Three astronaut NASA’s orbiting lab Mark Vande Hei, Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur have some science assignments on their schedule.
“Currently it looks like the crew has half a day off on Monday,” said NASA spokesman Dan Huot Space on Tuesday (7/9).
The crew of Expedition 65 just took delivery of new science equipment and other cargo last week with the arrival of SpaceX’s Dargon CRS-23 cargo supply mission. Along with orthopedic, plant, and material science investigations, astronauts also receive a special treat with a SpaceX shipment of ice cream consignments.
There are currently seven international crew members living and working on the ISS. Along with three US astronauts, the Expedition 65 crew included cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, Japanese Space Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, and French astronaut Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency.
Vande Hei, Dubrov and Novitskiy arrive at the space station on April 9 on the Russian Soyuz MS-18 mission. About two weeks later, Kimbrough, McArthur, Pesquet, and Hoshide arrived at SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Endeavor on the Crew-2 mission.
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