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Progress M-60 To Serve Science Before Burning Up In Atmosphere
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Sep 18, 2007 The Russian Progress M-60 cargo spacecraft will undock from the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday and spend several days engaged in research, a mission control official said Monday. The freighter will spend five days in independent flight before leaving orbit and starting a fiery decent through the Earth's atmosphere. "The Progress M-60 spacecraft will be undocked from the ISS at 4:37 a.m. Moscow time (0:37 a.m. GMT) on September 19, but will not leave orbit immediately, and will become a temporary research lab," the official said. The spacecraft, which arrived at the ISS in May, will be used as part of a five-day experiment to study the behavior of plasma particles in the exhaust from the ship's engines at various stages of flight. The parts of the vehicle that do not completely burn up during the decent will sink in the Pacific Ocean on September 25 in the so-called "spaceship cemetery" not far from Christmas Island, where the Mir station was "buried" in 2000.
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Boeing Hardware Installed During Space Shuttle Endeavour Mission
St. Louis MO (SPX) Aug 22, 2007Space Shuttle Endeavour returned home Tuesday following a two-week mission that delivered more than 740 Boeing flight hardware components to the International Space Station. The hardware, including the Starboard 5 (S5) truss element, will increase available power for space station systems. "This was a very busy mission, and the Boeing Space Exploration team has worked very hard to support NASA and the United Space Alliance," said Brewster Shaw, vice president and general manager of Boeing Space Exploration. |
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