[Wednesday, January 2, 2008] The crew worked out in their regular 2.5-hr. physical exercise program on the CEVIS cycle ergometer (CDR, FE-2), TVIS treadmill (FE-1), RED resistive exerciser (CDR, FE-2), and VELO bike with bungee cord load trainer (FE-1).

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[Wednesday, January 2, 2008] NASA will host a media teleconference with Space Shuttle Program Manager Wayne Hale at 5 p.m. EST, Thursday, Jan. 3, to discuss the status of ongoing work to prepare shuttle Atlantis for its launch to the International Space Station.

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[Thursday, January 3, 2008] CDR Whitson and FE-2 Tani started out with the daily reading of SLEEP experiment data accumulated during the night, for logging and filling in questionnaire entries in the SLEEP session file on the HRF-1 laptop for downlink.

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[Thursday, January 3, 2008] Peggy Whitson conducted the weekly 10-min. CWC (Contingency Water Container) audit as part of on-going WDS (Water Delivery System) assessment of onboard water supplies.

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[Friday, January 4, 2008] The two flight engineers later performed outfitting in the DC1 (Docking Compartment), removing old protective guard cages from SD1-7 lighting fixtures and replacing them with new guards delivered on Progress 27P. The old guards were trashed.

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[Saturday, January 5, 2008] Shuttle Program managers requested Thursday that flight control teams and ground operations teams protect for a Jan. 24 launch date. As work progresses, that date will be modified as required.

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[Saturday, January 5, 2008] The crewmembers performed their regular 2.5-hr physical workout program (about half of which is used for setup & post-exercise personal hygiene) on the CEVIS cycle ergometer, TVIS treadmill, and VELO bike with bungee cord load trainer.

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[Sunday, January 6, 2008] Tyndall Glacier, located in the Torres del Paine National Park in Chile, is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 16 crewmember on the International Space Station.

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[Monday, January 7, 2008] Tani and Whitson had their weekly PFCs (Private Family Conferences) via S-band/audio and Ku-band/MS-NetMeeting application (which displays the uplinked ground video on the SSC-9 laptop), Dan at ~9:20am EST, Peggy at ~10:55am.

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[Monday, January 7, 2008] Cosiguina Volcano, Nicaragua is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 16 crewmember on the International Space Station.

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[Monday, January 7, 2008] All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below. Russian Orthodox Christmas, a holiday also for ISS. Ahead: Week 12 of Increment 16.

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[Tuesday, January 8, 2008] Working in the DC1 Docking Compartment, FE-1 Malenchenko, later joined by CDR Whitson, started a three-day maintenance activity on three Russian Orlan-M spacesuits.

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[Tuesday, January 8, 2008] Dust plumes, Baja California, Mexico are featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 16 crewmember on the International Space Station.

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[Wednesday, January 9, 2008] Peggy Whitson performed a major outfitting job on the Node-1 overhead hatch (forward) to the Z1 Dome by installing an NPRV (Negative Pressure Relief Valve) to protect the hatch from "burping" during depressurizations.

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[Wednesday, January 9, 2008] NASA scientists and a space shuttle astronaut today outlined details of a challenging mission that will repair and upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope in 2008.

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[Wednesday, January 9, 2008] Sao Simao Reservoir, Brazil is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 16 crewmember on the International Space Station (ISS).

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[Thursday, January 10, 2008] Yuri also completed today’s routine maintenance of the SOZh system (Environment Control & Life Support System, ECLSS) in the SM, including ASU toilet facilities systems/replaceables.

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[Friday, January 11, 2008] After a five-month stay on the station, astronaut Clay Anderson returned to Earth in November and is in the midst of a strict exercise regimen to regain top physical shape.

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[Friday, January 11, 2008] NASA's Kennedy Space Center issues Space Shuttle Processing Status Reports periodically and is the source for information regarding processing activities associated with the vehicles and payloads.

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[Friday, January 11, 2008] Malenchenko had 2h 30m hrs reserved to experiment with the Russian KPT-2 science payload "BAR-RM", testing innovative procedures to detect air leakage from ISS modules using the RSE-1 laptop and downlinking the data via BSR-TM channel.

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[Friday, January 11, 2008] HOUSTON - NASA Friday announced Feb. 7 as the target launch date for shuttle Atlantis' STS-122 mission to the International Space Station and mid-March for the launch of Endeavour on STS-123.

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[Friday, January 11, 2008] NASA will hold a media briefing at 1 p.m. CST Tuesday, Jan. 15, with the next resident crew of the International Space Station and a South Korean spaceflight participant.

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[Friday, January 11, 2008] NASA has updated assignments for International Space Station expedition crews. The updates reflect changes in the launch schedule for space shuttle missions that will transport rotating crew members.

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[Saturday, January 12, 2008] A section of Dinosaur National Monument along the Yampa River in Colorado, which straddles the Colorado/Utah border, is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 15 crewmember on the International Space Station.

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[Saturday, January 12, 2008] As part of the house cleaning, FE-1Malenchenko performed preventive maintenance cleaning on the FS5, FS6, FS9, VPkhO, VdPrK, VPrK & TsV2 fan grilles in the SM, DC1 Docking Module and FGB (Funktsionalnyi-Grusovoi Blok).

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[Monday, January 14, 2008] The Bingham Canyon Mine (center) located approximately 32 kilometers to the southeast of Salt Lake City, UT is one of the largest open-pit mines in the world, measuring over 4 kilometers wide and 1,200 meters deep.

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[Monday, January 14, 2008] Fuelling of the Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle has started at Europe's Spaceport. ATV is being loaded with Russian refuelling propellant destined for the International Space Station.

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[Monday, January 14, 2008] A second job item on the FE-1's voluntary list for today was another KPT-3 session to make observations and take aerial KPT-3 photography of environmental conditions for Russia's Environmental Safety Agency (ECON)

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[Monday, January 14, 2008] FE-1 Malenchenko worked several hours on a major rewiring task, restringing, installing and connecting cabling for the Russian RBO-3-3 Matryoshka-R radiation monitoring suite.

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[Tuesday, January 15, 2008] FE-1 Malenchenko serviced the Russian BMP (Harmful Impurities Removal System), starting the "bake-out" cycle to vacuum on absorbent bed #1 of the regenerable dual-channel filtration system.

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[Tuesday, January 15, 2008] NASA Television will provide live coverage of the Astronauts Memorial Foundation's remembrance service honoring space shuttle Columbia's STS-107 crew.

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[Tuesday, January 15, 2008] Isla San Lorenzo and Isla Las Animas are featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 15 crewmember on the International Space Station.

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[Thursday, January 17, 2008] Malenchenko completed today's routine maintenance of the SOZh system (Environment Control & Life Support System, ECLSS) in the SM, including ASU toilet facilities systems/replaceables.

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[Thursday, January 17, 2008] Space exploration supporters have descended upon a presidential primary debate website and posted hundreds of questions on space policy. More activity is needed to sustain this visibility such that this issue appears in the questions asked of candidates.

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[Thursday, January 17, 2008] "Occasionally I throw out a historical mystery in the hope that some reader will have the answer. ..."

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[Thursday, January 17, 2008] Earlier this month I submitted a series of questions to NASA's Exploration Systems Mission Directorate (ESMD) regarding the Ares 1 and Orion projects. The following was provided to me by ESMD PAO today:

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[Thursday, January 17, 2008] Supported by ground specialists via tagup, Malenchenko also unloaded new equipment for the BIO-5 RASTENIYA-2 ("Plants-2") micro-G growth payload from Progress 27P and installed the new payload in the Service Module

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[Friday, January 18, 2008] Yuri completed today’s routine maintenance of the SOZh system (Environment Control & Life Support System, ECLSS) in the Service Module (SM), including ASU toilet facilities systems/replaceables.

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[Friday, January 18, 2008] Some of the most influential leaders of the space community are quietly working to offer the next U.S. president an alternative to President Bush's "vision for space exploration"

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[Sunday, January 20, 2008] NASA's Kennedy Space Center issues Space Shuttle Processing Status Reports periodically and is the source for information regarding processing activities associated with the vehicles and payloads.

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[Sunday, January 20, 2008] All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below. Saturday -- off-duty day for CDR Whitson, FE-1 Malenchenko and FE-2 Tani except for housekeeping and voluntary work.

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[Sunday, January 20, 2008] "Pursuant to recent analysis of program resource execution plans, the Program is adjusting the internal launch dates for the CxP Flight Manifest as follows: ..."

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[Sunday, January 20, 2008] At ~9:30am EST, Yuri had his PFC (Private Family Conference) via S-band/audio and Ku-band/MS-NetMeeting application (which displays the uplinked ground video on the SSC-10 laptop).

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[Monday, January 21, 2008] Peggy Whitson prepared PMA-2, where STS-122/1E will dock next month, for interim ingress, first pressurizing it, then opening the Node-2 forward hatch, removing the hatch thermal cover and the CBCS target, then installing the HHGA.

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[Monday, January 21, 2008] Space Adventures, Ltd., announced today that famed game developer Richard Garriott, son of former NASA astronaut Owen Garriott, has begun training at the Yuri Gagarin Training Center in Star City, Russia.

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[Monday, January 21, 2008] Teams of technicians will spend the weekend working on foam insulation applied to small sections of space shuttle Atlantis' external fuel tank and making standard launch preparations at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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[Monday, January 21, 2008] Teams of technicians will spend the weekend working on foam insulation applied to small sections of space shuttle Atlantis' external fuel tank and making standard launch preparations at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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[Monday, January 21, 2008] Last week at the NASA Strategic Management Council, Dr. Jeff Davis, Director, Space Life Sciences Directorate at Johnson Space Center, led a presentation on human system risk management.

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[Monday, January 21, 2008] This image highlights a portion of the Saskatchewan River delta extending into Cedar Lake in the Province of Manitoba.

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[Tuesday, January 22, 2008] In Node-2, the CDR terminated the overnight leak check on the N2 (nitrogen) recharge system. An overnight leak check of the ISS oxygen recharge line verifies the integrity of the Node-2 N2 recharge system installation.

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[Wednesday, January 23, 2008] "Today's topic is motivated by the inquiries I've had lately, in one forum or another, concerning various aspects of NASA's post-Shuttle spaceflight architecture."

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[Wednesday, January 23, 2008] In early 2007, an incident involving former astronaut, Lisa Nowak, led NASA to conduct several reviews including internal and external evaluations of astronaut behavioral health and medical care.

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[Wednesday, January 23, 2008] The renewed Charter is identical to the original Charter in all respects except that the Charter renewal is for nine months, rather than two years, and the minimum number of voting committee members has been reduced from ten to eight.

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[Wednesday, January 23, 2008] In the Airlock, Whitson initiated charging EMU batteries in the BCA. Malenchenko again had several hours for cargo transfers from Progress M-62/27P to the ISS and stowing trash on the drone spacecraft for disposal (2/4), tracking movements in the IMS.

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[Wednesday, January 23, 2008] NASA astronaut Barbara Morgan, a mission specialist aboard Endeavour during STS-118 will visit Hawaii Jan. 25-31. While in the "Aloha State," Morgan will give a firsthand account of her recent mission to the International Space Station.

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[Wednesday, January 23, 2008] The legacy we all should be thinking about leaving behind as we dabble in alternate visions must be how vibrant the notion of a "vision" for space exploration is.

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[Thursday, January 24, 2008] FE-1 Malenchenko again had several hours for trash transfers to Progress M-62/27P for disposal (2/4), tracking movements in the IMS (Inventory Management System).

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[Thursday, January 24, 2008] NASA will hold four media briefings next week to discuss International Space Station activities and provide a status of launch preparations for space shuttle mission STS-122.

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[Friday, January 25, 2008] CDR Whitson & FE-2 Tani started out with the daily reading of SLEEP experiment data accumulated during the night, for logging and filling in questionnaire entries in the SLEEP session file on the HRF-1 laptop for downlink.

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[Saturday, January 26, 2008] All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below. Saturday -- off-duty day for CDR Whitson, FE-1 Malenchenko and FE-2 Tani except for housekeeping and voluntary work.

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[Saturday, January 26, 2008] Marsh Island, located along the southwestern coastline of Louisiana, is a remnant of an abandoned lobe of the Mississippi River Delta formed approximately 5000-7500 years before the present day, according to scientists.

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[Sunday, January 27, 2008] All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below. Sunday -- off-duty day for CDR Whitson, FE-1 Malenchenko and FE-2 Tani except for housekeeping and voluntary work. Ahead: Week 15 of Increment 16.

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[Sunday, January 27, 2008] It was high drama on live TV last November. A spacewalk that was destined to become the centerpiece for an exciting and highly successful mission - one that was far from routine -- to save the International Space Station.

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[Sunday, January 27, 2008] Don't forget about the 30/31 January Democratic/Republican debates. They are now just days away. These are the last major televised debates before Super Tuesday. BE HEARD. MAKE A DIFFERENCE

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[Monday, January 28, 2008] After the successful completion of the Stbd SARJ (Solar Alpha Rotary Joint) video inspection via MCC-H control, Dan Tani maneuvered the SSRMS (Space Station Remote Manipulator System) for the subsequent return of the MT (Mobile Transporter).

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[Monday, January 28, 2008] "SPACEHAB is facing both extraordinary opportunities and challenges as we blaze a trail in a brand new industry - private utilization of the International Space Station," said SPACEHAB President, Jim Royston.

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[Monday, January 28, 2008] NASA will discuss upcoming space shuttle mission STS-123 during a daylong series of media briefings from the Johnson Space Center beginning at 8 a.m. CST on Feb. 29.

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[Monday, January 28, 2008] Three weeks into delicate fuelling operations, Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle has also been successfully loaded with oxygen. In orbit this will be transferred to the International Space Station's atmosphere for the crew to breathe.

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[Tuesday, January 29, 2008] The last week of January brings, every year, a confluence of sobering anniversaries that we honor this Thursday with our Day of Remembrance.

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[Tuesday, January 29, 2008] NASA has set media accreditation deadlines for space shuttle Endeavour's STS-123 mission, targeted to launch March 11.

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[Tuesday, January 29, 2008] FE-1 Malenchenko set up the pumping equipment and initiated (later closed out) the periodic transfer of urine from five EDV-U containers in the SM (Service Module) to the Rodnik BV2 tank of Progress M-62/27P

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[Tuesday, January 29, 2008] Space Adventures, announced that Nik Halik of Australia has been chosen to train as the back-up crew member alongside orbital spaceflight candidate, famed game developer and son of former NASA astronaut, Richard Garriott.

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[Tuesday, January 29, 2008] NASA is using a new treadmill that allows people to run while suspended horizontally to help astronauts prepare for long-duration missions to the moon and beyond.

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[Tuesday, January 29, 2008] A major dust storm (center right) along the east side of the Aral Sea, Kazakhstan, is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 15 crewmember on the International Space Station while passing over central Asia.

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[Wednesday, January 30, 2008] NASA senior managers completed a review Wednesday of space shuttle Atlantis' readiness for flight. Pending closure of an issue with a shuttle radiator hose, the STS-122 mission will launch Feb. 7 at 2:45 p.m. EST.

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[Wednesday, January 30, 2008] NASA/JSC is issuing this special notice to inform interested parties that the International Space Station (ISS) Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) website has been established and may be accessed

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[Wednesday, January 30, 2008] Expedition 16 Commander Peggy Whitson and Flight Engineer Dan Tani finished their spacewalk at 12:06 p.m. EST Wednesday. They spent 7 hours and 10 minutes outside the International Space Station on the starboard side of the truss structure.

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[Wednesday, January 30, 2008] Beirut Metropolitan Area, Lebanon is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 16 crewmember on the International Space Station.

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