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| ISS crew move Soyuz spacecraft |
| Three astronauts took a brief trip around the International Space Station (ISS) to clear an orbital parking spot for an incoming crew
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 30-March-2007
5:13:19 AM |
| Indian American astronaut Sunita Williams along with fellow cosmonauts moved a Soyuz spacecraft from the earth-facing port of the International Space Station to another module to make way for another spacecraft.
Three astronauts took a brief trip around the International Space Station (ISS) to clear an orbital parking spot for an incoming crew and the next tourist bound for the high-flying laboratory.
ISS Expedition 14 flight engineer Mikhail Tyurin deftly guided his crew's Russian-built Soyuz TMA-9 spacecraft to a berth at the aft end of the station's Zvezda service module, ending a 24-minute trip that began at a docking port 80 feet away.
"It was a nice and smooth job," Sunita told Tyurin after the short flight. "Any landing you can float away from is a good landing."
Clad in their Russian-built Sokol spacesuits, Tyurin, Sunita and Expedition 14 commander Michael Lopez-Alegria cast off from an Earth-facing docking port on the space station's Zarya control module as both spacecraft flew 354 km above the Pacific Ocean.
Their destination port on the Zvezda module was cleared on Tuesday with the successful jettison of an unmanned Progress 23 cargo ship.
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