ISS On-Orbit Status 21 Apr 2002

All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except as noted
previously or below.

After nominal wakeup at the regular 2:00 am EDT, most of the crew’s
day was rest and recreation.

All three crewmembers performed their physical exercise program and
had their private family conferences at various times during the day,
via S-band/audio.

CDR Yuri Onufrienko completed the daily regular systems tasks of
BRPK-1 water condensate separator inspection, SVO water supply and SP
toilet flush counter readings for calldown, and maintenance of the
SOSH life support system.

FE-2 Dan Bursch did the daily routine status checks of the autonomous
Lab payloads.

The crew was thanked for the amount of unpacking work already
accomplished from the 8A mission.  To help complete the task,
the ground uplinked a "post-8A stowage note" with
suggestions on where to stow the remaining items located in the ISS
staging area from 8A.

In the Russian Uragan earth viewing program, target areas for Yuri
today were Sankwala Mountains in Nigeria (ground track photography of
terrain covered with tropical forest), Chirkeisk Reservoir, Kaspiysk
(photos of the harbor from several vantage points), the Caspian Sea,
Vladivostok (harbor from several vantage points), Sicily and Etna
Volcano, Black Sea (coastal cities and river mouths), Ukraine and
Volga-Don plain, and ground track photography between the towns of
Ilek and Aksai.

For the Diatomeya ocean surface research program, Onufrienko focused
on linear bloom features, the study area of the research vessel
"Academician M. Keldysh", and the center of the Californian
bioproduction area,

Today’s targets for the U.S. CEO (crew earth observation) program
were Nile River Delta (Alexandria lies immediately right of
track — city and port expansions were targets here, as well as
changes in salt evaporation ponds. Of interest: documenting any
expansion of irrigated agriculture beyond the delta margin to the
west. Crew to continue looking right of track to document rapidly
occurring changes in the Suez Canal itself, as well as the
surrounding coastal lands), Tigris-Euphrates, Turkey
(as the ISS entered Syria, crew was to look right to photograph
the large salt pan and Lake Assad. To the left, in the highland
headwaters of both the Euphrates and the Tigris, crew was to document
any evidence of new dam and/or reservoir construction. Greening in
any new areas of irrigated agriculture was also a target), W
Mediterranean Dust/Smog (from the Gulf of Gabes, Tunisia,
where ISS exited Africa, the crew passed directly over Mt. Etna,
which has been erupting ash and steam in recent days. Crew was asked
to look right and record both volcanic and urban-industrial aerosols
over the Mediterranean and southern Adriatic), Eastern United
States (as ISS traveled along the eastern front of the
Appalachians, crew was to look right of track and record any smoke
and/or smog over the Piedmont plain and Chesapeake Bay. Weather
should have remained good over New York City and southern New England
but may likely have deteriorated beyond Maine), Eastern Sa.
Nevada Lakes (immediately E of the Sierra Nevada, Pyramid Lake
and Honey Lake was on track, and the broad, reflective Carson Sink
was on the crew’s right. Water rights and allocation are major issues
in this region; of interest: to document water levels in these lakes,
as well as the condition of wetlands. The Sierras was probably
cloudy, which would have prevented photographing dormant volcano Mt.
Lassen).