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LEFT: Yuri Malenchenko and Ed Lu "hanging out" aboard
Space Station Alpha. RIGHT: Expedition 7 patch.
BREAKING NEWS -
at 6:18PM EST (2318 GMT
Monday) -
successful at
(0241 GMT Tuesday).
Play-by-play ,
,
and .
!
11 August 2003 - Monday - The first "" is
all over the
, but
from today's
report:
Aboard
the International Space Station, Expedition 7 NASA ISS Science Officer Ed
Lu made preparations Monday for upcoming operations with the
, or PFMI. Lu set up hardware
in the Microgravity Science Glovebox and familiarized himself with
experiment operations. PFMI is a material science experiment in which
scientists hope "to gain insights that will improve solidification
processing in a microgravity environment."
Meanwhile,
Commander Yuri Malenchenko replaced a conditioning unit in a Russian
processor and took air samples in the Station. Both crewmembers performed
maintenance on the ISS treadmill and took part in a Russian medical
experiment that is measuring their calf volume and body mass.
The public can now send
to
the ISS Mission Control Team, who will answer selected questions periodically.
Read Astronaut Ed Lu's latest
from the Space Station. Also, check out ISS photos of the
.
, the
's commander,
to
his
sweetheart,
(who was born in the Soviet Union and moved to the U.S. as a child). The
, performed over a
, happened over the
of (and the
), who accused
of
"behaving like a movie star."
have
that this will be the
. After the
ceremony (video
),
the ISS crew went
on Station maintenance.
once they get together in October?
10 August 2003 - Sunday -
to
and
on their
!
The couple
in the first such
conducted from
. The groom wore a
and participated via space-to-ground
, while
the ,
where a
stood in for the groom. ISS Flight Engineer Ed Lu
served as
. Texas allows
under certain circumstances.
For earlier coverage, see Part 2 of our Mission Journal.