Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2004 Vol. 9, No. 58

Thermal protection added ISS Expedition 9 crew preps on Discovery, Atlantis for Progress cargo ship arrival

V Shuttle Update: Work a 4-½ hour spacewalk, they replaced 7-8 a.m., at OHF (Occupational Health on Discovery is returning to a experiments on the outside of the Facility); and Thursday, 7-8 a.m., at more normal processing flow Zvezda Service Module and installed LAC (Launch Area Clinic – MFF). No in preparing for its future navigation aids for next year’s arrival appointment is necessary. Please fast mission to the International of a European cargo craft. for 12 hours prior (water only). The Space Station. The conical seal The crew wrapped up last week 2-page CVD questionnaire can be installation on the Rudder Speed with Fincke conducting more picked up at any medical facility. Brake (RSB) is continuing. Conical experiments with the advanced The questionnaire can also be seals provide thermal protection for ultrasound equipment, as well as downloaded from the SGS home the RSB hinges and drum actuators. updating software for the Station page/forms: http://kscboc- Work also continues on reassembling Acceleration Measurement System forms/KSCForms2/ref/KSC28- water coolant loop one, as does the that collects information on the effect 1010.itr. This form can be filled out routine post-operations testing on the of crew activity on delicate micro- online and then printed. Please print left-hand Orbital Maneuvering gravity experiments housed onboard each page separately. the complex. System Pod thruster. Q 2004 KSC Fitness Centers Inter- At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Wing leading edge work center Walk/Run — The KSC Kazakhstan, final preparations are continues on Atlantis with 13 right- Fitness Centers are sponsoring this under way for Wednesday’s launch of hand Reinforced Carbon-Carbon annual event that begins 5 p.m. Sept. the Russian ISS Progress 15 cargo (RCC) panels hung and 17 left-hand 14 at the Shuttle Landing Facility. ship that will transport almost three panels hung. Installation of the nose The 2-mile walk or run; 5K run and tons of food, fuel, water and supplies cap blankets also continues. These 10K run are free for all Spaceport for the crew, as well as clothing and thermal blankets, which are employees. Stop by either Fitness supplies for the Expedition 10 crew, manufactured at KSC using heat- Center by Sept. 10 to pre-register. Commander Leroy Chiao and Flight resistant fibers, line the inside of the Late registration takes place at the Engineer and Soyuz Commander nose cap, which is made of RCC, to race. T-shirts may be ordered at any Salizhan Sharipov, who are scheduled provide further insulation for the NASA Exchange store. The order to launch to the Station Oct. 9. orbiter. Workers checked the main deadline is Aug. 31 for T-shirts to be The Progress 15 craft is scheduled landing gear door rigging last week, delivered before the race. If you are to lift off at 1:03 a.m. EDT Wednes- and also prepared water coolant loop interested in being a volunteer, please day for a three-day trip to the Station. one for draining. call Debra Orringer at 867-7829. Docking is scheduled at 1:02 a.m. V ISS Update: Aboard the EDT Saturday. NASA Television will Q Did You Know? In the event of a International Space Station last week, provide live coverage and commen- hurricane, return-to-work information Expedition 9 Commander Gennady tary of the docking beginning at will be broadcast over local radio and Padalka and NASA ISS Science midnight Aug. 14. television stations, and also will be Officer Mike Fincke resumed available on the KSC Hurricane scientific investigations and per- Q August Cardiovascular Disease Information Hotline at 861-7900. formed routine maintenance. During Screening Schedule — Wednesday,

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