International Space Station Status Report #42 - 2005

International Space Station Status Report #42

2005
Report #42
4 p.m. CDT, 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.

For more on the crew's activities aboard the Station and opportunities to
see the Station fly overhead from anywhere on the Earth, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/station

The next Station status report will be issued on Thursday, Sept. 8, or
earlier if events warrant.


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