NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 5 July 2008

STATUS REPORT Date Released: Saturday, July 5, 2008 Source: NASA HQ - Comments

All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below. Saturday - off duty for CDR Volkov, FE-1 Kononenko & FE-2 Chamitoff.

Crew Sleep Cycle: Wake/sleep cycle remains right-shifted (5:30am - 9:00pm EDT).

Greg Chamitoff had his second session with the NASA/JSC experiment NUTRITION w/Repository, the FD30 session for blood collection only, for which he had to forego exercising and food intake for eight hours. Later today, the FE-2 will also set up the equipment for the 24-hour urine collections which start with the first void early tomorrow morning and continue through Monday morning. [After performing self-phlebotomy, i.e., drawing blood samples (from an arm vein), the samples were first allowed to coagulate in the Repository for 20-30 minutes, then spun in the HRF RC (Human Research Facility/Refrigerated Centrifuge) and finally placed in MELFI (Minus-Eighty Laboratory Freezer for ISS). No thruster activity was allowed during the blood drawing. The RC was later powered off

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