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Expedition Seven Launched Ab
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Expedition Seven Launched Aboard Soyez Spacecraft |
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2003-04-26 |
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Destined for the International Space Station (ISS), a Soyez TMA-1 spacecraft launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan on April 26, 2003. Aboard are Expedition Seven crew members, cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, Expedition Seven mission commander, and Astronaut Edward T. Lu, Expedition Seven NASA ISS science officer and flight engineer. Expedition Six crew members returned to Earth aboard the Russian spacecraft after a 5 and 1/2 month stay aboard the ISS. Photo credit: NASA/Scott Andrews |
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Retreating Aral Sea Coastlin
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Retreating Aral Sea Coastlines |
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The arrow-shaped island in the Aral Sea (lower-right view, taken in 1988) used to be a 35-kilometer-long visual marker, indicating the Aral Sea to astronauts. An image from the present International Space Station increment (top) shows how much the coastline has changed as the sea level has dropped during the last three decades. Arrows indicate the northern shoreline of the original island. This 2005 image shows that the island is now part of the mainland. Deep blues and greens indicate the water-covered areas. The exposed sea floor is characterized by old shorelines (parallel lines surrounding the island) and outlines of ancient deltas. An intermediate stage in the falling sea level is documented in a view taken in 1996 (lower left), in which the island appears larger and elongated towards the eastern shore of the sea. Since the 1960s, sea levels have dropped drastically as rivers that maintained the level of the Aral Sea were diverted—completely in later years—for agricultural purposes, especially for growing cotton. A thriving fishing industry in the world's then fourth-largest lake was largely eliminated as the area of the sea shrank by more than 60 percent. Salts and pesticides that accumulated from agricultural runoff were subsequently exposed on the dry parts of the sea floor. Winds now transport these pollutants into surrounding fields and towns. Although the Kazakhstan government made a concerted effort to increase river inflow into the sea starting in 2003, it will take years before sea levels begin to rise. Astronaut photograph ISS011-E-7865 [ http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=ISS011&roll=E&frame=7865 ] was acquired June 3, 2005, with a Kodak 760C digital camera with a 180 mm lens. The 1996 photograph NM23-746-24 [ http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=NM21&roll=746&frame=24 ] was acquired on May 14, 1996, with a Hasselblad camera fitted with a 100 mm lens. The 1988 photograph STS27-34-39 [ http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=STS027&roll=34&frame=39 ] was acquired on December 5, 1988, with a Hasselblad camera fitted with a 250 mm lens. The images are provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment and the Image Science & Analysis Group at the Johnson Space Center. The International Space Station Program [ http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/home/index.html ] supports the laboratory to help astronauts take pictures of Earth that will be of the greatest value to scientists and the public, and to make those images freely available on the Internet. Additional images taken by astronauts and cosmonauts can be viewed at the NASA/JSC Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. [ http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov ] |
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Supply Ship Approaches the S
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Supply Ship Approaches the Space Station |
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The crew [ http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/crew/exp9/ ] on board the International Space Station [ http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/index.html ] sometimes needs supplies. As the US Space Shuttle fleet [ http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/resources/orbiters/orbiters.html ] prepares to return to flight [ http://www.nasa.gov/news/highlights/returntoflight.html ], supplies usually now come from a robot Progress supply vessel [ http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/assembly/elements/progress/index.html ] launched from Kazakhstan [ http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/kz.html ]. Pictured above [ http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew-9/html/iss009e08847.html ], a Progress ship approaches the ISS [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap021208.html ] on May 27, delivering over 2,500 kilograms of food, water, fuel and other important items. The supply ship soon docked with the Zvezda Service Module [ http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/assembly/elements/sm/index.html ] while orbiting [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap010723.html ] the Earth over 300 kilometers over central Asia. |
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A Soyuz Spacecraft Approache
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A Soyuz Spacecraft Approaches the Space Station |
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Last month, a Soyuz TMA-7 spacecraft docked with the International Space Station. The spacecraft was launched [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap051009.html ] a few days earlier from the Baikonur Cosmodrome [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baikonur_Cosmodrome ] in Kazakhstan [ http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/kz.html ]. Pictured above [ http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew-12/html/iss011e14111.html ], the approaching Soyuz spacecraft [ http://www.russianspaceweb.com/soyuz.html ] carried the new Expedition 12 crew [ http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition12/ ] to the Earth-orbiting International Space Station [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050816.html ] (ISS), as well as fee-paying spaceflight participant [ http://www.spaceadventures.com/orbit ]. The Expedition 12 [ http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition12/exp12_overview.html ] crew is expected to stay on the ISS for about six months, while replacing the Expedition 11 crew [ http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition11/ ] who had been on the station for about six months themselves. About a week after this image was taken, the Expedition 11 crew returned [ http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition11/exp11_lands.html ] to Earth in the Soyuz capsule, along with the spaceflight participant. The Expedition 12 [ http://space.com/missionlaunches/051021_exp12_profiles.html ] crew will carry out repairs on the ISS [ http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html ], explore new methods of living in space, and conduct research in space [ http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/science/index.html ] including a kidney stone [ http://kidney.niddk.nih.gov/kudiseases/pubs/stonesadults/ ] experiment [ http://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/news/news/releases/2005/05-170.html ]. |
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Expedition 28 Landing (20110
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Expedition 28 Commander Andr
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Expedition 25 Soyuz Landing
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Seated from left, Expedition
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Dust Storm, Aral Sea, Kazakh
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Astronauts aboard the Intern
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