ISS Progress 26 Launches to Station
Image above: Artist's rendering of the International Space Station
showing the ISS Progress 26, the ISS Progress 25 and a Soyuz spacecraft
docked to the station. Image credit: NASA TV
The ISS Progress 26 (P26) craft launched Thursday from the Baikonur
Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 1:34 p.m. EDT (19:34 CEST). 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. (16:07 CEST). 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. (20:40 CEST) 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.
Quelle: NASA
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Image above: Artist's rendering of the International Space Station
showing the ISS Progress 26, the ISS Progress 25 and a Soyuz spacecraft
docked to the station. Image credit: NASA TV
The ISS Progress 26 (P26) craft launched Thursday from the Baikonur
Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 1:34 p.m. EDT (19:34 CEST). 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. (16:07 CEST). 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. (20:40 CEST) 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.
Quelle: NASA
NASA TV
Internationale Raumstation
Liste unbemannter Missionen zur ISS
ISS Expedition 15
Sojus TMA-10
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