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EST Nov. Despite being grounded longer than expected, the Crew's launch on Wednesday night was picture-perfect, with officials at both SpaceX and NASA saying that it was one of the quietest loops yet, meaning that there were no issues being working throughout the countdown. During a video tour of the Dragon Endurance spacecraft, which the Crew shared on Thursday morning, Marshburn said that all of his rookie crewmembers were adjusting to space well and had a hearty appetite, something that isn't necessarily the case on every spaceflight.

Endurance arrived at the station 38 minutes ahead of schedule. The approach and docking sequence ran smoothly with only a short hold at waypoint 2, roughly 20 meters 66 feet from its docking port, while the teams waited for better lighting conditions to dock with ISS. With the launch delays, NASA opted to bring the four Crew-2 astronauts home before launching the Crew-3 mission, leaving Vande Hei in charge of orienting the new residents with the space station.

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Reality television is heading to outer space. These two things keep Airbus' head of space systems up at night. This mission, called Crew-3, is the fourth mission in a partnership between SpaceX and NASA to make routine trips to the ISS in order to keep the year-old space station adequately staffed.

That's something NASA has wanted to have more control over since its Space Shuttle program retired in , leaving Russia as the only country with the ability to provide ISS transportation. The Crew-3 mission kicked off Wednesday night when the astronauts strapped into their Crew Dragon capsule as it sat atop one of SpaceX's foot-tall Falcon 9 rockets on a launch pad at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The rocket lifted off just after 9 pm ET, vaulting the capsule into orbit, before the spacecraft began to maneuver through orbit on its own and make its way toward the ISS.

The first, an issue that caused the on-board toilet to leak, was corrected on the Crew-3 capsule before takeoff, hopefully avoiding another scenario like the one experienced by the Crew-2 astronauts, who traveled on Monday by Crew Dragon capsule from the space station back to Earth. The Crew-2 astronauts found their leaky toilet had contaminated the walls of their spacecraft, and to avoid further issues, they were forced to rely on "undergarments" during their nine-hour journey home.

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Winds remain the main watch item for the return of the mission. Endeavour now will forego a fly around maneuver to photograph the exterior of the International Space Station to allow for additional alternate splashdown locations off the coast of Florida. EST— Coverage begins for a. A pair of astronauts aboard the International Space Station studied advanced piloting controls using virtual reality today.

In the meantime, four Expedition 66 crewmates are turning their attention to returning to Earth this month. An experiment sponsored by ESA European Space Agency is using virtual reality in the space environment to help engineers optimize workstations and interfaces for controlling future space robots and spacecraft. She worked in the Columbus laboratory module wearing the VR goggles using a haptic controller to pilot and capture simulated spacecraft in a video game-like environment.

Kimbrough worked in the in the U. Destiny laboratory module servicing thermal gear as Hoshide checked out lights and orbital plumbing systems in the Kibo laboratory module. The quartet have been packing Endeavour with personal items and station hardware, as well as training on a computer for the ride back home.

He also checked U. Shkaplerov continued cargo transfers inside the ISS Progress 79 resupply ship then photographed the Photobioreactor hybrid life support system experiment for inspection.

Dubrov explored ways to maintain safe, sterile conditions when conducting microgravity biology research for the Aseptic study. Four International Space Station astronauts continue packing their U. Meanwhile, the Expedition 66 crew continued its ongoing space research and maintenance aboard the orbital lab. The duo may undock for the ride back to Earth as early as Sunday, Nov.

Kimbrough also spent the day uninstalling incubator components before inspecting portable emergency gear.