Cargo Ship to Dock With ISS on Wednesday

Cargo Ship to Dock With ISS on Wednesday

Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 10 Commander Leroy Chiao
and Flight Engineer Salizhan Sharipov are awaiting the arrival of a Progress
cargo ship. ISS Progress 17 is slated to dock with the aft end of the
Station's Zvezda Service Module at 2:15 p.m. CST (2015 GMT) Wednesday. It
launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 1:09 p.m. CST (1909 GMT)
Monday.

Chiao and Sharipov trained Tuesday with a backup docking system that would
be used if the primary system failed Wednesday. Also, their sleep schedule
has been adjusted to accommodate the docking and hatch opening, which will
occur a few hours later.

The Progress is loaded with 4,631 pounds (2,100 kilograms) of cargo for the
Station, including food, supplies, fuel, oxygen, air and water. The
Progress' cargo also includes cameras and lenses that will be used to
photograph the thermal protection tiles of Space Shuttle Discovery as the
Return to Flight mission approaches the Station in May or June.

Progress 17 will attach to the docking port previously occupied by the ISS
Progress 16 spacecraft. Progress 16 was commanded to undock Sunday to clear
the way for Progress 17. Progress 16, which is filled with trash and other
unneeded Station items, will orbit the Earth for 10 days before being
commanded to re-enter the atmosphere to burn up harmlessly over the Pacific
Ocean.

In other activities Tuesday, the Expedition 10 crewmembers took part in a
Russian biomedical assessment that is studying changes in the human body
during space flight.


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Jacques :-)

www.spacepatches.info

Closing in on the final approach,
all nominal, docking in 20 minutes...

Contact at 20:10 GMT.

On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 20:11:11 GMT, Jim Oberg
wrote:

Contact at 20:10 GMT.


Tnx, JimO!

/dps


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