[sarex] Progress Rolls Out to Launch Pad

[Arthur Rowe <azrowe80@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

SUBMITTED BY ARTHUR N1ORC - AMSAT A/C #31468

*Station Maintenance; Progress Rolls Out to Launch Pad*

jsc2007e22715 -- The Progress 25 spacecraft rolls out to the launch 
padImage above: The Progress 25 spacecraft rolls out to its launch pad 
at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Photo Credit: NASA/Mark Bowman

TO VIEW IMAGE GO TO:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html

Aside from documenting her sleep patterns for an experiment each morning 
this week, Flight Engineer Sunita Williams performed maintenance on a 
station treadmill on Thursday. She also inventoried power adapters for 
several laptop computers.

Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin performed a periodic health test. Flight 
Engineer Oleg Kotov set up an experiment that studies respiration of 
crew members during long-duration missions.

The Progress 25 cargo craft rolled out to its launch pad Thursday at 
Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Launch is scheduled for 11:25 p.m. 
EDT Friday. Docking is set for Tuesday about 1:10 a.m.

+ Read about the Progress 25 launch 
<http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition15/exp15_progress25_launch.html> 



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