Report #38
2:30 p.m. CDT Friday, July 2, 2004
Mission Control Center, Houston

A newly reactivated gyroscope on the International Space Station today was
successfully brought on line for attitude control at 6:20 a.m. CDT. The
Control Moment Gyroscope 2 was fully operational at 6,600 revolutions per
minute Thursday afternoon after being powered back on as a result of this
week's spacewalk. Testing overnight proved its operation adequate for
orientation control.

Expedition 9 Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineer and NASA ISS
Science Officer Mike Fincke replaced a failed circuit breaker providing
power to the gyroscope during a 5-hour, 40-minute spacewalk Wednesday. The
gyroscope now joins two others in controlling the Station's orientation
during normal operations.

Today the crew completed clean-up tasks for the spacewalk, including hanging
the Russian Orlan-M spacesuits out to dry, stowing tools and conducting a
follow-up conference with spacewalk specialists. Tomorrow the sleep shift
schedule for the crewmembers will be back to normal as they begin a
three-day weekend to commemorate the U.S. Independence Day holiday Monday.
The crew will finish up spacewalk close out tasks next week and is scheduled
to work on science experiments, such as the Advanced Diagnostic Ultrasound
in Microgravity.

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://spaceflight.nasa.gov/

Details on Station science operations can be found on an Internet site
administered by the Payload Operations Center at NASA's Marshall Space
Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., at:

http://scipoc.msfc.nasa.gov/

The next ISS status report will be issued Friday, July 9, or as events
warrant.


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