ISS expedition 10

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Mission emblem
Mission emblem Expedition 10
Mission dates
Mission: ISS expedition 10
Crew: 2
Rescue ships: Soyuz TMA-5
Space station: ISS
Start: October 16, 2004, 04:15  UTC
Started by: Coupling of Soyuz TMA-5
The End: April 24, 2005, 18:44 UTC
Ended by: Coupling of Soyuz TMA-5
Duration: 190d 14h 29min
Number of EVAs : 2
Total length of the EVAs: 10h 34m
Team photo
(from left) Leroy Chiao and Salischan Scharipow
(from left) Leroy Chiao and Salischan Scharipow
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ISS Expedition 10 is the mission name for the tenth long-term crew of the International Space Station . The crew lived and worked on board the ISS from October 16, 2004 to April 24, 2005.

team

Substitute team

The later crew of the ISS expedition 12 :

Mission overview

Initially, the crew activated the EarthKAM experiment, while the mission controllers announced that the Elektron oxygen generator had been put back into operation after the previous crew had completed the repairs. On November 4th and 5th, Chiao and Sharipov carried out the Advanced Diagnostic Ultrasound in Microgravity (ADUM) experiment, which analyzes how space travelers can transmit certain diseases to physicians on Earth.

On November 8th, Chiao used the station's manipulator system to inspect the Destiny laboratory module for damage. The cameras of the SSRMS Canadarm 2 recorded the damage noticed during the STS 113 shuttle mission, which apparently was not caused by micrometeorites or space debris.

On November 17, the orbit of the ISS was raised by a propulsion phase of the cargo ship Progress-M 50, which was docked at the stern. On November 24, the Soyuz TMA 5 engine status was checked. This was necessary because the spaceship was moved to the Zarya coupling port on November 29th. The flight took about 20 minutes. Previously, some of the station's systems had been placed in an automatic operating mode or deactivated. This was done in the event that recoupling would not have been successful.

Chiao became the first astronaut to participate in the 2004 US presidential election from space in November .

On January 1, 2005, problems with the Elektron oxygen generator occurred again . During the repair work, the ISS atmosphere was temporarily filled with oxygen from Progress-M 51. On January 15, the orbital complex was raised again in preparation for the arrival of the next freighter.

For the first spacecraft operation, the batteries of the Russian Orlan spacesuits were charged on January 18, the devices and tools were prepared on January 19 and various equipment was activated on January 20. On January 26th, Chiao and Sharipov got out of the Pirs lock module at 7:43 a.m. UTC, installed a worktop on the Zvezda service module, and an experiment on it. The astronauts then installed an antenna and carried out the MPC and SEED experiments on the outside of Zvezda, which were used to collect micrometeorites and debris from Earth orbit and to expose various materials to the conditions of space. Then Ciao and Sharipov inspected the outlets of the Elektron oxygen generator system and the Wosduch carbon dioxide absorber to find explanations for the systems' recurring difficulties. Finally, they installed a material experiment at the Pirs airlock. The spacecraft ended at 1:11 p.m. UTC after 5 hours and 28 minutes.

The scientific program included experiments in medicine, earth observation, biology, materials science and space technology. Studies on natural and man-made phenomena on earth and in the earth's atmosphere (experiments: Crew Earth Observation, ESTER, Biotomeja, Uragan, Molnija SM), on structures on the earth's surface by remote control of a station camera by groups of pupils on the Earth (EarthKAM), for cooperation between the station and ground crew (crew interactions), for radiation and acceleration measurements within the station (Radiation Monitoring, Prognos, BraDos, MAMS, SAMS) as well as various outboard material tests (Kromka, MPAC, SEED, MISSE , Meteoroid).

Further work concerned the preparation of materials for the return transport to earth, the inventory of new materials and supplies, the desaturation of the position control gyroscopes and other maintenance and cleaning processes. On February 9, the oxygen generator in the Russian service module was switched off again while oxygen was being released into the station from the gas tanks of the Freighter Progress-M 51. In addition, fuel was pumped into the tanks of the Zarya module. On February 27, Progress-M 51 was decoupled from the ISS, but remained in orbit until March 9 for a plasma experiment.

The heat exchangers supplied by the freighter Progress-M 52, which started on February 28 and docked at the station 2 days later, were installed by Leroy Chiao in the US airlock module Quest in order to enable spacecraft operations with American spacesuits again.

On March 16, the power supply to the attitude control gyroscope 2 was interrupted again due to the failure of a remote power control unit. A control module of this type had already failed in April 2004 and was replaced during an external mission in June. The control unit was simply bypassed later. After the replacement of gyroscope number 1, which had already failed in 2002, the four-unit system later worked completely again.

On March 28, Chiao and Sharipov carried out their second EVA (Extra Vehicular Activity) to install antennas for the approach of the ATV at the stern of Zvezda, deploy an experimental satellite and mount an antenna for the Global Positioning System (GPS). The astronauts completed their second spacecraft at 10:55 UTC after 4 hours, 30 minutes. The small satellite NanoSputnik had a mass of around 5 kilograms and acted as a test buoy for the global Kospas-Sarsat emergency signal system. After about 2 months it burned up in the earth's atmosphere.

On April 15, the successor team, consisting of Sergej Krikaljow and John Phillips as well as the ESA astronaut Roberto Vittori, started with the Soyuz-TMA 6 spacecraft and docked two days later with the ISS. After completing the special program on behalf of ESA, Vittori returned to Earth on April 24 with Soyuz TMA 5 together with ISS Expedition 10.

See also

Web links

Commons : ISS Expedition 10  - Collection of images, videos and audio files