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ISS Welcomes Discovery

Posted Jul 06, 2006 at 06:28AM by Anna S. Listed in: News, Spacecraft, Space Missions Tags: NASA, STS-121, expedition 13, International Space Station, iss expedition 13, Shuttle
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ISSThe crew of STS-121 has finally landed on the International Space Station. ISS Expedition 13 commander Pavel Vinogradov and flight engineer Jeffrey Williams, acted as the welcoming committee for the crew. The two are terribly excited at having new faces on board.


“Obviously, that will be a good time,” Williams said earlier of the prospect of having nine people living aboard the ISS.

The two have spent most of their time making the ISS a suitable abode by throwing out trash and unneeded material that will make the return trip to Earth. This also cleared up some space to accommodate more people inside the station.

Upon the team's arrival, first order of the day is to make a complete photographic survey of the shuttle’s tile-lined belly. Vinogradov and Williams will take pictures of Discovery's heat-resistant tiles using high-resolution digital cameras, while Steven Lindsey guides the shuttle through a back flip known in NASA circles as the Rendezvous Pitch Maneuver.

Apart from the Discovery crew, the ISS will have another resident in the form of German astronaut and the first non-U.S. or Russian spaceflyer to take an extended flight to the orbital research laboratory, Thomas Reiter.

Reiter is expected to serve aboard the ISS through the remainder of the Expedition 13 mission and the first half of the Expedition 14 mission, which is currently set to launch on Sept. 16. He is also slated to return to Earth in December during Discovery’s STS-116 shuttle mission, NASA said.

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