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09/27/08: International Space Station On-Orbit Status Report.
09/27/08: International Space Station On-Orbit Status Report
Another piece of debris from the Kosmos-2421 satellite (Object 87055) will pass by ISS on 9/29 (Monday) at 5:04am EDT. Latest trajectory predictions indicate a miss distance of 30.4 km. MCC-H specialists are closely monitoring. If DAM (Debris Avoidance Maneuver) is required, it could replace the ISS reboost scheduled for 10/2.
At ~10:00am EDT the crewmembers conducted their regular WPC (Weekly Planning Conference) with the ground, discussing next week’s “Look-Ahead Plan” (prepared jointly by MCC-Houston and TsUP-Moscow timeline planners) via S-band/audio, reviewing the monthly calendar, upcoming activities, and any concerns about future on-orbit events.
FE-2 Chamitoff conducted Part 1 of his Flight Day 120 session (his fifth) with the NASA/JSC experiment NUTRITION w/Repository, for blood collection only, for which he had to forego exercising and food intake since yesterday for eight hours. Later today, the FE-2 will set up the equipment for the 24-hour urine collections which start with the first void early tomorrow morning. Volkov & Kononenko assisted. [After the CDR performed the phlebotomy, i.e., drawing Greg?s blood samples (from an arm vein), with the FE-1 taking photographs, the samples were first allowed to coagulate in the Repository for 20-30 minutes, then spun in the HRF RC (Human Research Facility/Refrigerated Centrifuge) and finally placed in MELFI (Minus-Eighty Laboratory Freezer for ISS). No thruster activity was allowed during the blood drawing. The RC was later powered off after a temperature reset to limit wear on the compressor, and cleaned. The NUTRITION project is the most comprehensive in-flight study done by NASA to date of human physiologic changes during long-duration space flight. It includes measures of bone metabolism, oxidative damage, nutritional assessments, and hormonal changes, expanding the previous Clinical Nutritional Assessment profile (MR016L) testing in three ways: Addition of in-flight blood & urine collection (made possible by supercold MELFI dewars), normative markers of nutritional assessment, and a return session plus 30-day (R+30) session to allow evaluation of post-flight nutrition and implications for rehabilitation.]
- courtesy of NASA Office of Space Operations; image credit: NASA
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