Archive - May 2003
May 7th
Pushing Wrong Button May Have Caused Soyuz Landing Error.
"A cosmonaut pressing the wrong button could have caused a descent capsule carrying two US astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut to land hundreds of kilometres (miles) from their original target area in Kazakhstan, Russian space officials said Monday."
Full Story At: SpaceDaily.Com
May 6th
US-Russian Crew Safely Back On Earth Following Soyuz Malfunction
"Two US astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut returned safely to earth from the International Space Station on Sunday despite landing several hundred kilometres (miles) off their target in Kazakhstan after an apparent malfunction in their Russian Soyuz craft."
Full story at: SpaceDaily.Com
May 5th
Exp Six Crew in Star City for Rehabilitation
Submitted by Arthur - N1ORC
Expedition Six Commander Ken Bowersox, Flight Engineer Nikolai Budarin
and NASA ISS Science Officer Don Pettit are at the Gagarin Cosmonaut
Training Center in Star City, Russia, where they are undergoing physical
rehabilitation.
May 4th
ISS Radio Report
ISS Status Report - May 4, 2003
The Expedition 6 crew touched down in northern Kazakhstan in its Soyuz spacecraft at 9:07 p.m. CDT Saturday, after an undocking from the International Space Station. The Soyuz landed well short of the predicted site and it took almost three hours for a search plane to find the capsule and report that all appeared well.
ISS Radio Report
May 3rd
Don Pettit Suggests Moonbases as next step
NASA Expedition 6 International Space Station Science Officer Don Pettit, KD5MDT, has suggested that NASA should consider setting up lunar bases in the future as a stepping stone to expand mankind's exploration of the universe. The comment came in response to a student's question during an Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) school group contact. Several students at Cowichan Secondary School in Duncan, British Columbia, Canada, had the opportunity to quiz Pettit about life in space via Amateur Radio on April 21.