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ISS Progress 26 Launches To Station
Moscow, Russia (SPX) Aug 02, 2007 The ISS Progress 26 (P26) craft launched Thursday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 1:34 p.m. EDT. The P26 vehicle is loaded with 5,111 pounds of food, fuel, air, water and supplies. P26 is scheduled to dock with the station on Aug. 5. On the station, Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and Flight Engineer Olog Kotov reconfigured the Kurs automated rendezvous system in the Zvezda Service Module in preparation for the P26 docking. Wednesday's undocking of the ISS Progress 24 (P24) was successfully completed at 10:07 a.m. Configuration issues resulted in the Progress not doing the separation burn, but the deorbit burn occurred on time. P24 was about four miles from the station when the deorbit burn began a little after 2:40 p.m. Wednesday, sending the Progress and its load of trash to destruction in the Earth's atmosphere. Flight Engineer Clay Anderson conducted routine periodic inspections of the station's smoke detectors Thursday and Kotov did routine air sampling in the station. Yurchikhin and Anderson continued to pack items no longer needed on the station for return aboard space shuttle Endeavour during its STS-118 mission. Anderson also held a conference with the STS-118 crew to discuss spacewalk preparations.
earlier related report The ship undocked from the ISS at 6:07 p.m. Moscow time (2:07 p.m. GMT). Mission Control is preparing another cargo ship - Progress M-61 - for launch to the orbital station in line with the ISS flight program. Mission Control said last week it successfully adjusted the station's orbit in preparation for the docking of the U.S. space shuttle Endeavour. The launch of the NASA STS-118 mission is targeted for August 7. It will be the 22nd flight to the ISS and the first flight for Endeavour since 2002. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links Expedition 15 at NASA ISS Progress 26 Launch Russian Space News
Russian Rocket Company Meets To Fire And Hire The Bosses
Korolev, Russia (SPX) Aug 02, 2007A special shareholders' meeting of the open joint stock company (JSC) S.P.Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, convened by a resolution of the Board of Directors, has taken place Monday August 1. 3427 participants registered at the meeting to represent the interests of the Corporation shareholders who own the total of 885414 shares, which amounts to 78.79% of the total number of the voting shares in the joint-stock company. |
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