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Oxygen On ISS Will Last Until February
Moscow (UPI) May 28, 2005 Reserves of oxygen on the International Space Station are sufficient until next February, the Russian space agency reported Friday. Alexei Krasnov, director of the manned flights programs of Roskosmos, was quoted by Itar-Tass as saying crews will be provided with oxygen even if the Elektron oxygen-generation system aboard the station - which has malfunctioned - is not repaired and U.S. space shuttles do not resume supply flights. The Elektron device extracts oxygen from water. Replacement parts are scheduled to be sent to the station in August. Meanwhile, the crew - Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev and NASA astronaut John Phillips - are using standby oxygen producers. A cargo spacecraft recently delivered three times more oxygen to the station than usual. The Elektron device stopped working earlier this month. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links SpaceDaily Search SpaceDaily Subscribe To SpaceDaily Express Space Station News at Space-Travel.Com
NASA Had No Choice But To Buy Soyuz Flights
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 09, 2006NASA's announcement last week that it will pay Roskosmos $43.6 million for a round-trip ride to the International Space Station this spring, and an equivalent figure for an as-yet-undetermined number of future flights to the station until 2012, represents the agency's acknowledgment that it had no alternative. |
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