{"id":242568,"date":"2026-08-12T05:06:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T10:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/crew-works-vein-scans-for-health-and-suit-checks-for-spacewalk"},"modified":"2026-08-12T05:06:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T10:06:45","slug":"crew-works-vein-scans-for-health-and-suit-checks-for-spacewalk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/crew-works-vein-scans-for-health-and-suit-checks-for-spacewalk","title":{"rendered":"Crew Works Vein Scans For Health and Suit Checks for Spacewalk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/crew-works-vein-scans-for-health-and-suit-checks-for-spacewalk.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Vein scans and spacesuit checks were the top duties for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission\/expedition-75\/\">Expediton75<\/a> crew aboard the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/international-space-station\/\">International Space Station<\/a> on Tuesday. The orbital residents also continued their Earth photography sessions, cargo operations, and life support maintenance.<\/p>\n<p>Station commander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/humans-in-space\/astronauts\/jessica-u-meir\/\">Jessica Meir<\/a> kicked off her shift collecting blood samples inside the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/international-space-station\/columbus-laboratory-module\/\">Columbus laboratory module<\/a> for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission\/station\/research-explorer\/investigation\/?#id=9473\">Venous Flow<\/a> investigation that is exploring how microgravity affects the circulatory system. Afterward, she spun the samples in a centrifuge, analyzed the samples for signs of space-caused blood issues, then stowed the samples in a science freezer for preservation.<\/p>\n<p>NASA flight engineer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/humans-in-space\/astronauts\/nasa-astronaut-jack-hathaway\/\">Jack Hathaway<\/a> took charge of Tuesday\u2019s first set of vein scans operating the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission\/station\/research-explorer\/facility\/?#id=9283\">Ultrasound 3<\/a> biomedical device to observe Meir\u2019s internal jugular veins then measured her blood pressure. Meir and Hathaway also took part in the second set of vein scans after lunchtime taking turns using the Ultrasound 3 with flight engineers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/humans-in-space\/astronauts\/nasa-astronaut-anil-menon\/\">Anil Menon<\/a> of NASA, Sophie Adenot of ESA (European Space Agency) and Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina, both from Roscosmos. Doctors on the ground monitored the ultrasound scans in real-time to understand the risk of blood flow anomalies and blood clots during a spaceflight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vein scans and spacesuit checks were the top duties for the Expediton75 crew aboard the International Space Station on Tuesday. The orbital residents also continued their Earth photography sessions, cargo operations, and life support maintenance. Station commander Jessica Meir kicked off her shift collecting blood samples inside the Columbus laboratory module for the Venous Flow [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}