Spaceflight Now: Space Station/STS-98

Flying around the station
SPACEFLIGHT NOW
Posted: February 16, 2001

 
Flyaround
Space shuttle Atlantis, under the control of pilot Mark Polansky, begins a half-lap flyaround of the international space station so the astronauts could take photo documentation. Photo: Spaceflight Now/NASA TV

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Status Summary
The Progress M-44 resupply ship docked with the station automatically at 0950 GMT (4:50 a.m. EST) on Wednesday.

The Alpha crew moved their Soyuz capsule from the aft of Zvezda to the Zarya module's Earth-facing port on Saturday.


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