Date: September 29th 2006

Sept 28, 2006

Allard Beutel Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4769

John Ira Petty Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111

STATUS REPORT: SS06-042

INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION STATUS REPORT: SS06-042

After six months aboard the International Space Station that included arrival of two space shuttle missions, resumption of construction of the orbiting laboratory and the restoration of a three-member crew, Expedition 13 landed at 9:13 p m EDT in the steppes of Kazakhstan

Commander Pavel Vinogradov and NASA station science officer Jeff Williams landed in their Soyuz TMA 8 spacecraft about 50 miles northeast of Arkalyk Russian recovery forces and NASA officials arrived at the site shortly after the spacecraft touched down The Soyuz undocked from the space station at 5:53 p m EDT

The crew will spend several weeks in Star City, near Moscow, for debriefing and medical examinations

With Williams and Vinogradov was Spaceflight Participant Anousheh Ansari, who flew to the station with the Expedition 14 crew and spent eight days there The American businesswoman went to the station under a contract with the Russian Federal Space Agency

During their mission, which launched March 29, Vinogradov and Williams were joined by Thomas Reiter, a European Space Agency astronaut from Germany He became the first non-Russian, non-U S long-duration station crew member He will remain aboard as part of the Expedition 14 crew until December when he returns to Earth on the next space shuttle flight

Two successful spacewalks were conducted during Expedition 13 The first was by Vinogradov and Williams in Russian spacesuits and the second by Williams and Reiter in U S spacesuits

Vinogradov and Williams welcomed Space Shuttle Discovery astronauts and Reiter during the STS-121 mission to the station in July In September Space Shuttle Atlantis' crew on the STS-115 mission brought and installed the station's integrated P3/P4 truss segments

Expedition 14 Commander Mike Lopez-Alegria, Mikhail Tyurin and Reiter, now are on their own aboard the station after a week of handover, maintenance and some science activities Vinogradov and Tyurin replaced a major component of the Elektron oxygen-producing device, which malfunctioned shortly after Atlantis departed

The device was activated Sept 16 and functioned for about three hours before shutting itself off Further troubleshooting is planned

The next status report will be issued Friday, Oct 6, or earlier if events warrant For more about the crew's activities and station sighting opportunities, visit:

http://www nasa gov/station

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