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SUBMITTED BY ARTHUR N1ORC - AMSAT A./C #31468
*International Space Station Status Report #05-53*
*4 p.m. CDT, Friday, Oct. 28, 2005*
*Expedition 11 Crew*
Commander Bill McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev this week
checked the clothes, tools and plans they will use for a five and
half-hour spacewalk set for Nov. 7.
McArthur and Tokarev will mark five years of continuous human presence
on the International Space Station Nov. 2. They are the 12th station
crew. The first station crew, Commander Bill Shepherd, Flight Engineers
Sergei Krikalev and Soyuz Commander Yuri Gidzenko, arrived at the
fledgling complex Nov. 2, 2000. The size of an efficiency apartment at
that time, the station has grown to a volume larger than the average
three-bedroom house with the most sophisticated laboratory ever to fly
in space.
McArthur and Tokarev sent an anniversary greeting this week to crews
that have flown before and to the thousands that support the station in
16 nations around the world.
The crew devoted most of their attention to spacewalk preparations
during the week. On Tuesday, they performed a checkout of the spacesuits
they will wear. The spacewalk will be the first from the station to use
U.S. spacesuits and originate from the Quest Airlock since April 2003.
During their work outside, they will install a television camera
important for future assembly work on the station's port side truss.
They also plan to remove an experiment from the station's highest point,
the top of the P6 truss, that measured the electrical environment around
the exterior of the station.
On Wednesday, the crewmembers reviewed the procedures they will use to
put on and take off the spacesuits, reviewed plans for the spacewalk and
conferred with spacewalk specialists on the ground. On Thursday, they
suited up and rehearsed the activities inside the station that they will
perform outside the station Nov. 7. The spacewalk is scheduled to begin
about 9:30 a.m. EDT with coverage on NASA TV beginning at 8:30 a.m. EDT.
All station systems are operating well. The Elektron oxygen-generating
system, one of several methods of replenishing oxygen in the station
cabin atmosphere, is functioning. It was restored to operation Saturday
when Tokarev performed a maintenance procedure to purge air bubbles from
its systems. Russian flight controllers completed a test firing of
thrusters on the Progress cargo craft on Wednesday, thrusters that shut
off early last week during a planned reboost of the complex. The
thrusters were fired using a different manifold as Russian controllers
continued to evaluate a loss of data from the system they had seen
during the aborted reboost. During the test firing, the engines operated
normally. They are planned to be used next for a reboost of the complex
Nov. 10.
NASA’s payload operations team at the Marshall Space Flight Center
coordinates U.S. science activities on the space station.
For information on the crew's activities aboard the station, future
launch dates, and station sighting opportunities from anywhere on the
Earth, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/station
The next ISS status report will be issued Friday, Nov. 4, or earlier if
events warrant.
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