Elizabeth Howell (she/her), Ph.D., is a staff writer in the spaceflight channel since 2022 covering diversity, education and gaming as well. She was contributing writer for Space.com for 10 years before joining full-time.
A NASA astronaut says she can't wait to welcome a new spacecraft to her home in space during her next mission, which is scheduled to lift off this month.cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy and spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus. Dyson should return home this fall alongside one-year ISS astronauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub, while Novitskiy and Vasilevskaya have a 12-day stay in space.
"I just had no clue that I would get this opportunity to be at the front door when they arrived," Dyson said."I'm super pumped, and I can't wait to see my two friends in that capsule."mission STS-118 in 2007 and Expedition 23/24 on the ISS in 2010, was hired by NASA as an astronaut candidate in June 1998. The agency prizes astronauts who practice technical skills in tough situations on Earth.
Her first long-duration ISS mission put that creed of self-sufficiency into unexpected practice: an ammonia coolant system on the orbiting lab broke down, and Dyson was sent out in a spacesuit three times to do emergency repairs."You know, pumps fail and you've got to go do a spacewalk to fix it," she said."You don't have a hardware store just around the corner, and you have to make do with what you have."NASA astronaut Tracy C.
"What I was going for was an image that reminded me whenever I looked at it of what it felt like look out the window," she said. Incidentally, the version circulating on the internet is overexposed, as Dyson's originalto emphasize the lighting from Earth. She also didn't mean for it to go that wide: After she sent the photo to an instructor on the ground, her crewmate Doug Wheelock askedNASA astronaut Tracy C.
Aside from the timeline, Dyson will also use a newer inventory program that keeps track of stowage on board the ISS."It's kind of nerdy stuff, but I can't wait to experience the efficiencies," Dyson said. Before, every time a cargo ship arrived at the station, the astronauts had to use pencil and paper to keep track of where things went. Now that's all done by app, making it easy to manage an ever-more-crowded ISS.
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