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| Image above: Commander Pavel Vinogradov (left) and
Flight Engineers Thomas Reiter and Jeff Williams wave to the departing
STS-121 crew. Credit: NASA |
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It's back to work for International Space Station's ham radio trio
Expedition 13 Commander Pavel Vinogradov RV3BS, Flight Engineers Jeff
Williams KD5TVQ and Thomas Reiter DF4TR returned to work this week after
bidding farewell to the visiting Space Shuttle Discovery crew on Friday,
followed by an off-duty day on Monday.
The station crew, now conducting long-duration operations with a three-person
complement for the first time since May 2003, will concentrate on collecting
scientific data, performing station maintenance and setting up hardware
and computers for experiments on the International Space Station.
Jeff Williams worked with the station's robotic arm to gather additional
data for ground controllers looking into a problem that briefly delayed
the berthing of the Leonardo Multi-Purpose Logistics Module in Discovery's
payload bay on Friday.
Leonardo, which carried more than 7,400 pounds of cargo to the station,
was filled with approximately 4,600 pounds of experiment data samples,
unneeded equipment and trash for the return back to Earth aboard the shuttle.
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