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Subj: EXP 14 STATUS REPORT #SS06-49
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SUBMITTED BY ARTHUR N1ORC - AMSAT A/C #31468
> Nov. 9, 2006
>
> Grey Hautaluoma
> Headquarters, Washington
> 202-358-0668
>
> James Hartsfield
> Johnson Space Center, Houston
> 281-483-5111
> STATUS REPORT: SS06-049
>
> INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION STATUS REPORT: SS06-049
>
> The International Space Station crewmembers spent this week getting
> ready for an upcoming spacewalk, performing scientific research and
> voting in the U.S. elections back on Earth.
>
> Throughout the week the crew prepared the Pirs docking compartment for
> the Nov. 22 spacewalk by Expedition 14 Commander Michael
> Lopez-Alegria and Flight Engineer Mikhail Tyurin. The astronauts
> gathered tools and equipment they will use on the nearly six-hour
> spacewalk.
>
> Lopez-Alegria and Tyurin next week will prepare the Russian Orlan
> spacesuits they will wear for the excursion. During the spacewalk
> they will relocate a communications antenna, install new experiment
> hardware and photograph a Kurs rendezvous system antenna on the
> Progress supply ship that docked last month to the Zvezda module's
> aft docking port. Tyurin also will conduct a Russian commercial
> demonstration by hitting a golf ball teed up on the exterior of Pirs.
>
> A top priority for Flight Engineer Thomas Reiter this week was packing
> material destined to return to Earth on the Space Shuttle Discovery
> in December. Lopez-Alegria completed a routine checkout of the Mobile
> Servicing System that moves the station's robotic arm up and down the
> truss, in support of that shuttle assembly flight.
>
> On mission STS-116, targeted to launch Dec. 6/7, the shuttle crew will
> deliver another component of the station's girder-like truss
> structure and perform spacewalks to rewire the station's electrical
> system. The shuttle crew includes astronaut Suni Williams, who will
> relieve Reiter on board. Reiter will have spent six months on the
> complex.
>
> Lopez-Alegria, the NASA International Space Station Science Officer
> for Expedition 14, collected his third set of blood and urine samples
> for the Nutritional Status Assessment experiment. This experiment
> measures physiological indicators of the changes in the human body
> during spaceflight.
>
> The samples are stored in the Minus-Eighty Degree Laboratory Freezer
> aboard the station. Once returned to Earth the blood and urine
> samples will be analyzed to understand a wide variety of bodily
> systems, including hormonal changes and how they relate to stress,
> bone and muscle metabolism. Scientists will also look at markers to
> measure bone metabolism, oxidative damage, and vitamin and mineral
> status.
>
> These findings are expected to give researchers a better understanding
> of what happens to crewmembers in space and when it happens. It also
> will help to define nutritional requirements and develop food systems
> for future missions to the moon and Mars.
>
> Working hundreds of miles away from home didn't stop Lopez-Alegria
> from participating in this week's general election. Texas law permits
> residents who happen to be in orbit on Election Day to cast a ballot
> from space. This was first done by David Wolf from the Mir space
> station in 1997. Lopez-Alegria made his choices on an encrypted
> computer ballot that was downlinked to Mission Control and forwarded
> to the county clerk's office in Houston for tabulation.
>
> The next station status report will be issued Nov. 17, or earlier if
> events warrant. For more about the crew's activities and station
> sighting opportunities:
>
> http://www.nasa.gov/station
>
>
> -end-
>
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