Food Acceptability: The crew completed a Food Acceptability Survey using the Data Collection Tool on an SSC (Station Support Computer). This investigation seeks to determine the impact of repetitive consumption of food currently available from the spaceflight food system. Results will be used in developing strategies to improve food system composition to support crew health and performance on long duration missions.

Plasma Kristal-4: The crew took photos of the system and packed the hard drives for return on 59-Soyuz. Plasma Krystall-4 (PK-4) is a scientific collaboration between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), performing research in the field of “Complex Plasmas”: low temperature gaseous mixtures composed of ionized gas, neutral gas, and micron-sized particles. The micro-particles become highly charged in the plasma and interact strongly with each other, which can lead to a self-organized structure of the micro-particles: so-called plasma crystals. Experiments in the facility aim to study Transport Properties, Thermodynamics, Kinetics and Statistical Physics, and Non-linear waves and Instabilities in the plasmas.

Standard Measures (SM): The crew performed the sample collections and survey for the continuing SM investigation. The aim of the SM investigation is to ensure consistent capture of an optimized, minimal set of measures from crewmembers until the end of the ISS Program in order to characterize the adaptive responses to and risks of living in space. Among other things, the ground teams perform analyses for metabolic and chemistry panels, immune function, microbiome, etc.

Systems:

AMS-02 (Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer) EVA preparation: Today, the crew continued preparations for the final AMS repair EVA by reviewing their AMS EVA procedures. The multiple AMS-02 repair EVAs are being performed to recover the cooling pumps within the AMS-02 experiment. AMS-02 is a state-of-the-art particle physics detector that uses the unique environment of space to advance knowledge of the universe and lead to the understanding of the universe’s origin by searching for antimatter, dark matter and measuring cosmic rays.

Completed Task List Activities:

No items were completed off the task list today

Ground Activities:

All activities are complete unless otherwise noted.



MT translation and EP stow

Wednesday, 1/22 (GMT 022) Crew off-duty day

Payloads:

ISS HAM pass

Probiotics

Systems:

ISS 59S departure preparations

EVA METOX Regeneration

Thursday, 1/23 (GMT 023)

Payloads:

Actiwatch plus

Cold Atom Lab

Food Acceptability

Food Physiology

Myotones

Probiotics

Standard Measures

Vascular Aging

Systems:

ISS 59S departure preparations

EVA METOX regeneration term

Regen ECLSS tank and processing operations

Friday, 1/24 (GMT 024) Crew off-duty day

Payloads:

AMS procedure review

Cold Atom Lab

Myotones

Standard Measures

Vascular Aging

Systems:

ISS 59S departure preparations

HMS Pre-EVA

HMS Fundoscope

Today’s Planned Activities:

All activities are complete unless otherwise noted.

