The Russian Team Aboard The ISS... This Week Used The Burners, In The Trunk Of The Vehicle, To Boost The Orbit Of The ISS... Very Cool!

It is likely mostly tongue in cheek (partly edited / offered by Musk?) but the implication is that these guys are driving some version of a '67 Chevy Chevelle, and just hooked up some cables, and pulled the station into a higher orbit.

In fact, the moves -- three of them, actually -- over the past few weeks. . . have been precision burns (some of over 20 minutes duration), to boost the aging station -- and prep it for a Russian crew swap later this Fall.

Here's that [edited] from the NASA / ISS blog entry of Friday, past -- on it all:

. . .Station Commander Sergey Ryzhikov and Flight Engineer Alexey Zubritsky, both Roscosmos cosmonauts. . . [commanded the firing of the] SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft's. . . Draco thrusters, located in the vehicle’s trunk, for 15 minutes on Friday reboosting the International Space Station’s orbit for the third time this month.

The reboost maneuvers lifted the orbital outpost’s altitude to prepare for Soyuz crew swap operations later this year. . . .

Now you know. Keep it spinnin' in good karma whilst I'm off-grid! [This is an automated, pre-scheduled post.] Out.

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