The crew of the mission — Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke of NASA, Kimiya Yui of Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency, and Oleg Platonov of Russia’s Roscosmos house program — are planning to reach on the International Space Station this week to additional examine and experiment with strategies to keep up the well being of astronauts on future missions, together with a attainable expedition to Mars, based on NASA.
“Other science Crew-11 members will conduct on the space station include studying stem cell production methods to develop advanced cures, new ways to treat bacterial infections, and space agriculture techniques,” NASA says.
On Thursday morning, the crew readied for his or her mission with a “long-held spaceflight tradition,” based on NASA: a card sport.
“The astronauts are not anything if they’re not superstitious, so this is one of those traditions,” a consultant for NASA says in a video of this morning’s card game.
“The game changes every mission, it’s really up to the chief of the office to figure out what that game is going to be. But the goal is the same: You go until the commander wins, and you have shaken off all of the bad luck, if you will.”
