Autor: Michal Moroz (mirstacja_at_utanet.at)
Data: nie 02 wrz 2001 - 14:29:27 CEST
> 2001
> Report # 26
> Wednesday, August 29, 2001 - 9 a.m. CDT
> Expedition Three Crew
>
> Well into their four-month stay on board the International Space Station
> (ISS), the Expedition Three crew continues to unpack and stow equipment
from
> the Russian Progress cargo ship that arrived at the outpost nearly a week
> ago. Commander Frank Culbertson, Pilot Vladimir Dezhurov and Flight
> Engineer Mikhail Tyurin have almost completely emptied the Progress 5
craft,
> stowing new supplies inside the ISS.
>
> The arrival of the Progress vehicle at the Station sets the stage for the
> launch of the next module for the outpost next month --- the Russian
Docking
> Compartment named Pirs, the Russian word for pier. The Docking Compartment
> will automatically link up to the nadir, or earthward facing docking port
of
> Zvezda two days after launch, providing an additional docking port for
> future Russian vehicles arriving at the ISS. A Progress-style
> instrumentation and propulsion stage attached to Pirs, which will provide
> the new module with its thruster capability to reach the ISS, will be
> jettisoned shortly after the new component docks to Zvezda.
>
> The crew members are also working on unpacking equipment recently
delivered
> on the STS-105 shuttle mission. They installed the Volatile Organic
> Analyzer (VOA) this week and will activate it later this week. The VOA is
> designed to sample the air inside the ISS, detecting and identifying any
> possible contaminants. Flight controllers at Mission Control, Houston
will
> command the VOA to take daily local samples of the air. The Expedition
Three
> Crew can also take remote air samples from anywhere in the ISS.
>
> One of the voltage converter units in the Zvezda associated with one of
> eight power-producing batteries for the Service Module was successfully
> replaced this week after it recently experienced a problem. All of
Zvezda's
> systems are functioning normally.
>
> In addition to attending to the new supplies, the Expedition Three crew
> continues to oversee a variety of science investigations. Oversight from
> the ground is handled by the Payload Operations Center at NASA's Marshall
> Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL, except for the Human Research
> Facility, which is monitored and controlled from the Telescience Support
> Center (TSC) at the Johnson Space Center, Houston. For details on ISS
> science, visit the following website:
>
> http://www.scipoc.msfc.nasa.gov
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