[FPSPACE] How come ISS keeps 'gaining' altitude?

[Brett Harrison]

Maybe it's a secret program to *eventually* get to Mars.

;-)


On Sat, 04 Apr 2009 08:40:59 +1100, James Oberg <jameseoberg at comcast.net>  
wrote:

>
>
> After the first 'gain' on Mar 29, I asked JSC PAO and they said
> there had been no maneuvers, nothing to raise the station's
> altitude. I wrote it off to a computation fluke.
>
> Now it's happened twice more, the last two days in a row.
>
> What is going on?


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Brett Harrison

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