The space shuttle Discovery, which returned to Earth the first crew of the International Space Station, landed safely today (Wednesday) early in the morning at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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Discovery upon landing. The second team is already engaged in experimental gymnastics
The space shuttle Discovery, which returned to Earth the first crew of
The International Space Station landed safely today (Wednesday) early in the morning
at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The crew of the space station stayed on the station for 4 and a half months. the american
William Shepherd and two Russians Yuri Gidzenko and Sergey Kryklyov worked on
Construction and renovation of the station. A slave unit and a huge facility for absorbing energy
Solar and Spo to the station while you were there.
Doctors expect the returning astronauts to have difficulty getting used to the force again
The gravity, after 20 weeks in space, even though they started preparing for the return immediately with
You arrived at the space station, where you made sure to do gymnastics exercises in the room every day
the fitness
The station's innovator. After returning to Earth the crew members will have to
to participate in a six-month health workshop to strengthen their bones, so that they don't
to a line in the escape of calcium later in their lives. Loss of bone mass and muscle mass are both
from the dire consequences
most of a long-term stay in space.
The second crew about to go to the space station is already engaged in experimental gymnastics.
NASA hopes to develop new methods to deal with the effects of weightlessness
in space. In the future, teams destined to fly to March and beyond may
to remain weightless for months and years.
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11/3/2001
The Discovery team began work on the space station
The new crew of the International Space Station started working on the exterior of the space station today (Sunday).
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Astronaut Jim Voss outside the space station.
Photo: IP
Yedan Mir
Yadan International Space Station
The new crew of the International Space Station started working today (Sunday).
on the outside of
the space station. The American astronauts, Jim Voss and Suzanne Helms,
They took a risk and went into space, less than 24 hours after landing on the station. the two
Join Russian cosmonaut Yuri Osachev for a four-month stay.
The astronauts arrived on Saturday in the space shuttle Discovery, and their arrival was celebrated
With handshakes, hugs and somersaults in the air. The connection between
The Discovery to the station was delayed by an hour due to communication problems between the teams and between
The control room in Houston.
The final moments of the landing were completed without direct contact between the shuttles
to houston The current station master, William Shepherd, used a small radio
to communicate with the shuttle. After about an hour contact with Houston was renewed.
The exit to space passed without any particular problems, despite the fact that it is a portable facility
was to connect to the station disappeared into space.
The ferry docked at the station at 06:38 (GMT), one hour late
from the scheduled date. Two technical faults delayed the docking: one of two
The station's huge wings, which generate electricity from solar energy, do not
managed to lock up after being moved for landing. until the problem is solved
The Discovery had to move away from the station, so as not to damage the freed wing
at the top of her engines. After repeated attempts, people succeeded
The station to lock the wing.
Another problem that arose was a disconnection in communication between the space shuttle and the center
Control in Houston. The last moments of docking were carried out without any connection
between the shuttle and the control center. Manasa reported that this did not endanger the team
The shuttle that continued to talk to the space station commander, William Shepard. the problem
The communication was not in the shuttle itself, but in a relay station on Earth,
New Mexico.
The new crew of the International Space Station, known as "Mission 2," includes
Two American astronauts, Susan Helms and James Voss, and their commander
Russian cosmonaut Yuri Uschev. "Mishelath," 1 which they replace,
included two Russian cosmonauts, Yuri Gidzhenko and Sergey Kryklav,
and their American commander Shepard.
"Your station looks great," said the shuttle commander to the station commander, at
which approached the docking point. The two members of "Delegation" 2 took their place at the station
Immediately after the doors of the shuttle and the station opened wide. The new commander
There will be an overlap of several days before Shepard hands him the "keys of
The station".
All members of the crew of the Discovery were greeted with hugs and handshakes
by the station staff. Commander Shepard followed the best tradition of sailors and rang the bell
at the bell
A new space record - within walking distance
Two astronauts who arrived last week at the International Space Station,
They broke a new world record for the longest spacewalk, despite glitches
such as levitation into space of a large tool made of metal. oops…
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Jim Voss and Susan Helms, two of the astronauts who will be on the four
The following months on the International Space Station, Alpha, broke a record yesterday
My world on the longest spacewalk.
The trip the two made through space lasted eight hours and 56 minutes,
An achievement that broke the previous record by at least 30 minutes. This is what the CNN network reports
The purpose of the walk was not to break the record - but to perform maintenance work.
The two began the trip from the space shuttle Discovery, which took off into space in a week
past. Its crew members replace the previous international crew, which stayed
At the space station since the beginning of November.
"We knew it was going to be a difficult mission," said NASA's chief inspector, John
Shannon, at the end of the mission. "The astronauts 'went over the edge' in terms of
their ability, but they did a great job despite being outnumbered
Problems encountered at the beginning".
While the two were leaving Discovery, a plastic bag accidentally floated behind them
Full of equipment. Astronaut Wes managed to catch her and bring her back
to the ferry However, a few minutes later Wes accidentally left a tool
another made of metal which he had in his hand and could not grasp it. the piece of metal
The large one joined the other thousands of items that float in space and surround the ball
Country.
Later this week, Wess and Helms will go into space again to begin preparations for connection
A huge robotic arm for the station.
The station is a joint project of the USA, Russia, Japan, and the European Union
and Canada. NASA plans to spend $95 billion to operate the station in a decade
The nearest.
The three team members will remain at the station until the end of July. The three already know each other
the station after they visited it last year, when it only had two rooms. currently
The station has four rooms. The current staff has been at the station since the beginning
November. The crew will return to Earth on the shuttle Discovery at the end of the week
The nearest.
After many delays, seven astronauts set out to repair the space telescope
Hubble
The astronauts will fix the Hubble in the trunk of Discovery
by Tamara Traubman
After an unprecedented nine delays, the space shuttle was launched yesterday
"Discovery" and its seven astronauts from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The shuttle is now on its way to the Hubble Space Telescope. The task of
The astronauts will last seven days, three of which will be dedicated to repair and upgrade
The telescope, which has been down for about a month.
The launch, which took place yesterday at 3:50 Israel time, was the chance
NASA's last to launch the shuttle this year; A further cancellation would have put you off
Launching in January. NASA did not expect the launch to be made at such a late date.
Originally, the mission was scheduled for October, but the date was repeatedly postponed
Because of a variety of problems discovered in the shuttle's equipment: faulty wiring, contamination
In the engine, a fuel pipe is damaged, and last Thursday, there was a fear of a problem
in welding Finally, after Discovery was ready for flight, they made it rain
and heavy cloud cover to cancel the launches planned for Friday and Saturday. however,
Despite the NASA people's fear of similar weather, which would cause a delay
In addition to the ferry launch, the weather yesterday was fine and suitable
to launch.
This mission is the pinnacle of NASA's postponements. According to the statistics of
The organization, in all the years of launching shuttles into space, there was no mission like this
problematic. Despite this, journalists present at the launch said that there were no postponements
succeeded in damaging the high morale of the launch teams. "We appreciate you
Your patience," the launch manager, Dave King, told the astronauts before
the take off "We hope you will have a wonderful mission to mourn, and we will see each other
When you come back here, before the next thousand." The flight commander, Curtis Brown
He replied: "We have one request - we would like you to send a sign to the mourner to get ready,
Because we are on our way!".
Because of the delays, and so that Discovery could land before New Year's Eve
(NASA does not want to take the possible risk of Bug 2000, even though it says
All its equipment had already been adapted to the bug), on December 27, NASA had to cut back
Two days from the mission and giving up one of the space walks, which the astronauts were
are supposed to perform.
The Hubble, whose construction cost amounted to about 3 billion dollars, was launched into space before
Ten years. Since then he has been transmitting exciting images of cosmic phenomena.
However, since November 13th he has been inactive, after four out of six
Its gyroscopes (required for the operation of the direction system of
the telescope) broke down. Today, after midnight, the astronauts are supposed to
reach the telescope. A robotic arm will come out of Discovery, grab Hubble
and dock it in her trunk. The astronauts will perform three walks
Space, during which they will install the new gyroscopes, a new computer, he wrote
data, radio transmitter and other equipment.
If all goes as planned, Hubble will be released back into space on another Saturday
Noon, Central Time - Christmas Day. Discovery
It is scheduled to land at the Kennedy Space Center on Monday.
{Appeared in Haaretz newspaper, 21/12/1999{
Days in a row fail to land the shuttle; Another try tonight
In 19: 51
24/10/2000
She has fuel until tomorrow; If there is no choice, they will land her at White Sands
in new mexico
By Avi Blizovsky
Neither on Sunday nor on Monday, NASA personnel were unable to land the space shuttle Discovery in either Florida or California due to strong winds and rains at both landing sites.
Discovery has enough fuel to stay in space until Wednesday (tomorrow). NASA plans to land the spacecraft today at one of two bases - the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, or the Edwards Air Force Base in California.
The first landing opportunity for today will be at 1:51 a.m. EST (19:51 p.m. Israel time) at the Kennedy Space Center. If the weather conditions do not improve at the two landing fields, NASA may consider landing the shuttle at White Sands Air Base in New Mexico, an area that has been used only once in the entire shuttle project, of which this is, as mentioned, the hundredth flight.
The scientist will continue and update in this field with every development
The Discovery landed; NASA expresses great satisfaction
The seven crew members of the shuttle Discovery landed yesterday morning
Qualifiers at the Kennedy Space Center, after successfully repairing the telescope
The "Hubble" space. "Welcome to Earth after a fantastic flight",
Scott Altman of ground control told them.
Tamara Traubman
The astronauts left Earth last Monday (Israel time)
And he stayed in space for eight days, of which three were devoted to repair and renovation
the telescope. According to the original plan, their mission was supposed to continue for ten
days, but NASA was forced to shorten it due to several delays in the launch, which resulted
from technical problems of the ferry and severe weather conditions.
Yesterday, NASA expressed great satisfaction with the completion of the mission and defined it
as "most successful". This is after a series of embarrassing failures that happened
Recently, including one Mars spacecraft that apparently crashed due to a mistake
In navigation, which resulted from confusion between metric and English units of measurement,
And a second Mars spacecraft, the fate of which is still unknown.
{Appeared in Haaretz newspaper, 29/12/1999{
