ISS On-Orbit Status 6 May 2002

All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except as noted
previously or below.  Day 550 of continuous station
occupancy.

Today was another rest day for the crew, with only a few routine task
executions called for.

All crewmembers completed the regular weekly 2-hour housecleaning,
with wipe-down using the Russian Fungistat disinfectant.

CDR Onufrienko was provided with a list of preferred Uragan earth
imaging targets for today, at his discretion, using the digital still
camera Kodak 760 with F=800 mm lens. The images were to be copied to
the EGE2 laptop onto the new removable HDD2 (hard disk drive #2) in
".tif" format to prevent data loss.  Target sites
included the coastline of France, Brussels, Cologne and Bonn, Berlin
and Potsdam, the Vistula River and Warsaw, the Chernobyl area on the
west bank of the Dniepr river, and others.

FE-2 Dan Bursch worked on the BPS (biomass production system),
priming root modules in PGC3 (plant growth chamber #3) and starting
the growth cycle for the wheat in that chamber.

FE-1 Carl Walz completed the daily routine payload status checks and
prepared the daily "delta" file for updating the IMS
(inventory management system)..  

CDR Yuri Onufrienko inspected the BRPK-2 condensate water separator,
a regular maintenance task.

The Elektron oxygen generator system in the SM is intermittently
failed. Procedures for troubleshooting the unit were uplinked for
tomorrow’s schedule.  After its recovery, it is to be run in
with 16 A.

The CDRA (carbon dioxide removal assembly) in the Lab has been
powered off this weekend and remains off at present.

An SLD (subject load device) failure on the TVIS (treadmill with
vibration isolation and stabilization) is being investigated at
MCC-H. Information will be provided to the crew as soon as possible.
Meanwhile, they can continue exercising using the bungees with the
eyebolts.  All three crewmembers completed their physical
exercise sessions today.

MCOR (medium-rate communications outage recorder) in the USOS
continues to be non-operational, awaiting new plan of action for its
recovery.