Space Forum / Space Station / May 2005

Allard Beutel
Headquarters, Washington                          March 4, 2005
(Phone: 202/358-4769)
James Hartsfield

Allard Beutel
Headquarters, Washington                  Feb. 18, 2005
(Phone: 202/358-4769)
James Hartsfield

Flight Controllers Test Robot Arm; Crew Prepares for Progress Undocking
As the International Space Station orbited the Earth in good shape Thursday,
U.S. flight controllers conducted a test with the orbital outpost's robot
arm. The operation's objective was to test the ability of ...

Baikonur Cosmodrome, 23-02-2005,
Designers inspection of the Progress M-52 cargo vehicle was completed in the
Spacecraft Assembly and Testing Facility.
Payload shroud roll on to the Progress M-52 spacecraft was performed.

For the first time last month, technicians at ESA's research centre in
Noordwijk, the Netherlands, including an ESA astronaut, entered inside the
vertically positioned Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), Jules Verne, in
order to simulate the late loading of cargo bags.

Does Mars need women? Russians say no
   http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6955149/
   COMMENTARY
   By James Oberg, NBC News space analyst

NASA Memo Confirms Spacewalk Thruster Incident
MSNBC.com // Cosmic Log // by Alan Boyle
Feb. 10, 2005 | 9:35 p.m. ET
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6930243/#050210b

courtesy www.spaceref.com
ISS On-Orbit Status 5 May 2005 -- All ISS systems continue to function
nominally, except those noted previously or below.
   After today's major Elektron repair work, the O2 generator continues to

Soyuz battery worry may force landing 1 rev early
From April 21 On-Orbit Status Report (courtesy spaceref.com),
"Soyuz-215/9S Status: The backup/reserve battery of the Soyuz 9S vehicle is
known to be degraded, with some unquantifiable charge remaining. TsUP/Moscow

courtesy Keith Cowing's site:
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=16330
ISS On-Orbit Status (April 24): "Because of the currently wet and muddy
ground conditions in the general landing zone, landing forces are

This July, ESA astronaut Thomas Reiter from Germany is about to become the
first European to live and work on the International Space Station (ISS) on
a long-duration mission.
ESA Director of Human Spaceflight, Microgravity and Exploration, Daniel

Has anyone seen any images of the Soyuz
Descent Module on the ground -- in the mud --
near the river, where it landed?