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[b]Jumpers installed, Soyuz cleared for landing[/b] The stage is set for Soyuz TMA-18 to undock from the International Space Station (ISS) at 9:02 p.m. CDT Friday after overnight repairs successfully fixed a troublesome docking mechanism. Station crew members installed a series of jumpers, bypassing a failed component that had prevented commands from being received by the Russian Poisk mini-research module's docking mechanism. Once the jumpers were in place, the Poisk module hooks and latches were successfully opened. A similar series of hooks and latches on the Soyuz side of the docking mechanism remains in place, firmly holding the spacecraft to the space station. The station crew will sleep until 1 p.m. before they begin preparations for tonight's undocking and an early Saturday landing for Expedition 24 crew members Alexander Skvortsov, Tracy Caldwell Dyson and Mikhail Kornienko. [i]The [URL=http://www.nasa.gov/directorates/somd/reports/iss_reports/2010/09242010.html]ISS On-Orbit Status[/URL] for Sept. 24 provides additional detail about how the problem was addressed and what the crew will experience after undocking tonight.[/i]
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