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| Image above: European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut
Thomas Reiter works with the Plasmakristall Telescience Apparatus
in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station. Photo
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Crew works on unloading and repairs
Expedition 14 Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria, KE5GTK, and Flight Engineer
Thomas Reiter, DF4TR, had six hours reserved between them Monday for Progress
unloading, cargo transfers and inventory logging.
Flight Engineer Mikhail Tyurin, RZ3FT, resumed work on the Elektron oxygen-generation
unit after it shut down in mid-September. He replaced valves and cables
in an effort to bring it back online. The unit should be ready for attempts
at reactivation Tuesday.
Mission Control in Houston continues work on troubleshooting the Control
Moment Gyroscope 3 (CMG 3) that was taken offline due to a vibration.
The CMGs are used to maintain the station’s orientation in space.
Plans are being made for a possible CMG 3 swapout on the STS-118 mission.
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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