SUBMITTED BY ARTHUR N1ORC - AMSAT A/C #31468
*Crew Focuses on Maintenance, Experiments and Fitness May5, 2007*
ISS015-E-05640 --- Sunita Williams works with the Lab-on-a-Chip Application Development-Portable Test System experimentImage above: Sunita Williams, Expedition 15 flight engineer, works with the Lab-on-a-Chip Application Development-Portable Test System (LOCAD-PTS) experiment. LOCAD-PTS is a handheld device for rapid detection of biological and chemical substances onboard the station. Image credit: NASA TO VIEW IMAGE GO TO:http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html
Expedition 15 is busy at work inside the International Space Station. Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and Flight Engineer Oleg Kotov have been measuring their calf volume and body mass. They have also been counteracting the effects of microgravity with preventive health maintenance fitness tests on a stationary cycle ergometer. They will continue these tests on a treadmill Tuesday.
The cosmonauts also worked inside the Progress cargo craft dismantling gear for return to Earth on the space shuttle.
Flight Engineer Suni Williams activated and conducted operations on an Air Force Research Laboratory Experiment that is studying elastic memory technology. She also gathered air samples for bacterial and fungal analysis. In the Zvezda service module Williams performed routine maintenance of the Russian environmental control and life support system.
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