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Old September 29th 06, 06:28 PM posted to sci.space.station
Jacques van Oene
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Default INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION STATUS REPORT: SS06-042

Sept. 28, 2006

Allard Beutel
Headquarters, Washington
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John Ira Petty
Johnson Space Center, Houston
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STATUS REPORT: SS06-042

INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION STATUS REPORT: SS06-042

After six months aboard the International Space Station that included
arrival of two space shuttle missions, resumption of construction of
the orbiting laboratory and the restoration of a three-member crew,
Expedition 13 landed at 9:13 p.m. EDT in the steppes of Kazakhstan.

Commander Pavel Vinogradov and NASA station science officer Jeff
Williams landed in their Soyuz TMA 8 spacecraft about 50 miles
northeast of Arkalyk. Russian recovery forces and NASA officials
arrived at the site shortly after the spacecraft touched down. The
Soyuz undocked from the space station at 5:53 p.m. EDT.

The crew will spend several weeks in Star City, near Moscow, for
debriefing and medical examinations.

With Williams and Vinogradov was Spaceflight Participant Anousheh
Ansari, who flew to the station with the Expedition 14 crew and spent
eight days there. The American businesswoman went to the station
under a contract with the Russian Federal Space Agency.

During their mission, which launched March 29, Vinogradov and Williams
were joined by Thomas Reiter, a European Space Agency astronaut from
Germany. He became the first non-Russian, non-U.S. long-duration
station crew member. He will remain aboard as part of the Expedition
14 crew until December when he returns to Earth on the next space
shuttle flight.

Two successful spacewalks were conducted during Expedition 13. The
first was by Vinogradov and Williams in Russian spacesuits and the
second by Williams and Reiter in U.S. spacesuits.

Vinogradov and Williams welcomed Space Shuttle Discovery astronauts
and Reiter during the STS-121 mission to the station in July. In
September Space Shuttle Atlantis' crew on the STS-115 mission brought
and installed the station's integrated P3/P4 truss segments.

Expedition 14 Commander Mike Lopez-Alegria, Mikhail Tyurin and Reiter,
now are on their own aboard the station after a week of handover,
maintenance and some science activities. Vinogradov and Tyurin
replaced a major component of the Elektron oxygen-producing device,
which malfunctioned shortly after Atlantis departed.

The device was activated Sept. 16 and functioned for about three hours
before shutting itself off. Further troubleshooting is planned.

The next status report will be issued Friday, Oct. 6, or earlier if
events warrant. For more about the crew's activities and station
sighting opportunities, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/station


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