People as well as scientists are usually so curious about the universe. So they have been preparing astronauts who  then goes aloft as well as do some research there on behalf of numerous years. The biggest rivals in this direction are Russian as well as Americans. They have competed since the first flight to the space as well as actually that fight had probably started numerous years before that occassion. But recently it seems they perhaps started to cooperate, because of the fact that they can offer information to each other which is cheaper than it would be when doing alone.
            There have been comparatively sufficient humans somewhere above our heads, somewhere above the Earth atmosphere. And in spite of the fact that we can say the technology as well as construction of space shuttles are in high quality, there are still some difficulties with some components of Russian shuttle Soyuz. The members of Expedition 17, what is the seventeenth crew which shall stay in cosmos on the board of International Space Station (ISS) on behalf of quite long time, got something special as a task. First two members of the crew, commander Sergei Volkov as well as flight engineer Oleg Kononenko, are already aboard. This expedition is split to two phases. It started on April 8, 2008 when the space shuttle started from Russian cosmodrom Bajkonur. Both Russian from Federal Cosmic Agency of Russia (RKA) shall stay aboard till October this year. The third member of the group is not „stable“. There have been two of them as well as they are both Americans from NASA. The first one was the part of the expedition from April to June. The second one arrived on space shuttle Discovery in June as well as shall stay there to the end of the mission, till October as well. His name is Gregory Chamitoff.
These astronauts otherwise got tasks, but they should manufacture only one spacewalk. First time they left ISS last Thursday, July 10, 2008. But only one left was not possible because of the fact that of the risk of possible explosions, which could damage their scafanders. So within five days they negotiated the discharge twice.
            These all were because of the fact that there have been difficulties with landing, because of the fact that there are explosive bolt in every shuttle which should split the „ship“ when landing. But this bolt is probably not very certain, because of the fact that it didn’t explode. So the predominant task of their was to remove this bolt very carefully as well as carry it to the space shuttle. It shall fly to the Earth with them in October as well as shall be dismount in order to detect what is the reason why it don’t desire to explode when it is needed.
The predominant reason of Tuesday action was preparation to seismologic experiment, which should be a system of warning against earthquakes in the time.
            Because in the universe everything lasts much more than on the Earth, quite easy process took about six as well as half hour. It is quite long time as well as both astronauts were very exhausted when ultimately finished. They had to take photos of this action as well as of results their finished work, too. Afterwards they had to carry „bottles“ with bacteria, fungi as well as maggots which have been in the space on behalf of 18 months. The reason why this is so is the fact that scientists have wanted to know if they would stay alive in such conditions. During this Chamitoff was on the board of Discovery because of the fact that of the safety as well as he secured them in the case of immediate happening of anything. So thanks God they survived it in the health, in spite of the fact that this action was very uphill.
            So they shall spend the rest of the time probably only in the space shuttle as well as won’t go on behalf of such dangerous as well as uphill spacewalks till their departure on the Earth.
I don’t know exactly, but probably I wouldn’t desire to see Earth from such perspective, because of the fact that stay in the space is in my opinion extremely challenging as well as can even damage people’s health. But on the other hand, there are not numerous people in the world who can say: „I was there as well as see the whole Earth as well as part of endless universe…“
related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080715/ap_on_sc/space_station;_ylt=AniyN1VbF7BWCg1xKJWlcM6s0NUE



by Radka Konkolova
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