Dragon Returns Home, Soyuz Rolled to Launch Pad in Kazakhstan
03.26.13
Commander Chris Hadfield participates in an in-flight interview with
Société Radio-Canada in Montreal in the Destiny laboratory of the
International Station. Credit: NASA TV
The Expedition 35 crew members living and working aboard the
International Space Station were busy with SpaceX Dragon undocking
operations Tuesday, and also performed science experiments and
post-undocking clean up duties.
After spending 23 days attached to the station and delivering about
1,268 pounds of supplies to support continuing space station research
experiments, the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft completed its stay at the
station and has returned to Earth.
Dragon was unberthed from the Harmony node using the station’s Canadarm2
robotic arm and released to begin its journey back home at 6:56 a.m.
EDT. Dragon then fired its engines for the last time to send it through
the Earth’s atmosphere for a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. A team of
SpaceX engineers, technicians and divers worked on spacecraft recovery
operations off the coast of Baja, Calif., for Dragon’s journey back to
shore.
Aboard the station, Commander Chris Hadfield and Flight Engineer Tom
Marshburn wrapped up their work to prepare for the spacecraft’s
unberthing, and were at the controls of Canadarm2 during Dragon’s
departure operations.
After its departure, Hadfield and Marshburn focused on stowing all the
equipment and tools used during the departure operations, reconfiguring
the station’s systems as required.
Later, Marshburn participated in the Energy experiment, which observes
the negative energy balance crew members experience in space and
explores exercise as a countermeasure.
Hadfield had some time set aside to participate in an in-flight
interview with Société Radio-Canada in Montreal, answering questions
about life aboard the station and some of the research he is conducting.
Flight Engineer Roman Romanenko worked in the in the Russian segment of
the orbiting laboratory, monitoring its systems and performing
maintenance tasks.
Meanwhile at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the Soyuz rocket
carrying the Soyuz TMA-08M spacecraft that will carry Expedition 35
Flight Engineers Pavel Vinogradov, Chris Cassidy and Alexander Misurkin
to the station was rolled out to the launch pad by train on Tuesday. The
trio is set to launch at 4:43 p.m. EDT Thursday for a docking to the
Poisk module about six hours later.
› Listen to Tom Marshburn's comments after Dragon's departure
› Read more about Dragon's departure and landing
The Soyuz rocket is rolled out to the launch pad by train on Tuesday,
March 26, 2013, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Image Credit:
NASA/Carla Cioffi
› Read more about Dragon's departure and landing
The Soyuz rocket is rolled out to the launch pad by train on Tuesday,
March 26, 2013, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Image Credit:
NASA/Carla Cioffi› Read more about Energy
› Watch the Soyuz roll out video
› Read more about Expedition 35
NASA Awards Environmental Compliance and Operations Contract
HOUSTON
-- NASA has selected Navarro Research and Engineering Inc. of Oak
Ridge, Tenn., to provide environmental compliance and restoration
services at the agency's White Sands Test Facility in Las Cruces, N.M.
The White Sands Test Facility Environmental Compliance and Operations (ECO) contract calls for a two-year base period beginning June 1 and extending through May 31, 2015. One-year options are available during the following three years. The ECO contract is an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract with cost-plus-fixed-fee and fixed-price task orders. Based on variable funding and work requirements, the entire maximum potential value of the contract including all options is $80 million.
The ECO contract is essential to continue remediation activities associated with a large contaminated groundwater plume and multiple hazardous and solid waste management units.
Navarro's work includes hazardous waste management and operating permit compliance; groundwater treatment projects, sampling and analyses; wastewater discharge plan oversight; air permit and emission inventory requirements; drinking water system compliance; petroleum tank system management; National Environmental Policy Act project evaluations; and recycling, waste minimization and pollution prevention.
For more information about NASA and agency programs, visit:
The White Sands Test Facility Environmental Compliance and Operations (ECO) contract calls for a two-year base period beginning June 1 and extending through May 31, 2015. One-year options are available during the following three years. The ECO contract is an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract with cost-plus-fixed-fee and fixed-price task orders. Based on variable funding and work requirements, the entire maximum potential value of the contract including all options is $80 million.
The ECO contract is essential to continue remediation activities associated with a large contaminated groundwater plume and multiple hazardous and solid waste management units.
Navarro's work includes hazardous waste management and operating permit compliance; groundwater treatment projects, sampling and analyses; wastewater discharge plan oversight; air permit and emission inventory requirements; drinking water system compliance; petroleum tank system management; National Environmental Policy Act project evaluations; and recycling, waste minimization and pollution prevention.
For more information about NASA and agency programs, visit:
Guillermo Gonzalo Sánchez Achutegui
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