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18 Mar 2003

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ISS On-Orbit Status 3/15/03

Part 1 of 2

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

First day of "an awesome weekend" (uplinked wish by Flight Control),
except of course for a few routine tasks.

As on every normal Saturday, the crew floated through their celestial
home with vacuum cleaner, wet wipes and disinfectants, completing the
3-hr. "uborka stantsii" house cleaning.

FE-1 Nikolai Budarin completed his daily checkup of the BIO-5
Rasteniya-2/Lada-2 zero-G plant growth experiment.

At 9:10am EST, the crew conducted a 15-min. ISS program management
conference with MCC-H.

After incorporating crew inputs from the first manifesting conference
on 3/6, new proposed cargo manifests for 11P/Progress, 6S/Soyuz and
5S/Soyuz were uplinked to the crew. [For the returning 5S, U.S.
mandatory cargo (10 kg mass) consists of science samples with limited
life, environmental samples to monitor crew health, and minimal film.
Additional highly desired items were also identified, if they can be
accommodated. For 11P, mandatory U.S. items (74 kg) include CDMK
(carbon dioxide monitoring kit) and CSA-CP (compound specific
analyzer-combustion products) battery packs, SVO water supply system
adapters, CDRA (CO2 removal assembly) valves, RED (resistive exercise
device) canister and harness cords; in addition, 21 food rations
containers (131 kg), plus many other candidates on a mass/volume
availability basis. For the 6S launch, U.S. mandatory cargo (30.6 kg)
involves mostly CheCS (crew health care system) items, EVA hardware
like gloves, and provisions like batteries, plus food rations (62 kg)
in the Russian allocation.]

Budarin performed the daily routine maintenance of the SOZh life
support system in the Service Module (SM), and FE-2/SO Don Pettit
prepared the IMS (inventory management system) auto import/export
update files. 

CDR Ken Bowersox conducted the weekly download of exercise files from
the TVIS treadmill, RED, and CEVIS ergometer to the MEC (medical
equipment computer). [The 40-min. activity includes unstowing of
logs, configuring the MEC, downloading the data, and stowing.]

All crewmembers performed their regular daily physical exercise
regimen (2.5 hrs.).

A new activity of taking periodic airflow measurements was added to
the "job jar" task list for Don Pettit, starting today. [This
involves new readings with the Velocicalc instrument at the Lab aft
port diffuser, to provide MCC-H with a baseline of the airflow going
through the Node and Lab with Node duct blocks on. The last diffuser
readings taken by Pettit are now considered invalid due to the
collapsed FGB duct (reported on 3/11).] 

Also added to today's task list were four weekend tasks for Bowersox
to work on the Defibrillator in the Lab's CheCS rack. [The work
involves removing a suspect/failed battery from the defib and
replacing it with a spare. The spare battery was then to be charged
to full capacity and its open circuit voltage tested several times
thereafter.] 

The crew was thanked for their recent successful updating of the
Lab's printer network card firmware so that it now can work with the
"twisted pair" cabling in the SM (ref. 3/3 Status Report) if the need
arises. 

MSG (Microgravity Science Glovebox) troubleshooting: Yesterday's
re-installation of the last connector (P117) has apparently not
triggered the putative fault. The next step in the plan is
power-cycle testing (On/Off) next Monday (3/17).

Monday's schedule will also include the resumption of the Russian
software upgrading, viz., the loading of the KTsP1, Laptop 1, TVM,
TsVM, and US matching unit computers with the 7.01 code, as well as
reinitialization of the reduced-redundancy Central (TsVM) and
Terminal (TVM) computers.. 

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