Space Forum / Space Station / March 2005

Before man ever sets an extremely dusty and hot or even a sub-frozen
foot onto our moon, as for all of the right and honorable reasons of
Earth science and thereby Earth environment and of the humanity upon
Earth, I believe this can be directly served by moving ISS to the moon.

Training of American astronauts for flights on the Russian "Soyuz" is
temporarily stopped
29.03.2005, 12.22 (08:22 GMT)  MOSCOW, ITAR-TASS correspondent:
In Zvezdni Gorodok (Starry Town) near Moscow the training of American

Service Module thermal control system must be fixed to allow EVA to proceed
(seems like a relatively straightforward R&R, I hope we can confirm the fix
quickly)
Any more details about crew/MCC discussion of this problem and its

http://cbsnews.cbs.com/network/news/space/recent.html
Update: Gyro shutdown no threat to shuttle visit; oxygen reserves also in
good shape
The shutdown of an orientation control gyroscope aboard the international

One thing I haven't seen is any actual figures on what sort of
force is being applied to the ISS by $WHATEVER.  Surely this can
be derived from the telemetry?  Then it could be compared with
the forces that might be generated by a spacesuit venting.  Even

Anybody monitoring a/g, please make special notes on
discussions regarding the latest 'troubleshooting' on Elektron:
From Saturday's on-orbit status report:
"The crew worked another 2-hour troubleshooting task on the Elektron oxygen

For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
March 11, 2005
Personnel Announcement

according to Russian wire stories

Cargo Ship to Dock With ISS on Wednesday
Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 10 Commander Leroy Chiao
and Flight Engineer Salizhan Sharipov are awaiting the arrival of a Progress
cargo ship. ISS Progress 17 is slated to dock with the aft end of the