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Old April 8th 05, 10:23 PM
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International Space Station Status Report #05-18

3 p.m. CDT, Friday, April 8, 2005

Expedition 10 Crew

The current International Space Station crew began packing for home this
week while the next Station crew completed a final review of plans before
heading to the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, to prepare for launch.

On Monday Expedition 10 Commander Leroy Chiao and Flight Engineer Salizhan
Sharipov held a news conference with reporters at NASA centers and discussed
Station systems, lessons learned from two-man crew operations on the Station
and the return of the Space Shuttle to flight. Chiao and Sharipov performed
some maintenance work this week as well, including re-pressurizing the
Station atmosphere with oxygen from the Progress supply ship's tank. They
discharged two carbon dioxide-removing lithium hydroxide canisters that were
nearing their expiration dates while ground specialists monitored the
Station's environment to gauge the efficiency of the Russian canisters for
possible future use.

Flight controllers and engineers are continuing to analyze several spikes in
vibration and electrical current that have been noted in one of the Control
Moment Gyroscopes. The two functional gyroscopes are operating well and
continuing to control the Station's orientation. While the analysis
continues, the Station is in an orientation that minimizes demands on the
gyroscopes. Remaining in that orientation does not change other Station
operations. The ongoing analysis focuses on attempts to correlate the events
with activity aboard the Station.

At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 11
Commander Sergei Krikalev and Flight Engineer John Phillips, along with
European Space Agency (ESA) Astronaut Roberto Vittori, who will travel to
the Station for eight days under a commercial agreement between Russia and
ESA, spent the week reviewing flight plans. They will travel to Kazakhstan
Saturday. Their launch on ISS Soyuz 10 is set for 7:46 p.m. CDT Thursday,
April 14. They will dock at the Station's Pirs docking compartment at 9:19
p.m. CDT April 16. Vittori will join Chiao and Soyuz Commander Sharipov for
the trip back to Earth, departing the Station and landing in Kazakhstan on
April 24. Video of launch preparations at Baikonur will air on NASA TV
daily, beginning Monday. NASA TV will broadcast the launch live starting at
7 p.m. CDT April 14.

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/

The next ISS status report will be issued April 14 after the launch of
Expedition 11, or sooner if events warrant.
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