NASA's Crew 10 has successfully docked at the International Space Station. The four-member crew will replace the current inhabitants, including Sunita Williams, who will return to Earth after an extended stay.
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00:00Breaking news that's coming in NASA's crew 10 has now docked at the International Space Station
00:04The crew 10 is docking with ISS is successful
00:08Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore are now closer to homecoming SpaceX Dragon has now docked
00:13Autonomously my colleague Shibu is joining me live on the broadcast for more on this Shibu
00:19We are learning that the crew 10 has successfully docked with the International Space Station. What happens next?
00:24Good morning Chetna, the crew 10 has now successfully docked. What happens next is that the crew will transfer into the space station
00:35so they'll exit the Dragon spacecraft through the
00:38The vestibule and enter into the space station
00:41post that a week-long
00:43Transfer of science research handover will take place during which
00:47Commander Sunita Williams who was the commander of the space station will hand over all the science research
00:52The experiments that were done the studies that are being conducted to the new group before undocking from the space station
00:59Right Shibu for some background. Could you tell us who the crew 10 members are and what would their stay at ISS entail?
01:05They're going to be staying there for six months. Could you speak to us a little bit about that?
01:10So the crew 10 members include four astronauts
01:13These are two NASA astronauts a Japanese Space Agency astronaut and a Russian Roscosmos astronaut
01:20So the crew 10 will now live on the space station for a period of six months
01:24So we have to know that the the the crew missions are basically rotational missions
01:29They go on a duration of six months during which they stay in the space station. They work on the space station do multiple science
01:36research
01:37Studies and also spacewalks. We have to see that Sunita Williams conducted two spacewalks during her extended
01:43Stay in space. So the four astronauts will now replace four astronauts living in the space station
01:49Which is crew 9. The crew 9 includes NASA astronauts, Russian astronauts
01:54Who will now undock from the space station or sometime around March 19th or after March 19th to return to earth
02:01Right Shibu, you know could could you speak to us a little bit about if this whatever has happened in their extended stay
02:07This could help you know prepare NASA for future missions not just to prevent astronauts from being stranded
02:12But in case that happens to maybe mitigate the effects of microgravity on the body
02:17What the changes that we saw Sunita Williams and Butch Willmore and the other astronauts experiencing?
02:23Definitely NASA has been studying the effect of long duration space travel
02:28We know that NASA is working on the Artemis mission
02:30Which is to build a colony and have a sustained presence on the moon. This will be followed by missions to Mars
02:37So these will be long duration space travel which will include months and months of space flight then so
02:43Sunita Williams was extended stay was definitely an opportunity for NASA to study how extended space travel
02:50Basically affects your body what we know so far is that
02:54Long duration space travel has huge impact on the bone density your bones become weaker
03:00They are very susceptible to fractures and apart from that your cardiovascular system also takes a toll
03:07Beyond that we know that the blood flow is impacted into the body
03:11So NASA has a set of regimen exercises that it prescribes to the astronauts, which is followed rigorously by the team
03:19They have special equipment
03:21They have special diet to ensure that the astronauts are fit and healthy and we have to say that they have maintained that with
03:27The two astronauts who are extended stay has been extended in the space. So definitely it was a big opportunity
03:34Then I should also tell the viewers that this is not the first time that NASA has done these long duration studies
03:41Years back they did a one year long study on an astronaut who launched from Earth and stayed in space for a duration of
03:49365 days just to study the effect of long duration on the body
03:54But they studied him before flight during the flight during his stay in space station and once he returned
04:01So what were the changes that his body has been went through?
04:03So they have been doing these kind of studies for a very long period of time
04:06We also need to understand that India is also planning to launch the Gaganyaan mission
04:11Which will have three astronauts going into space for a period of close to a week. So this will also
04:18provide information to other space agencies as well
04:21Absolutely Shibu also for our viewers
04:24It's not just the effects on the astronauts health while they're in space
04:29But help our viewers understand what challenges they will face once they're back to Earth, you know
04:34Because they'll have to now acclimatize to Earth's gravity, Earth's weather conditions. So what would that entail?
04:41As we know Sunita Williams and Butch Willmore have been in space for close to nine months now
04:47That's nine months of living with no gravity. They are weightless
04:50They are floating in space station once they land on earth the biggest challenge will be feeling the impact of gravity
04:57Sunita Williams and Butch Willmore have repeatedly said that this is going to be a day-by-day
05:02Recovery process that they'll go through in terms of getting familiar with gravity and getting back on their feet again
05:10even to the extent of
05:12Butch Willmore going on to say that even lifting a pencil will be like a workout once they land on the planet
05:17But NASA has developed that kind of regimen to bring them back on their feet as soon as possible
05:22What we can say that this will take about a few weeks to a month and then the astronauts will be fully recovered and back
05:28on their feet. But yes, it will be a major challenge to finally
05:33Feel the gravity of the planet which will be a punishing effort to assure
05:37Right Shibu. Thank you for bringing us those details on that story