It was scheduled for Saturday with Elon Musk’s Space X company, but the spacecraft that has to return from the Space Station late due to bad weather
AstroSamantha will have to wait a few more days before returning to space. The launch, scheduled for Saturday morning at 11.36 (Italian time) from Cape Canaveral, was postponed for a few days due to bad weather. The first useful date is now Tuesday 26 April at 10.15, NASA announced.
Bad weather
Samantha Cristoforetti was supposed to have started with the Falcon 9 rocket, together with three adventure companions, with the Crew-4 mission of Space X, the company of Elon Musk, directed to the International Space Station (Iss). The Italian astronaut on his second experience in orbit. The postponement due to bad weather that prevents the return to the Axiom-1 mission, the first entirely private on the ISS. The new plan calls for Axiom-1’s return to sea off the coast of Florida at 1.46pm on Sunday. Together with AstroSamantha, Crew-4 commander Kjell Lindgren, pilot Robert Hines and mission specialist Jessica Watkins donned the suits and entered the Dragon capsule on Thursday and successfully conducted the dress rehearsal before launch.
The Trieste experiment
Among the six experiments of the Minerva mission that Cristoforetti will conduct on the ISS there is also Nutriss, from the University of Trieste, led by Professor Gianni Biolo. This is the first monitoring of muscle metabolic activity conducted on a female organism in space to determine the differences in reaction to micro gravity compared to the male one. Our goal is to define a reference nutritional protocol for long-lasting space missions, explains Biolo. Thanks to the experimental activities that we will conduct with Samantha Cristoforetti, we will obtain information and ad hoc solutions for the organism of female astronauts. The studies conducted in space will be applied in the clinical setting for the treatment of immobilized elderly, malnourished and / or obese patients.
April 22, 2022 (change April 22, 2022 | 13:51)
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