He and Mass departure Engineer Crick Mastracchio worked quickly and opened the resupply craft's hatches six hours after that. The NASA astronauts were united in the cupola by Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata all the rage Cygnus' give back. At what time its hijack, Wakata took over the turn of the Canadarm2 and berthed Cygnus to the Harmony node's Earth-facing port. Wakata also checked for necessitate leaks still Mastracchio bolted and latched Cygnus to Harmony.
NASA Manager Charlie Bolden called up to the space station Monday crack of dawn from Michoud Creation Function in New Orleans and congratulated the rock band on its thriving Cygnus hijack. Orbital Sciences Corp. managers likewise participated in the good from Dulles, Va. kind their prayer to the rock band.
Cygnus donate carry on allied to the Harmony node for the contiguous five weeks at the same time as it donate be released Feb. 18 fit to bust of useless items. The beneficial cargo craft donate drift down indoors the Earth's publicize Feb. 19 over the Conciliatory Ocean for a angry part.
The Ant Rub Locale Function delivered by Cygnus is seen participating in settled by means of ants in the sphere of the Conglomerate Lull Depot. Brainchild Credit: NASA TV
Crude station operations lodge as the six attachment Journey 38 rock band conducts international research, maintains station systems and military exercises to stave off the effects of long term agility.
Mastracchio checked on work passing through the NanoRacks beneficial tryout gear in the Kibo laboratory. He operated a microscope analyzing germs on petri china doll. NanoRacks is a for one person dynasty that offers its beneficial research services on the space station to businesses and universities.
In the Russian branch of the orbital laboratory, Commanding officer Oleg Kotov and Mass departure Engineer Mikhail Tyurin set up communications gear in the sphere of the Rassvet mini-research program. Mass departure Engineer Ryazanskiy sampled air over and done with the station among the designate new Cygnus.
Kotov likewise worked on the Huge Early period tryout that demonstrates the be active of Russia's human spaceflight program. He after that stowed useless items in the sphere of a docked Acquire cargo ship and well-run the station's register rule system.
Ryazanskiy likewise conducted research for the long-lasting Russian tryout Kulonovskiy Kristall which studies charged particles in a magnetic area. He likewise assisted Tyurin for a cardiovascular impression passing through an depletion racing bike.
