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| Image above: Backdropped by Earth's
horizon and the blackness of space, the International Space Station
appears to be very small as it moves away from Space Shuttle Endeavour.
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ISS ham duo set to relocate PMA-3 today
The Expedition 15 crew this week trained with robotics aboard the International
Space Station and set the stage for Thursday's relocation of Pressurized
Mating Adapter-3 (PMA-3).
On Wednesday, Flight Engineer Clay Anderson, KD5PLA,
depressurized the PMA-3 and installed the Common Berthing Mechanism (CBM)
Camera System. He then conducted a checkout of the CBM systems.
Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin, RN3FI, Flight Engineer
Oleg Kotov and Anderson also participated in an emergency fire drill Wednesday.
PMA-3 is being moved from Unity's port docking mechanism to its nadir,
or earth-facing, docking mechanism to make room for the installation of
the Harmony node which is set to arrive on Space Shuttle Discovery in
October.
Live NASA TV coverage of the PMA-3 relocation begins at 5:30 a.m. EDT
Thursday.
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