In the grander scheme of things and against a backdrop of JSC's past
practices, this is a nit. I'll live with it until NASA drops non-SI
units entirely. Then I'll comment on their SI style.
Doesn't it feel good to see "200 meters" without any 'translation'?
Jim
M R wrote:
>
> "Operating from a control panel in the ISS' Zvezda
> command center, Pilot Yuri Gidzenko guided the 7 � ton
> Progress in for a smooth linkup"
>
> I think it should be "7.5" ton instead of "7 � ton".
>
> Rgds
>
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> Subject: [USMA:10041] Fwd: 2000 International Space Station Status Report #63
> Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2000 09:03:22 -0500
> From: "James R.Frysinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Organization: College of Charleston
> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Here's proof that the PAO at JSC can write status reports using only SI
> units. I will send a note of thanks to them.
>
> Jim
>
> ---------- Forwarded Message ----------
> Subject: 2000 International Space Station Status Report #63
> Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2000 05:50:17 -0600 (CST)
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> 2000
> Report # 63
> 7 a.m. CST, Tuesday, December 26, 2000
> Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas
>
> More than three weeks after it was undocked and placed in a parking
> orbit, an unmanned Russian Progress resupply vehicle was manually
> redocked to the International Space Station (ISS) this morning to be
> used as a trash receptacle and a fuel farm by the Expedition One crew.
>
> Operating from a control panel in the ISS' Zvezda command center,
> Pilot Yuri Gidzenko guided the 7 � ton Progress in for a smooth linkup
> to the Zarya module's nadir, or downward facing docking port at 5:03
> a.m. Central time (1103 GMT) as the two craft flew over northwest
> Mongolia, just south of the Russian-Mongolian border.
>
> The Progress, which was first launched on November 16 and manually
> docked by Gidzenko on November 18 after a failure of the ship's
> automatic Kurs guidance system, was undocked on December 1 and placed
> in a parking orbit to enable Russian flight controllers to correct a
> software glitch which prevented its automatic docking.
>
> With Commander Bill Shepherd and Flight Engineer Sergei Krikalev
> looking on, Gidzenko deftly maneuvered the Progress in for its
> redocking from a distance of just under 200 meters, offering the crew a
> place in which to stow trash and have residual fuel available for any
> maneuvers which may be required prior to its final undocking the day
> after the launch of the Shuttle Atlantis next month on the STS-98
> mission to bring the U.S. Laboratory Destiny to the ISS.
>
> Within two hours after the redocking, Krikalev equalized pressure
> between the Progress and the Zarya and opened hatches between the two
> vehicles to enable the crewmembers to deactivate the Progress' systems.
> All ISS systems are functioning in good shape.
>
> The crew will spend the rest of the week unloading ballast from the
> Progress, removing its Kurs automated docking system for analysis by
> engineers back on Earth, performing biomedical experiments and
> reviewing flight plans for the January Shuttle flight to install
> Destiny to the ISS' Unity module.
>
> Over the weekend, the crew spent a quiet Christmas, talking to their
> families, opening presents on board and receiving a holiday greeting on
> Christmas Day from NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin. The three crew
> members, who are in their 56th day in space and their 54th day aboard
> the Station, will spend a quiet New Year's weekend, with a light work
> schedule on tap and additional conferences with their families planned
> to usher in 2001.
>
> The next written Expedition One status report will be issued on
> Wednesday, January 3, or sooner, if developments warrant.
>
> -END-
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