Ax-3 Mission Crew Enters International Space Station

Sudan Events – Sumaya Sayed

The crew of the Axiom-3 spaceship, including Türkiye’s first space traveler, is expected to dock with the International Space Station at approximately 5:15 a.m. EST on Saturday.

Anadolu detailed the aspects of life on the orbiting station, while the space travelers are en route to the ISS for 36 hours.

The Ax-3 crew is made up of Spanish-American mission leader Michael Lopez-Alegria, Italian Air Force pilot Walter Villadei, Marcus Wandt from Sweden on behalf of the European Space Agency, and Col. Alper Gezeravci, the first Turkish space traveler.

The Expedition 70 crew, which began their mission on the ISS on Sept. 27, includes Andreas Mogensen, Jasmin Moghbeli, Furukawa Satoshi, Loral O’Hara, Konstantin Borisov, Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub.

They will welcome the Ax-3 crew once they rendezvous with the ISS.

The space travelers will witness the Earth from space and experience happiness and the stress of life on the space station.

Importance of exercise, basic needs explained

The first and most important factor that awaits the astronauts on the ISS, and in space, is zero gravity.

The space travelers learned to live “floating” and acclimatize to zero gravity by training underwater on Earth, therefore, they need to exercise for two hours every day on the ISS to maintain their bodies.

Consuming food and drinks in zero gravity is also quite unusual, since liquid disperses and floats in the air, which is why those commodities are stored in special packages.

Systems have been developed to meet basic nutritional needs, as well as special preferences for life in space, however, most food is still canned and contained in proprietary packaging.

Almost all the food was prepared a year or two ago in the form of canned, bagged, irradiated or frozen food.