[Updates] ISS UPDATES

[SiberianTiger]

Launching on November 10, at 14 : 22 : 05 UTC. Will make a thread about it soon.

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Flight controllers are monitoring an unknown piece of orbital debris that could pass within 500 meters of the International Space Station at 10:48 p.m. EST tonight. The station crew might be asked to board the docked Soyuz capsules later as a precaution depending on the outcome of tracking data analysis. We'll post a full story shortly.

It can possibly be a RED conjunction requiring the crew to take shelter in the two Soyuz.

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Conjunction time:

November 7, 6 : 48 Moscow
November 7, 3 : 48 a.m. UTC
November 6, 10 : 48 p.m. EST

[Star Voyager]

Spaceflightnow article:

http://spaceflightnow.com/station/exp21/091106debris/

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This just in! No threat to ISS tonight!

http://spaceflightnow.com/station/exp21/091106allclear/

[SiberianTiger]

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Originally Posted by Suzy

 Maksim Suraev is keeping a blog (in Russian), posted at the Roskosmos site.

It is now supplemented with a videoblog which Roscosmos hopes to translate weekly over a Russian TV channel. The program is called "News from zero g".
The internet location for it is:
http://tvroscosmos.ru/frm/kinoarhiv/suraev.php

No English version, sorry.

The 1st video contents:
- Greetings from flight engineer Surayev;
- Showing Russian crew quarters from inside (the Americans envy us having a porthole in the quarter);
- Presenting personal belongings and the binoculars for Earth observations;
- The nadir UV-transparent porthole (in the Lab?). One may occasionally got a sunburn if stays in front of it, unprotected;
- A picture of sunset as seen from orbit;
- Harvesting mizuna salad crops;
- preparing the sample for putting into MELFI freezer;
- good bye!

All in all, very good for starter!

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Originally Posted by Suzy

 English translation of Cosmonaut Maksim Suraev's blog at RT

You forgot to mention that it now includes a commenting feature. So anyone can post a comment to Maxim's entries (comments are pre-moderated).

The latest entries:

• 20 November, 2009, 10:41 - “Time is relative”
• 19 November, 2009, 10:30 - Happy Birthday, Nicole!
• 17 November, 2009, 10:31 - My reply to readers: holy symbols on the ISS

[Orbinaut Pete]

I just realised that today (Fri 20th Nov) is the 11th anniversary of the ISS (the first module, Zarya, launched on 20th Nov 1998)!

Happy 11th anniversary, ISS!
We hope for many more years to come!

[ddom2006]

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Originally Posted by Orbinaut Pete

 I just realised that today (Fri 20th Nov) is the 11th anniversary of the ISS (the first module, Zarya, launched on 20th Nov 1998)!

Happy 11th anniversary, ISS!
We hope for many more years to come!

I'll drink to that .

Nothing else looks quite so glorious in the night sky ^^

[Xyon]

Happy belated birthday, ISS. I made a cake and everything, but I can't get it into orbit, so I'll just eat it here.

*contemplates "Cake" payload for soyuz...*

[ddom2006]

Anyone any idea if NASA has released a statement on what intends to be done about the new Russian module that has caused Decompression and fire alarms to sound twice in the last 2 days? I can't imagine thats one of the nicer ways to be woken up

[Al81]

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Originally Posted by ddom2006

 Anyone any idea if NASA has released a statement on what intends to be done about the new Russian module that has caused Decompression and fire alarms to sound twice in the last 2 days? I can't imagine thats one of the nicer ways to be woken up

I am sure they are "investigating the issue". Problem should be resolved soon.
My question is: Has this happened before? on Mir? and why is it always the Russian modules that have issues? No offense to my Russian buddies.

Hopefully it is something simple to take care of but you never know.

[SiberianTiger]

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Originally Posted by Al81

 and why is it always the Russian modules that have issues?

The previous major issue happened to the US UPA facility in October (10 lbs of unprocessed urine leaked, the entire facility shut down). AFAIK, it has never been resolved, the the entire UPA rack will be heading back to Earth for repairs.

[SiberianTiger]

Cool pictures of Roman Romanenko in his Tchibis load suit (http://www.russiatoday.com/About_Us/...nd-chibis.html)

[tl8]

All I can think off is Nanosuit out of Crysis

[tblaxland]

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Originally Posted by SiberianTiger

 Cool pictures of Roman Romanenko in his Tchibis load suit

That is one cool cat. This part piqued my interest: "It is a pair of special pants that stimulates blood flow to lower body by electric discharges." How does that work? Discharges from the suit to the body? I wonder what magnitude these discharges are, ie, how would they compare to a static discharge from walking across the new carpet?

[SiberianTiger]

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Originally Posted by tblaxland

 That is one cool cat. This part piqued my interest: "It is a pair of special pants that stimulates blood flow to lower body by electric discharges." How does that work? Discharges from the suit to the body? I wonder what magnitude these discharges are, ie, how would they compare to a static discharge from walking across the new carpet?

I'm afraid you are confusing "Stimul" ("Stimulis") suit with "Tchibis" ("Lapwing") suit. The former is an electric stimulation hardware to provide for some inner muscular tonus. The latter is what you see on the picture, the pants that create a low air pressure around the lower part of the subject's body, allowing his blood to spring in. Both are essential in preparations for returning to the Earth's gravity.

BTW, some people say this Tchibis has an interesting effect in restoring human sexuality otherwise depressed in zero g because of that darn blood drain...

[tblaxland]

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Originally Posted by SiberianTiger

 BTW, some people say this Tchibis has an interesting effect in restoring human sexuality otherwise depressed in zero g because of that darn blood drain...

I quite expect that it would. Thanks for clarifying, I got mislead by the English translation of Suraev's blog.

[Suzy]

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Originally Posted by tl8

 All I can think off is Nanosuit out of Crysis

Or The Wrong Trousers