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| Image above: Expedition 14 Flight Engineer Thomas
Reiter works with an experiment in the Destiny laboratory of the International
Space Station. Credit: NASA |
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Expedition 14 crew conduct fire training
The Expedition 14 crew conducted a fire drill Monday.
The primary goal of this exercise is to provide the station residents
with the most realistic emergency training possible.
The drill was conducted with the support of both U.S. and Russian mission
control centers in close coordination.
Flight Engineers Mikhail Tyurin, RZ3FT and Thomas Reiter, DF4TR, also
practiced rendezvous pitch maneuver photography with digital still cameras.
They will document the condition of Discovery's heat shield during its
final approach for docking on flight day three of the STS-116 mission
next month.
NASA and the Russian Federal Space Agency have named two astronauts and
two cosmonauts to the next International Space Station crew, known as
Expedition 15.
Astronauts Clayton Anderson, KD5PLA and Daniel Tani, KD5DXE,will travel
to the station next year and work as flight engineers. Cosmonauts Fyodor
Yurchikhin and Dr. Oleg Kotov will spend six months aboard the orbiting
laboratory
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