Avi Blizovsky
Space Shuttle Discovery has been hard at work during the space shuttle flight that will end this weekend. They worked in space as plumbers, using screws, nuts and other "do-it-yourself" equipment to prepare the International Space Station for the arrival of its first occupants in early 2000.
In the Russian Zarya cabin, which is one of the first two components of the space station that were put together already in December, Russian cosmonaut Valery Tokarev and Canadian astronaut Julie Fayette lifted the floor to replace equipment powered by non-rechargeable batteries.
Astronauts Rick Husband and Daniel Barry exchanged two boxes
Electronics designed for communication systems in the American cell Unity.
The part, which was used for communication between the inspectors in the control center, stopped working
In the middle of April.
The seven crew members installed insulation around some of the fans inside
The Zarya chamber to reduce the noise level, which has already reached a level of 72
Decibels - like a loud TV. Those responsible for the space station
It is hoped that the insulators will reduce the noise to around 60 decibels.
NASA admits that they had to deal with too many technical failures
on the station, even though it's only been floating in space for six months. "In equipment
High-tech like the station, you should expect such things," he said
The spokesperson for the control room overseeing the space station is Milt Heplin.
The astronauts in the shuttle also brought about 2 tons of equipment to the station,
which includes spare parts, computers, water and clothes for the first permanent residents.
Early Sunday morning, two astronauts completed almost eight
Hours of space walking to assemble crane and external components
Out for future missions. The two, Tamara Jeringen and Dr. Daniel
Barry exceeded the six hours planned for them by two hours. Both worked
As they dangle from the shuttle. Geringen did not succeed for the company
The tubes to her spacesuit in the airlock room.
Geringen has a history of trouble with spacewalks. in 1996
They had to cancel a spacewalk in which she was involved, because an external enclosure
The airlock on the space shuttle Columbia did not open.
Despite the problems, those responsible in the control room said that the operation was successful
Successfully. They worked at an altitude of 386 kilometers above the surface of the earth,
and assemble the 1.5 meter long arm on the outer wall of a station
the space. Yes, Jeringen freed the other arm with the help of her muscles
which was close to the wall.
The pair of arms will help future astronauts who will perform spacewalks
Maneuver large components around the body of the station. Geringen and Barry too
Hang sets of tools in designated places on the outer wall
to be used for future missions.
The first occupants will go up to the space station in March 2000 NASA
Planning another 42 spacewalks to assemble the space station -
which is the largest scientific outpost in the world and its cost reaches 60
Billion dollars.
The team includes five Russian Americans and a Canadian on the team
The Discovery will detach from the space station on the night between Thursday and Friday
and landed shortly after.
The director of the Israel Space Agency, Avi Har-Evan, said that he hoped
that the efforts of the Israeli governments for Israel's participation in the space station project
International, if not through astronauts then at least in construction
A subsystem that will perform a permanent experiment on the space station. According to him, today they are enjoying themselves
Israeli companies are mostly part of the space station project budgets
through the preparation of components in subcontracting to American companies.
According to him, Israel can build such a system that will contribute to progress
scientific, and that the very construction will advance the companies that will be involved in it.
According to him, the government should continue to put pressure on the Americans in this area.
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