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Old October 3rd 05, 09:39 AM
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New Station Crew Docks With Space Station

10.03.05


The Soyuz spacecraft with the 12th international space station crew,
Commander William McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev, docked with
the orbiting laboratory at 1:27 a.m. EDT Monday.

With them was American Greg Olsen, the third private citizen in space,
flying under a contract with the Russian Federal Space Agency. He will spend
about eight days on the station.

They launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan just before
midnight on Friday.

Olsen will conduct scientific experiments on the station, and then return to
Earth with Expedition 11. That crew, Commander Sergei Krikalev and NASA
Science Officer John Phillips, has been on the orbiting laboratory since
April.

They will undock Oct. 10 in the Soyuz TMA that brought them to the station
April 16. Landing is scheduled for 9:08 p.m. EDT that day in the steppes of
Kazakhstan, winding up their 180-day increment.

McArthur, 54, a retired Army colonel, is a veteran of three shuttle flights,
including one to the station and one to the Russian space station Mir.
Tokarev, 52, a colonel in the Russian Air Force, is a veteran of one
spaceflight, to the international space station aboard a space shuttle.

Shortly after boarding the station, they will get a safety briefing from the
Expedition 11 crew. In extensive handover briefings during their eight days
together, they will get training on systems and experiments on the station
and on the Canadarm2 robotic arm.

During their six months on the station McArthur and Tokarev will do two or
three spacewalks. The first, from the Quest airlock in U.S. spacesuits, is
planned for early November. Tasks include installation of a camera group and
retrieval of the station's floating potential probe.

That will be McArthur's third spacewalk and the first for Tokarev.

About two weeks later the crewmembers will board their Soyuz spacecraft and
move it from the Pirs docking compartment to a docking port on the Zarya
module. That will clear the Pirs for use of its airlock in a spacewalk using
Russian Orlan suits in December.

That spacewalk will focus on retrieving scientific experiments and
photography of a micrometeoroid monitoring system and the Soyuz descent
module's multilayer insulation.

A third spacewalk early next year in U.S. spacesuits is under
consideration.

McArthur and Tokarev also are scheduled to welcome an unpiloted Progress
cargo craft to the station, just in time for Christmas. That Progress will
bring fuel, equipment, supplies, water, oxygen and air to the station.
Docking is planned for Dec. 23.

Station maintenance will occupy considerable time. They will continue
scientific investigations aboard the orbiting laboratory, as well as a
program of scientific education activities and Earth observations.

Their replacements, the 13th crew of the station, are scheduled to arrive in
March.


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