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> Two Expedition 15 cosmonauts spent much of the week in handover
> activities with their Expedition 14 predecessors. Their new crewmate,
> Sunita Williams who has been aboard the International Space Station for
> more than three months, also is helping them learn the ropes.
>
> E15 Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and Flight Engineer Oleg Kotov arrived
> at the station Monday after a Saturday launch from the Baikonur
> Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. With them on their Soyuz TMA-10 spacecraft was
> Spaceflight Participant Charles Simonyi, a U.S. businessman flying under
> a contract with the Russian Federal Space Agency.
>
> Expedition 14 Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria and Flight Engineer
> Mikhail Tyurin are scheduled to return home in their Soyuz TMA-9
> spacecraft April 20. Simonyi will return with them after about 11 days
> on the orbiting laboratory.
>
> Lopez-Alegria, who came to the station with Tyurin last September,
> continuously sets new U.S. single spaceflight duration records. Williams
> is likely to break Lopez-Alegria's record with her return tentatively
> planned for August after serving as an E15 crew member for the early
> part of that increment.
>
> This week, in addition to handover, both crews got in their regular
> exercise sessions – especially important for Lopez-Alegria and Tyurin as
> their return to Earth approaches. Crews did required station maintenance
> and still managed to spend considerable time on science activities.
> Those activities began with time-critical transfer of several
> experiments from the newly arrived Soyuz to the station and station power.
>
> Among experiments getting crew attention were Bioemulsion, a Russian
> effort to develop technology to produce microorganisms safely for
> bacterial, fermental and medical preparations. Tyurin worked with that
> experiment Tuesday.
>
> On Wednesday Kotov set up the European Exhaled Nitric Oxide-2
> experiment. It measures nitric oxide exhaled by spacewalkers before and
> after their excursions. The idea is to better understand the potential
> for decompression sickness.
>
> Meanwhile, Tyurin worked with the Russian Pilot experiment. It is
> designed to measure during long-duration spaceflight changes in a crew
> member's ability to pilot a spacecraft.
>
> On Thursday, Lopez-Alegria spent more than three hours resizing U.S.
> spacesuits for future users. The suits were the ones they used on an
> unprecedented series of three station spacewalks in a nine-day period
> beginning Jan. 31.
>
> Throughout much of the week, beginning with the crew news conference on
> Tuesday, crew members took breaks to talk with news media
> representatives. U.S. organizations whose reporters interviewed them
> included ABC News, Space.com, CNN, and CBS.
>
> Information on the crew's activities aboard the space station, future
> launch dates, as well as station sighting opportunities from anywhere on
> the Earth, is available on the Internet at:
>
> http://www.nasa.gov/station
>
> The next ISS status report will be issued Friday, April 20, after E14's
> landing, or earlier if events warrant.
>
>
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What is the true purpose of the ISS?
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