International Space Station Status Report #5<br /><br />2003<br />Report #5<br />9:30 a.m. CST, Tuesday, February 4, 2003<br />Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas<br /><br />A Russian Progress 10 resupply craft successfully docked to the<br />International Space Station today, two days after it was launched from the<br />Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.<br /><br />The cargo ship linked up to the aft port of the Zvezda Service Module at<br />8:49 a.m. CST (1449 GMT) following a flawless automated approach to the<br />complex. The Progress is carrying a ton of food, fuel and supplies for the<br />Expedition 6 crew on board the ISS. At the time of docking, the ISS was<br />flying 240 statute miles over central Asia.<br /><br />Expedition 6 Commander Ken Bowersox, Flight Engineer Nikolai Budarin and<br />NASA ISS Science Officer Don Pettit monitored the docking of the Progress<br />from inside the station in their 73rd day in space, their 71st day on board<br />the orbital outpost.<br /><br />The station crewmembers planned to open the hatch between Zvezda and the<br />Progress around 1:00 p.m. CST (1900 GMT) following leak checks between the<br />two craft, but its supplies will not be unloaded until Wednesday morning.<br />The successful arrival of the Progress assures that the three station<br />residents will have plenty of supplies to continue their mission until late<br />June or early July, if required.<br /><br />Among the supplies in the new Progress are replacement parts for the<br />Microgravity Science Glovebox in the Destiny laboratory, which experienced a<br />power failure back in November and has been dormant during Expedition 6.<br />Pettit plans to install the new parts and test the Glovebox Wednesday. If it<br />works, the Glovebox will be used to support all of the experiments planned<br />for this Expedition before the crew returns to Earth in March.<br /><br />Bowersox, Budarin and Pettit will pay a private tribute on orbit today to<br />Columbia's astronauts. Station flight controllers will radio to the crew an<br />audio feed from the memorial ceremony at the Johnson Space Center in<br />Houston, TX, which is being attended by President Bush and Mrs. Bush, and<br />NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe.<br /><br />Information on the crew's activities aboard the space station as well as<br />station sighting opportunities from anywhere on the Earth, is available on<br />the Internet at:<br /><br />http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/<br /><br />Details on station science operations can be found on an Internet site<br />administered by the Payload Operations Center at NASA's Marshall Space<br />Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., at:<br /><br />http://www.scipoc.msfc.nasa.gov/<br /><br />The next station status report will be issued as developments warrant.