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SUBMITTED BY ARTHUR N1ORC - AMSAT A./C 31468
Katherine Trinidad
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-3749
John Ira Petty
Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111
May 25, 2007
STATUS REPORT: SS07-28
International Space Station Status Report: SS07-28
HOUSTON - Expedition 15 Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and Flight Engineer
Oleg Kotov prepared this week for two spacewalks while Flight Engineer
Suni Williams prepared for her return to Earth. In preparation for her
successor's arrival, Williams' downlinked a 10-minute video tour for
Clayton Anderson, who will travel to the station on the upcoming space
shuttle flight.
Mission managers gave a "go" for a May 30 Russian spacewalk to install
orbital debris protection panels on the Zvezda service module and a GPS
antenna cable associated with Automated Transfer Vehicle navigation
systems. This will be the 18th Russian spacewalk in support of station
assembly and maintenance. The spacewalk is scheduled to begin at 1:20
p.m. CDT and last approximately six hours. NASA Television coverage will
begin at 12:30 p.m.
First-time spacewalkers Yurchikhin and Kotov checked out the spacesuits
and the Pirs airlock, prepared their tools, and closed the hatch to the
Progress resupply vehicle docked to Pirs. Williams, who will help
coordinate the spacewalk from inside the station, also prepared U.S.
tools that will be used. During the spacewalk, the cosmonauts will
retrieve a package, known as the "Christmas tree," which contains three
bundles of debris panels. They were temporarily stowed on Pressurized
Mating Adapter 3 during the STS-116 mission last December. After
transferring the panels to Zvezda, Yurchikhin and Kotov will install the
panels from one bundle. The others will be installed during their June 6
Russian spacewalk. Mission managers this week conducted a preliminary
review of that spacewalk.
Williams this week installed updated software on the station's laptop
computers, replaced the elastic "flex packs" in two Resistive Exercise
Device canisters used to simulate weightlifting in the absence of
gravity, and worked out on a stationary bicycle while medical experts on
the ground measured her oxygen intake as part of a periodic fitness
evaluation.
The crew members also prepared for the arrival of space shuttle
Atlantis, targeted to launch on June 8. Yurchikhin and Kotov reviewed a
recent digital photography practice session with shuttle imagery
specialists, and Williams assembled a spacewalk tool to be used by
shuttle astronauts who will retract the P6 starboard solar array. Along
with filming the station video, Suni Williams also spoke with Clayton
Anderson to help him prepare for his mission. It will begin officially
when his specially-fitted Soyuz seat liner is transferred from Atlantis
to the station during the STS-117 mission.
On Wednesday, Russian flight controllers executed an orbit adjustment
burn, increasing the station's speed about one mile an hour and putting
it in the proper orbit for Atlantis' arrival.
The Expedition 15 crew also participated in interviews with WBZ Radio,
CBS Radio, ABC News and MSNBC.
For more about the crew's activities and station sighting opportunities,
visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/station
<http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html>
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