Fri, Sep 02, 2005
Thursday, September 1, 2005 Mission Control Center,
Houston
The International Space
Station’s Expedition 11 crewmembers completed 20 weeks in
space this week and focused on an upcoming cargo ship exchange and
computer software transition.
Commander Sergei Krikalev and Flight Engineer and NASA ISS
Science Officer John Phillips spent time packing the docked ISS
Progress 18 supply ship with items no longer needed on the Station.
The unpiloted cargo craft will be undocked from the Zvezda
module’s aft port at 5:23 p.m. CDT Wednesday. The Progress
will later burn up in Earth's atmosphere above the Pacific
Ocean.
A new supply ship, ISS Progress 19, will launch from the
Baikonur Cosmodrome at 8:08 a.m. CDT Thursday. It will dock to the
Station at 9:50 a.m. CDT Sept. 10. Food, water, fuel, clothing and
other supplies will be among the two-and-a-half tons of cargo
aboard. The craft will deliver a new liquids unit for the
Station’s Elektron, a primary oxygen-generating system, as
well as spare parts for the Station's Vozdukh carbon dioxide
removal system.
Also this week, Krikalev and Phillips prepared new laptop
computers for a software upgrade that will be performed later this
month. They also conducted a routine rehearsal of emergency
response procedures, simulating an emergency departure from the
Station in the Soyuz; and checked out new blood pressure and
electrocardiograph equipment that was delivered by the Space
Shuttle last month.
On Monday, Phillips, who says he was inspired as a boy by
history's great explorers, took time Monday to discuss his mission
in an interview with Oregon Public Broadcasting. Phillips talked
about the similarities and differences of space exploration and the
journey of Lewis and Clark for a series celebrating the
bicentennial of that exploration of the American West.
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