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*International Space Station Status Report #05-56*
*3 p.m. CST, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2005*
*Expedition 12 Crew*
With their first spacewalk behind them, the residents of the
international space station pressed ahead this week to prepare for
several upcoming milestones.
Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev
will get a special musical wakeup call this weekend as Paul McCartney
connects with them live from a concert in Anaheim, Calif. The call will
take place at 11:55 p.m. CST Saturday and will be broadcast live on NASA
Television.
The McCartney wakeup music for McArthur and Tokarev is a follow-up to a
tribute he paid to the crew of Space Shuttle Discovery during the
STS-114 mission in August, when the Beatles' classic "Good Day Sunshine"
was played as a wakeup call for Discovery's crew on the day weather
conditions became favorable for landing.
McArthur and Tokarev spent the week servicing the spacesuits they wore
Monday for a 5 hour, 22 minute excursion outside the station. During the
spacewalk, they installed a television camera, jettisoned an inactive
science experiment and removed and replaced other equipment on the truss
system of the complex.
The crew's second spacewalk is planned for Dec. 7. McArthur and Tokarev
will don Russian Orlan spacesuits and exit the Pirs Docking Compartment
airlock for that excursion. During the spacewalk, they will move a cargo
crane adapter, collect science experiments from the hull of the Zvezda
Service Module and manually launch an expired Russian spacesuit equipped
with amateur radio equipment. Called SuitSat, the experiment is designed
to see if ham radio contacts can be made with a free-flying transmitter.
To prepare for that spacewalk, McArthur and Tokarev will relocate their
Soyuz spacecraft from the Pirs docking port to the nadir docking port of
the Zarya module on Nov. 18, briefly leaving the station unoccupied.
Earlier today, four thruster engines on the ISS Progress 19 resupply
craft were fired for more than 33 minutes in two separate reboost
maneuvers to raise the altitude of the outpost. The station is now in a
near circular orbit of 219 statute miles to accommodate the launch and
docking of the next Progress cargo ship in December. The reboost was the
longest ever completed using Progress engines.
On Wednesday, Tokarev replaced a control panel for the station's toilet
in Zvezda that had malfunctioned earlier in the week. The temporary loss
of the use of the device's liquid disposal component had no impact on
station operations. Following the troubleshooting, the toilet is now
operating normally.
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 Thursday, Nov. 17, or earlier
if events warrant.
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