After six months aboard the International Space Station that included the restoration of a three-member crew, the Expedition 13 team of Commander Pavel Vinogradov, RV3BS (center in photo), and NASA ISS Science Officer Jeff Williams, KD5TVQ (right), landed September 29 at 0113 UTC in the steppes of Kazakhstan.

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Miss Ansari has had a contact with Piraja PS8RF from Teresina Piaui.
They talked about Astronaut Marcos Pontes.

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A handover continues aboard the International Space Station, with the 13th crew ending six months aboard and the 14th crew starting out on six months in orbit.

Joint crew operations will continue through next week, until Expedition 13 Commander Pavel Vinogradov, Flight Engineer and NASA Science Officer jeff Williams, and Spaceflight Participant Anousheh Ansari undock and land their Soyuz spacecraft on Thursday, Sept. 28.
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Educator Astronaut Barbara Morgan attended a training session with Kenneth Ransom at JSC on Wednesday, September 13. Topics covered included procedures related to school contacts and radio operations. Morgan is expected to fly on STS-118 in mid 2007. Joe Acaba, who is supporting her mission, also sat in on the training session.
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Friday, September 22, will be a sort of "triple witching day" for the Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) program. For the first time since the inaugural ARISS school contact in December 2000, students at three schools will have the opportunity in the same day to speak with three of the six space travelers now aboard the ISS. All three QSOs will be direct on VHF.

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The Space Shuttle Atlantis and its crew are home after a 12-day journey of more than 4.9 million miles in space. The mission, STS-115, succeeded in restarting assembly of the International Space Station. The crew delivered and installed the massive P3/P4 truss, an integral part of the station's backbone, and two sets of solar arrays that will eventually provide one quarter of the station's power.
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Expedition 14 Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria and Flight Engineer Mikhail Tyurin entered their new home, the International Space Station, at 4:34 a.m. EDT today. They are in the early hours of a six-month stay at the orbital outpost, which began when the Soyuz TMA 9 spacecraft docked at 1:21 a.m.

They were greeted by the Expedition 13 crew members upon floating through the hatch between the station and the Soyuz spacecraft.
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Shortly before 7:30 a.m. EDT, the International Space Station Expedition 13 crew reported an odor in the Zvezda Service Module and manually activated an alarm to begin emergency procedures. The source of the odor was quickly determined to be an apparent leak of potassium hydroxide in the station's Elektron oxygen generation system. Potassium hydroxide, or caustic potash, can be an irritant to crew members, but is not a classified as a life-threatening toxin.

The Soyuz rocket that will launch the Expedition 14 crew into orbit is now at the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Launch is scheduled for 12:09 a.m. EDT Monday.

Expedition 14 Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria and Flight Engineer Mikhail Tyurin are scheduled to arrive at the station at 1:24 a.m. Wednesday. Flying to the station with Lopez-Alegria and Tyurin will be American Anousheh Ansari, the first female spaceflight participant to visit the orbiting laboratory. She is flying under contract with the Russian Federal Space Agency.
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Space Shuttle Atlantis undocked from the International Space Station at 8:50 a.m. EDT Sunday, ending STS-115's successful stay and setting the stage for future assembly missions. Now, the STS-115 crew members will turn their attention to returning to Earth.
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