STS-105 Status Report #8 – 14 Aug 2001- 5:30 AM CDT

Discovery’s crewmembers,
including their new Expedition Two crewmates from the International
Space Station, were awakened at 4:10 a.m. Central time to the theme
from the movie, “Arthur”, to begin a day highlighted by the
transfer of equipment and supplies to the station from Discovery and
from the pressurized cargo carrier the shuttle brought into space.

The wakeup music
was for Discovery Commander Scott Horowitz from his wife.

The Expedition
Two crew became members of Discovery’s crew yesterday after Expedition
Three Commander Frank Culbertson and cosmonauts Mikhail Tyurin and Vladimir
Dezhurov transferred their personal seat liners to the Soyuz spacecraft
docked to the station, officially beginning the third Expedition aboard
the orbital outpost.

Several tons of
equipment, food and supplies for the new station crew will be unloaded
today from the Leonardo Multi-Purpose Logistics Module, which was attached
to the Unity module of the station yesterday. The two Expedition crews
will begin extensive discussions today in a handover of operations,
enabling the new residents to familiarize themselves with station systems
and life on board the expanding complex.

Later today, Usachev
and Dezhurov will spend some time loading updated software into the
computers of the Zvezda Service Module. The new software is designed
to create greater efficiency in Russian commanding of systems in their
segment of the station.

Discovery also
will perform a reboost of the station this afternoon, increasing its
average altitude by around two statute miles. At 2 p.m. Usachev and
Culbertson will discuss the progress of the flight with three television
networks in a series of interviews to be broadcast on NASA Television.

Discovery and the
station are orbiting at an average altitude of about 244 statute miles,
orbiting the Earth every 90 minutes. The next status report will be
issued about 6 p.m., or earlier, if events warrant.