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| Image above: Flight Engineer Thomas
Reiter cuts Flight Engineer Mikhail Tyurin's hair in the Zarya module
of the International Space Station. Reiter used hair clippers fashioned
with a vacuum device to prevent freshly cut hair from being scattered
throughout the module |
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Station crew prepares for space shuttle docking
The Expedition 14 crew members continue to work this week on scientific
experiments, station maintenance and activities related to the anticipated
arrival of Space Shuttle Discovery in December.
Over the weekend, Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria, KE5GTK, concluded
Expedition 14's first week-long session with EarthKAM (Earth Knowledge
Acquired by Middle School Students) by shutting down, disassembling and
stowing the hardware. Nearly 6,600 students from around the globe participated
in this most recent session with EarthKAM, a payload which allows students
to submit requests and download images from an electronic still camera
mounted in a window of the space station.
Flight Engineer Mikhail Tyurin, RZ3FT, revisited the Elektron oxygen-generating
system on Monday to perform routine maintenance. Early last week, Tyurin
repaired and re-activated the unit, returning it to service for the first
time since mid-September.
Also on Monday, Tyurin and Flight Engineer Thomas Reiter, DF4TR, practiced
photography techniques to be used to capture imagery of Discovery's thermal
heat shield during its final approach for docking on the STS-116 mission.
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