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ISS On-Orbit Status 05/20/09

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

FE-1 Barratt continued his second run of sleep logging for the experiment SLEEP (Sleep-Wake Actigraphy & Light Exposure during Spaceflight) from his Actiwatch to the HRF-1 (Human Research Facility 1) laptop as part of a week-long session. This is similar to Barratt's BCD (Baseline Data Collection) which was performed pre-flight for comparison. [To monitor the crewmember's sleep/wake patterns and light exposure, Mike wears a special Actiwatch device which measures the light levels encountered by them as well as his patterns of sleep and activity throughout the Expedition and uses the payload software for data logging and filling in questionnaire entries in the experiment's laptop session file on the HRF-1 laptop. The log entries are done within 15 minutes of final awakening for seven consecutive days.]

ISS Orbit (as of this morning, 6:19am EDT [= epoch])
Mean altitude -- 350.5 km
Apogee height -- 357.0 km
Perigee height -- 344.0 km
Period -- 91.55 min.
Inclination (to Equator) -- 51.64 deg
Eccentricity -- 0.0009658
Solar Beta Angle -- 38.7 deg (magnitude peaking)
Orbits per 24-hr. day -- 15.73
Mean altitude loss in the last 24 hours -- 64 m
Revolutions since FGB/Zarya launch (Nov. 98) -- 60158

Significant Events Ahead (all dates Eastern Time, some changes possible!):
05/22/09 -- STS-125/Atlantis landing (KSC -- 11:42am EDT)
05/27/09 -- Soyuz TMA-15/19S launch (6:34am EDT)
05/29/09 -- Soyuz TMA-15/19S docking (FGB nadir, ~8:36am)

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NASA has cancelled the May 20 Media Event for the arrival of the Tranquility Node, because of bad forecasted weather conditions at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, and arrival time of the Tranquility node is uncertain.

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NASA astronauts to pay $51 mn to Russia for space flights.
Russian space agency Roscosmos and the US space agency NASA have agreed on a new price for ferrying US astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) after 2012.

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The European-built Node 3 module for the International Space Station will be shipped to NASA's Kennedy Space Centre, Florida, on 17 May. Media representatives are invited to view the module and attend a ceremony to mark the departure of Node 3.
The Node 3 connecting module, built by prime contractor Thales Alenia Space in Turin, Italy, is the last element of a barter agreement by which ESA supplied NASA with International Space Station (ISS) hardware, including the Cupola and two Node modules (Node 2 and 3). In return, NASA ferried the European Columbus laboratory to the ISS in February 2008.

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The fans of Stephen Colbert had hijacked the voting NASA was conducting on what they should name the new node of the ISS. Colbert won the vote via a write-in campaign, by over 50,000 votes over second place name, Serenity. After the vote, NASA announced it was going to hold the announcement of the decision. Finally, word came out that the results would be announced on The Colbert Report on Tuesday night, April 14th. A lot of folks thought that NASA was going to give in and name it Colbert.
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NASA announced Tuesday that it won't name a room in the international space station after the comedian, Stephen Colbert. Instead, it has named a treadmill after him.
NASA earlier held an online contest to name a room (or "node") at the space station. With write-in votes, the name "Colbert" beat out NASA's four suggested options: Serenity, Legacy, Earthrise and Venture.

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The International Space Station module formerly known as Node 3 has a new name. After more than a million online responses, the node will be called "Tranquility."
The name Tranquility was chosen from thousands of suggestions submitted by participants on NASA's Web site. The "Help Name Node 3" poll asked people to vote for the module's name either by choosing one of four options listed by NASA or offering their own suggestion. Tranquility was one of the top ten suggestions submitted by respondents to the poll, which ended March 20.

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In May 2009, Frank De Winne, of Belgian nationality and a member of the European Astronaut Corps, will fly to the International Space Station at the start of his six-month mission. This mission sees him become the first European commander of the Station by October 2009. ESA has now given his mission the name OasISS.
During his stay on the International Space Station (ISS), De Winne will conduct scientific experiments developed by scientists from different European countries and others worldwide. In addition he will perform technology demonstrations and an education programme. De Winne will also be instrumental in operating the Station's robotic arm and that of the Kibo module, to help install the external payloads for the Japanese laboratory.

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NASA has spent two weeks searching for the cause behind turbulence felt on the international space station during a routine orbital adjustment.
According to experts in Houston and Moscow, the ISS shook back and forth for two minutes during a routine adjustment last month.  They are still searching for the cause.
Experts caution that it is too early to determine how much damage occurred during the incident, but in a worst-case scenario the ISS could have structural damage that could affect the stations power-generating system.
The incident has delayed a rocket burn scheduled for Wednesday intended to prepare the ISS to receive visiting spacecraft, and has left the dates of the visiting spacecraft missions in doubt.
The original rocket command sequence that occurred on Jan. 14 involved two thrust engines on the stations Russian-built Zvezda service module.  The adjustment was intended to raise the stations orbit.

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