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Subj: Frog Music Arrives at Space Station
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Sent: 030615/0742Z 1876@UA9CIR.SVR.RUS.EU [Ekaterinburg] $:ANS-166.05
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AMSAT News Service Bulletin 166.05 From AMSAT HQ
SILVER SPRING, MD. June 15, 2003
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-166.05
A Russian cargo rocket, the only remaining supply link to the
international space station, arrived at the outpost on Wednesday
carrying food and recorded sounds of rain and croaking frogs for the
homesick crew.
Psychologists working with the Russian and U.S. space agencies say the
sounds of nature will relax the crew and help them cope with the
six-month stint in space.
"The docking has been successful," a spokeswoman at ground control
outside Moscow said.
Russia's Progress cargo vessel and its manned Soyuz are the only
remaining ties to the $95 billion orbiting outpost since the Columbia
space shuttle disaster grounded the U.S. fleet, leaving the outpost to
struggle without deliveries from the larger craft.
The Progress M1-10 is packed with some 2,400 kg (5,300 pounds) of
supplies for the station, including water, fuel and food, as well as
music, recorded nature sounds and letters for U.S. astronaut Edward Lu
and Russia's Yuri Malenchenko, on board since April.
The crew, reduced from the usual three astronauts in an effort to save
fuel and water, is due to return in October.
The next Progress is scheduled to blast off from Russia's Baikonur base
in Kazakhstan in August. Any hitch with either the Progress or the
Soyuz would prove crippling for the ISS which is funded by 16 states.
Since the Columbia shuttle disaster, Russian space officials have
planned an extra launch for November.
[ANS thanks CNN for the above information.]
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