SUBMITTED BY ARTHUR N1ORC - AMSAT A/C #31468
*Station Maintenance; Progress Rolls Out to Launch Pad*
jsc2007e22715 -- The Progress 25 spacecraft rolls out to the launch padImage above: The Progress 25 spacecraft rolls out to its launch pad at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Photo Credit: NASA/Mark Bowman
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Aside from documenting her sleep patterns for an experiment each morning this week, Flight Engineer Sunita Williams performed maintenance on a station treadmill on Thursday. She also inventoried power adapters for several laptop computers.
Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin performed a periodic health test. Flight Engineer Oleg Kotov set up an experiment that studies respiration of crew members during long-duration missions.
The Progress 25 cargo craft rolled out to its launch pad Thursday at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Launch is scheduled for 11:25 p.m. EDT Friday. Docking is set for Tuesday about 1:10 a.m.
+ Read about the Progress 25 launch http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition15/exp15_progress25_launch.html