| Foale | ||
Personal: Male, Married, Two children. Born in Louth, England, UK. PhD Astronaut Career Astronaut Group: NASA Group 12 - 1987. Inactive Entered space service: 5 June 1987. Left space service: 12 November 2004. Number of Flights: 6.00. Total Time: 373.76 days. Number of EVAs: 4.00. Total EVA Time: 0.95 days. Appointed Deputy Associate Administrator for Exploration Operations on 12 November 2004. Awarded a CBE in the Queen’s New Year Honours List for 2005. NASA Official Biography
Foale Spaceflight Log
Foale Chronology 5 June 1987 - NASA Astronaut Training Group 12 selected.. The group was selected to provide pilot, engineer, and scientist astronauts for space shuttle flights.. Qualifications: Pilots: Bachelor's degree in engineering, biological science, physical science or mathematics. Advanced degree desirable. At least 1,000 flight-hours of pilot-in-command time. Flight test experience desirable. Excellent health. Vision minimum 20/50 uncorrected, correctable to 20/20 vision; maximum sitting blood pressure 140/90. Height between 163 and 193 cm. Mission Specialists: Bachelor's degree in engineering, biological science, physical science or mathematics and minimum three years of related experience or an advanced degree. Vision minimum 20/150 uncorrected, correctable to 20/20. Maximum sitting blood pressure of 140/90. Height between 150 and 193 cm.. First selection after the Challenger accident. 1962 applicants, 117 finalists. Reported to Johnson Space Center on August 17, 1987, to begin their one year training. Seven pilots and eight mission specialists. Two female mission specialists, including the first black woman astronaut. Ten military officers and five civilians (including three from NASA Johnson and one from NASA Marshall). 24 March 1992 - STS-45. Assignment: Prime Crew. Flight: STS-45. Manned seven crew. Carried ATLAS-1 experimental package. Payloads: Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science (ATLAS)-1, Shuttle Solar Backscat-ter Ultraviolet (SSBUV)-4, Getaway Special Experiment G-229, Space Tissue Loss (STL)-1, Radiation Monitoring Equipment (RME)-lIl, Visual Function Tester (VFT)-lI, Cloud Logic To Opti-mize Use of Defense Systems (CLOUDS)-1A, Investigations Into Polymer Membrane Process-ing (IPMP), Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment (SAREX)-Il, Ultraviolet Plume Instrument (UVPl). 2 April 1992 - Landing of STS-45. Assignment: Return Crew. Flight: STS-45. STS-45 landed at 11:21 GMT. 8 April 1993 - STS-56. Assignment: Prime Crew. Flight: STS-56. Manned five crew. Carried Atlas-2; deployed and retrieved Spartan 201. Payloads: Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science (ATLAS) 2, Shuttle Solar Backscat-ter Ultraviolet (SSBUV) A, Shuttle Pointed Autonomous Research Tool for Astronomy (SPARTAN) 201 (Solar Wind Generation Experi-ment), Solar Ultraviolet Experiment (SUVE), Commercial Material Dispersion Apparatus (CMIX), Physiological and Anatomical Rodent Experiment (PARE), Hand-held, Earth-oriented, Real-time, Cooperative, User-friendly, Location-targeting, and Environmental System (HER-CULES), Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment (SAREX) II, Space Tissue Loss (STL), Air Force Maui Optical Site (AMOS), Cosmic Radiation Effects and Activation Monitor (CREAM), Radiation Monitoring Equipment (RME) III. 17 April 1993 - Landing of STS-56. Assignment: Return Crew. Flight: STS-56. STS-56 landed at 11:40 GMT. 3 February 1995 - STS-63. Assignment: Prime Crew. Flight: STS-63, Mir EO-17, Mir LD-4. Deployed ODERACS 2A-2E; deployed and retrieved Spartan 204. Discovery rendezvoused with Russia's space station, Mir, to a distance of 11 m and performed a fly-around, but did not dock with Mir. Payloads: SPACEHAB 03, Shuttle Pointed Autonomous Research Tool for Astronomy (SPARTAN) 204, Cryo Systems Experiment (CSE)/GLO-2 Experi-ment Payload (CGP)/Orbital Debris Radar Calibration Spheres (ODERACS) 2, Solid Surface Combustion Experiment (SSCE), Air Force Maui Optical Site (AMOS), IMAX Cargo Bay Camera (ICBC) 9 February 1995 - EVA STS-63-1. Assignment: EVA Crew. Flight: STS-63. Tested tools and techniques for extravehicular activity. 11 February 1995 - Landing of STS-63. Assignment: Return Crew. Flight: STS-63, Mir EO-17, Mir LD-4. STS-63 landed at 11:51 GMT. 15 May 1997 - STS-84. Assignment: Prime Crew. Flight: STS-84, Mir NASA-4, Mir NASA-3, Mir EO-23. Atlantis blasted off on a night launch to Mir, docking with the station on May 17 at 02:33 GMT. Jerry Linenger, who had begun his stay on Mir in mid-January aboard STS-81, would return aboard STS-84. Michael Foale would be left at the station for his stint as the American crew member of Mir. The crew transfered to Mir 466 kg of water, 383 kg of U.S. science equipment, 1,251 kg of Russian equipment and supplies, and 178 kg of miscellaneous material. Returned to Earth aboard Atlantis were 406 kg of U.S. science material, 531 kg of Russian logistics material, 14 kg of ESA material and 171 kg of miscellaneous material. Atlantis undocked from Mir at 01:04 GMT on May 22. After passing up its first landing opportunity due to clouds over the landing site, the Shuttle fired its OMS engines on the deorbit burn at 12:33 GMT on May 24. Atlantis landed at 13:27 GMT at Kennedy Space Center's runway 33. 6 September 1997 - EVA Mir EO-24-2. Assignment: EVA Crew. Flight: Mir EO-24, Mir NASA-4. Inspected exterior of Spektr. Moved solar arrays. 6 October 1997 - Landing of STS-86. Assignment: Return Crew. Flight: STS-86, Mir NASA-5, Mir NASA-4, Mir EO-24. STS-86 landed at 21:55 GMT with the crew of Wetherbee, Bloomfield, Titov Vladimir, Parazynski, Chretien, Lawrence and Foale aboard. 19 December 1999 - STS-103 Mission Status Report #01. Flight: STS-103. In the final launch attempt available this year, Discovery and its seven astronauts blasted off tonight on the last human space flight of the 20th century to refurbish the Hubble Space Telescope. Under clear and starry skies at the Kennedy Space Center, Discovery lifted off on ...more... 20 December 1999 - STS-103. Assignment: Prime Crew. Flight: STS-103. Hubble Space Telescope (HST) servicing mission SM-3A, delayed repeatedly by technical problems with the shuttle fleet after the near-disastrous previous launch. Finally launched after the last possible day to avoid Y2K computer problems; one spacewalk was cancelled so that the shuttle could return by December 28. Hubble was in a 591 km x 610 km x 28.5 deg orbit at launch. After separation of the external tank ET-101 the Orbiter was in a 56 km x 587 km x 28.5 deg transfer orbit. The OMS 2 burn at 0134 UTC raised the orbit to 313 km x 582 km. The payload bay contained:
20 December 1999 - STS-103 Mission Status Report #02. Flight: STS-103. Trailing the Hubble Space Telescope by about 3,700 nautical miles and closing, the seven Discovery astronauts were awakened at 9:50 a.m. CST today to the sounds of Bachman-Turner Overdrive's "Taking Care of Business." The wake-up call from Mission Control began the crew's first full day in orbit. Discovery is closing on the telescope at a rate of about 340 nautical miles with each hour and a half long orbit of Earth. Today will be a day of preparation for the crew, gearing up for the rendezvous and ...more... 20 December 1999 - STS-103 Mission Status Report #03. Flight: STS-103. The seven members of the STS-103 crew of Discovery completed a day of preparation Monday for a Tuesday capture of the Hubble Space Telescope. During three days of space walks, Hubble's capability to conduct astronomical observations will be restored and some of its equipment upgraded. Discovery's robotic arm and the four space suits the astronauts will use on Wednesday, ...more... 22 December 1999 - STS-103 Mission Status Report #07. Flight: STS-103. Discovery astronauts completed the two highest priority tasks of their Hubble Space Telescope servicing Wednesday with a space walk that was the second longest in history. Astronauts Steve Smith and John Grunsfeld installed six new gyroscopes and six Voltage/Temperature Improvement Kits in the telescope during their 8 hour, 15 minute spacewalk. Working deliberately, Smith and Grunsfeld replaced three Rate Sensor Units, each ...more... 22 December 1999 - STS-103 Mission Status Report #06. Flight: STS-103. With the Hubble Space Telescope securely latched in the payload bay, the astronauts board Discovery today will turn their attention to the primary objective of their flight -- restoring the capability of the 12.5-ton telescope to observe the universe. Astronauts Steve Smith and John Grunsfeld are scheduled to begin the first of three ...more... 23 December 1999 - EVA STS-103-2. Assignment: EVA Crew. Flight: STS-103. Installed in the Hubble space telescope a new 486/25 mhz computer and replaced Fine Guidance Sensor FGS-2. 23 December 1999 - STS-103 Mission Status Report #08. Flight: STS-103. Discovery's seven-member crew began work early today, preparing for a busy day on orbit, including a second spacewalk and a final check of hardware installed on the Hubble Space Telescope during yesterday's spacewalk. The primary goal of today's spacewalk, to be conducted by Mike Foale and European ...more... 23 December 1999 - STS-103 Mission Status Report #09. Flight: STS-103. The Hubble Space Telescope received a new advanced computer Thursday from space-walking Discovery astronauts Mike Foale and Claude Nicollier. Their 8-hour, 10-minute space walk, the third longest in history, also saw replacement of a 550-pound fine guidance sensor. Flight controllers said all major activities of the space walk, the second of three ...more... 25 December 1999 - STS-103 Mission Status Report #13. Flight: STS-103. Discovery's astronauts delivered a Christmas present to the world today, putting the Hubble Space Telescope back in service after 24 hours and 33 minutes of repairs and upgrades that make the orbital observatory more capable than ever. European Space Agency Astronaut Jean-Francois Clervoy used the shuttle's robot arm ...more... 25 December 1999 - STS-103 Mission Status Report #12. Flight: STS-103. Christmas Day onboard the Shuttle Discovery began with seasons greetings for Commander Curt Brown, as the crew awoke to Bing Crosby's "I'll Be Home for Christmas." "Merry Christmas to all of you down there," replied Brown. "And Hubble will be home ...more... 27 December 1999 - STS-103 Mission Status Report #17. Flight: STS-103. The seven astronauts aboard Space Shuttle Discovery glided to a smooth landing at the Kennedy Space Center, wrapping up their eight-day mission to refurbish and repair the Hubble Space Telescope. After waving off the first landing opportunity of the day because of a concern with ...more... 28 December 1999 - Landing of STS-103. Assignment: Return Crew. Flight: STS-103. STS-103 landed at 00:01 GMT. 28 February 2003 - International Space Station Status Report #03-9. Flight: ISS EO-6. Approaching their 100th day in orbit, the International Space Station's Expedition 6 crewmembers completed an important test of on-orbit spacewalk preparation this week, while program managers cleared the way for a crew rotation scenario that will bring the three-man crew back to Earth in Kazakhstan in May. Monday Commander Ken Bowersox and Flight Engineer Don Pettit conducted a successful test of the ability of two crewmembers to safely get into American spacesuits without the assistance of a third crewmember; that ability is a prerequisite to sending smaller crews to ISS while the space shuttle fleet remains grounded during the investigation of the Columbia accident. As Flight Engineer Nikolai Budarin videotaped the activity and offered his advice, Bowersox and Pettit helped each other into their Extravehicular Mobility Units, donned jet backpacks called SAFERs, set up the necessary equipment for a pre-breathe of oxygen to purge nitrogen from their bloodstreams, and then got out of the spacesuits. Through a series of meetings, ISS partners announced that near-term station crew ...more... 26 April 2003 - Soyuz TMA-2. Assignment: Backup Crew. Flight: ISS EO-7. Two-man Russian/American crew to provide minimal manning of space station while shuttle is grounded. Replaced three-man crew aboard ISS since before STS-107 disaster. 24 July 2003 - STS-116 (cancelled). Assignment: Proposed Prime Crew. Flight: STS-116A. Flight delayed after the Columbia disaster. STS-116 was to have flown ISS Assembly mission ISS-12A.1. It would have delivered the third left-side truss segment (ITS P5), logistics and supplies aboard a Spacehab single cargo module and carried out a crew rotation. 25 July 2003 - International Space Station Status Report #03-35. Flight: ISS EO-7. The Expedition 7 crew, Commander Yuri Malenchenko and NASA ISS Science Officer Ed Lu, wound up a busy week with a Canadarm2 session that could lead to operation of the Station's robotic arm by controllers on the ground without crew participation. Today's activity, with Lu working with flight controllers in Houston, began a little ...more... 1 August 2003 - International Space Station Status Report #03-36. Flight: ISS EO-7. The Expedition 7 crew, Commander Yuri Malenchenko and NASA International Space Station Science Officer Ed Lu, spent their 14th week in space performing various science experiments, practicing with the Station's robotic arm and maintaining Station systems. On Tuesday, the crew marked the 1,000th day of human occupancy of the Station with ...more... 8 August 2003 - International Space Station Status Report #03-37. Flight: ISS EO-7. The Expedition 7 crew, Commander Yuri Malenchenko and NASA International Space Station Science Officer Ed Lu, continued work this week with unique microgravity science experiments and maintained the operating systems of the orbiting lab. On Monday, the crewmembers passed the 100-day mark on orbit since their launch to ...more... 15 August 2003 - International Space Station Status Report #03-38. Flight: ISS EO-7. The Expedition 7 crew, Commander Yuri Malenchenko and NASA International Space Station Science Officer Ed Lu, this week conducted science experiments, maintenance activities and prepared for the upcoming departure and arrival of Progress cargo and Soyuz vehicles. Lu talked with former Station Science Officer Don Pettit to help locate hardware ...more... 22 August 2003 - International Space Station Status Report #03-39. Flight: ISS EO-7. Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 7 Commander Yuri Malenchenko and NASA Science Officer Ed Lu studied their first sample in an experiment designed to look at how air bubbles can weaken metals, crystals and other materials as they coalesce on orbit. They also packed a resupply craft full of trash and readied it for departure next week. Today marked the crew's 118th day on orbit. Sample processing for the Pore Formation ...more... 27 August 2003 - International Space Station Status Report #03-40. Flight: ISS EO-7. An unmanned Russian Progress vehicle successfully undocked from the International Space Station today, heading for a plunge into the Earth's atmosphere with discarded items from the orbital complex. The Progress 10 craft, which arrived at the Station in early February, departed ...more... 28 August 2003 - International Space Station Status Report #03-41. Flight: ISS EO-7. An unmanned Russian Progress vehicle successfully blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan tonight to deliver almost three tons of food, fuel, water, and supplies to the residents of the International Space Station. The Progress 12 craft lifted off right on time from its Central Asian launch pad ...more... 30 August 2003 - International Space Station Status Report #03-43. Flight: ISS EO-7. An unpiloted Russian resupply craft successfully docked to the International Space Station tonight, delivering nearly three tons of food, fuel, water, supplies and scientific gear to the Expedition 7 crew aboard the complex and for the next crew to launch in October. The Progress 12 vehicle automatically linked up to the aft end of the Zvezda Service ...more... 4 September 2003 - International Space Station Status Report #03-44. Flight: ISS EO-7. An unmanned Russian Progress vehicle successfully undocked from the International Space Station today, heading for a month of scientific benefit before it is commanded to burn up in the Earth's atmosphere. Just a week after a twin vehicle was cast away from a different Station port, the ...more... 5 September 2003 - International Space Station Status Report #03-45. Flight: ISS EO-7. With a newly arrived Russian Progress cargo vehicle at the aft end of the Zvezda Service Module awaiting unloading and a just-vacated Pirs Docking Compartment awaiting their successors, International Space Station Expedition 7 crewmembers, Commander Yuri Malenchenko and NASA ISS Science Officer Ed Lu, spent much of Friday doing scheduled spacesuit maintenance. The ISS Progress 12 unpiloted cargo vehicle arrived Saturday with about 5,000 pounds ...more... 26 September 2003 - International Space Station Status Report #03-48. Flight: ISS EO-7. Checks of robotics and spacesuits along with varied science activities highlighted the past week aboard the International Space Station for Commander Yuri Malenchenko and NASA ISS Science Officer Ed Lu. Malenchenko and Lu powered up the Station's 60-foot Canadian robotic arm, named ...more... 3 October 2003 - International Space Station Status Report #03-49. Flight: ISS EO-7. The week for Commander Yuri Malenchenko and NASA International Space Station Science Officer Ed Lu was filled with work on various science experiments and routine maintenance aboard the orbiting laboratory. Lu spent much of his time inside the U.S. Destiny laboratory setting up and performing ...more... 10 October 2003 - International Space Station Status Report #03-50. Flight: ISS EO-7. Expedition 7 Commander Yuri Malenchenko and NASA International Space Station Science Officer Ed Lu formally began preparations to come home this week, while continuing to work on several science experiments. Flight controllers in Houston and Moscow began inserting about an hour a day into ...more... 17 October 2003 - International Space Station Status Report #03-51. Flight: ISS EO-7. During their last week alone aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 7 crewmembers focused on preparations to welcome their Expedition 8 successors and for their own return to Earth. Commander Yuri Malenchenko and NASA ISS Science Officer Ed Lu worked to prepare ...more... 18 October 2003 - Soyuz TMA-3. Assignment: Prime Crew. Flight: ISS EO-8, ISS Cervantes, ISS EO-7. The spacecraft carried the Expedition 8 crew of Mike Foale and Aleksandr Kaleri and the EP-5 (Cervantes) mission crewmember Pedro Duque. During the flight to the station spacecraft Commander was Aleksandr Kaleri . Soyuz TMA-3 docked with the Pirs module at 07:16 GMT on October 20. Once the EO-7 crew aboard the ISS was relieved, the roles switched, with Foale becoming the ISS Commander. Duque carried out out 24 experiments in the fields of life and physical sciences, Earth observation, education and technology. The experiments were sponsored by the European Space Agency and Spain. After ten days in space, Duque returned to earth with the EO-7 crew of Malenchenko and Lu aboard Soyuz TMA-2. 18 October 2003 - International Space Station Status Report #03-52. Flight: ISS Cervantes, ISS EO-8. A new crew rocketed toward the International Space Station early today, leaving the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan aboard a Russian Soyuz booster that lifted off at 12:38 a.m. CDT and flawlessly sped into Earth orbit. ISS Expedition 8 Commander and NASA ISS Science Officer Mike Foale and Expedition ...more... 20 October 2003 - International Space Station Status Report #03-54. Flight: ISS Cervantes, ISS EO-8. The International Space Station's newest crew of Expedition 8 Commander Mike Foale and Flight Engineer Alexander Kaleri officially boarded the complex when hatches between its Soyuz spacecraft swung open at 5:19 a.m. CDT ( 1019 GMT, 2:19 p.m. Moscow time). They were joined by visiting researcher, European Space Agency astronaut Pedro Duque. Greeting them on the station were Expedition 7 Commander Yuri Malenchenko and NASA ...more... 20 October 2003 - International Space Station Status Report #03-53. Flight: ISS Cervantes, ISS EO-8. New residents arrived at the International Space Station Monday with the ISS Soyuz 7 spacecraft docking to the Station at 2:16 a.m. CDT (0716 GMT, 11:16am Moscow time). The arrival of Expedition 8 and a European Space Agency visiting researcher initiated a week of intense science operations and handover activities for the newest station crew, which will stay aboard the complex for nearly 200 days. With Soyuz Commander and Expedition 8 Flight Engineer Alexander Kaleri at the controls, ...more... 24 October 2003 - International Space Station Status Report #03-55. Flight: ISS Cervantes, ISS EO-8. Final handover activities are underway aboard the International Space Station as the Expedition 7 crew prepares to return to Earth Monday, following six months aboard the orbiting complex. Landing is scheduled for 8:41 p.m. CST on the steppes of Kazakhstan. Ready to take over is the Expedition 8 crew, which has spent the last week in space ...more... 27 October 2003 - International Space Station Status Report #03-56. Flight: ISS Cervantes, ISS EO-8. The Expedition 7 crew touched down in northern Kazakhstan in its Soyuz spacecraft about 8:41 p.m. CST, concluding a 183-day mission aboard the International Space Station and 185 days in space. Landing occurred on target, approximately 24 miles (38 kilometers) from Arkylyk in Kazakhstan. Expedition 7 Commander Yuri Malenchenko, NASA ISS Science Officer Ed Lu and European ...more... 31 October 2003 - International Space Station Status Report #03-57. Flight: ISS EO-8. International Space Station Expedition 8 Commander and NASA ISS Science Officer Michael Foale and Flight Engineer Alexander Kaleri wound up their first full workweek in space Friday. Science activities, Station maintenance, exercise and more familiarization with their new home were their focus. Kaleri spent much of the day setting up, working with and then stowing the Russian ...more... 7 November 2003 - International Space Station Status Report #03-58. Flight: ISS EO-8. The Expedition 8 crew settled into life aboard the International Space Station this week, squaring away their new home in orbit and beginning work with several different experiments. Commander and NASA ISS Science Officer Michael Foale and Flight Engineer Alexander ...more... 14 November 2003 - International Space Station Status Report #03-59. Flight: ISS EO-8. The Expedition 8 crew of the International Space Station wound up its week with a busy Friday, getting ready for next week's practice session for a possible February spacewalk. Commander and NASA ISS Science Officer Michael Foale and Flight Engineer Alexander Kaleri also spent considerable time on science experiments. Crewmembers are scheduled to do fit check work with the Russian spacesuits on Monday. ...more... 21 November 2003 - International Space Station Status Report #03-60. Flight: ISS EO-8. The eighth permanent crew to live on the International Space Station completed its first month aboard the complex this week, a week that saw the 16 nations that participate in the Station program celebrate the fifth anniversary of its launch. The first Station component, the control module Zarya, was launched from the Baikonur ...more... 28 November 2003 - International Space Station Status Report #03-61. Flight: ISS EO-8. The two-person crew living on the International Space Station celebrated the Thanksgiving holiday, tested a modified configuration for an exercise machine and worked on science experiments this week. Expedition 8 Commander Mike Foale and Flight Engineer Alexander Kaleri enjoyed a ...more... 5 December 2003 - International Space Station Status Report #03-62. Flight: ISS EO-8. Expedition 8 Commander and NASA ISS Science Officer Mike Foale and Flight Engineer Alexander Kaleri Friday wrapped up a busy week aboard the International Space Station. ISS activities included scientific experiments ranging from behavior of plasma dust subjected to radio waves in a vacuum to investigation of stresses on the feet and legs during spaceflight. Kaleri completed the first run of the Russian Plasma Crystal-3 experiment on Thursday, ...more... 12 December 2003 - International Space Station Status Report #03-63. Flight: ISS EO-8. Aboard the International Space Station this week the Expedition 8 crew served as scientists, engineers, mechanics and investigators as it approaches two months of life in space aboard the orbiting outpost. The workweek began with a U.S. milestone being recognized when Commander Mike Foale ...more... 19 December 2003 - International Space Station Status Report #03-64. Flight: ISS EO-8. Expedition 8 Commander Mike Foale and Flight Engineer Alexander Kaleri spent their ninth week in space this week splitting time between systems maintenance, scientific work and some holiday decorating. Foale did a leak check early this week of ventilation valves that are part of the ...more... 24 December 2003 - International Space Station Status Report #03-65. Flight: ISS EO-8. The Expedition 8 crew had a busy three days of science and International Space Station maintenance activities before beginning to wind down Wednesday afternoon for a Christmas day off. Mike Foale, commander and NASA ISS science officer, and Alexander Kaleri, the flight engineer, also showed off their Christmas preparations to viewers on Earth. On Wednesday, the crew's 68th day in space, Kaleri spent some time working with ...more... 2 January 2004 - International Space Station Status Report #04-1. Flight: ISS EO-8. The International Space Station's Expedition 8 crew got back to work today after a day off to welcome the new year. Mike Foale, commander and NASA ISS science officer, and Alexander Kaleri, the flight engineer, worked with station systems and science. Foale also delivered a "status of the Station" message, looking ahead to future ISS activities and more distant space exploration. Foale worked with the Cellular Biotechnology Operations Support System (CBOSS), ...more... 9 January 2004 - International Space Station Status Report #04-2. Flight: ISS EO-8. Expedition 8 Commander Mike Foale celebrated his 47th birthday on Wednesday this week while Flight Engineer Alexander Kaleri observed the Russian Orthodox Christmas on Thursday as they both continued research work, performed several maintenance activities and conducted troubleshooting efforts to assist ground engineers analyzing a small decay in the Station cabin's atmospheric pressure. The pressure decay poses no threat to the crew's safety or to the continued operation ...more... 12 January 2004 - International Space Station Status Report #04-3. Flight: ISS EO-8. With the help of Expedition 8 Commander Mike Foale and Flight Engineer Alexander Kaleri, flight controllers traced the apparent cause of a tiny pressure decay on the International Space Station Sunday to a braided flex hose that is part of the window system in the U.S. Destiny Laboratory. After extensive pressure checks on Saturday and Sunday in the Russian Progress resupply ...more... 16 January 2004 - International Space Station Status Report #04-4. Flight: ISS EO-8. In an effort to gather more data regarding normal air pressure fluctuations onboard the International Space Station, Expedition 8 Commander Mike Foale and Flight Engineer Alexander Kaleri ended their week by closing several interior hatches. Foale and Kaleri will spend most of the weekend in a smaller portion of the station ...more... 23 January 2004 - International Space Station Status Report #04-5. Flight: ISS EO-8. Expedition 8 Commander Mike Foale and Flight Engineer Alexander Kaleri are preparing for next week's arrival of their first packages from home in almost three months. Foale and Kaleri spent much of this week packing up trash to be jettisoned from ...more... 29 January 2004 - International Space Station Status Report #04-6. Flight: ISS EO-8. An unmanned Russian Progress resupply ship blasted off successfully today from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to deliver 21/2 tons of food, fuel and supplies to the residents of the International Space Station. As the Station flew over the Red Sea, the ISS Progress 13 craft lifted off its Central ...more... 31 January 2004 - International Space Station Status Report #04-7. Flight: ISS EO-8. An unmanned Russian resupply ship smoothly linked up to the International Space Station this morning, delivering 2-1/2 tons of food, fuel, spare parts and supplies to the two residents on board. With Expedition 8 Commander and NASA Science Officer Mike Foale and Flight Engineer ...more... 6 February 2004 - International Space Station Status Report #04-8. Flight: ISS EO-8. Aboard the International Space Station, Mike Foale and Alexander Kaleri of the Expedition 8 crew spent this week unpacking the first fresh supplies to arrive at the complex since they began their mission more than three and a half months ago. Expedition 8 Commander and NASA Science Officer Foale and Kaleri, the flight engineer, ...more... 13 February 2004 - International Space Station Status Report #04-9. Flight: ISS EO-8. The Expedition 8 crew aboard the International Space Station spent the week on early preparations for a spacewalk; training and positioning the robotic arm; conducting experiments; and 'educating' school children on long duration life in space. Approaching four months in space, Commander and NASA Science Officer Mike Foale ...more... 20 February 2004 - International Space Station Status Report #04-10. Flight: ISS EO-8. All systems remain "go" for the only planned spacewalk by the International Space Station's Expedition 8 crewmembers. Commander Mike Foale and Flight Engineer Alexander Kaleri, who observed the four-month anniversary of their launch to the Space Station on Wednesday, finished up a long list of tasks this week to be ready for a spacewalk to be staged from the Pirs Docking Compartment Thursday, Feb. 26, starting at 3 p.m. CST. NASA Television coverage of the spacewalk will begin at 2 p.m. CST. This week, the crewmembers worked closely with specialists at the Russian Mission ...more... 26 February 2004 - International Space Station Status Report #04-11. Flight: ISS EO-8. The residents of the International Space Station today conducted the first ever two-man spacewalk without a crewmember inside, but the planned five and a half hour-spacewalk to support technology experiments and prepare for a future visit from a cargo vehicle was cut short by a cooling system problem with one of the two crewmembers' Russian Orlan suits. The spacewalk by Expedition 8 Commander Mike Foale and Flight Engineer Alexander ...more... 5 March 2004 - International Space Station Status Report #04-12. Flight: ISS EO-8. Expedition 8 Commander Michael Foale today reestablished a vacuum between the Destiny Laboratory's science window's two panes of optical-quality glass. The window work was associated with continuing repairs following a small pressure leak detected on the International Space Station in January. Foale, with help from Flight Engineer Alexander Kaleri, completed a procedure to ...more... 12 March 2004 - International Space Station Status Report #04-13. Flight: ISS EO-8. The Expedition 8 Commander Michael Foale and Flight Engineer Alexander Kaleri started the week with a three-day weekend and finished it with a successful treadmill repair. The International Space Station crew can now exercise on the treadmill with a working gyroscope. Foale and Kaleri spent the better part of three days working closely with Mission ...more... 19 March 2004 - International Space Station Status Report #04-14. Flight: ISS EO-8. Heading into the homestretch of their 61/2-month mission aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 8 Commander Michael Foale and Flight Engineer Alexander Kaleri spent the week conducting biomedical experiments and performing maintenance on a key Station component. Foale and Kaleri spent two days replacing a liquids unit and a water flow system ...more... 19 March 2004 - International Space Station Status Report #04-14A. Flight: ISS EO-8. Heading into the homestretch of their 61/2-month mission aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 8 Commander Michael Foale and Flight Engineer Alexander Kaleri spent the week conducting biomedical experiments and performing maintenance on a key Station component. Foale and Kaleri spent two days replacing a liquids unit and a water flow system ...more... 26 March 2004 - International Space Station Status Report #04-16. Flight: ISS EO-8. The oxygen-producing Elektron unit aboard the International Space Station continues to function well, as it has since it was restarted early last Saturday following the replacement of major components. Expedition 8 Commander Michael Foale and Flight Engineer Alexander Kaleri spent ...more... 2 April 2004 - International Space Station Status Report #04-17. Flight: ISS EO-8. Plans for the next crew rotation on the International Space Station are on schedule this week, as the Expedition 8 crew members moved into their final month on orbit and their successors to within weeks of their scheduled launch. On Thursday, Station managers conducted a Stage Operations Readiness Review and ...more... 6 April 2004 - EVA ISS EO-8-1. Assignment: EVA Crew. Flight: ISS EO-8. The astronauts retrieved and replaced and replaced science instruments on the ISS Pirs and Zvezda modules. These included sample materials that had been exposed to space for two years and a radiation phantom that measured doses a human would have received. The spacewalk, planned for 5 hours 45 minutes duration, was cut short when the cooling circuit in Kaleri's suit malfunctioned and he reported seeing drops of water on his helmet visor. This was the first time NASA had dared to send the entire crew of the station out on an EVA in the ISS program (though common Russian practice during their Mir project). 9 April 2004 - International Space Station Status Report #04-18. Flight: ISS EO-8. Three weeks remain in the six-month voyage aboard the International Space Station for Commander Mike Foale and Flight Engineer Alexander Kaleri as the Expedition 8 crew prepares to return home later this month. Their week aboard the station focused on wrapping up science experiments and tidying up for their replacement crew, which is in Russia for launch preparations. On Thursday, Station managers conducted a Flight Readiness Review and found no issues ...more... 16 April 2004 - International Space Station Status Report #04-19. Flight: ISS EO-8. Work to prepare for the eighth International Space Station crew exchange continued on schedule this week, both on the Station and at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Expedition 9 Commander Gennady Padalka, Flight Engineer Mike Fincke, and European ...more... 18 April 2004 - International Space Station Status Report #04-21. Flight: ISS EO-8. New residents arrived at the International Space Station at 12:01 a.m. CDT (0501 GMT, 9:01 a.m. Moscow time) Wednesday. Docking of the Expedition 9 Crew's Soyuz spacecraft (ISS Soyuz 8 / TMA-4) initiated a nine-day handover and science operation by a visiting European Space Agency researcher. With Expedition 9 Commander Gennady Padalka at the controls, the Soyuz vehicle linked ...more... 18 April 2004 - International Space Station Status Report #04-20. Flight: ISS EO-8. A new crew is en route to the International Space Station following the launch tonight of the ISS Soyuz 8 spacecraft carrying Expedition 9 Commander Gennady Padalka, NASA Science Officer and Flight Engineer Mike Fincke and visiting researcher European Space Agency Astronaut Andre Kuipers of the Netherlands. The Soyuz launched flawlessly at 10:19 p.m. CDT from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakstan, ...more... 23 April 2004 - International Space Station Status Report #04-22. Flight: ISS Delta, ISS EO-8. New crewmembers aboard the International Space Station settled into a routine of handover briefings and scientific experiments after their arrival early Wednesday. Expedition 9's Commander Gennady Padalka and NASA ISS Science Officer Mike Fincke ...more... 29 April 2004 - International Space Station Status Report #04-23. Flight: ISS Delta, ISS EO-8. Completing more than six months in space, the International Space Station Expedition 8 crew, Commander Mike Foale and Flight Engineer Alexander Kaleri, returned to Earth today, bringing with them European Space Agency Astronaut Andre Kuipers of the Netherlands, who had spent nine days aboard the complex conducting research. After a flawless descent aboard the ISS Soyuz 7 spacecraft, Foale, Kaleri and Kuipers ...more... 30 April 2004 - Landing of Soyuz TMA-3. Assignment: Return Crew. Flight: ISS EO-8, ISS EO-9, ISS Delta. The ISS EO-8 crew of Kaleri and Foale, together with the ESA Delta mission astronaut Kuipers, undocked Soyuz TMA-3 from the International Space Station at 20:52 GMT on 29 April. There was minor concern due to a helium leak in the Soyuz engine pressurisation system. The Soyuz capsule made a soft landing at 00:11 GMT on 30 April near the city of Arkalyk. The recovery forces consisted of 160 people, eight helicopters, two aircraft and two all-terrain vehicles.The EO-9 crew of Fincke and Padalka remained aboard the ISS on a six-month caretaking mission. 7 May 2004 - International Space Station Status Report #04-24. Flight: ISS EO-9. The new crew of the International Space Station spent its first full week alone concentrating on life science research, spacewalk preparations, and becoming comfortable with their new home in orbit. Expedition 9 Commander Gennady Padalka and NASA ISS Science Officer Mike Fincke ...more... Bibliography and Further Reading
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