NASA

For years, STS-126 has been planned as the mission that will give the International Space Station the ability to support twice the crew currently living there. The mission will feature four spacewalks and work that will prepare the space station to house six crew members for long-duration missions.
Aboard Endeavour (from left to right) is mission specialists Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper and Steve Bowen, pilot Eric Boe, mission commander Chris Ferguson, and mission specialists Sandra Magnus, Donald Pettit, and Shane Kimbrough

Some of the additions aboard will be:
Crew Galley

The new galley components include two food warmers, a refrigerator and a water dispenser. The food warmers resemble suitcases and each is capable of heating six rehydratable and six wet food packages simultaneously in about 40 minutes. The water dispenser can provide either heated or unheated potable water for up to three crew members. The refrigerator, measuring just 16.5 inches deep, 10.2 inches wide and 6.7 inches high, can be cooled by either air flow or water flow. The galley will be installed in the U.S. Destiny laboratory module of the station.

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Crew Quarters

The modular crew quarters provide each of the station’s occupants with their own “personal space” that resembles a booth. In their quarters they can stow their personal belongings, rest and spend their recreational time. Each unit provides the crew member with visual, light and acoustic isolation, as well as laptop connectivity. The new crew quarters will be installed in the Harmony node.

Another addition will be new resistance exercise equipment to help the crew perform a variety of exercises. The equipment will make workouts such as bench presses, dead lifts, sit-ups and squats possible in the station’s zero-gravity environment.

Will also deliver a $250m wastewater recycling kit designed to purify urine and evaporated

perspiration into clean drinking water.

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