{"id":77337,"date":"2018-04-02T12:42:47","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T19:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/expedition-crew-waits-for-dragon-and-studies-life-science"},"modified":"2018-04-04T09:08:42","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T16:08:42","slug":"expedition-crew-waits-for-dragon-and-studies-life-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/expedition-crew-waits-for-dragon-and-studies-life-science","title":{"rendered":"Expedition Crew Waits for Dragon and Studies Life Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/expedition-crew-waits-for-dragon-and-studies-life-science.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Falcon 9 rocket carrying the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/spacex\">SpaceX Dragon<\/a> cargo craft stands atop its launch pad counting down to a 4:30 p.m. EDT liftoff today to the International Space Station. The Expedition 55 crew is preparing for its arrival on Wednesday while continuing a variety of advanced space research aboard the orbital lab today.<\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida is hosting the 14<sup>th<\/sup> launch of a SpaceX commercial cargo mission to the space station. Astronauts <a href=\"http:\/\/iss.jaxa.jp\/en\/astro\/biographies\/kanai\/index.html\">Norishige Kanai<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/astronauts\/biographies\/scott-d-tingle\">Scott Tingle<\/a> are practicing the maneuvers and procedures necessary to capture Dragon with 2 Canadarm2 when it arrives at 7 a.m. Wednesday morning. Their fellow flight engineers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/astronauts\/biographies\/andrew-j-feustel\">Drew Feustel<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/astronauts\/biographies\/richard-r-arnold\">Ricky Arnold<\/a> joined them later in the afternoon to review the cargo they\u2019ll transfer back and forth after they open the hatches to Dragon.<\/p>\n<p>Feustel spent the better part of his day testing algorithms on a pair of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/station\/research\/experiments\/explorer\/Investigation.html?#id=303\">tiny internal satellites<\/a> that could be used to detect spacecraft positions and velocities. Arnold strapped himself into an exercise cycle for an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/station\/research\/experiments\/explorer\/Investigation.html?#id=644\">exertion in space<\/a> study then collected his blood samples for stowage and later analysis.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nasa.gov\/spacestation\/2018\/04\/02\/expedition-crew-waits-for-dragon-and-studies-life-science\/\">https:\/\/blogs.nasa.gov\/spacestation\/2018\/04\/02\/expedition-cr...e-science\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Falcon 9 rocket carrying the SpaceX Dragon cargo craft stands atop its launch pad counting down to a 4:30 p.m. EDT liftoff today to the International Space Station. The Expedition 55 crew is preparing for its arrival on Wednesday while continuing a variety of advanced space research aboard the orbital lab today. NASA\u2019s Kennedy [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,41,2028,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-information-science","category-satellites","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77337","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=77337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77406,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77337\/revisions\/77406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}