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In this sixth day of the STS-105 mission, Expedition 2 crewmember Susan Helms answers questions about her long-duration flight on the International Space Station (ISS) in this on-orbit interview. Footage shows portions of Canada and the northern United States from space as the orbiter flies over, including Idaho, Montana, and North Dakota.
On this 11th day of the STS-105 mission, the three crews, Expedition 2 (Commander Yuriy Usachev and Flight Engineers James Voss and Susan Helms), Expedition 3 (Frank Culbertson, Jr., Mikhail Turin, and Vladimir Dezhurov), and STS-105 (Commander Scott Horowitz, Pilot Fred Sturckow, and Mission Specialists Dan Barry and Pat Forrester), gather to say a few words about the changeover of the control of the International Space Station (ISS). Footage shows the undocking of Discovery from the ISS. STS-105 and E2 crews answer questions about the stay on the ISS in an on-orbit interview.
On this tenth day of the STS-105 mission, footage shows the Leonardo Multipurpose Logistics Module packed and ready to return to Earth before it is grappled using the robotic arm and returned to the payload bay of Discovery. As the orbiter and the International Space Station fly over Earth, Florida is seen, as are Washington and Oregon (where the forest fires blaze), Lake Winnipeg, and the border between Ontario and Quebec.
In this 12th day of the STS-105 mission, Discovery continues to fly towards Earth after the previous day's undocking from the International Space Station (ISS). Several on-orbit interviews are conducted, including questions to the STS-105 crew (Commander Scott Horowitz, Pilot Fred Sturckow, and Mission Specialists Dan Barry and Pat Forrester) about spaceflight, questions to the Expedition 2 crew (Commander Yuriy Usachev and Flight Engineers James Voss and Susan Helms) about their stay on the ISS, and questions to the Expedition 3 crew (Frank Culbertson, Jr., Mikhail Turin, and Vladimir Dezhurov) about some of the experiments on board the ISS. Typhoon 14 is seen from above as Discovery passes over the storm.
On this first day of the STS-108 mission, the crewmembers of Endeavour, Commander Dominic Gorie, Pilot Mark Kelly, and Mission Specialists Linda Godwin and Daniel Tani, are seen during various prelaunch activities, including the ceremonial breakfast, suitup, departing the Operations and Checkout (O&C) Building, and boarding the orbiter. The launch of Endeavour is shown. The payload bay doors open once in orbit and Pilot Kelly is seen as the solid rocket boosters ignite.
Since the 1970's, when the promise of composites was being pursued for aeronautics applications, NASA has had programs that addressed the development of NDE (NonDestructive Evaluation) methods for composites. These efforts included both microscopic and macroscopic NDE. At the microscopic level, NDE investigations interrogated composites at the submicron to micron level to understand a composite's microstructure. A novel microfocus CT system was developed as well as the science underlying applications of acoustic microscopy to a composite's component material properties. On the macroscopic scale NDE techniques were'developed that advanced the capabilities to be faster and more quantitative. Techniques such as stiffness imaging, ultrasonic arrays, laser based ultrasound, advanced acoustic emission, thermography, and novel health monitoring systems were researched. Underlying these methods has been a strong modeling capability that has aided in method development.
On this second day of the STS-108, Endeavour continues to approach the International Space Station. A camera on the end of the Remote Manipulator System robotic arm scans the side of Endeavour and shows the Rafaello Multipurpose Logistics Module.
On this seventh day of the STS-108 mission, NASA Ground Control, STS-108 crew (Commander Dominic Gorie, Pilot Mark Kelly, and Mission Specialists Linda Godwin and Daniel Tani), Expedition 3 crew (Commander Frank Culbertson, Jr. and Flight Engineers Mikhail Turin and Vladimir Dezhurov), and Expedition 4 crew (Commander Yuri Onufrienko and Flight Engineers Carl Walz and Daniel Bursch) are seen during a ceremony of remembrance on the three-month anniversary of the September 11th tragedy. The three crews also answer questions from the press on their missions. They are seen as they transfer supplies and equipment from the Rafaello Multipurpose Logistics Module.
On this sixth day of the STS-108 mission, Mission Specialists Linda Godwin and Daniel Tani perform their spacewalks, where they place insulating blankets on the two Beta Gimbal Assemblies.
There are three years of data (more than 1000 individual ozone profiles) available from a network of 10 southern hemisphere tropical and subtropical stations, designated the Southern Hemisphere ADditional OZonesondes (SHADOZ) project. Since late 1999, a tropical station in the northern hemisphere (Paramaribo, Surinam; lat/long) joined SHADOZ, providing coordinated weekly ozone and radiosonde data from the surface to approx. 7 hPa for satellite validation, process studies, and model evaluation. Profiles are also collected at: Ascension Island; Nairobi, Kenya; Irene, South Africa; R (union Island; Watukosek, Java; Fiji; Tahiti; American Samoa; San Cristobal, Galapagos; Natal, Brazil. The archive, station characteristics and photos are available at http://code9l6.gsfc.nasa.gov/Data_ services/shadoz>. SHADOZ ozone time-series and profiles in 1998-2000 display highly variable tropospheric ozone, a zonal wave-one pattern in total (and tropospheric) column ozone, and signatures of the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation (QBO) in stratospheric ozone. Total, stratospheric and tropospheric column ozone amounts peak between August and November and are lowest between March and May. Integrated total ozone column amounts from the sondes are lower than independent measurements from a ground-based network and from the TOMS (Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer) satellite (version 7 data).
On this eighth day of the STS-108 mission, the STS-108 crew (Commander Dominic Gorie, Pilot Mark Kelly, and Mission Specialists Linda Godwin and Daniel Tani), Expedition 3 crew (Commander Frank Culbertson, Jr. and Flight Engineers Mikhail Turin and Vladimir Dezhurov), and Expedition 4 crew (Commander Yuri Onufrienko and Flight Engineers Carl Walz and Daniel Bursch) work to reload the Rafaello Multipurpose Logistics Module. Commander Culbertson is seen on the International Space Station's treadmill.
On this fourth day of the STS-108 mission, the robotic arm is seen as it moves towards the Rafaello Multipurpose Logistics Module to prepare for the grapple and transfer of the module from Endeavour to the International Space Station (ISS). Expedition 4 Flight Engineer Carl Walz and STS-108 Mission Specialist Linda Godwin are shown during preparations to open the hatch between ISS and Rafaello. Expedition 3 Commander Frank Culbertson, Expedition 4 Commander Yuri Onufrienko, and STS-108 Pilot Mark Kelly are seen during an on-orbit press conference, where they answer questions about the supply transfer between Rafaello and ISS and share their thoughts about the September 11th tragedy.
On this third day of the STS-108 mission, the Endeavour Orbiter is seen docking with the International Space Station. The crew of STS-108 (Commander Dominic Gorie, Pilot Mark Kelly, and Mission Specialists Linda Godwin and Daniel Tani) and Expedition 4 (Commander Yuri Onufrienko and Flight Engineers Carl Walz and Daniel Bursch) greet the Expedition 3 crew (Commander Frank Culbertson, Jr. and Flight Engineers Mikhail Turin and Vladimir Dezhurov) in the Destiny Laboratory Module.
On this fifth day of the STS-108 mission, the STS-108 crew (Commander Dominic Gorie, Pilot Mark Kelly, and Mission Specialists Linda Godwin and Daniel Tani), Expedition 3 crew (Commander Frank Culbertson, Jr. and Flight Engineers Mikhail Turin and Vladimir Dezhurov), and Expedition 4 crew (Commander Yuri Onufrienko and Flight Engineers Carl Walz and Daniel Bursch) join in an on-orbit conference to honor those who lost loved ones in the September 11th tragedy. They are also seen moving equipment from the Rafaello Multipurpose Logistics Module to the International Space Station.
On this eleventh day of the STS-108 mission, the Expedition 3 crew (Commander Frank Culbertson, Jr. and Flight Engineers Mikhail Turin and Vladimir Dezhurov), Expedition 4 crew (Commander Yuri Onufrienko and Flight Engineers Carl Walz and Daniel Bursch), and STS-108 crew (Commander Dominic Gorie, Pilot Mark Kelly, and Mission Specialists Linda Godwin and Daniel Tani) are seen as the E3 crew bids farewell to the International Space Station (ISS) that has been their home for the previous several months. Endeavour undocks from ISS and performs the customary flyaround. The STS-108 crew and Commander Culbertson answer questions from the press in an on-orbit interview.
On this tenth day of the STS-108 mission, STS-108 Mission Specialist Linda Godwin is seen during unloading operations in the Rafaello Multipurpose Logistics Module (MPLM). The exterior of Endeavour and the International Space Station are shown as the Canadarm grapples the MPLM and transfers it to the payload bay of the orbiter.
On this ninth day of the STS-108 mission, the Expedition 3 crew (Commander Frank Culbertson, Jr. and Flight Engineers Mikhail Turin and Vladimir Dezhurov), Expedition 4 crew (Commander Yuri Onufrienko and Flight Engineers Carl Walz and Daniel Bursch), and STS-108 crew (Commander Dominic Gorie, Pilot Mark Kelly, and Mission Specialists Linda Godwin and Daniel Tani) are seen during a ceremony where the E3 crew officially hands over the control of the International Space Station of the E4 crew. Kelly, Godwin, and Tani are seen on the middeck of Endeavour stowing equipment.
On this twelfth day of the STS-108 mission, the deployment of the Starship-3 satellite is shown. Expedition 3 Commander Frank Culbertson, STS-108 Commander Dominic Gorie, Expedition 3 Flight Engineers Mikhail Turin and Vladimir Dezhurov, and STS-108 Pilot Mark Kelly are seen in an on-orbit interview, where they answer questions about their missions. Gorie, Kelly, and STS-108 Mission Specialist Linda Godwin are seen as they stow equipment on the middeck of Endeavour.