Station?s Orbit Raised; Crew Conducts Research

The International Space Station increased its orbit Thursday morning using the thrusters of the docked ?Johannes Kepler? Automated Transfer Vehicle-2. The burn began at 7:20 a.m. EDT and lasted four minutes and three seconds.

The reboost puts the orbiting complex at the correct altitude for the undocking of the Soyuz TMA-20 that will carry Expedition 27 Commander Dmitry Kondratyev and Flight Engineers Cady Coleman and Paolo Nespoli to a landing in Kazakhstan on May 23.

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