posted 04-24-2021 07:46 PM               

I know you can strap a sleeping bag just about anywhere on the International Space Station, but when you have more people then there are sleeping stations, do the newly-arrived crewmembers take over the regular sleeping compartments, or do they wait for the previous occupants to leave?

posted 04-24-2021 09:31 PM               

Unlike Crew-1 though, there will be no need for a member of Crew-2 to set up camp in the Crew Dragon for the length of their stay. A fifth U.S. sleep station was delivered during Expedition 64 (on NG-15) and has been set up in Columbus.

The Crew Alternate Sleep Accommodation (CASA) was set up by Victor Glover on same day that Crew-2 launched. From Soichi Noguchi (via Twitter):

Introducing new private room on ISS – 5th crew quarter is called CASA!

posted 04-24-2021 10:14 PM               

...some astronauts will be camping out in temporary arrangements. For example, NASA's Mike Hopkins and Shane Kimbrough — commanders of Crew-1 and Crew-2, respectively — will sleep in their Crew Dragon capsules.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) Soichi Noguchi and fellow Crew-1 astronauts Shannon Walker and Victor Glover, both of NASA, will take the CASA beds. Noguchi will sleep in the astronaut gym, Walker will sleep in the Columbus module and Glover will rest in the airlock, NASA public affairs officer Marie Lewis said during the Crew-2 launch webcast on Friday (April 23).