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Topic: Sleeping arrangements on the space station
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Delta7 Member Posts: 1645 From: Bluffton IN USA Registered: Oct 2007
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posted 04-24-2021 07:46 PM
I'm curious as to the sleeping arrangements. I know you can strap a sleeping bag just about anywhere on the International Space Station, but when you have more people then there are sleeping stations, do the newly-arrived crewmembers take over the regular sleeping compartments, or do they wait for the previous occupants to leave? Also, with regards to the newly-arrived SpaceX Crew-2, is one of the new arrivals using Endeavour as their sleep quarters like Crew-1 commander Mike Hopkins has done with Resilience? |
Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 46093 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 04-24-2021 09:31 PM
I don't know for certain, but I believe the Crew-1 astronauts will retain their sleep stations until they leave, at which point the Crew-2 astronauts will move in. In the meantime, the Crew-2 astronauts will find places around the station or perhaps aboard Endeavour to sleep.Unlike Crew-1 though, there will be no need for a member of Crew-2 to set up camp in the Crew Dragon for the length of their stay. A fifth U.S. sleep station was delivered during Expedition 64 (on NG-15) and has been set up in Columbus. The Crew Alternate Sleep Accommodation (CASA) was set up by Victor Glover on same day that Crew-2 launched. From Soichi Noguchi (via Twitter): Introducing new private room on ISS – 5th crew quarter is called CASA! |
Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 46093 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 04-24-2021 10:14 PM
Space.com has further details: ...some astronauts will be camping out in temporary arrangements. For example, NASA's Mike Hopkins and Shane Kimbrough — commanders of Crew-1 and Crew-2, respectively — will sleep in their Crew Dragon capsules. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) Soichi Noguchi and fellow Crew-1 astronauts Shannon Walker and Victor Glover, both of NASA, will take the CASA beds. Noguchi will sleep in the astronaut gym, Walker will sleep in the Columbus module and Glover will rest in the airlock, NASA public affairs officer Marie Lewis said during the Crew-2 launch webcast on Friday (April 23). | |
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