NASA MIR PROGRAM

Mir 23 / NASA 5 Status

Date: Friday, June 27, 1997

Mission Day: Mir 23 / NASA 5 MD 138/43

Mir 23 CDR Vasili Tsibliev

Mir 23 FE Alexander Lazutkin

NASA 5 FE Mike Foale

OPERATIONS

Public Affairs Support

The two NASA PAOs at MCC-M continue to respond to media inquiries regarding the health of Mike Foale, the impact of the current situation on NASA 5 science OPS, and the status of Mir. A Mir status report was forwarded to Houston and HQ PAO for review and dissemination. The PAOs are also endeavoring to protect the OPS team from the ever-present media at MCC-M.

Experiment Operations

TEF

After Mir lost attitude control which required Soyuz maneuvering for correction, the TEF was requested to be powered off. It had only been powered up for approximately 8 hours. Temperature at the time of power on yesterday was +16 deg. C. The samples (2nd collection of the Sleep Experiment) will be stowed for return; however, there will be no future requests or priority placed on reactivating the TEF to preserve these samples.

Greenhouse

Mike reported that the seed pods are looking pretty good and expressed his concern about losing them. Mike stated that we needed to think very hard about how long they had been in the dark and to think what we needed to do to preserve the results of the experiment. Mike was advised of the current plan for Greenhouse. The cabling required to power Greenhouse is being researched. If power can be supplied to the SVET, the Greenhouse lights will be turned on for a little while. Water will also be supplied to the plants (Program 3). The radiogram for this has been supplied by the Russian/US PI team and is in work. Mike then reported that the leaves had curled some and that there were no more flowers present. There were large seed pods and that they looked pretty normal in appearance and size per the diagrams. Mike stated that he was very interested in opening one up for a look.

MOST was advised by the Russian ground team that a manual ventilation of beetle would occur tomorrow and that attempted power up would occur on Monday, June 30. MOST is trying to verify, but believes that the plan is for a permanent power up.

Experiment Hardware

PHOTO/VIDEO - Mike reported that he has the 35 mm camera bag with accessories except for the 35 mm lens. The 35 mm lens, F-2, flash, and calibration for Greenhouse were all in Spektr. The 70 mm camera bags were left in Spektr; however, Mike had the two cameras (Hasselblad) with two 250 mm lens and one 100 mm lens, the IR and CPOS all separate in a box in Priroda. Mike also reported that he had the film changeout bag.

Hardware status per Mike's calldown:

..."in Spektr:

all of the SAMS Disks

all of the Sleep Experiment except Night Headband kits for the cosmonauts

Mir Supplemental Medical Kits

TEHOF Lids

Mike's PHK and PPK

Space Shuttle Sleeping Bag

Data Cassettes for FBI, Photos, and Film

Microbial Air Sampler

Solid Sorbent Air Sampler

Microbiological Monitoring Experiment

Treadmill Harness

Running Shoes (size 44 European, 11 1/2 American)

Sandals

GASMAP

TEHOF

Pathfinder

BDL

UBC

COSS

Leaf Bags for Greenhouse

2 backup FBI hard-drives

backup drives for MIPS and spare PCMCIA cards

Cognilab disks

F-2 Camera used for Greenhouse with 35 mm lens

70 mm accessories bag

camcorder L1 bag

MIPS Laptop

Personal effects and hard-drives

in Priroda or available:

STS-84 resupply bag #18, 19, and 20 camera bags with 35 and 70 mm film

EVA Camera 35 mm with 35 mm lens

2 cassette tapes for camcorder

QUELD with 10 disks

MGBX in full

MiSDE in full

EDLS in full (11 WORM disks)

MIM

CGEL and has 2 video tapes being used at the moment

SAMS present with 1 disk unused and 2 in it

MIPS optical drive, controller, 2 laptops

Sleep Headband kits

Spare MIPS controller

BTS

GASMAP accessories

DCAM trays

Beetle

CPA and all items that came with it

Ethylene Glycol Real Time Sampling Kits

SiGB accessories

Greenhouse, everything but leaf bags

1 floppy for GH

Need:

10 floppies, 3 toothpaste , 3 toothbrushes, 20 soaps (betadine), 4 shampoo bottles, 1 crew notebook, Benzoyl peroxide, Tylenol - 100 tabs, Spare light bulbs approx. 20 (down to 3), 100 AA batteries, expanders, Therabands , can get by with EMK and MBK, 1 pair of sunglasses, PCMCIA card coming from Houston (files from Home)

TEF was turned off ......loss of comm"

(the need list is being worked through the POSA/MOST, this is not action item to the community, just FYI)

SMP/Medical

The MOST is continuing to work with Houston and the Russians to prepare the medical hardware and personal items for Mike Foale. The Russians have stated that a plane will leave for Baikonur Cosmodrome on Monday at 8:00 am DMT. All items will be hand carried to the TsUP in Russia. Items will collected, prioritized, and delivered to the Russians on Sunday evening.

COMMUNICATIONS SUMMARY

Network Status

Wallops, Dryden, and White Sands continue to support all Mir passes above their local horizons for either scheduled or emergency communications with TsUP. A receive only capability for the Soyuz downlink frequency (121.750 MHz) has been installed at these 3 sites. If signals are detected on this frequency they will be immediately sent to TsUP on the nominal voice circuits. Dryden has also installed an uplink capability on the Soyuz uplink frequency (130.167Mhz) and has the technical capability to uplink voice signals from the TsUP with this system. White Sands was brought on line today and was the prime site for the first part of the 19:31 - 19:48 DMT comm session today. The network director has stated that the STS-94 flight will not impact Mir comm support provided by Wallops, White Sands, and Dryden.

A/G with Consultants Group

10:31 - 10:38 Greenhouse

Personal resupply items

10:44 - 10:48 Dave Wolfe conversation with crew

21:18 - 21:21 Equipment location by module

Video System - Downlink TORU video from Progress of attempted docking.

Altair Satellite System - Nothing to report

Packet - Nothing to report.

News

Russian - None today

English - Sent via packet.

Ham Radio - Nothing to report.

MIR SYSTEMS

At 5:18 DMT, there was a power failure in Kvant-2, resulting in the failure of the motion control computer. The subsequent shutdown of the Mir attitude control jets caused a return to free drift, so the crew used Soyuz to put Mir into an attitude in which the core module batteries could be recharged. The remainder of the morning was spent recovering the motion control computer and then uplinking a new navigation state to the station. Early this afternoon the Mir attitude control jets were recovered, so the next step will be to further charge the core module and Kvant-2 batteries until there is sufficient power to spin up the gyrodynes.

Yesterday the crew moved one battery from Priroda and one from Kristall into the core module, and one spare battery delivered on STS-84 was put into Kvant-2. Today the crew was told to move two more batteries from Kristall into Kvant-2. This is being done to ensure newer batteries are in position for the core module and Kvant-2 recharge.

As a result of this morning's power problems, Vozdukh (CO2 removal) was shut down, but the crew was told to restart it at 15:09 DMT.

Environmental Parameters (Previous 24 hour period)

Parameter Min. Max. Nominal Range

Pressure (mmHg) Base Block 670 688 660 - 850

ppO2 (mmHg) 157 158 140 - 200

ppCO2 (mmHg) 4.6 6.1 up to 8.0

ppH20 (mmHg) 15.6 22.0 8 - 14

Humidity (percentage) 56 66 30 - 75

Temperature (°C) base block (BB) 27.3 31.1 18 - 28

Temp (°C) docking/transfer module 18.7 21.6 18 - 28

Temp (°C) Priroda 23.5 24 18 - 28

Mir Operations Support Team - (MOST)

JSC Payload Operations Support Area - (POSA)