Jacques van Oene
March 16th 05, 05:52 PM
Crew's Week Begins With Science and Maintenance
Commander Leroy Chiao and Flight Engineer Salizhan Sharipov spent Tuesday
aboard the International Space Station performing science, maintaining
equipment and exercising. Future activities include a Station reboost, a
second spacewalk and the mid-April launch of the Expedition 11 crew.
Chiao and Sharipov measured their body mass and their calf volume.
Scientists on the ground will use the data to understand deconditioning in
microgravity, as well as the effectiveness of countermeasures. Also,
Sharipov continued with the second part of a Russian fitness test series
meant to study preventive health maintenance. He trained on the VELO cycle
ergometer.
Chiao completed wrap-up and closeout tasks after replacing a heat exchanger
in the Joint Airlock. Ground controllers were extremely pleased about the
successful replacement and subsequent leak checks. On a similar note,
Sharipov installed a water sampler in the Service Module that will sample
humidity produced by the environment control and life support system.
The commander worked out for 2 ½ hours on the Station's treadmill and the
Resistive Exercise Device then prepared his exercise data files for downlink
to Mission Control. Sharipov got his exercise during the Russian fitness
test.
On March 25th the Station is planned for an orbital reboost and three days
later a second spacewalk for Expedition 10 is scheduled. In mid-April
Expedition 11 is set to launch from Russia in a Soyuz spacecraft, dock with
the Station and replace Expedition 10.
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Jacques :-)
www.spacepatches.info
Commander Leroy Chiao and Flight Engineer Salizhan Sharipov spent Tuesday
aboard the International Space Station performing science, maintaining
equipment and exercising. Future activities include a Station reboost, a
second spacewalk and the mid-April launch of the Expedition 11 crew.
Chiao and Sharipov measured their body mass and their calf volume.
Scientists on the ground will use the data to understand deconditioning in
microgravity, as well as the effectiveness of countermeasures. Also,
Sharipov continued with the second part of a Russian fitness test series
meant to study preventive health maintenance. He trained on the VELO cycle
ergometer.
Chiao completed wrap-up and closeout tasks after replacing a heat exchanger
in the Joint Airlock. Ground controllers were extremely pleased about the
successful replacement and subsequent leak checks. On a similar note,
Sharipov installed a water sampler in the Service Module that will sample
humidity produced by the environment control and life support system.
The commander worked out for 2 ½ hours on the Station's treadmill and the
Resistive Exercise Device then prepared his exercise data files for downlink
to Mission Control. Sharipov got his exercise during the Russian fitness
test.
On March 25th the Station is planned for an orbital reboost and three days
later a second spacewalk for Expedition 10 is scheduled. In mid-April
Expedition 11 is set to launch from Russia in a Soyuz spacecraft, dock with
the Station and replace Expedition 10.
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Jacques :-)
www.spacepatches.info