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Colombia and Ilan Ramon: the middle of the journey

Impressions from the tenth day of the trip 25/1/2003

  
 
 
Photo from the conference call between the Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon and the Minister of Education and Science Limor Livnat. Photo: Sima Mizrahi, astronomy teacher at Gila comprehensive high school.

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The next crossings of the ferry over Israel

STS, 107 at Tel Aviv, Israel
25/01/2003 04:03:20 04:08:17
25/01/2003 05:35:28 05:44:24
25/01/2003 07:10:08 07:19:00
25/01/2003 08:45:25 08:53:50
25/01/2003 10:20:14 10:29:08
25/01/2003 11:54:50 12:03:51
25/01/2003 13:30:50 13:36:06
STS, 107 at Tel Aviv, Israel
26/01/2003 04:02:30 04:09:42
26/01/2003 05:35:49 05:44:56
26/01/2003 07:10:50 07:19:30
26/01/2003 08:46:02 08:54:31
26/01/2003 10:20:41 10:29:46
26/01/2003 11:55:27 12:03:57
STS, 107 at Tel Aviv, Israel
27/01/2003 04:02:10 04:10:30
27/01/2003 05:36:14 05:45:18
27/01/2003 07:11:27 07:19:56
27/01/2003 08:46:29 08:55:07
27/01/2003 10:21:03 10:30:11
27/01/2003 11:56:10 12:03:38

The spacecraft's STS-107 science mission has reached the halfway mark, performing 80 experiments mostly related to the absence of gravity.
On Thursday, the two teams - the red and the blue - performed the SOFBALL (Structures of Flame Balls) experiment and the ARMS (Advanced Respiratory Monitoring System) experiment, although both teams continued to support other experiments in a wide variety of activities.
Charge experts Michael Andersen of the Blue Team and Kalpana Chawla of the Doom Team ignited the fire in the SOFBALL experiment where they created small ball-like flames, using hydrogen as fuel. The small flames - which were the thinnest and longest-lived since this series of experiments began. They are invisible to the human eye, but the crew members in the space shuttle Columbia, as well as the people controlling the rupture using special video equipment. Dr. Paul Rooney, of the University of Southern California and his team hope to discover new features about the propulsion to improve engine efficiency and fire safety, as well as reduce emissions.
Dave Brown from the blue team and Ilan Ramon from the red team concentrated on the second experiment - ARMS. The European Space Agency wants to use the experiment to examine the human lung, the circulatory system and the muscular system to examine what changes have occurred as a result of the lack of gravity.
The spaceship commander, Rick Husband who is also in charge of the red team and the pilot William McCall in charge of the blue team adjusted Columbia's direction relative to the Earth to suit some requirements of the experiments. They continued to manage the temperature inside the SPACEHAB - the double research module, this in light of the problems with the cooling system. NASA says that none of the many experiments should be affected by the cooling problem.
Whereas astronaut Laurel Clark, who is a doctor by profession, worked on the demonstration system of the bioreactor, where tissue samples are grown as part of prostate cancer research. She also broadcast data from the Astroculture experiment - where roses and rice flowers are grown for commercial fragrance research. Clark is also working with bacteria and yeast in which they want to test the effect of microgravity on the activity of antibiotics.

On Wednesday, the seven astronauts launched mirrors of their little companions - including insects, spiders, fish, bees and silkworms that are part of a package of experiments developed by students from six countries. In the television photographs, the ants were seen busy creating and moving in the trenches in an ant farm developed by students from Syracuse, New York; garden spiders spinning closed webs, an experiment designed at a school in Melbourne, Australia; The silkworms begin to develop in an experiment designed by students from Beijing, China; Minnow embryos developing in a tank - an experiment designed by students at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, and carpenter bees began building their nest by digging trenches in wood.
 
 

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