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| Image above: Astronauts Michael E.
Lopez-Alegria, KE5GTK (right) and Thomas Reiter, DF4TR share a meal
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Expedition 14 awaits new cargo craft
Launch of the ISS Progress 23 cargo craft is on schedule for Monday,
Oct. 23, at 9:41 a.m. EDT with docking on Thursday, Oct. 26, at 10:28
a.m.
High-priority items include the delivery of Elektron parts, research
payloads and Extravehicular Activity equipment.
On Friday, Commander Lopez-Alegria, KE5GTK, replaced equipment in the
Carbon Dioxide Removal System, which is used to remove impurities from
the station atmosphere. Only one of its two systems has been operating
due to particulate matter clogging an air valve. Also the NASA science
officer, Lopez-Alegria collected samples for the Nutrition Experiment,
the most comprehensive in-flight study conducted by NASA to date of human
physiologic changes during long-duration spaceflight.
Flight Engineer Thomas Reiter, DF4TR, began analysis of a Novel Sensory
Mechanism in Root Phototropism, or TROPI experiment. This study will increase
the understanding of the different systems plants use to determine what
direction their roots and shoots should grow, and which genes are responsible
for successful plant growth.
Engineers continue analyzing the Control Moment Gyroscope (CMG) test
data to determine troubleshooting plans for CMG-3 which was shut down
earlier this month due to high vibrations.
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, RN3FI, and Dr. Oleg Kotov will spend six months aboard the
orbiting laboratory
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