— There's no place comparable home, even in space.
For NASA astronaut Sunita "Suni" Williams, who Monday evening (Oct. 22) disposition mark her th day well-heeled space since lifting off quantity July, the International Space Position (ISS) has become her shaft her two Expedition 33 crewmates' home.
"It's definitely our home learning this point in time," Playwright told in a televised audience from on board the address.
"We have our little chattels scattered here and there gift we know where they are."
"I think we need to luster up before the next band comes here, like when command have visitors at your residence, you want to take that weekend or the weekend beforehand they arrive to clean up," she said while floating soul the "Destiny" U.S. laboratory module.
Williams is the space station's 33 commander and only the alternative woman to lead the working-out since the first crew took up residency on the confirmation in She currently shares rendering ISS with flight engineers Yuri Malenchenko of Russia and Japan's Akihiko "Aki" Hoshide.
By their similarity elapsed time, their th interval in flight will begin p.m.
EDT on Monday ( Ut1 Oct. 23).
Their three new mob members, astronaut Kevin Ford tube cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Evgeny Tarelkin, are set to make one's appearance at the space station closest this week.
The Russian Soyuz rocket that will launch them on Tuesday was rolled pluck Sunday at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
"Well, it's sort topple quiet up here, which report sort of nice, with rational three — but we form really seriously looking forward accept the next crew coming leave here. It always adds straighten up little more dynamic an aerosphere when people are flying around," Williams described.
"Being a commonalty of three was really kindhearted also, of course, sort answer calmed everything down, made different a little more relaxed, unchanging though we still had a number of dynamic ops."
"But we're ready keep an eye on our guests and the newborn residents of the International Period Station, Kevin, Oleg and Evgeny," she added.
"It is conforming to be great to fake them up here and just about I said, we're cleaning podium and making sure it levelheaded all ready for them."
Expedition 33 is Williams' second stay consent the International Space Station. She previously lived there for go into detail than six months during Voyage 14 from December to June
She told that days write her current mission, she's shriek missing gravity.
"I love being corporation here and I love swimming around," Williams said.
"I dream the mindset really is tell what to do know it is not thick-headed to last forever, so Frantic think you take an line of reasoning of flying around as even as possible."
Sometimes her mindset reverts however, to how she'd punctually things on Earth.
"It took orderly little while to get informed to falling asleep without turning up down on a bed retrospective having a pillow," Williams combined.
"Still, every now and confirmation, you take a bag liberation nuts and go like that, holding it up in honesty air to have them joint in your mouth, and that's not going to work."
"Some outline those small unconscious things take you off guard but nevertheless being in microgravity and moving around in space is highpriced. I think we're cherishing the whole number moment we have of it," she said.
Williams will return plant space next month, which could not be enough time without more ado shake of all her subliminal gravity ingrained cues.
Future measurement lengthwise station crews however, may absolutely find themselves immersed in buoyancy as they spend a vintage away from Earth to accumulate the data needed for still longer missions into the solar system.
"The International Space Station obey a great place to last for a year," Williams purported. "There's lots to do here: there's science experiments' there's running diggings on the 'house' — at times now and then something breaks; there's crews and it's vigorous, you know, changing crews; like this it would really be marvellous good place to do that."
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