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Progress 26 To Dock Sunday At Station
Houston TX (JSC) Aug 05, 2007 The ISS Progress 26 (P26) is on course to arrive at the International Space Station just about on time, but the space shuttle Endeavour is going to be a little later than planned. The station crew members, Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and Flight Engineers Oleg Kotov and Clay Anderson, got an early start to their weekend with a light-duty day on Friday. It was scheduled because Sunday will be a busy day, with the arrival of the new Progress scheduled for about 2 40 p.m. EDT. Meanwhile, Endeavour's launch was pushed back from Tuesday to Wednesday at 6:36 p.m. That was done to give workers additional time to complete routine prelaunch activities. Station crew members held a conference by radio Friday morning with their future visitors of the Endeavour crew. Progress 26 launched Thursday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 1:34 p.m. It is loaded with 5,111 pounds of food, fuel, air, water and supplies. The P26 will dock to the Pirs docking compartment. NASA TV coverage will begin at 2:00 p.m.
earlier related report The spacecraft was put into a baseline low-Earth orbit with 51.64 degrees inclination, 191.4 km minimal altitude, 267.9 km maximum altitude, and 88.8 min orbital period. The on-board systems of the spacecraft operate normally. The spacecraft pre-launch processing and launch were carried out at the launch site under the direction of the State Commission. The Commission was making the decisions to proceed with different stages of pre-launch processing and launch based on the findings of the Technical Management. Working at the Baikonur launch site during the pre-launch operations and launch were the RSC Energia President and Designer General V.A.Lopota, managers and specialists from S.P.Korolev RSC Energia, representatives of Roskosmos, subcontractors, and other organizations in the industry. Observing the spacecraft pre-launch processing and launch were the head of the Federal Agency for Science and Innovations S.N.Mazurenko, director of the Russian scientific center Kurchatov Institute, acting vice president of the Russian Academy of Sciences M.V.Kovalchuk, representatives of the Russian Federation State Duma, NASA and the Japanese space agency. According to telemetry data and reports from the crew of ISS Expedition 15, the on-board systems of the space station operate in normal modes. The space station is ready for the docking with the spacecraft, which is scheduled for August 5, 2007, approximately at 22:40. Working on-board ISS is a crew consisting of Fedor Yurchikhin (RSC Energia cosmonaut tester, crew commander), Oleg Kotov (Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center cosmonaut tester, flight engineer) and Clayton Anderson (NASA astronaut, flight engineer). Related Links S.P. Korolev RSC Energia Expedition 15 at NASA Station at NASA Station and More at Roscosmos S.P. Korolev RSC Energia Watch NASA TV via Space.TV Space Station News at Space-Travel.Com
Russian Space Cargo Ship Progress Undocks From ISS
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 02, 2007Russia's Progress M-59 space cargo ship carrying garbage from the International Space Station has undocked, and its unburned fragments will land in the Pacific Ocean at 23:26 Moscow time (7:26 p.m. GMT). "The ship has undocked from the ISS in normal mode," a Mission Control spokesman said. Mission Control is preparing another cargo ship - Progress M-61 - for launch to the orbital station in line with the ISS flight program. |
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