2003
Report #30 
4 p.m. CDT, Friday, June 20, 2003 
Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas 
 
Expedition 7 Commander Yuri Malenchenko and NASA International Space
Station Science Officer Ed Lu donned Hawaiian aloha shirts this week
to show off some of the clothing they had unpacked from a newly
arrived Russian resupply craft. They wore the red and white, flowered
shirts - complete with the Expedition 7 crew patch - in downlink
television interviews. 

Malenchenko and Lu answered questions posed by reporters from CNN,
CBS and KCRA-TV, Sacramento, Calif., during breaks in their Progress
unloading and scientific research. Lu even took a moment in one
interview to play a short rendition of the "Peanuts" theme on a
keyboard he has been practicing with on orbit. 

But for the most part, it was a busy week of work as the pair
unloaded about two tons of food, water, clothing, office supplies,
environmental system replacement parts and experiment gear from
Progress 11. The Russian cargo craft automatically docked to the Pirs
Docking Compartment on June 11; the Expedition 7 crew began unloading
the cargo ship last Friday. Water transfers were effected using hoses
and a portable electric pump that moved about 210 liters of drinking
water from the Progress into a bladder in the Zvezda Service Module.
Each crewmember uses about 2 liters of water per day. 

In addition, propellant valves were opened between the Service Module
fuel system and the Pirs system to enable fuel to be transferred from
the new Progress to Zvezda. 

Tuesday, Lu slipped his hands into the Microgravity Science Glovebox
to continue work with the Investigating the Structure of Paramagnetic
Aggregates from Colloidal Emulsions (InSPACE) experiment. InSPACE is
investigating a type of "smart fluids" that researchers hope will
help improve braking and vibration damping systems. Lu beamed down
video of his setup and deactivation of the experiment, as well as
shots of the bright green liquid inside the experiment chamber.
Scientists at the Payload Operations Center at Marshall Space Flight
Center in Huntsville, Ala., monitored the experiment and the
associated video. 

Next week, the crew will continue unpacking the Progress and
transferring fuel to Zvezda's tanks. Also on the schedule is a
ship-to-ship conversation between the crew and Peggy Whitson, the
Expedition 5 science officer who is commanding a 14-day underwater
research mission as part of the NASA Extreme Environment Operations
(NEEMO) project. That conversation will be broadcast live on NASA TV
at 11:25 a.m. CDT Wednesday, June 25, between the ISS and the
Aquarius underwater lab off the coast of Key Largo, Fla. 

Information on the crew's activities aboard the space station, future
launch dates, as well as station sighting opportunities from anywhere
on the Earth, is available on the Internet at: 

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/

Details on station science operations can be found on an Internet
site administered by the Payload Operations Center at NASA's Marshall
Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., at: 

http://scipoc.msfc.nasa.gov/

The next ISS status report will be issued on Friday, June 27, or
earlier, if events warrant. 

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