Fri, 04 Mar 2011 03:31:49 -0600
Today’s wake up song was “The Ritual / Ancient Battle / 2nd Kroykah from Star Trek: Original Television Soundtrack, volume two” suggested by the STS-133 training team and played for the entire crew at 4:23 a.m. EST.
With the second extension day added to their mission, Discovery’s astronauts are focused on assisting their space station comrades in offloading racks from the Permanent Multipurpose Module they delivered earlier in the flight, and carrying unneeded materials into the H-II Transfer Vehicle for eventual disposal when the spacecraft undocks later this month.
Fri, 04 Mar 2011 04:44:00 -0600
Crew members aboard the International Space Station are investigating the cause of a smoke alarm in the Russian Pirs docking compartment. In the past, dust particles have been known to cause similar alarms. The crew is in no danger.
Fri, 04 Mar 2011 05:01:19 -0600
International Space Station Commander Scott Kelly used a compound specific analyzer to sample air in the Russian Pirs docking compartment, where a smoke alarm triggered earlier. Kelly reports readings on the instrument are zero, there is no fire, no smoke and no odor. Mission Control in Moscow and Houston have declared this to be a false alarm. In the past, dust particles have been known to cause similar false alarms and the crew never was in any danger. The flight controllers and crew will continue to investigate the cause of the false alarm.
The instrument Kelly used is called a Compound Specific Combustion Product Analyzer, which looks at potential toxic products of combustion, such as a fire, onboard the spacecraft and analyzes carbon monoxide, hydrogen cyanide, hydrogen chloride, and oxygen particles in the air.
NASA
Today’s wake up song was “The Ritual / Ancient Battle / 2nd Kroykah from Star Trek: Original Television Soundtrack, volume two” suggested by the STS-133 training team and played for the entire crew at 4:23 a.m. EST.
With the second extension day added to their mission, Discovery’s astronauts are focused on assisting their space station comrades in offloading racks from the Permanent Multipurpose Module they delivered earlier in the flight, and carrying unneeded materials into the H-II Transfer Vehicle for eventual disposal when the spacecraft undocks later this month.
Fri, 04 Mar 2011 04:44:00 -0600
Crew members aboard the International Space Station are investigating the cause of a smoke alarm in the Russian Pirs docking compartment. In the past, dust particles have been known to cause similar alarms. The crew is in no danger.
Fri, 04 Mar 2011 05:01:19 -0600
International Space Station Commander Scott Kelly used a compound specific analyzer to sample air in the Russian Pirs docking compartment, where a smoke alarm triggered earlier. Kelly reports readings on the instrument are zero, there is no fire, no smoke and no odor. Mission Control in Moscow and Houston have declared this to be a false alarm. In the past, dust particles have been known to cause similar false alarms and the crew never was in any danger. The flight controllers and crew will continue to investigate the cause of the false alarm.
The instrument Kelly used is called a Compound Specific Combustion Product Analyzer, which looks at potential toxic products of combustion, such as a fire, onboard the spacecraft and analyzes carbon monoxide, hydrogen cyanide, hydrogen chloride, and oxygen particles in the air.
NASA
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