Thu, Feb 06, 2003
Particularly Appreciated Supplies Arrive Upstairs
ISS Status Report #5; 9:30 a.m. CST, Tuesday, February
4, 2003
A Russian Progress 10 resupply craft successfully docked to the
International Space Station Tuesday, two days after it was launched
from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
The cargo ship linked up to the aft port of the Zvezda Service
Module at 8:49 a.m. CST (1449 GMT) following a flawless automated
approach to the complex. The Progress is carrying a ton of food,
fuel and supplies for the Expedition 6 crew on board the ISS. At
the time of docking, the ISS was flying 240 statute miles over
central Asia.
Expedition 6 Commander Ken Bowersox, Flight Engineer Nikolai
Budarin and NASA ISS Science Officer Don Pettit monitored the
docking of the Progress from inside the station in their 73rd day
in space, their 71st day on board the orbital outpost.
The station crewmembers planned to open the hatch
between Zvezda and the Progress around 1:00 p.m. CST (1900 GMT)
following leak checks between the two craft, but its supplies will
not be unloaded until Wednesday morning. The successful arrival of
the Progress assures that the three station residents will have
plenty of supplies to continue their mission until late June or
early July, if required.
Among the supplies in the new Progress are replacement parts for
the Microgravity Science Glovebox in the Destiny laboratory, which
experienced a power failure back in November and has been dormant
during Expedition 6. Pettit plans to install the new parts and test
the Glovebox Wednesday. If it works, the Glovebox will be used to
support all of the experiments planned for this Expedition before
the crew returns to Earth in March.
Bowersox, Budarin and Pettit will pay a private tribute on orbit
to Columbia’s astronauts. Station flight controllers
will radio to the crew an audio feed from the memorial ceremony at
the Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX, which is being attended by
President Bush and Mrs. Bush, and NASA Administrator Sean
O’Keefe.
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