Expedition 11 : Opening the Door for Return to Flight: by National Aeronautics and Space Administration

By National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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Title:	Expedition 11 : Opening the Door for Return to Flight: by National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Author:	National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Language:	English
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Overview: Expedition 11. Opening the Door for Return to Flight The crew that will greet the first Space Shuttle astronauts to arrive at the International Space Station since November 2002 is scheduled to launch on April 15, 2005 (local time), aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, replacing the American astronaut and the Russian cosmonaut who have been living and working on the Station since October 2004. Russian Expedition 11 Station and Soyuz Commander Sergei Krikalev, 46, and NASA Flight Engineer and Science Officer John Phillips, 53, will launch on the ISS Soyuz 10 (TMA-6) spacecraft for a two-day flight to dock to the Pirs Docking Compartment on the ISS. This will be the sixth flight into space for Krikalev, more than any other Russian cosmonaut, and the second flight into space for Phillips, who previously flew on STS-100 in 2001 that delivered the Canadarm2 robotic arm to the Station. Phillips will launch on his 54th birthday...

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Table of Contents Mission Overview .................................................................................................... 1 Crew .......................................................................................................................... 5 Mission Objectives ................................................................................................ 10 Spacewalks ............................................................................................................ 19 Russian Soyuz TMA................................................................................................ 20 Science Overview ................................................................................................... 42 Payload Operations Center.................................................................................... 47 Russian Experiments ............................................................................................ 50 U.S. Experiments .................................................................................................... 58 Italian Soyuz Mission Eneide................................................................................... 92 Media Assistance.................................................................................................. 111 Media Contacts ..................................................................................................... 113