posted 02-03-2011 03:43 PM               

First ISS Module to Make its 70,000 Orbit

The Zarya Functional Cargo Block (FGB) of the International Space Station will make its 70,000 fly-around the Earth today.

The jubilee orbit will begin for ISS FGB at 12:26:58 MSK and finish at 13:58:30 MSK, Mission Control Center ballistics service reported.

Zarya was the first component of the ISS, launched by Proton from Baikonur on Nov. 20, 1998, at 9:40 MSK. In almost 10 minutes, FGB reached its orbital destination.