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Accelerating Space Station Science: NASA Marshall's Upgraded Payload Operations Integration Center Enhances Station Work

NASA unveiled today an upgraded Payload Operations Integration Center at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.

NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 18 June 2013

New Status: Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV)-4 Operations: ATV4 hatch opening occurred early this morning with air samples taken by Vinogradov and Parmitano.

NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 17 June 2013

New Status: ATV4 Operations: ATV4 successfully docked to the ISS on Saturday, June 15. Russian management expressed concerns with suspected microbial growth on some of the cargo bags in the vehicle.

NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 14 June 2013

New Status: Off duty day for USOS Crew: Today was an off duty day for Flight Engineer (FE)-3 Cassidy, FE-5 Parmitano, and FE6 Nyberg as compensation for supporting tomorrow's ATV4 operations.

NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 13 June 2013

New Status: Capillary Flow Experiment (CFE) Vane Gap-1: Flight Engineer (FE)-6 Nyberg completed the 8th of 11 planned test sessions.

NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 12 June 2013

New Status: Crew Holiday: Today the crew observed Russia Day, one of the four holidays they selected pre-Increment. The Russian crewmembers were off duty and the USOS crewmembers performed light duty operations.

NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 11 June 2013

New Status: Russian Navigation Receiver Module [НПМ-3] Failure Status: Today on Daily Orbit 1, Mission Control Center - Moscow (MCC-M) power cycled НПМ-3 and recovered the GPS receiver.

NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 10 June 2013

New Status: Light Microscopy Module (LMM) Configuration: Flight Engineer (FE)-3 Cassidy completed the LMM reconfiguration for the next use of the Fluids and Combustion Facility (FCF) for the Advanced Colloids Experiment (ACE) payload.

NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 7 June 2013

New Status: Multi-purpose Small Payload Rack (MSPR) Combustion Chamber (CC) Leak Check: Flight Engineer (FE)-3 Cassidy successfully performed the final portion of the MSPR CC leak check today.

NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 6 June 2013

New Status: High Beta Angle: The ISS is at a high beta angle this week and as a result the team has been managing power and thermal requirements across the systems.

NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 4 June 2013

Environmental Health System (EHS) Total Organic Carbon Analyzer (TOCA) R&R: Flight Engineer (FE)-5 Parmitano and FE-6 Nyberg removed the expired TOCA Protoflight Unit (PFU1) from the Water Recovery System (WRS) 1 rack face and installed a new TOCA PFU2.

NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 3 June 2013

New Status: 35 Soyuz (35S) Crew Handover: Flight Engineer (FE)-3 Cassidy continued handover with the 35S crewmembers FE-5 Parmitano and FE-6 Nyberg including on-orbit practices and lessons learned related to ISS systems and payloads.

NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 5 June 2013

New Status: Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV)-4 Launch: ATV-4 Albert Einstein launched today at 4:52 p.m. CDT from Kourou, French Guiana.

Image: Shady side of ATV

A rare view from behind of the solar wings built for ESA's Automated Transfer Vehicle - the side that does not point at the Sun and is not covered in solar cells, a bright white to help proof it against corrosive atomic oxygen.

NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 31 May 2013

New Status: Inter-module Ventilation (IMV) Flow Measurement: FE-5 Parmitano and FE-6 Nyberg completed IMV flow measurements throughout the United States On-orbit Segment (USOS).

NASA TV Coverage Set for Space Station Cargo Ship Moves

NASA Television will provide live coverage in June of the launch and docking of the European Space Agency's (ESA) fourth Automated Transfer Vehicle cargo craft (ATV-4) to the International Space Station.

NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 30 May 2013

New Status: Burning and Suppression of Solids (BASS): Flight Engineer (FE)-3 Cassidy executed the eleventh of thirteen sessions planned for this experiment.

NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 28 May 2013

New Status: Multi-Purpose Small Payload Rack (MSPR) Combustion Chamber (CC) Setup: FE-3 Cassidy configured and installed the MSPR CC in preparation for the Combustion Chamber gas leak check scheduled for Thursday, May 30.

New Space Station Residents on Fast Track to Orbital Laboratory

Three new Expedition 36 crew members lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 4:31 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, May 28, (2:31 a.m. Kazakh time, Wednesday, May 29) on a six-hour flight to the International Space Station.