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July 2008 International Space Station Top Stories
»» NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 29 June 2008
[Wednesday, July 2, 2008] All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below. Sunday -- off-duty for CDR Volkov, FE-1 Kononenko & FE-2 Chamitoff. Ahead: Week 11 of Increment 17.
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»» NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 30 June 2008
[Wednesday, July 2, 2008] All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below. Underway: Week 11 of Increment 17.
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»» NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 1 July 2008
[Wednesday, July 2, 2008] All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below.
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»» Space Station Spacewalks, Briefing on Tap for NASA TV
[Wednesday, July 2, 2008] Two International Space Station residents will conduct a pair of spacewalks outside the Russian segment of the complex July 10 and 15, with coverage of both planned for NASA Television.
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»» NASA Sets Briefing With Next Station Crew, Spaceflight Participant
[Wednesday, July 2, 2008] NASA will hold a media briefing Wednesday, July 30, at 1 p.m. CDT, with the next resident crew of the International Space Station and an American spaceflight participant.
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»» NASA Debuts Web Site for First Ares Test Flight
[Wednesday, July 2, 2008] NASA is developing new spacecraft, the Ares rockets and Orion crew capsule, to deliver astronauts to the ISS and send them on their way to the moon. The first test flight of the spacecraft, Ares I-X, is scheduled to launch in spring 2009.
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»» NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 2 July 2008
[Wednesday, July 2, 2008] All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below.
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»» What is the latest update on NASA's Transportation Architecture? (DIRECT launch vehicle design)
[Thursday, July 3, 2008] Over the last two years, NASA has performed feasibility assessments of the different DIRECT launch vehicle designs that have emerged. These feasibility assessments are summarized in the attached white paper.
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»» NASA Background on Ares Vehicles versus the DIRECT Proposal
[Thursday, July 3, 2008] NASA has spent substantial effort over several years to consider many launch concepts, and the Agency stands by its decision to develop the Constellation architecture, which includes the Ares I Crew Launch Vehicle and the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle.
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»» NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 3 July 2008
[Friday, July 4, 2008] Continuing preparations for the two upcoming Orlan EVAs, Volkov & Chamitoff began their day with a 3-hr. training session in Soyuz TMA-12 to familiarize Gregory with spacecraft ops during his isolation in the Descent Module during the EVAs
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»» NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 4 July 2008
[Sunday, July 6, 2008] Independence Day holiday for the US of A, but a full workday for the crew. Crew Sleep Cycle: Wake/sleep cycle remains right-shifted (5:30am - 9:00pm EDT).
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»» NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 5 July 2008
[Sunday, July 6, 2008] All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below. Saturday - off duty for CDR Volkov, FE-1 Kononenko & FE-2 Chamitoff.Crew Sleep Cycle: Wake/sleep cycle remains right-shifted (5:30am - 9:00pm EDT).
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»» NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 6 July 2008
[Sunday, July 6, 2008] All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below. Sunday -- off-duty for CDR Volkov, FE-1 Kononenko & FE-2 Chamitoff. Ahead: Week 12 of Increment 17.
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»» NASA Sets Launch Dates for Remaining Space Shuttle Missions
[Monday, July 7, 2008] Following a detailed, integrated assessment, NASA selected target launch dates for the remaining eight space shuttle missions on the current manifest in 2009 and 2010.
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»» Wayne Hale's NASA Blog: Serendipity - Part 1
[Tuesday, July 8, 2008] One of the benefits that space exploration brings to mankind is a happy serendipity. I have several examples of serendipity that we should explore together ... here is a short personal story to illustrate how serendipity works in science.
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»» NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 7 July 2008
[Tuesday, July 8, 2008] All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below. Underway: Week 12 of Increment 17.
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»» Teacher In Space Christa McAuliffe's Original Lessons Now Available Online at Challenger Center
[Tuesday, July 8, 2008] Challenger Center for Space Science Education is pleased to announce that Teacher in Space Christa McAuliffe's original lessons are now available for teachers on Challenger Center's website.
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»» NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 8 July 2008
[Tuesday, July 8, 2008] All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below.
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»» STS-124 Shuttle Crew to Visit NASA Headquarters, Available for Interviews
[Tuesday, July 8, 2008] One month after the landing of space shuttle Discovery, NASA Headquarters in Washington is preparing to welcome the astronauts of the STS-124 crew, which wrapped up a mission to the International Space Station on June 14.
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»» NASA OIG: Final Memorandum on the Review of NASA's Plan to Build the A-3 Facility for Rocket Propulsion Testing
[Tuesday, July 8, 2008] The Office of Inspector General (OIG) conducted a review of NASA's plan to build a new rocket propulsion test facility. We initiated this review in response to a complaint forwarded to the NASA OIG from the Government Accountability Office (GAO).
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»» NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 9 July 2008
[Wednesday, July 9, 2008] With wakeup this morning remaining at 5:30am EDT, sleeptime is beginning to move left, tonight at 8:50pm, i.e., 10 min earlier. Wakeup tomorrow will also be 10 min earlier, at 5:20am.
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»» NASA Extends Space Station Cargo Delivery Contract
[Thursday, July 10, 2008] NASA has awarded Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems Inc. in Houston, a one-year contract extension valued at $42 million to provide integration services for cargo delivery to and from the International Space Station.
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»» Space Station Crew Performs EVA To Remove Explosive Soyuz Bolt
[Thursday, July 10, 2008] International Space Station Commander Sergei Volkov and Flight Engineer Oleg Kononenko began a spacewalk at 2:48 p.m. EDT Thursday to inspect and retrieve an explosive bolt from their Soyuz TMA-12. The bolt will be returned to Earth for examination.
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»» NASA Notice: National Environmental Policy Act: Disposition of Space Shuttle Program's Real and Personal Property
[Friday, July 11, 2008] "NASA has made a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) with respect to the disposition of the Space Shuttle Program's (SSP's) real and personal property using a structured process consisting of a coordinated series of actions."
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»» NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 10 July 2008
[Friday, July 11, 2008] The Orlan spacewalk EVA-20A by CDR Volkov and FE-1 Kononenko from the DC1 (Docking Compartment) airlock lasted 6 hrs 18 min. For both it was the first EVA.
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»» NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 11 July 2008
[Friday, July 11, 2008] After the late post-EVA sleeptime this morning night (2:10am EDT), crew wakeup today was delayed to 11:40am; sleeptime: 9:00pm EDT.
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»» NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 12 July 2008
[Saturday, July 12, 2008] fter wakeup and before breakfast, FE-2 Chamitoff downloaded the SLEEP (Sleep-Wake Actigraphy & Light Exposure during Spaceflight) experiment data from his Actiwatches to the HRF-1 (Human Research Facility 1) laptop.
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»» International Space Station Imagery: Hurricane Bertha
[Saturday, July 12, 2008] Hurricane Bertha was traveling northward at 10 knots across the eastern part of the central Atlantic Ocean when this image was taken on July 9 by one of the Expedition 17 crewmembers aboard the ISS 220 statute miles above the Earth.
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»» International Space Station Imagery: Basin fire in central California
[Saturday, July 12, 2008] The Basin fire in central California is featured in this image photographed by astronaut Greg Chamitoff, Expedition 17 flight engineer, on the International Space Station.
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»» International Space Station Imagery: Piute fire in California
[Saturday, July 12, 2008] The Piute fire in California is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 17 crewmember on the International Space Station.
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»» Review of NASA's Human Research Program : A Letter Report
[Saturday, July 12, 2008] Planning for long-duration space flights requires consideration of complex disease prevention, behavioral health, and clinical treatment issues issues resulting from the hazards of the space environment and from limitations to in-mission medical care.
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»» NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 13 July 2008
[Sunday, July 13, 2008] After wakeup and before breakfast, FE-2 Chamitoff downloaded the SLEEP (Sleep-Wake Actigraphy & Light Exposure during Spaceflight) experiment data from his Actiwatches to the HRF-1 (Human Research Facility 1) laptop.
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»» NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 14 July 2008
[Monday, July 14, 2008] All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below.
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»» Wayne Hale's NASA Blog: Old Flight Director War Stories
[Monday, July 14, 2008] Right now, by popular demand, I thought I'd tell a story about what happened to me when I was a brand new shuttle Flight Director. It sorta ties into some of last week's blog and I promise it won't be pithy or pontificate . . .
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»» NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 15 July 2008
[Tuesday, July 15, 2008] The Orlan spacewalk EVA-20 by CDR Volkov and FE-1 Kononenko from the DC1 (Docking Compartment) airlock lasted 5 hrs 54 min. All objectives were successfully achieved.
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»» NASA Directs Contractor To Adopt Ares and Orion Launch Date Postponements
[Tuesday, July 15, 2008] NASA has asked its main contractor for its new Orion spacecraft to prepare estimates for what it would cost to shift a number of important program milestones for the initial Ares 1 rocket and Orion spacecraft missions.
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»» NASA Internal Presentation: CxMPR, Orion Project Office, 2 July 2008
[Wednesday, July 16, 2008] This internal NASA presentation provides a snapshot of progress and issues associated with the Orion Project.
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»» NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 16 July 2008
[Wednesday, July 16, 2008] After this morning's sleeptime at 12:20am EDT, wakeup today was delayed to 9:50am. Bedtime tonight moves to a more "normal" 8:00pm for the rest of this week
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»» First Hubble Flight Hardware Arrives At Kennedy For NASA Space Shuttle Mission STS-125
[Wednesday, July 16, 2008] The first major flight hardware for the fifth and final space shuttle servicing mission to NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is starting to arrive at the Kennedy Space Center, Fla., to begin preparations for its targeted October launch.
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»» Space Station Astronauts to Visit NASA Marshall Space Flight Center July 22
[Wednesday, July 16, 2008] International Space Station crew members of Expeditions 15, 16 and 17, including Expedition 16 Commander Peggy Whitson, will visit NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., July 22.
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»» Heads of Agency International Space Station Joint Statement
[Thursday, July 17, 2008] The heads of the International Space Station (ISS) agencies from Canada, Europe, Japan, Russia and the United States met at European Space Agency (ESA) Headquarters in Paris on July 17, 2008, to review ISS cooperation.
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»» NASA's Use of Human Cadavers In Testing the Design of the Orion Spacecraft
[Thursday, July 17, 2008] I recently learned that NASA has made some limited use of human cadavers in testing during the development of the Orion spacecraft. As you will see, there is a practical reason for using this approach.
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»» NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 17 July 2008
[Thursday, July 17, 2008] After last night's sleeptime at 8:00pm EDT, wakeup today was at a more regular 4:30am, to extend again to 8:00pm tonight.
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»» NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 18 July 2008
[Saturday, July 19, 2008] All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below.
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»» NASA Solicitation: Scale Models on International Space Station With Logistic Vehicles
[Saturday, July 19, 2008] "Ten (10) of the Scale Models shall be delivered to each of the two (2) NASA centers (a total of 20 models)"
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»» NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 19 July 2008
[Saturday, July 19, 2008] All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below. Saturday - mostly off duty for CDR Volkov, FE-1 Kononenko & FE-2 Chamitoff.
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»» NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 20 July 2008
[Monday, July 21, 2008] Sunday - rest day for CDR Volkov, FE-1 Kononenko & FE-2 Chamitoff. Ahead: Week 14 of Increment 17.
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»» NASA Statement on Inaccurate Reports About Japanese Cargo Services
[Monday, July 21, 2008] Contrary to news reports, NASA has not officially or unofficially been discussing the purchase of H-II Transfer Vehicles (HTV) -- uninhabited resupply cargo ships for the space station -- from the Japanese Space Agency, or JAXA.
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»» NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 21 July 2008
[Monday, July 21, 2008] All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below. Underway: Week 14 of Increment 17.
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»» NASA, USDA Sign Space Station Research Agreement
[Wednesday, July 23, 2008] Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison hosted NASA Administrator Michael Griffin and Secretary of Agriculture Edward T. Schafer during the signing of a MOU to enable the USDA ARS to conduct plant related research on the International Space Station.
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»» NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 22 July 2008
[Wednesday, July 23, 2008] FE-1 Kononenko performed the periodic service of the active Russian BMP (Harmful Impurities Removal System) by starting the bake-out cycle to vacuum on absorbent bed #1 of the regenerable dual-channel filtration system.
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»» NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 23 July 2008
[Wednesday, July 23, 2008] Before breakfast and first exercise, CDR Volkov, FE-1 Kononenko and FE-2 Chamitoff completed a full session with the Russian crew health monitoring program's medical assessment MO-9/Biochemical Urinalysis.
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»» NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 24 July 2008
[Friday, July 25, 2008] CDR Volkov made preparations for a run of the Russian/German TEKh-20 Plasma Crystal-3 Plus (PK-3+) experiment payload, the first of Expedition 17, by unstowing the hardware, installing it in the SM for operation and photographing the setup.
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»» NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 25 July 2008
[Saturday, July 26, 2008] CDR Sergey Volkov continued preparations for operating the Russian/German TEKh-20 Plasma Crystal-3 Plus (PK-3+) experiment payload, the first time for Expedition 17.
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»» NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 26 July 2008
[Saturday, July 26, 2008] Saturday - mostly off duty for CDR Volkov, FE-1 Kononenko & FE-2 Chamitoff.
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»» NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 27 July 2008
[Monday, July 28, 2008] All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below.
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»» NASA Sets Briefings for Hubble Space Telescope Shuttle Mission
[Monday, July 28, 2008] NASA will hold a series of news media briefings Sept. 8 - 9 to preview the space shuttle's fifth and final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope.
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»» NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 28 July 2008
[Monday, July 28, 2008] All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below. Underway: Week 15 of Increment 17.
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