NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson will percentage main points of her contemporary six-month venture aboard the World Area Station in a information convention at 11 a.m. EDT Friday, Oct. 4, on the company’s Johnson Area Middle in Houston.
The scoop convention will air survive NASA+ and the company’s web page. Discover ways to move NASA content material thru plenty of platforms, together with social media.
Media fascinated by collaborating in individual should touch the NASA Johnson newsroom no later than 5 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 3, at 281-483-5111 or jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.
Media wishing to take part by means of telephone should touch the newsroom no later than two hours ahead of the beginning of the development. NASA’s media accreditation coverage is to be had on-line. To invite questions by means of telephone, media should dial into the scoop convention no later than 10 mins previous to the beginning of the decision. Questions will also be submitted on social media by means of the usage of #AskNASA.
Spanning 184 days in area, Dyson’s 3rd spaceflight coated 2,944 orbits of the Earth and a 78-million-mile adventure as an Expedition 70/71 flight engineer. Dyson additionally performed one spacewalk of 31 mins, bringing her occupation overall to 23 hours, 20 mins on 4 spacewalks. Dyson returned to Earth on Sept. 23, as deliberate, in conjunction with her crewmates, Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub.
Dyson introduced on March 23 and arrived on the station March 25 along Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy and spaceflight player Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus. Novitskiy and Vasilevskaya have been aboard the station for 12 days ahead of returning house with NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara on April 6.
Whilst aboard the orbiting lab, Dyson performed dozens of medical and generation actions to learn long term exploration in area and lifestyles again on Earth. She remotely managed a robotic on Earth’s floor from a pc aboard the station and evaluated orbit-to-ground operations. She operated a three-D bioprinter to print cardiac tissue samples, which might advance generation for developing alternative organs and tissues for transplants on Earth.
Dyson additionally participated within the crystallization of type proteins to judge the efficiency of {hardware} that may be used for pharmaceutical manufacturing and ran a program that makes use of student-designed instrument to regulate the station’s free-flying robots, inspiring the following technology of innovators.
Be informed extra about area station actions by means of following @space_station and @ISS_Research on X, in addition to the ISS Fb, ISS Instagram, and the distance station weblog.
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Joshua Finch / Claire O’Shea
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100
joshua.a.finch@nasa.gov / claire.a.o’shea@nasa.gov
Courtney Beasley
Johnson Area Middle, Houston
281-483-5111
courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov
