmos cosmonauts stayed busy Tuesday with their standard research and maintenance schedule.