NASA Space Station On-Orbit Status 24 October 2004
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All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below.
Yest posadka! (There’s Landing!) Welcome back home, Gennady, Mike and Yuri! Thus, Increment 10 has smoothly gotten underway — to last ~190 days to Soyuz 9S undock. Main events for Leroy Chiao’s & Salizhan Sharipov’s Increment 10 will include two Orlan-EVAs and unpacking of two Progress ships (16P & 17P), while challenges with onboard stowage, resources management & trash disposal continue.
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Expedition 9, with VC7 visiting cosmonaut Yuri Shargin, touched down at 8:11pm EDT (25 minutes later than Expedition 8) north of Arkhalyk in northern Kazakhstan, right on target. [After undocking at 5:05pm EDT and a manual separation burn, the automatic deorbit burn took place at 7:43pm, for 4m 18s and nominal 115 m/s delta-V. Tri-module separation took place at 8:12pm and main parachute deploy at 8:21pm. Russian SAR helicopters acquired Soyuz on its parachute visually shortly thereafter, and the touchdown at 8:36pm was flawlessly smoothed by the soft-landing rockets. With this landing, Gennady and Mike have racked up 187 days 21 hours 17 minutes in space (186 days on board the station). Some stats from the Record Book: With Mike Fincke having been on his first space mission, Mike Foale is still the first U.S. Astronaut to exceed one year of space time (total endurance time 374 in 6 space flights, ahead of Carl Walz (231 days, 4 flights).
On board the ISS, now under new management, all systems continue to function nominally, except as noted previously.
After sleeping in until 5:30am to make up for last night’s late turn-in, the new crew of Commander/Science Officer (CDR/SO) Leroy Chiao and Flight Engineer (FE) Salizhan Sharipov began having the huge space station all to themselves in a (mostly) off-duty day for well deserved rest and acclimatization to the new living environment.
After breakfast, the Commander and the Flight Engineer performed their first regular weekly three-hour station cleaning. [“Uborka”, done every Saturday, includes removal of food waste products, cleaning of compartments with vacuum cleaner, wet cleaning of the Service Module (SM) dining table and other surfaces with “Fungistat” disinfectant and cleaning fan screens to avoid temperature rises.]
Sharipov completed the regular daily maintenance/inspection of the Service Module (SM)’s environment control & life support systems (SOZh), including routine toilet system (ASU) replacements. Part of his SOZh job today was the weekly data collection of the SM’s toilet flush counter readings, with inspection of the urine collection (SP) & pretreat assembly and water supply status (SVO) counter readings, both for calldown to TsUP/Moscow.
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After observing and imaging the Soyuz thruster plumes last night during the deorbit maneuvers and the Earth’s limb, Sharipov today deinstalled the geo-physical GFI-1 Relaksatsiya (“relaxation”) experiment, reconfiguring the Russian payload laptop 3 for the experiment and removing the ultraviolet (UV) camera with spectrometer unit from SM window #9 for stowage, then closing its cover open. Later, the FE also transferred the GFI-1 data from the memory flash card to the TP-2 laptop. [Purpose of the experiment was spectrometric recording of the TMA-4 propulsion plumes (by UV-video) during the 4-min. retrograde burn at 7:43pm and of the emission layer of the atmosphere at the Earth’s limb during that period.]
As of last night, the crews had completed over 51 hours of dedicated handover and over 47 hours of functional handover, including EMU (Extravehicular Mobility Unit) trouble-shooting and SSRMS (Space Station Remote Manipulator System) familiarization.
Both crewmembers completed their daily 2.5-hr. aerobic/anaerobic workout program on TVIS treadmill, RED exerciser and VELO cycle with bungee cord load trainer.
Sharipov had a PFC (private family conference) via VHF/radio and IP (Internet protocol) phone.
Elektron Status: – Although still only operating during crew wake until tomorrow (10/25), the H2 and O2 gas analyzers are functioning and the control algorithms are enabled.
The station continues to fly in LVLH attitude (local vertical/local horizontal) Momentum Management, with Yaw –10 deg, Pitch -9.36 deg, Roll 0 deg, until the maneuver to XPOP on 10/31.
Sleep time begins at the regular 5:30pm.
CEO images can be viewed at these websites:
See also the website “Space Station Challenge” at:
To view the latest photos taken by the expedition 10 crew visit:
- http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew-9/ndxpage1.html at NASA’s Human Spaceflight website.
Expedition 10 Flight Crew Plans can be found at http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/timelines/
Previous NASA ISS On-orbit Status Reports can be found here. Previous NASA Space Station Status Reports can be found here. Previous NASA Space Shuttle Processing Status Reports can be found here. A collection of all of these reports and other materials relating to Return to Flight for the Space Shuttle fleet can be found here.
ISS Altitude History
Apogee height — Mean Altitude — Perigee height
For more on ISS orbit and worldwide ISS naked-eye visibility dates/times, see http://www.hq.nasa.gov/osf/station/viewing/issvis.html. In addition, information on International Space Station sighting opportunities can be found at http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/ on NASA’s Human Spaceflight website. The current location of the International Space Station can be found at http://science.nasa.gov/temp/StationLoc.html at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. Additional satellite tracking resources can be found at http://www.spaceref.com/iss/tracking.html.
