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Houston TX (SPX) Sep 30, 2010 Expedition 25 Commander Doug Wheelock along with Flight Engineer Shannon Walker continued working on the Water Processing Assembly (WPA). They worked to install a hose and sample port adapter to provide an alternate source of potable water to the WPA. Working on the WPA proved difficult due to a loose component which prevented them from rotating a rack as required by their procedures. The duo also conducted a question and answer session with students from Parker Elementary School, Johnston Middle School and Westbury High School in Houston, Texas. The astronauts discussed the challenges of living in microgravity such as exercising, experimenting with liquids and riding the Soyuz spacecraft. Walker, the first native Houstonian astronaut, attended all three schools. Flight Engineer Fyodor Yurchikhin worked in the Russian side of the International Space Station. He installed an Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) control panel in the Zvezda service module and connected cables to the space-to-space radio for the ATV. Yurchikhin also monitored the temperature of a device inside the Elektron oxygen generator after activating the system. Three new Expedition 25 crew members are preparing for their launch aboard the new Soyuz TMA-01M spacecraft. Flight Engineers Scott Kelly, Oleg Skripochka and Alexander Kaleri are in their crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, training and exercising before their Oct. 7 launch. They are scheduled to dock to the International Space Station Oct. 9 returning the orbiting laboratory to six-member crew operations.
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Review Finds No Lightning damage to Discovery, Pad Technicians at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida are preparing to move ahead with shuttle processing tonight as long as weather conditions allow it. Discovery is targeted for launch Nov. 1 on a mission to the International Space Station. It will also be the final flight of NASA's oldest active space shuttle.
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Soyuz crew admit to disappointment at delayed landingMoscow (AFP) Sept 27, 2010 Russian cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov admitted Monday to disappointment when he and his two crew had to return to the International Space Station after their Soyuz spaecraft failed to undock After 175 days in orbit, the unprecedented problems delayed for a day the return to Earth of Skvortsov, fellow-cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko and US astronaut Tracy Caldwell. "Until the very last, we ho ... read more |
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