Food Acceptability: An ISS crewmember performed the Questionnaire. The Food Acceptability 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

Combustion Integrated Rack (CIR): The ISS crew swapped out CIR Manifold #4 (1-letre) Bottles. One bottle contains 100% C2H4 and the other contains 40% CH4. The CIR includes an optics bench, combustion chamber, fuel and oxidizer control, and five different cameras for performing combustion experiments in microgravity.

Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites (SPHERES) Tether Slosh: Crew performed test runs of the SPHERES Tether Slosh test points. SPHERES Tether Slosh combines fluid dynamics equipment with robotic capabilities aboard the ISS to investigate automated strategies for steering passive cargo that contain fluids. In space, the fluid fuels used by spacecraft can slosh around in unpredictable ways making space maneuvers difficult. This investigation uses two SPHERES robots tethered to a fluid-filled container covered in sensors to test strategies for safely steering spacecraft such as dead satellites that might still have fuel in the tank

Completed Task List Activities:

None

Ground Activities:

All activities are complete unless otherwise noted.



Nominal System Commanding

Two-Day Look Ahead:

Friday, 10/19:



Payloads:



Plant Habitat Harvesting (NASA)

METEOR Inverter R&R (NASA)

BioServe Protein Crystallography Microscope setup

NanoRacks Platform 1&2 Relocate (NASA)

Atomization-MSPR activation (JAXA)

Systems:

LSR Umbilical Mate

EMU LLB Auto cycle Initiate

HTV Cargo Transfer

Saturday-Sunday, 10/20-21:

Payloads:



No Crew Payload activities

Systems:

Housekeeping, Crew Off Duty

Today’s Planned Activities:

All activities are complete unless otherwise noted.

