Space Station Status Report #00-45 31 Oct 2000 9 p.m. CST
The Expedition
1 crew began its second day in orbit after a 6:30 p.m. CST wakeup by
a timing device aboard their Soyuz spacecraft as they continued to close
the distance separating them from the International Space Station.
The crew went to
sleep at about 9 a.m. Tuesday, about seven hours after their 1:53 a.m.
central time launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. During
their third and fourth orbits, the crew completed two phasing burns
to adjust the Soyuz’s course for its rendezvous with the International
Space Station, scheduled for 3:24 a.m. on Thursday.
One of the first
duties for the Expedition 1 crew’s second day in space involved taking
uplinked data from flight controllers in Moscow for the third rendezvous
burn, scheduled for 2:48 a.m. on Wednesday. Soyuz is about half the
Earth’s circumference behind the ISS, but gaining with each orbit.
Also on the space
station schedule today is undocking of the Progress cargo spacecraft
docked to the Zvezda module of the ISS. The Expedition 1 Soyuz will
use that docking port when it arrives at the station early Thursday.
Flight controllers in Houston worked with Moscow counterparts on uplink
of the undocking commands. The Progress, filled with refuse put there
by crews of the last two shuttle missions to visit the station, will
undock at 10:02 p.m. CST today, and shortly after 1 a.m. Wednesday will
be commanded into a trajectory that will cause it to burn up in the
Earth’s atmosphere.
The crew’s communication
with flight controllers in Moscow and Houston was limited to passes
over Russian ground stations early in Expedition 1’s second day in orbit.
The first communication of the crew’s second day in orbit occurred about
an hour and 45 minutes after wakeup.
In Houston, flight
control teams in Houston have activated life support systems and air
purification units on board the space station to prepare it for the
Expedition 1 crew’s arrival for their almost-four-month stay. They also
will support the Progress undocking.
Coverage of the
Expedition One crew’s voyage to the International Space Station will
continue on NASA TV and through live video streaming on the internet
