India’s Shubhinhu Shukla and his colleagues on the AXIOM-4 mission entered their 14th day at the International Space Station on Wednesday, and will stay there for a few more days before returning to Earth.
His return journey is expected to begin only after 14 July. This means that Shukla and the company will get to spend about three weeks in space, and not only two were planned as two.
The European Space Agency (ESA) stated that its astronaut, Solouz Uznoski-Inevski of Poland, one of Shukla’s colleagues on the Swa-4 mission would not return to Germany compared to July 14. He will report to the European Astronaut Center (EAC) and the German Aerospace Center. ESA’s Space Medicine Team that includes flight surgeons, physiotherapists, and physical trainers who study for Earth’s gravity with a dedicated recovery program.
Preparations for the crew’s return and checks are expected to come out soon as the announcement about their return date is awaited. Like the launch, the crew requires factoring of several parameters to plan the return of the crew, which includes the ISS ignor the dragon capsules, the returns at the launch site and the space weather conditions for the local weather, among the many others.
For the use of the study of the plant germination and early growth in microgravity, Shukla has captured images of seeds placed in the Petri dish. He later put him in a laboratory freezer, which is maintained at -80 ° C. Once returning to Earth, these seeds will be cultivated for many generations to check their genetics, microbial ecosystems and changes in nutritional profiles, the self -proclaimed place said on Tuesday.
Shukla, who was originally selected to move into space on India’s skyrocket program, also captured images for the use of crop seeds, including a study of six seed varieties that would be grown in several generations when returning to Earth. This experiment proposes to identify plants that are suitable for genetic analysis and detect the possibilities of farming in space.
During its stay in the ISS, the four-member crew continues to collect data for a series of exercises that jointly collect scientific knowledge. This included measuring radiation risk using a red nano dosimator useful to assess the safety of astronauts, especially involved in the long mission aboard the ISS; Testing tests to improve mental and heart health understanding in space; The human body’s adaptation ability to the space environment and heat transfer to microgravity through clothing. In addition, a neuromuscular electrical stimulation session was measured to detect potential intervention to combat muscle damage under microgravity conditions.
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The AXIOM-4 Mission is a commercial flight for the International Space Station, which is easy by the US Space Agency NASA.
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