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Crew Does Science, Maintenance; Jules Verne Deorbits

Crew Does Science, Maintenance; Jules Verne Deorbits


Image above: Expedition 17 Flight Engineer Greg Chamitoff worked with SPHERES, a small satellite experiment, on Saturday. Credit: NASA TV

Aboard the International Space Station Monday, the Expedition 17 crew members continued their science and maintenance duties. Meanwhile, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) re-entered the atmosphere.

Commander Sergei Volkov inspected and cleaned smoke detectors and bacteria filters associated with the station’s Fire Detection and Suppression system.

Flight Engineer Oleg Kononenko performed maintenance on the cycle ergometer, which is part of the crew’s exercise equipment. He also worked with a Russian experiment known as Relaxation, which studies radiation patterns from Earth’s ionosphere and the Earth limb.

Flight Engineer Greg Chamitoff made adjustments to the station’s Internal Thermal Control Systems Moderate Temperature Loop, which controls temperatures aboard the orbital outpost.

After completing its six-month mission to deliver supplies and provide reboost capability to the space station, the Jules Verne ATV, the first ESA cargo craft to visit the complex, performed two deorbit burns Monday morning and burned over the Pacific Ocean during re-entry.

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Consolidated Launch Manifest Space Shuttle Flights and ISS Assembly Sequence

Consolidated Launch Manifest

Space Shuttle Flights and ISS Assembly Sequence

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Launch Target	Assembly Flight	Launch Vehicle	Element(s)
May 31, 2008	1J	Discovery STS-124	Kibo Japanese Experiment Module Pressurized Module (JEM-PM) Japanese Remote Manipulator System (JEM RMS)
Aug. 28, 2008	N/A	Atlantis STS-125 (HST-SM4)	N/A
Oct. 16, 2008	ULF2	Endeavour STS-126	Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM)
Dec. 4, 2008	15A	Discovery STS-119	Fourth starboard truss segment (ITS S6) Fourth set of solar arrays and batteries
Under review	3R	Russian Proton	Multipurpose Laboratory Module with European Robotic Arm (ERA)
Under review	2J/A	Endeavour STS-127	Kibo Japanese Experiment Module Exposed Facility (JEM EF) Kibo Japanese Experiment Logistics Module - Exposed Section (ELM-ES) Spacelab Pallet - Deployable 2 (SLP-D2)
Under review	HTV-1	H-IIB	Japanese H-II Transfer Vehicle
Under review	17A	Discovery STS-128	Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM) Lightweight Multi-Purpose Experiment Support Structure Carrier (LMC) Three crew quarters, galley, second treadmill (TVIS2), Crew Health Care System 2 (CHeCS 2)
Establish Six Person Crew Capability
Under review	ULF3	Endeavour STS-129	EXPRESS Logistics Carrier 1 (ELC1) EXPRESS Logistics Carrier 2 (ELC2)
Under review	19A	Discovery STS-130	Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM) Lightweight Multi-Purpose Experiment Support Structure Carrier (LMC)
Under review	*ULF4	Endeavour STS-131	EXPRESS Logistics Carrier 3 (ELC3) EXPRESS Logistics Carrier 4 (ELC4)
Under review	20A	Discovery STS-132	Node 3 with Cupola
Under review	*ULF5	Endeavour STS-133	EXPRESS Logistics Carrier 5 (ELC5) EXPRESS Logistics Carrier 1 (ELC1)
ISS Assembly Complete
Under review	9R	Russian Proton	Research Module
* Two shuttle-equivalent flights for contingency
Notes: Additional Progress and Soyuz flights for crew transport, logistics and resupply are not listed.

Astronauts Open ISS Station Room

Astronauts aboard the international space station readied for a second spacewalk Sunday, preparing to work on the outside of the new Harmony addition and inspect a couple areas of concern on the orbiting outpost. Spacewalkers Scott Parazynski and Daniel Tani also planned to detach a nearly 35,000-pound space station girder so it can be relocated later in the mission. Once the pair detaches the bolts and cables that hold the girder in place, astronauts inside the station plan to use a robotic arm to move the truss to a location where it can be temporarily parked. Installation is set for Tuesday during the mission's third spacewalk.

Once the girder has been detached, Parazynski is set to install spacewalking handrails and other equipment to the outside of Harmony, a school bus-sized chamber that was delivered by the shuttle Discovery and installed during the mission's first spacewalk. The crew entered the room for the first time on Saturday. Meanwhile, Tani is scheduled to inspect a rotary joint for the station's solar wings that is acting up and check for possible sharp edges on a rail for the robot arm.

NASA had to cut a spacewalk short during Endeavour's August mission after one of the astronauts noticed a quarter-inch-long rip in the thumb of his glove. Another glove was damaged during an earlier flight, and Mission Control said sharp edges on the rail may be to blame in both cases. Tani later plans to help Parazynski install a fixture on Harmony that will allow the station's robotic arm to move the compartment from its current temporary location to its permanent home. The space station's crew will relocate Harmony after Discovery leaves in another week.

The European Space Agency's science laboratory, named Columbus, will hook onto Harmony as early as December. The Japanese Space Agency's lab called Kibo or in English, Hope will latch onto Harmony early next year.

Harmony also will function as a nerve center, providing air, electricity and water for the space station. It was launched with racks of computer and electronic equipment pre-installed. All this gear had to be locked down for the jarring rocket ride to orbit, leaving the astronauts to undo more than 700 bolts to free up the equipment.

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