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Jacques van Oene
July 19th 05, 04:38 PM
Katherine Trinidad
Headquarters, Washington July 19, 2005
(Phone: 202/358-3749)

Rob Navias
Johnson Space Center, Houston
(Phone: 281/483-5111)

INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION STATUS REPORT: SS05-037

Expedition 11 Commander Sergei Krikalev and Flight Engineer John
Phillips left the Space Station today and moved their Soyuz spacecraft from
one docking port to another.

The Soyuz moved away from the Pirs Docking Compartment at 6:38 a.m. EDT,
while the Station flew above the Atlantic Ocean east of the southern tip of
South America. Redocking to the Zarya Module's Earth-facing port occurred at
7:08 a.m. EDT, over Central Asia.

Krikalev guided the Soyuz as it backed away about 82 feet from Pirs.
Krikalev commanded the Soyuz to fly laterally along the Station about 45
feet and rotated it to align with the Zarya's docking port. Hooks and
latches in the two docking mechanisms established a firm connection between
the Soyuz and Zarya. The crew re-entered the Station at 8:20 a.m. EDT, to
reconfigure systems for normal operations.

The move cleared the Pirs airlock for an August spacewalk. During the walk,
Krikalev and Phillips will remove materials exposure experiments, install a
television camera for the European Space Agency's cargo-carrying Automated
Transfer Vehicle and relocate a cargo boom adapter.

The Soyuz will be used to bring the crew home at the end of its six-month
mission and could also serve as a lifeboat in the event of a Station
evacuation.

For information about the Space Station, future launch dates and sighting
opportunities on the Internet, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/station

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