McArthur

William Surles (Bill) McArthur Jr American Mission Specialist Astronaut. Born 26 July 1951.

Personal: Male, Married, Two children. Born in Laurinburg, North Carolina, USA. US Army US Army

Astronaut Career

Astronaut Group: NASA Group 13 - 1990. Active Entered space service: 17 January 1990. Number of Flights: 4.00. Total Time: 224.93 days. Number of EVAs: 4.00. Total EVA Time: 1.01 days.

NASA Official Biography

NAME: William Surles "Bill" McArthur, Jr., (Colonel, USA)

NASA Astronaut

PERSONAL DATA:

Born July 26, 1951, in Laurinburg, North Carolina. His hometown is Wakulla, North Carolina. Married to the former Cynthia Kathryn Lovin of Red Springs, North Carolina. They have two daughters. He enjoys basketball, running, and working with personal computers. Bill's stepfather, Mr. Weldon C. Avant, resides in Red Springs. His parents, Brigadier General William S. McArthur and Mrs. Edith P. Avant, are deceased. Cynthia's mother, Mrs. A.K. Lovin, resides in Red Springs, North Carolina.

EDUCATION:

Graduated from Red Springs High School, Red Springs, North Carolina, in 1969; received a bachelor of science degree in applied science and engineering from the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, in 1973, and a master of science degree in aerospace engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1983.

ORGANIZATIONS:

Member of the American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics (AIAA), the Army Aviation Association of America, the Association of the United States Army, the United States Military Academy Association of Graduates , the West Point Society of Greater Houston, MENSA, Phi Kappa Phi, the Association of Space Explorers, and the American Radio Relay League.

SPECIAL HONORS:

Recipient of the Defense Superior Service Medal, the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, the Meritorious Service Medal (First Oak Leaf Cluster), the Army Commendation Medal, the NASA Space Flight Medal, and the NASA Exceptional Service Medal. Distinguished Graduate of the U.S. Army Aviation School. Honorary Doctor of Science degree from the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. Recipient of the Order of the Long Leaf Pine, North Carolina's highest civilian award. Member of the Georgia Tech Academy of Distinguished Engineering Alumni. 1996 American Astronautical Society Flight Achievement Award.

EXPERIENCE:

McArthur graduated from West Point in June 1973 and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. Following a tour with the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, he entered the U.S. Army Aviation School in 1975. He was the top graduate of his flight class and was designated an Army aviator in June 1976. He subsequently served as an aeroscout team leader and brigade aviation section commander with the 2nd Infantry Division in the Republic of Korea. In 1978 he was assigned to the 24th Combat Aviation Battalion in Savannah, Georgia, where he served as a company commander, platoon leader, and operations officer. After completing studies at Georgia Tech, he was assigned to the Department of Mechanics at West Point as an assistant professor. In June 1987, he graduated from the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School and was designated an experimental test pilot. Other military schools completed include the Army Parachutist Course, the Jumpmaster Course, and the Command and General Staff Officers' Course.

A Master Army Aviator, he has logged over 4000 flight hours in 37 different aircraft.

NASA EXPERIENCE:

McArthur was assigned to NASA at the Johnson Space Center in August 1987 as a Space Shuttle vehicle integration test engineer. Duties involved engineering liaison for launch and landing operations of the Space Shuttle. He was actively involved in the integrated test of the flight control system for each Orbiter for its return to flight and was a member of the Emergency Escape and Rescue Working Group.

Selected by NASA in January 1990, McArthur became an astronaut in July 1991. Since then, McArthur has held various assignments within the Astronaut Office including: working issues relating to the solid rocket booster, redesigned solid rocket motor, and the advanced solid rocket motor. A veteran of two space flights, McArthur has logged 354 orbits of the Earth, traveled 9.2 million miles in 22 days, 4 hours, 44 minutes and 45 seconds.

McArthur served as a mission specialist on STS-58 on the seven-person life science research mission aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia, launching from the Kennedy Space Center on October 18, 1993, and landing at Edwards Air Force Base on November 1, 1993. The crew performed neurovestibular, cardiovascular, cardiopulmonary, metabolic, and musculoskeletal medical experiments on themselves and 48 rats, expanding our knowledge of human and animal physiology both on earth and in space flight. In addition, the crew performed 16 engineering tests aboard the Orbiter Columbia and 20 Extended Duration Orbiter Medical Project experiments. Additionally, the crew made extensive contacts with school children and amateur radio operators around the world through the Shuttle Amateur Radio experiment. The mission was accomplished in 225 orbits of the Earth in 336 hours, 13 minutes, 01 second.

Most recently, McArthur served as a mission specialist on STS-74, NASA's second Space Shuttle mission to rendezvous and dock with the Russian Space Station Mir. STS-74 launched on November 12, 1995, and landed at Kennedy Space Center on November 20, 1995. During the 8-day flight the crew aboard Atlantis successfully attached a permanent docking module to Mir, conducted experiments on a number of secondary payloads, and transferred one and a half tons of supplies between Atlantis and Mir. The STS-74 mission was accomplished in 129 orbits of the Earth, traveling 3.4 million miles in 196 hours, 30 minutes, 44 seconds.Currently, McArthur is assigned as the Chief of the Astronaut Office Flight Support Branch, supervising astronaut support of the Mission Control Center, prelaunch Space Shuttle processing, and launch and landing operations.

FEBRUARY 1997

McArthur Spaceflight Log

18 October 1993 Flight: STS-58. Flight Up: STS-58. Flight Back: STS-58. Flight Time: 14.01 days.

12 November 1995 Flight: STS-74. Flight Up: STS-74. Flight Back: STS-74. Flight Time: 8.19 days.

11 October 2000 Flight: STS-92. Flight Up: STS-92. Flight Back: STS-92. Flight Time: 12.90 days.

1 October 2005 Flight: ISS EO-12. Flight Up: Soyuz TMA-7. Flight Back: Soyuz TMA-7. Flight Time: 189.83 days.

McArthur Chronology

17 January 1990 - NASA Astronaut Training Group 13 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.. Reported to the Johnson Space Center in late July 1990 to begin their year long training. Chosen from 1945 qualified applicants, then 106 finalists screened between September and November 1989.

18 October 1993 - STS-58. Assignment: Prime Crew. Flight: STS-58. Biological, microgravity experiments aboard Spacelab 2. Payloads: Spacelab Life Sciences (SLS) 2, Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment (SAREX) II.

1 November 1993 - Landing of STS-58. Assignment: Return Crew. Flight: STS-58. STS-58 landed at 15:05 GMT.

12 November 1995 - STS-74. Assignment: Prime Crew. Flight: STS-74, Mir EO-20. Rendezvoused and docked with Mir space station on November 15. Delivered the Russian-built 316GK Shuttle-Mir docking module to Mir.Payloads: Shuttle-Mir Mission 2; docking module with two attached solar arrays; IMAX Cargo Bay Camera (ICBC); Glow Experiment (GLO-4)/ Photogrammetric Appendage Structural Dynamics Experiment (PASDE) Payload (GPP); Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment (SAREX) II.

20 November 1995 - Landing of STS-74. Assignment: Return Crew. Flight: STS-74, Mir EO-20. STS-74 landed at 17:02 GMT.

11 October 2000 - STS-92. Assignment: Prime Crew. Flight: STS-92. ISS Logistics flight. 100th shuttle flight. Launch delayed from October 6. STS-92 brought the Z-1 Truss (mounted on a Spacelab pallet), Control Moment Gyros, Pressurised Mating Adapter-3 (PMA-3) and two DDCU (Heat pipes) to the International Space Station.

The RSRM-76 solid rocket boosters separated at 23:19 GMT and main engine cut-off (MECO) came at 23:25 GMT. External tank ET-104 separated into a 74 x 323 km x 51.6 deg orbit. At apogee at 00:01 GMT on Oct 12, Discovery's OMS engines fired to raise perigee to a 158 x 322 km x 51.6 deg orbit; ET-104 re-entered over the Pacific around 00:30 GMT. At Oct 12 on 03:01 GMT the NC1 burn raised the orbit to 180 x 349 km; NC3 on Oct 12 to 311 x 375 km; and the TI burn at 14:09 GMT on Oct 13 to 375 x 381 km x 51.6 deg. Discovery's rendezvous with the International Space Station came at 15:39 GMT on Oct 13, with docking at 17:45 GMT. The spaceship docked with PMA-2, the docking port on the +Y port of the Space Station's Unity module. Hatch was open to PMA-2 at 20:30 GMT the same day.

STS-92 Cargo Manifest

Bay 1-2: Orbiter Docking System + 3 EMU spacesuits
Bay 5 Port: Adapter Beam with DDCU-HP control unit
Bay 5 Starboard: Adapter Beam with DDCU-HP control unit
Bay 7-8: Spacelab Pallet MD003 with PMA-3
Bay 10-12: ISS Z1 first segment of the space station truss
Bay 13 Adapter Beam with IMAX Cargo Bay Camera
Sill: Canadarm RMS 301

Total payload bay cargo: ca. 14,800 kg

The Z1 first segment of the space station truss was built by Boeing/Canoga Park and was 3.5 x 4.5 meters in size. It was attached to the +Z port on Unity. Z1 carried the control moment gyros, the S-band antenna, and the Ku-band antenna.

PMA-3, built by Boeing/Huntington Beach, was docked to the -Z port opposite Z1. PMA-3 was installed on a Spacelab pallet for launch.

On October 14 at 16:15 GMT the Z1 segment was unberthed from the payload bay and at around 18:20 GMT it was docked to the zenith port on the Unity module.

On October 15 at 14:20 GMT the ODS airlock was depressurised, beginning a spacewalk by Bill McArthur and Leroy Chiao. Official NASA EVA duration (battery power to repress) was 6 hours 28 minutes.

The second spacewalk was on October 16, with Jeff Wisoff and Mike Lopez-Alegria. The suits went to battery power at 14:15 GMT and Wisoff left the airlock at 14:21 GMT. Repressurisation began at 21:22 GMT for a duration of 7 hours 07minutes.

Leroy Chiao and Bill McArthur began the third STS-92 EVA at 15:30 GMT on October 17, completing their work at 22:18 GMT for a total time of 6 hours 48 minutes.

After the spacewalk, Discovery completed the second of the three station reboosts scheduled for STS-92. They fired reaction control system jets in a series of pulses of 1.4 seconds each, over a 30-minute period, gently raising the station's orbit by about 3.1 km.

The last of four successful spacewalks began on 18 October at 16:00 GMT and ended at 22:56 GMT, lasting 6 hours and 56 minutes. Jeff Wisoff and Mike Lopez-Alegria each jetted slowly through space above Discovery's cargo bay.

After the space walk, Discovery completed the third and final reboost of the space station.

On 19 October the astronauts worked within the ISS. They completed connections for the newly installed Z1 external framework structure and transferred equipment and supplies for the Expedition One first resident crew of the Station. The crew also tested the four 290-kg gyroscopes in the truss, called Control Moment Gyros, which will be used to orient the ISS as it orbits the Earth. They will ultimately assume attitude control of the ISS following the arrival of the U.S. Laboratory Destiny. The tests and the transfer of supplies into the Russian Zarya Module took longer than expected. As a result, the crew's final departure from the Station's Unity module was delayed. Melroy and Wisoff took samples from surfaces in Zarya to study the module's environment. They then unclogged the solid waste disposal system in the Shuttle's toilet, which was restored to full operation after a brief interruption in service.

Discovery undocked from the ISS at 16:08 GMT on 20 October. The final separation burn was executed about 45 minutes after undocking. The crew had added 9 tonnes to the station's mass, bringing it to about 72 tonnes. The return to earth, planned for 22 October, was delayed repeatedly due to high winds at the Kennedy landing site. The landing was finally made at Edwards Air Force Base, California, on October 24, at 22:00 GMT.

11 October 2000 - STS-92 Mission Status Report #01. Flight: STS-92. Discovery's seven astronauts blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center on the 100th mission in Space Shuttle history tonight to deliver the first external framework structure and a new docking port to the International Space Station.

Commander Brian Duffy, Pilot Pam Melroy and Mission Specialists Leroy Chiao, Bill ...more...

12 October 2000 - STS-92 Mission Status Report #03. Flight: STS-92. The seven crew members aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery spent their first full day in orbit today checking equipment in preparation for the major events to come: docking with the International Space Station on Friday and, in following days, attaching an exterior framework and additional Shuttle docking port to the orbiting outpost.

The crew found everything in good shape aboard the Shuttle, although a failure in ...more...

12 October 2000 - STS-92 Mission Status Report #02. Flight: STS-92. Space Shuttle Discovery continues its approach to the International Space Station, trailing the orbital outpost by approximately 5500 nautical miles as of this morning, closing by about 600 nautical miles each orbit.

The STS-92 crew was awakened at 7:17 a.m. Central time with the song, "Incense And ...more...

13 October 2000 - STS-92 Mission Status Report #05. Flight: STS-92. Commander Brian Duffy gently maneuvered the Space Shuttle Discovery to a flawless docking with the 70-ton International Space Station this afternoon as the two craft flew 240 miles above Russia.

Discovery latched onto the station at 12:45 p.m. CDT, completing a perfect rendezvous ...more...

13 October 2000 - STS-92 Mission Status Report #04. Flight: STS-92. Discovery's astronauts were awakened this morning in preparation for their rendezvous and docking to the International Space Station after an extra hour of sleep to the sounds of "Girls Just Want To Have Fun", by Cyndi Lauper.

Commander Brian Duffy, Pilot Pam Melroy and Mission Specialists Leroy Chiao, Bill ...more...

14 October 2000 - STS-92 Mission Status Report #06. Flight: STS-92. Discovery's crew is set to install the first of two major components that it carried to the Space Station today - a unique piece of hardware called the Z1 truss. The truss is an exterior framework that houses gyroscopes and communications equipment and later will serve as a mounting platform for large solar arrays that will provide power to the International Space Station.

Earlier this morning, space station flight controllers in Houston successfully activated ...more...

14 October 2000 - STS-92 Mission Status Report #07. Flight: STS-92. The crew of Discovery added nine tons of critical equipment to the International Space Station today, attaching a framework that holds motion control gyroscopes and communications equipment and that will serve as a support for a giant set of solar arrays to be launched on the next Space Shuttle flight.

Japanese Astronaut Koichi Wakata, at controls in the shuttle cockpit, deftly maneuvered ...more...

15 October 2000 - EVA STS-92-1. Assignment: EVA Crew. Flight: STS-92. The astronauts connected cables between Z1 and Unity, relocated the SASA S-band antenna on Z1, and deployed Z1's SGANT Ku-band antenna. They then took the port ETSD (EVA stowage) box from the Spacelab pallet and installed it on Z1.

15 October 2000 - STS-92 Mission Status Report #09. Flight: STS-92. A key structural element for the International Space Station is now electrically connected to the rest of the station and important communications equipment set up after today's successful space walk by astronauts Leroy Chiao and Bill McArthur. "The crew ... worked absolutely perfectly together, " said lead flight director Chuck Shaw in an evening press conference afterward. "It's a major achievement for this complicated an EVA to go this well."

In a 6-hour, 28-minute space walk, McArthur and Chiao connected 10 electrical umbilicals ...more...

15 October 2000 - STS-92 Mission Status Report #08. Flight: STS-92. Two of Discovery's astronauts will continue outfitting the most recent addition to the International Space Station during a scheduled 6 ½-hour space walk today.

Mission Specialists Bill McArthur and Leroy Chiao will connect two sets of cables ...more...

17 October 2000 - EVA STS-92-3. Assignment: EVA Crew. Flight: STS-92. The astronauts installed two 58 kg DDCU DC-to-DC converter units atop the International Space Station's Z1 Truss. The DDCUs, will convert electricity generated by the solar arrays to be attached during the next shuttle mission. The spacewalkers also completed power cable connections on both the Z1 truss and newly installed docking port, PMA-3. They connected and reconfigured cables to route power from Pressurised Mating Adapter-2 to PMA-3 for the arrival of Endeavour and the STS-97 crew next month. They also attached a second tool storage box on the Z1 truss, providing a place to hold the tools and spacewalking aids for future assembly flights. McArthur stocked the boxes with tools and hardware that had been attached to the Unity module. STS-96 Astronauts Tammy Jernigan and Dan Barry had left the tools on the outside of Unity during a May 1999 spacewalk.

17 October 2000 - STS-92 Mission Status Report #12. Flight: STS-92. Mission Specialists Leroy Chiao and Bill McArthur will team up once again today to conduct the third scheduled space walk of this mission, setting the stage for future on-orbit construction and the arrival of the Expedition 1 crew in November.

Today's space walk, scheduled to begin just before 9:30 a.m.CDT, paves the way for ...more...

17 October 2000 - STS-92 Mission Status Report #13. Flight: STS-92. Mission Specialists Leroy Chiao and Bill McArthur completed the third successful spacewalk of Discovery's STS-92 mission at 4:18 p.m. CDT Tuesday, installing two DC-to-DC converter units atop the International Space Station's new Z1 Truss. Those two 129-pound converters, called DDCUs, will convert electricity generated by the huge solar arrays to be attached during the next shuttle mission to the proper voltage.

Today's spacewalk began at 9:30 a.m. and ended at 4:18 p.m., almost exactly as planned. ...more...

19 October 2000 - STS-92 Mission Status Report #16. Flight: STS-92. Following four consecutive days of on-orbit construction outside the International Space Station, Discovery's astronauts today will work inside the Unity and Zarya modules, completing some final connections for the new Z1 Truss and transferring equipment for use by the first resident crew, slated to arrive early next month.

Once inside, Pilot Pam Melroy and Mission Specialist Jeff Wisoff will gather samples ...more...

22 October 2000 - STS-92 Mission Status Report #24. Flight: STS-92. Discovery's astronauts prepared for a Monday landing after high crosswinds at Kennedy Space Center caused a delay of at least one day in their return to Earth and the end of their successful mission to expand the International Space Station and ready it for its first crew.

Discovery has two landing opportunities Monday at KSC, where the weather is expected ...more...

24 October 2000 - STS-92 Mission Status Report #27. Flight: STS-92. Awakened to the sounds of "D�j� vu" by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Commander Brian Duffy advised Mission Control that he and his crew knew what they'd be doing today and hoped to see everyone on the ground soon.

Discovery is targeting a landing later today, after poor weather conditions in Florida ...more...

24 October 2000 - STS-92 Mission Status Report #28. Flight: STS-92. Discovery glided to a textbook landing under sunny skies at Edwards Air Force Base in California on Tuesday, completing a successful mission to the International Space Station. The crew spent more than two extra days in space because of unfavorable weather at Kennedy Space Center in Florida and at Edwards.

Discovery touched down at 4 p.m. CDT and rolled to a stop on Edward's concrete runway ...more...

24 October 2000 - Landing of STS-92. Assignment: Return Crew. Flight: STS-92. STS-92 landed at 21:00 GMT.

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.

10 September 2005 - International Space Station Status Report #05-44. Flight: ISS EO-11, ISS EO-12. A 2�-ton delivery arrived at the back door of the International Space Station today as an unpiloted Russian cargo ship linked up to the Zvezda module's docking port at 9:42 a.m. CDT, filled with supplies for Expedition 11 Commander Sergei Krikalev and Flight Engineer John Phillips and spare parts for repair to some Station systems.

The crewmembers were inside Zvezda monitoring the automated docking as ISS flew ...more...

30 September 2005 - International Space Station Status Report #05-47. Flight: ISS EO-11, ISS EO-12. The 12th crew of the international space station rocketed into space tonight, beginning a six-month mission.

A Soyuz spacecraft carried Expedition 12 Commander and NASA Science Officer William ...more...

30 September 2005 - International Space Station Status Report #05-46. Flight: ISS EO-11, ISS EO-12. Preparations for arrival of the next crew of the space station, scientific activities and maintenance highlighted this week's activities aboard the orbiting laboratory.

Expedition 11 Commander Sergei Krikalev and NASA Science Officer John Phillips also ...more...

1 October 2005 - Soyuz TMA-7. Assignment: Prime Crew. Flight: ISS EO-11, ISS EO-12. Launch delayed from September 27. Soyuz TMA-7 docked with the International Space Station at 05:27 GMT on 3 October, bringing the long duration EO-12 crew of (McArthur, Commander; Tokarev, Flight Engineer) and space tourist Olsen. McArthur, Tokarev and Pontes (brought to the station aboard Soyuz TMA-8) transferred to TMA-7 on April 8, 2006, closing the hatches at 17:15 GMT and undocking from Zvezda at 20:28 GMT, leaving Vinogradov and Williams from Soyuz TMA-8 as the Expedition 13 in charge of the station. Soyuz TMA-7 fired its engines at 22:58 GMT for the deorbit burn and landed in Kazakhstan at 23:48 GMT.

3 October 2005 - International Space Station Status Report #05-48. Flight: ISS EO-11, ISS EO-12. New residents arrived at the international space station this morning to begin a six-month mission that will carry them through the new year into next spring.

With Expedition 12 Flight Engineer and Soyuz Commander Valery Tokarev at the controls, ...more...

7 October 2005 - International Space Station Status Report #05-49. Flight: ISS EO-11, ISS EO-12. Following the docking of the Soyuz spacecraft early Monday morning, the space station is now home to a new crew. Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev, joined by spaceflight participant Gregory Olsen, spent the week on board with the Expedition 11 crew performing handover and transfer activities.

McArthur, Tokarev and Olsen arrived at the space station at 12:27 a.m. CDT Monday, ...more...

10 October 2005 - International Space Station Status Report #05-50. Flight: ISS EO-11, ISS EO-12. After traveling 75 million miles during six months on the international space station, Expedition 11 Commander Sergei Krikalev and NASA ISS Science Officer John Phillips returned to Earth today. With them was American Greg Olsen, who spent eight days on the station under a commercial agreement with the Russian Federal Space Agency.

The Soyuz spacecraft with Krikalev, Phillips and Olsen landed in north-central Kazakhstan, ...more...

14 October 2005 - International Space Station Status Report #05-51. Flight: ISS EO-11, ISS EO-12. Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev are spending their first few days alone on the international space station following the safe return home of their predecessors Monday.

McArthur and Tokarev, veterans of shorter space shuttle flights, began familiarizing ...more...

21 October 2005 - International Space Station Status Report #05-52. Flight: ISS EO-11, ISS EO-12. Growing increasingly familiar with their microgravity home and laboratory in space, the 12th international space station crew turned its attention to experiment work, began preparations for the first space station-based spacewalk using U.S. suits since 2003 and captured spectacular images and video of the latest tropical cyclone in the Atlantic basin, Hurricane Wilma.

Expedition 12 Commander and NASA Station Science Officer Bill McArthur and Flight ...more...

28 October 2005 - International Space Station Status Report: SS05-053. Flight: ISS EO-12. Commander Bill McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev this week checked the clothes, tools and plans they will use for a five and half-hour spacewalk set for Nov. 7.

McArthur and Tokarev will mark five years of continuous human presence on the International ...more...

4 November 2005 - International Space Station Status Report: SS05-054. Flight: ISS EO-12. The Expedition 12 crew prepared for its first spacewalk and kept the international space station ship-shape this week as they passed a milestone of five years of human presence aboard the complex.

Following a review by station program management last week, managers Thursday gave ...more...

7 November 2005 - EVA ISS EO-12-1. Assignment: EVA Crew. Flight: ISS EO-12. The EVA started an hour late due to a misaligned valve in the Quest airlock module. The crew installed a television camera on the outboard end of the port truss segment of the ISS and removed a failed Rotary Joint Motor Controller (RJMC). They then moved hand over hand to the P6 truss, 16 m above the Destiny module. McArthur removed an old experiment, the Floating Potential Probe, and pushed it away from the station. Finally the crew replaced a failed circuit breaker in the Mobile Transporter.

7 November 2005 - International Space Station Status Report: SS05-055. Flight: ISS EO-12. The international space station crew completed the first spacewalk using U.S. space suits since April 2003, installing a new camera and discarding an inactive science probe.

Commander Bill McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev began their spacewalk ...more...

10 November 2005 - International Space Station Status Report: SS05-056. Flight: ISS EO-12. With their first spacewalk behind them, the residents of the international space station pressed ahead this week to prepare for several upcoming milestones.

Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev will get ...more...

18 November 2005 - Soyuz TMA-7 moved on ISS.. Flight: ISS EO-12. The ISS EO-12 crew boarded their Soyuz TMA-7 and undocked from the Pirs module at 08:46 GMT, flew around the station, and then docked with the Zarya module at 09:05 GMT. This cleared the hatch on the Pirs module for a future planned spacewalk.

18 November 2005 - International Space Station Status Report: SS05-057. Flight: ISS EO-12. Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev took a short ride away from the International Space Station today, flying their Soyuz spacecraft from one docking port to another.

McArthur and Tokarev left the station unoccupied for about half an hour as they ...more...

16 December 2005 - International Space Station Status Report: SS05-058. Flight: ISS EO-12. This week the crew focused on preparing for the arrival of a holiday shipment of fuel, food, water, spare parts and gifts.

A Progress spacecraft launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 1:38 ...more...

21 December 2005 - International Space Station Status Report: SS05-059. Flight: ISS EO-12. Supplies and holiday gifts are on the way to the International Space Station following today's Progress spacecraft launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

The 20th supply ship to visit the station lifted off at 1:38 p.m. EST. Less than ...more...

23 December 2005 - International Space Station Status Report: SS05-060. Flight: ISS EO-12. A holiday delivery arrived at the International Space Station today for the Expedition 12 crew.

An unpiloted Russian Progress cargo craft linked up automatically to the station's ...more...

30 December 2005 - International Space Station Status Report: SS05-061. Flight: ISS EO-12. The crew onboard the International Space Station are looking forward to celebrating New Year's Day after spending a quiet Christmas 225 miles above the Earth.

On Sunday, Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev ...more...

6 January 2006 - International Space Station Status Report: SS06-001. Flight: ISS EO-12. It was back to work this week for the Expedition 12 crew after a long New Year's weekend that marked the halfway point in their six-month stay aboard the station.

Sunday is the crew's 100th day in space.

Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur ...more...

13 January 2006 - International Space Station Status Report: SS06-002. Flight: ISS EO-12. This past week, Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev completed an important upgrade to the station's spacewalk preparation systems, and installed the Recharge Oxygen Orifice Bypass Assembly.

The assembly will conserve station oxygen during spacewalk preparations when the ...more...

20 January 2006 - International Space Station Status Report: SS06-003. Flight: ISS EO-12. Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur began his week Sunday by running a half-marathon on the station treadmill, supporting friends and colleagues running in the Houston Marathon.

As he ran 220 miles above the Earth on board the station, the runners circled Houston. ...more...

27 January 2006 - International Space Station Status Report: SS06-004. Flight: ISS EO-12, ISS EO-13. Preparations for a walk in space took center stage this week on the space station.

Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev reviewed ...more...

3 February 2006 - EVA ISS EO-12-2. Assignment: EVA Crew. Flight: ISS EO-12. Wearing Orlan suits, the crew emerged from the Pirs airlock of the station and first released a surplus Orlan suit with its radio transmitter activated, dubbed SuitSat. SuitSat broadcast greetings in six languages to radio amateurs for two orbits before its batteries failed. The crew then moved to the Zarya module and relocated the Strela crane grapple fixture to the Unity module. This cleared Zarya for the future temporary stowage of debris shields. The crew moved on to the station's center truss, where they safed a cutting mechanism on one of two umbilicals to the Mobile Transporter rail car. Returning to Pirs, they retrieved a microorganism experiment and photographed the exterior of Zvezda.

3 February 2006 - International Space Station Status Report: SS06-005. Flight: ISS EO-12, STS-115, STS-121. Space station crewmembers released a spacesuit-turned-satellite during the second spacewalk of their mission last night.

Called SuitSat, it faintly transmitted recorded voices of school children to amateur ...more...

10 February 2006 - International Space Station Status Report: SS06-006. Flight: ISS EO-12. The International Space Station crew completed a semiannual treadmill overhaul this week and began readying for a first-ever station "camp out" next week.

Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev spent several ...more...

17 February 2006 - International Space Station Status Report: SS06-006A. Flight: ISS EO-12. After an almost six-hour spacewalk last week, the crew began the week with a little time off; then returned to science investigations, routine maintenance and equipment tests.

Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev spent the ...more...

24 February 2006 - International Space Station Status Report: SS06-007. Flight: ISS EO-12, STS-121. Aboard the International Space Station this week, Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev have been preparing for upcoming spacecraft arrivals and departures.

Managers decided to postpone the planned station "campout" this week until next ...more...

3 March 2006 - International Space Station Status Report: SS06-008. Flight: ISS EO-13, STS-115, STS-121. Entering the homestretch of a half-year mission, International Space Station Commander Bill McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev monitored the departure of one of two Russian cargo ships today.

Filled with trash and items no longer needed, the Progress 19 vehicle undocked from ...more...

4 March 2006 - International Space Station Status Report: SS06-009. Flight: ISS EO-12, ISS EO-13. The International Space Station crew's week included a robotic arm first and a docking communications test to prepare for a new European cargo ship.

Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev repaired ...more...

10 March 2006 - International Space Station Status Report: SS06-010. Flight: ISS EO-12, ISS EO-13. Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev plan to move their Soyuz capsule from the Earth-facing docking port of the station's Zarya module to an aft port on the Zvezda module on Monday, March 20.

If all goes as planned, the flight will take less than 40 minutes. Undocking is ...more...

17 March 2006 - International Space Station Status Report: SS06-011. Flight: ISS EO-12, ISS EO-13. Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev plan to move their Soyuz capsule from the Earth-facing docking port of the station's Zarya module to an aft port on the Zvezda module on Monday, March 20.

If all goes as planned, the flight will take less than 40 minutes. Undocking is ...more...

20 March 2006 - Soyuz TMA-7 moved.. Flight: ISS EO-12. At 06:49 GMT ISS crewmen McArthur and Tokarev flew Soyuz TMA-7 from the Zarya docking port to the docking port at the aft end of Zvezda, docking there at 07:11 GMT. This leaves the Zarya port free for the planned arrival of Soyuz TMA-8 on April 1.

24 March 2006 - International Space Station Status Report: SS06-012. Flight: ISS EO-12, ISS EO-13. The Expedition 12 crew members have the International Space Station poised and ready for their replacements to arrive March 31.

Soyuz Commander Valery Tokarev and Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur moved their ...more...

30 March 2006 - International Space Station Status Report: SS06-013. Flight: ISS EO-12, ISS EO-13. The 13th crew of the International Space Station roared away today from Kazakhstan into orbit atop a Russian Soyuz rocket.

Expedition 13 Commander Pavel Vinogradov, NASA Science Officer and Flight Engineer ...more...

1 April 2006 - International Space Station Status Report: SS06-014. Flight: ISS EO-12, ISS EO-13. A new crew pulled into port at the International Space Station late Friday to start a six-month mission.

With Expedition 13 and Soyuz Commander Pavel Vinogradov at the controls, the Soyuz ...more...

6 April 2006 - International Space Station Status Report: SS06-015. Flight: ISS EO-12, STS-115. Camaraderie and hard work highlighted this week's joint operations on the International Space Station.

Aboard the complex, one crew prepared for a return to Earth while another focused ...more...

7 April 2006 - International Space Station Status Report: SS06-016. Flight: ISS EO-12, ISS EO-13, STS-115, STS-121, ISS Astrolab. After orbiting Earth more than 3,000 times during six months on the International Space Station, Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev returned to the planet Sunday morning in Kazakhstan.

With them was Marcos Pontes, Brazil's first astronaut.

The Soyuz spacecraft ...more...

14 April 2006 - International Space Station Status Report: SS06-017. Flight: ISS EO-12, ISS EO-13, STS-121, ISS Astrolab. The 13th crew of the International Space Station is wrapping up its first week flying solo in its new orbiting home.

The crew's work has included station maintenance, medical and other experiments ...more...

Bibliography and Further Reading

NASA Astronaut Biographies, Johnson Space Center, NASA, 1995-present. Accessed at: http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/.

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