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| Image above: Flight Engineer Jeff Williams works
on a spacesuit in the Zvezda Service Module of the space station.
Credit: NASA |
Crew prepares
for Progress and Shuttle arrivals
Expedition 13 Commander Pavel Vinogradov and Flight Engineer Jeff Williams
are preparing the station for the upcoming arrivals of a Progress supply
spaceship and Space Shuttle Discovery.
The Progress, which launches from Kazakhstan, arrives on June 24. Discovery
is due to visit the station in July on mission STS-121.
Vinogradov, RV3BS and Williams, KD5TVQ, completed stowing gear from their
June 1 spacewalk. Spacewalk tasks included repairs to a vent which releases
hydrogen produced by a Russian oxygen generator. The generator, also known
as the Elektron, was reactivated after repairs and then failed a few hours
later. Russian specialists are looking into the problem.
NASA astronauts Michael Lopez-Alegria and Sunita Williams and Russian
cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin have been named as the 14th crew of the International
Space Station. Expedition 14 is scheduled to begin this fall.
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