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Subj: ISS Status Report: SS07-02
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SUBMITTED BY ARTHUR N1ORC - AMSAT A/C #31468
Jan. 12, 2007
> Grey Hautaluoma
> Headquarters, Washington
> 202-358-0668
>
> James Hartsfield
> Johnson Space Center, Houston
> 281-483-5111
> STATUS REPORT: SS07-02
>
> INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION STATUS REPORT: SS07-02
>
> HOUSTON - After a three-day holiday to celebrate the Russian Orthodox
> Christmas, astronauts on the International Space Station spent the
> week packing trash into the Progress 22 cargo craft and unpacking
> items delivered by Progress 23 as they prepared for the arrival of
> new supplies.
>
> Packed with discarded items no longer needed on the outpost, Progress
> 22 will undock from the station's Pirs Docking Compartment next
> Tuesday at 5:28 p.m. CST. Its engines will be fired three hours later
> to send it back into the atmosphere, where it will burn up.
>
> The station crew, Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria and Flight Engineers
> Mikhail Tyurin and Suni Williams, geared up for the docking of ISS
> Progress 24 at Pirs, which is slated for Friday, Jan. 19 at 9 p.m.
> CST. Progress 24 will launch on Wednesday, Jan. 17, from the Baikonur
> Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 8:12 p.m. CST.
>
> The new Russian cargo ship will bring about 2.5 tons of food, fuel,
> oxygen and supplies to the complex, including clothing and spacewalk
> hardware for the next resident crew that will arrive at the station
> in April.
>
> In preparation for the undocking of Progress 22, Tyurin disassembled
> and removed the docking mechanism in the hatchway between the cargo
> craft and the docking compartment. The mechanism will be returned to
> Earth on Space Shuttle Atlantis' mission to the complex in March.
>
> During the week, the crew worked for several hours in the Zvezda
> Service Module on a major systems replacement task, trained on the
> Robotics Onboard Trainer and relocated it to a new rack in the
> Destiny lab. They also repaired and tested a Russian exercise
> machine.
>
> Tyurin also performed maintenance on a Russian ergometer and removed
> the volatile organic analyzer from the Crew Health Care Systems rack
> to prepare it for routine maintenance. The analyzer is used to
> identify and quantify a targeted list of organic compounds in the
> station atmosphere. He spent time on two Russian experiments, one
> that studies locomotor system disorders in weightlessness and one
> that studies the effect of spaceflight on the growth and development
> of plants.
>
> Also during the week, Lopez-Alegria completed taking samples and
> documented his daily diet for his mid-mission session on a renal
> stone experiment. This experiment examines the risk of renal, or
> kidney stone formation in crew members pre-flight, in-flight and
> post-flight. In this study, potassium citrate tablets are
> administered to astronauts, and multiple urine samples are taken
> before, during and after spaceflight to evaluate the risk of renal
> stone formation. Lopez-Alegria is the final subject to complete the
> experiment.
>
> Lopez-Alegria and Williams took the WinSCAT, a cognitive test battery
> used during space missions. The WinSCAT helps to assess the effects
> on performance of behavioral stress induced by workload demands.
>
> The astronauts also tested emergency light power supplies onboard. In
> addition, Williams swapped power supplies on one of the station's
> laptop computers, completed some modifications on the umbilical
> interface assembly in the Quest airlock, and configured and trained
> on the station's Robotic Onboard Trainer. She also worked in the
> Minus Eighty Degree Laboratory Freezer for the International Space
> Station, or MELFI, replacing the desiccant, a material that absorbs
> moisture, in Dewar 4, and checked to make sure the nitrogen pressure
> was within acceptable range.
>
> For more about the crew's activities and station sighting
> opportunities, visit:
>
> http://www.nasa.gov/station
>
>
> -end-
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