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13 Jun 2003

ISS On-Orbit Status 13 June 2003

All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except as noted
previously or below.

After wake-up (2:00am EDT), CDR Yuri Malenchenko and FE/SO Ed Lu
removed the probe-and-cone docking mechanism (StM) of the M1-10 cargo
vehicle's docking and internal transfer system (SSVP), stowing it out
of the way. 

The crew then began unloading of. Progress 11P.  The cargo transfer
operations, based on an uplinked cargo manifest with stowage
locations, are accompanied by careful inventory auditing for the IMS
(inventory management system).

Earlier, Malenchenko performed his regular daily monitoring/servicing
of the BIO-5 Rasteniya-2 ("Plants-2") zero-G plant growth experiment,
checking water level in the Lada-2 greenhouse water container and the
seed status. 

Yuri also set up the video camera with the Rubinar binocular
telescopic device with electronics, for a checkout in support of the
Russian DZZ-2 Diatomeya ocean observation program and later
downlinked the video footage to MCC-M/TsUP, before closing out the
DZZ-2 TV system. 

Ed Lu completed his fifth weekly filling-out of the FFQ (food
frequency questionnaire), which keeps a log of his nutritional intake
over time on special MEC software.

Lu also performed the regular daily inspection of the SOZh life
support systems, including ASU toilet facilities, and conducted the
periodic status checkup of autonomously running Lab payloads
(PCG-STES010, SAMS, MAMS), while Malenchenko later will prepare the
daily IMS (inventory management system) delta file for updating the
inventory database. 

The Science Officer conducted another one of the weekly inventory
audits of the available CWCs (contingency water containers) and their
contents.  [Last time done: 6/6].

Ed is also scheduled to perform the periodic transfer of accumulated
data files from the CMS HRM (crew medical systems/heart rate monitor)
to the MEC (medical equipment computer) for downlink, then deleted
them on the HRM. 

After their regular daily physical exercise on TVIS and RED, the crew
will have their weekly teleconference with the ISS Flight Director at
MCC-H. 

Today's CEO (crew earth observation) targets, no longer limited in
the current LVLH attitude and including the targets of the Lewis &
Clark 200-year memorial locations, were Eastern Mediterranean Dust
and Smog (a hot, dry air mass persists over the eastern Med.  As ISS
crossed the Egyptian coast, the crew was to look left of track
towards the island of Crete and the coast of Turkey for evidence of
smog layers, enhanced over the darker water), Tigris-Euphrates,
Turkey (numerous agricultural fires are being detected in satellite
imagery over eastern Turkey.  Continuing looking left of track for
smoke plumes and point sources), Eastern Mediterranean Dust and Smog
(this was a very nice pass to look for aerosol plumes drifting over
the basin of the Adriatic Sea. As ISS tracked across southern Italy,
the crew was to look left of track), Gulf of Maine plankton (an
opportunity this pass to acquire imagery concurrent with surface
observations being conducted of plankton masses in the Gulf of
Maine.  Although visibility was marginal, especially to the south,
crew was to try for any views possible to the right of track between
Massachusetts and Nova Scotia), Missouri R. sites (LEWIS & CLARK
SITE(S): Trying for context views of the Missouri River NW of Kansas
City.  Almost a dozen sites are in this area where early in the
expedition, the explorers took to specially designed boats to take
advantage of the navigable waterway), Montana Box (LEWIS & CLARK
SITE(S): Looking to the right of track during this pass for the
confluence of the Missouri and Yellowstone Rivers.  Here in the
spring of 1805, against the advice of their Indian guides, the
explorers opted to use the Missouri.  By taking the Yellowstone their
journey could have been shortened by two months!) and High Central
Andean Glaciers (although nadir views may not have been possible, the
weather is much better than usual over this target area.  Trying for
oblique context views of the small glacier features, either side of
track, but especially to the right). CEO images can be viewed at the
websites http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov See
also the website "Space Station Challenge" at
http://voyager.cet.edu/iss/

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