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| Image above: Geneva, Switzerland, is featured in
this image photographed by an Expedition 14 crew member on the International
Space Station. Image credit: NASA |
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ISS ham radio trio get back to work
The Expedition 14 crew members aboard the International Space Station
are back at work this week after enjoying a quiet holiday weekend.
They celebrated New Year's on orbit with a traditional dinner of rehydrated
American food and Russian delicacies.
Station Commander Mike Lopez-Alegria, KE5GTK and Flight Engineer Suni
Williams, KD5PLB, will primarily focus this week on the first phase of
installing the new Oxygen Generation System.
The complex procedure being performed by the crew this week will test
the equipment to ensure that it can support a full crew when the permanent
complement aboard the station ultimately expands to six people.
Meanwhile, Flight Engineer Mikhail Tyurin, RZ3FT, is spending several
days this week modifying the ventilation system in the service module
to run more quietly. He will add two new noise-isolation crew cabin fans,
sound deadening vibration isolators and air ducts with acoustic shields.
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