(NASA) – Systems aboard the International Space Station continued performing well Tuesday as the Expedition 17 crew conducted a variety of science experiments and made preparations for the return home.
Flight Engineer Oleg Kononenko worked with a Russian experiment that looks for leaks in the working compartments of the station.
Image above: Commander Sergei Volkov (left) and Flight Engineer Greg Chamitoff work in the Destiny lab of the International Space Station on Tuesday. Credit: NASA TV
Flight Engineer Greg Chamitoff performed a final session with the Shear History Extensional Rheology Experiment, investigating the effect of rotation on complex fluids stretched in microgravity. Understanding this effect is important for the development of containerless processing, which is an important operation for the fabrication of parts during long-duration space missions.
Commander Sergei Volkov continued preparations for the end of his crew’s stay aboard the station in October, gathering items to be loaded aboard space shuttle Endeavour when it docks with the station in November.
After completing its six-month mission to deliver supplies to the space station, the European Space Agency’s Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle performed two deorbit burns Monday morning and burned over the Pacific Ocean during re-entry.
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