The three-man taxi crew is scheduled for launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 10:11 p.m. EST on Oct. 29. Docking is targeted for around midnight Nov. 1. Commander Sergei Zalyotin, Yuri Lonchakov and Belgian flier Frank DeWinne are delivering a fresh Soyuz lifeboat to.....ON1DHT Guy sent this message:

Soyuz, shuttle set for launch to space station
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The three-man taxi crew is scheduled for launch from the Baikonur
Cosmodrome at 10:11 p.m. EST on Oct. 29. Docking is targeted for
around midnight Nov. 1. Commander Sergei Zalyotin, Yuri Lonchakov and
Belgian flier Frank DeWinne are delivering a fresh Soyuz lifeboat to
replace the one currently docked to the Zarya module's downward
facing port. Soyuz spacecraft, which a station crew could use in an
emergency to bail out and return to Earth, must be replaced every six
months.

The Soyuz "taxi" crew originally was scheduled for launch Oct. 27
(eastern time), but the flight was delayed following the explosion
last week of an unmanned Soyuz booster. In addition, the planned
reboost of the station by an unmanned Progress supply ship, needed to
synchronize the lab's orbit for the Soyuz rendezvous, came up a bit
short. That alone prevented an on-time launch for Zalyotin's crew
barring an additional reboost session.

Flight Engineer Yuri Lonchakov,Commander Sergei ZalyotinBelgian
Astronaut Frank DeWinne.

Given the current launch date, the taxi crew will undock from the
space station around 3:30 p.m. on Nov. 9 for a landing around 7 p.m.
EST that evening. Assuming NASA sticks with Endeavour's Nov. 10
launch target, the shuttle's crew would head for the pad to strap in
the already fueled orbiter within a few hours of the Soyuz landing.

Again, assuming a Nov. 10 launch, shuttle commander James Wetherbee
will guide Endeavour to a docking with the space station late in the
evening of Nov. 11. The next day, the P1 solar array truss segment
mounted in the shuttle's cargo bay will be picked up by Endeavour's
robot arm and then handed off to the station's Canadarm2 space crane
for installation on the left, or port, side of the central S0 truss.

The station's solar array truss eventually will consist of 11
segments. The first segment, S0, was attached to the upper hull of
the Destiny laboratory module in April. The first right-side, or
starboard, segment - S1 - was installed earlier this month. The
attachment of P1 on the port side will extend the backbone to three
segments.

S1 and P1 contain the station's primary ammonia cooling system,
including pumps piping and six huge radiator panels, three per truss
segment. Heat generated by the station's electrical systems will be
transferred from internal water loops to external ammonia lines in
heat exchangers and then routed outboard to the S1/P1 radiator
panels.

Astronauts Michael Lopez-Alegria and John Herrington plan to stage
three spacewalks to connect electrical cables, data lines and ammonia
fluid jumpers between P1 and S0. They also will install a second CETA
cart, a sort of astronaut rail car that will help future spacewalkers
move along the truss.

The second primary goal of the 112th shuttle mission is to ferry the
station's next full-time crew to the lab complex - Expedition 6
commander Kenneth Bowersox, flight engineer Nikolai Budarin and
science officer Donald Pettit. Pettit was added to the crew this
summer after the original ISS-6 science officer, Donald Thomas, was
unexpectedly removed because of an undisclosed medical issue.

The ISS-5 expedition was launched to the station June 5. Assuming
Endeavour launches Nov. 10, Korzun, Treschev and Whitson will have
logged 168 days in space when they land Nov. 21. Bowersox and his
crew plan to remain aboard the station until mid to late March.

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule:
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Frank De Winne Crew Pick, Royal Technical School Belgian Air Force,
Sint Truiden, Belgium
Direct via ON4BAF
2002-11-02 08:38 UTC

Frank De Winne Crew Pick, Euro Space Center, Transinne, Belgium,
direct via ON4ESC or Telebridge
2002-11-04 08:23 UTC