Expedition 7 Commander Yuri Malenchenko and NASA International Space Station Science Officer Ed Lu today wrapped up a busy week of station and science activities as they approached the end of their eighth week on the ISS.

Expedition 7 Commander Yuri Malenchenko and NASA International Space Station Science Officer Ed Lu donned Hawaiian aloha shirts this week to show off some of the clothing they had unpacked from a newly arrived Russian resupply craft.....

Fresh food, new clothes and more water were among the welcome new arrivals to the International Space Station this week as an unmanned Russian resupply craft docked with the complex. The Progress 11
spacecraft automatically docked to the station's Pirs Docking Compartment Wednesday morning, three days after its launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

Fully according to plan and flawlessly the operations were performed with this for the wellbeing of the ISS crew and the continuation of the ISS herself badly needed freighter.
PrM1-10 started from Baykonur on 8.06.03 at 1034UTC.

Expedition 7 Enjoys Light Duty Day
The Expedition 7 crewmembers had a day of light duty aboard the
International Space Station so they could celebrate Russian Independence
Day.....

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Subject: The Strange Physics of Foam

NASA Science News for June 9, 2003

What's made mostly of gas, a dash of liquid, and acts like a springy solid? Foams. Foams are so common we seldom appreciate how strange they are. Scientists are designing an experiment for the International Space Station to investigate the puzzling physics of these everyday substances.

FULL STORY at

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2003/09jun_foam.htm?list950329

During a training for his work as a radio amateur on board of ISS in the near future the ESA cosmonaut André Kuipers used the amateur station at TsPK Moscow, RK3DZB, for a QSO with the station PA4PCH in the Netherlands with your scribe who acted as 2nd operator.

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Expedition 7 Commander Yuri Malenchenko and NASA ISS Science Officer Ed Lu have completed their two weeks of orientation on the International Space Station and are ready to start regular operations in earnest.

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Expedition 7 Commander Yuri Malenchenko and NASA ISS Science Officer Ed Lu are wrapping up their first week of independent operations aboard the International Space Station after departure of their Expedition 6 predecessors on May 3.

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.