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ISS STATUS 24 OCTOBER 2005
- Subject: [sarex] ISS STATUS 24 OCTOBER 2005
- From: "ARTHUR Z. ROWE" <N1ORC@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 15:08:33 -0400
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SUBMITTED BY ARTHUR N1ORC - AMSAT A/C #31468
Crew Enacts "No White Sox" Policy on Station
Expedition 12 crew Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur, right, and
Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev show their Astros spirit in honor of the
Houston baseball team's participation in the World Series. McArthur, a
longtime Houston resident and Astros fan, decreed a "no white sox"
policy onboard the station and asked Mission Control for a plan to
"trash or jettison" all of the crew's white socks. (Image NOT SHOWN)
Aboard their orbital home, Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur and
Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev continue preparing for an upcoming
spacewalk, conducting scientific experiments and capturing dramatic
images of Hurricane Wilma.
As Hurricane Wilma churned through the Caribbean, the station crew
documented the storm's fury through a series of spectacular photographs
taken from an altitude of 222 miles.
McArthur and Tokarev conducted the first of three sessions with the
Renal Stone experiment last Wednesday. Through this ongoing experiment,
researchers are working to develop effective countermeasures to the
formation of kidney stones in crewmembers during space travel.
The Expedition 12 crew will perform the first of two spacewalks
scheduled for the mission on Nov. 7. McArthur and Tokarev took some time
last week to begin reviewing the procedures for their upcoming
extravehicular activity, the objectives of which include the
installation of a new video camera on the P1 truss structure and the
retrieval of a probe attached to the top of the P6 truss.
Russian technical specialists are investigating the cause of the abort
of a recent planned reboost intended to increase the station's altitude
by about 8 miles. A test firing of the thrusters is planned for
Wednesday to gather more data on the matter.
Nov. 2 will mark a major milestone in the annals of space exploration:
the fifth anniversary of continuous human presence in space aboard the
international space station.
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