Station Reboosted; Crew Monitors Earth?s Environment

A reboost of the International Space Station was completed at 5:04 a.m. EDT Wednesday as the engines of the docked ISS Progress 39 cargo craft fired for eight minutes, 46 seconds to raise the perigee of the station?s orbit by about three statute miles.


The reboost set up the correct phasing of the station for the Soyuz TMA-18 spacecraft?s undocking on Sept. 23. It will return to Earth that same night with Expedition 24 Commander Alexander Skvortsov and Flight Engineers Tracy Caldwell Dy [...]

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