Station Crew Prepares for Arrivals and Departures

Flight Engineers Paolo Nespoli and Alexander Kaleri reviewed approach and docking procedures for the European Space Agency?s Automated Transfer Vehicle-2 (ATV-2) "Johannes Kepler" Thursday. ATV-2 launched at 4:50 p.m. EST Wednesday atop an Ariane 5 rocket from the Arianespace launch site in Kourou, French Guiana.

ATV-2 is a pressurized unmanned cargo craft loaded with crew supplies, oxygen, propellant and research supplies. It is scheduled to automatically dock with the Zvezda service modu [...]

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