SUBMITTED BY ARTHUR N1ORC - AMSAT A/C #31468

*Taking Out the Trash*

ISS015-E-23899 : Cosmonaut Oleg V. KotovImage above: Flight Engineer Oleg Kotov works in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station. Credit: NASA

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The Expedition 15 crew members aboard the International Space Station worked Tuesday on station maintenance and gathering items for disposal on a Progress cargo craft.

Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and Flight Engineer Oleg Kotov stowed some unneeded hardware in the docked ISS Progress 25 cargo craft. Flight Engineer Clay Anderson gathered trash for disposal in the Progress as well. The Progress will undock from the station Sept. 18 and burn up in the Earth's atmosphere.

Anderson also serviced a European Space Agency plant growth experiment in the European Modular Cultivation System. The experiment will grow Arabidopsis thaliana, a small flowering plant related to cabbage and mustard, in orbit for three generations.

Anderson took a break from his work Tuesday to conduct a ham radio session with students at the King Academy in Mount Clemens, Mich.

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