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15 Jun 2003

ISS On-Orbit Status 14 June 2003

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

Except for standard maintenance and optional task list jobs, the crew
is off duty on this first day of the weekend.  It's a safe bet that
they are enjoying their assortment of fresh fruits and vegetables
brought up by Progress 11P.

"Flying" through their voluminous residence after wake-up at the
regular 2:00am EDT, morning inspection, hygiene and breakfast, CDR
Malenchenko and FE/SO Lu performed the regular weekly 3-hr.
housecleaning, which involves removal of food waste products,
cleaning of compartments with vacuum cleaner, wet cleaning of the
Service Module (SM) dining table and other surfaces with
disinfectants ("Fungistat") and cleaning of fan screens to avoid
temperature rises. 

Yuri Malenchenko completed the regular weekly maintenance/inspection
of the BRPK-1 air/liquid condensate separator of the SM's SRVK water
processing system.   The CDR also was to perform the regular daily
inspection of the SOZh life support systems, while Ed Lu will prepare
the daily IMS (inventory management system) delta file for automatic
export/import to update the database.

The crew will conduct their regular daily workout on TVIS (treadmill)
and RED (resistive trainer).

Working from the Russian discretionary task list, Malenchenko
conducted another session of the Russian Uragan ("hurricane") earth
imaging program (GFI-8), using the Kodak DCS 760 digital camera with
f/400 focal length lens.

Yuri and ED were also scheduled for their regular weekly planning
conference with the ground via S-band/audio, discussing next week's
"Look-Ahead Plan" (regularly prepared jointly by MCC-H and MCC-M
planners).  They also had their weekly tagup with ISS Program
management. 

At 1:20pm EDT, Ed Lu is to engage in a ham radio pass with amateur
fans at Apprenti-Sage School, an elementary school in Québec City,
which has an attendance of nearly 600 students.

Weekly Science Update (Expedition Seven -- 6th): "The CEO images
downlinked this week were phenomenal."   A valuable InSPACE run and
Interactions session was also completed this week; as well as reboots
on the EXPRESS Rack laptops.  The ground is currently working with
the EPO team to complete lesson plans for the remainder of the EPO
activities this increment as the crew has requested.  The middle
school students that built the Wright Flyer were able to view the
downlinked video this week and were very excited to see their work
aboard ISS. 

GASMAP:   Next 30-day health check is next week.   Human Research
Facility/Workstation (HRF WS):   Continuing.

Pore Formation and Mobility Investigation (PFMI):  Waiting to begin
operations.

Space Acceleration Measurement System (SAMS):  SAMS is nominal and
currently analyzing data in support of general characterization of
the ISS acceleration environment.  Captured acceleration data with
SAMS during 11 Progress docking.

Microgravity Acceleration Measurement System (MAMS):  MAMS is nominal
and currently analyzing data in support of general characterization
of the ISS acceleration environment.  Captured acceleration data with
MAMS during 11 Progress docking.

Protein Crystal Growth-Single Locker Thermal Enclosure System
(PCG-STES): PCG STES is operating nominally.  Temperatures are
holding steady at ~22.00 deg C.

Investigating the Structure of Paramagnetic Aggregates from Colloidal
Emulsions (InSPACE):   There was only one InSPACE run this week with
the new large particle sample, but it proved to be a very interesting
one.  There was much structure development in both the straight and
right angle views. Due to numerous available Ku band passes, the
ground was able to see much of this activity in real time. There were
massive columnar structures that appeared as dark bands on the RT
view and as thick concentrated circular spots on the ST view.  These
structures continue evolving up to the end of the run.  The ground
also observed on the ST view a relationship between the size of the
structure and their spacing.  Looking forward to another successful
run next week. 

Materials ISS Experiment (MISSE):  In progress.  Deployed outside.
Nominal and collecting data.

Earth Knowledge Acquired by Middle School Students (EarthKAM):
Waiting to begin operations in July.

Coarsening in Solid-Liquid Mixtures-2 (CSLM-2):  Waiting to begin
operations.

Educational Payload Operations (EPO):  The ground is working to
compile a lesson plan for the Pu'ili Hawaiian flute activity as well
as the remaining EPO activities for this Increment.  The plans will
hopefully be finalized very soon so that the crew can resume work
with the EPO payloads.  The students who built the Wright Flyer model
were amazed when they saw their work on ISS.  The crew's
participation in the EPO payload has touched many lives.

Crew Earth Observation (CEO):  The crew received an animation of
their aurora imagery created by Dr. Tony Phillips, editor of the NASA
Science Internet site http://science{at}nasa.gov ..  The crew's "
beautifully composed" photo of the Gosses Bluff, an ancient impact
crater in Australia's Northern Territories is this week's CEO
contribution to Earth Observatory (website see below).  The crew was
thanked for their enthusiasm on acquiring imagery of the Lewis &
Clark sites.  These are small, challenging targets to spot and
describe, but there will be more and better opportunities through
the summer to catch them with good illumination and hopefully better
weather. 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 Lake Nasser, Toshka
Lakes (looking right of track this pass for rare sun glint views of
both Lake Nasser and the new lakes in the desert to the west),
Western Mediterranean Smog (this is a good pass to document smog over
the industrialized Rhone River valley of southeastern France.  As ISS
crossed the northwestern Med, the crew was to look left of track),
Eastern Mediterranean Smog (tracking southeastward over the Balkans
and looking right of track towards Italy to document low sunlit smog
plumes over the darker waters of the Adriatic Sea), Fort Mandan, ND
(LEWIS & CLARK SITE: Looking left of track along the Missouri River
in the vicinity of Bismarck for the site of the expedition's 1805
winter encampment.  A good context view of this area will be useful),
and Congo-Zimbabwe Biomass Burning (burning season is approaching its
seasonal peak in southern Africa.  Looking left of track for smoke
plumes and point sources). 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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