NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson will share particulars of her current six-month mission aboard the Worldwide House Station in a information convention at 11 a.m. EDT Friday, Oct. 4, on the company’s Johnson House Heart in Houston.

The information convention will air stay on NASA+ and the company’s web site. Learn to stream NASA content material by means of quite a lot of platforms, together with social media.

Media concerned about collaborating in particular person should contact the NASA Johnson newsroom no later than 5 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 3, at 281-483-5111 or jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.

Media wishing to take part by cellphone should contact the newsroom no later than two hours earlier than the beginning of the occasion. NASA’s media accreditation coverage is obtainable on-line. To ask questions by cellphone, media should dial into the information convention no later than 10 minutes previous to the beginning of the decision. Questions might also be submitted on social media by utilizing #AskNASA.

Spanning 184 days in house, Dyson’s third spaceflight lined 2,944 orbits of the Earth and a 78-million-mile journey as an Expedition 70/71 flight engineer. Dyson additionally carried out one spacewalk of 31 minutes, bringing her profession complete to 23 hours, 20 minutes on 4 spacewalks. Dyson returned to Earth on Sept. 23, as deliberate, alongside along with her crewmates, Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub.

Dyson launched on March 23 and arrived on the station March 25 alongside Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy and spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus. Novitskiy and Vasilevskaya had been aboard the station for 12 days earlier than returning dwelling with NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara on April 6.

Whereas aboard the orbiting lab, Dyson carried out dozens of scientific and know-how actions to learn future exploration in house and life again on Earth. She remotely managed a robotic on Earth’s floor from a pc aboard the station and evaluated orbit-to-ground operations. She operated a 3D bioprinter to print cardiac tissue samples, which may advance know-how for creating substitute organs and tissues for transplants on Earth.

Dyson additionally participated within the crystallization of mannequin proteins to guage the efficiency of {hardware} that could possibly be used for pharmaceutical manufacturing and ran a program that makes use of student-designed software program to regulate the station’s free-flying robots, inspiring the following technology of innovators.

Be taught extra about house station actions by following @space_station and @ISS_Research on X, in addition to the ISS Fb, ISS Instagram, and the house station weblog.

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Joshua Finch / Claire O’Shea
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100
joshua.a.finch@nasa.gov / claire.a.o’shea@nasa.gov

Courtney Beasley
Johnson House Heart, Houston
281-483-5111
courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov