Fri, Sep 09, 2005
ISS Status Report #43, September 8, 2005
A new shipment of
supplies is on its way to the International Space Station. The ISS
Progress 19 resupply vehicle lifted off Thursday from its launch
pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, at 8:08 a.m. CDT (7:08
p.m. Baikonur time). Less than 10 minutes later, the cargo ship
reached orbit, and its solar arrays and navigational antennas were
deployed for its two-day trip to the orbital outpost.
At the time of the Progress launch, Expedition 11 Commander
Sergei Krikalev and Flight Engineer and NASA Flight Engineer and
Science Officer John Phillips were flying 220 statute miles over
the south Pacific Ocean.
Carrying more than 2 ½ tons of food, water, fuel,
clothing, spare parts and other supplies, the new Progress is
scheduled to automatically dock to the Station’s Zvezda
Service Module on Saturday at 9:50 a.m. CDT. The craft will also
deliver a new water circulation device called a “liquids
unit” for the Station’s Elektron oxygen-generating
system that has been inoperative for months. The new unit will be
installed late next week to try to bring Elektron back into
service.
Nearing the end of their fifth month in space, Krikalev and
Phillips completed packing the old ISS Progress 18 supply ship with
items no longer needed on the Station and closed its hatch Tuesday.
The unpiloted cargo craft undocked from the Zvezda module’s
aft port at 5:26 a.m. CDT Wednesday. The Progress and its contents
were commanded to deorbit and burned up in the Earth’s
atmosphere over the Pacific.
Also this week, Krikalev and Phillips replaced parts inside
their treadmill exercise machine that is mounted in Zvezda. New
components were delivered aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery in
late July for a routine upgrade of the system. After two days of
maintenance work, Phillips activated the treadmill machine and is
testing it today. He reported that it is operating normally and is
available for daily use by the crew.
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