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Mission Control Center
Houston, Texas

STS-135 MCC Status Report No. 06
Monday, July 11, 2011, 2 a.m. CDT

Space shuttle Atlantis' crew will be getting down to the main objective of
their mission today, as they temporarily install the Raffaello multipurpose
logistics module on the International Space Station and begin unloading its
contents.

The crew started their fourth day in space at 2:02 a.m., after being
awakened by the Chumbawamba song "Tubthumping." It was played for Mission
Specialist Sandy Magnus.

Magnus, along with Pilot Doug Hurley, will be at the controls of the space
station's robotic arm beginning at 4:09 a.m. to remove the Raffaello module
from the shuttle's cargo bay. They'll install it on the station's Harmony
node 30 minutes later.

Once that is complete, Magnus will work with Commander Chris Ferguson to
prepare the module's hatch for opening at 12:39 p.m., after which the crew
will begin unloading the 9,402 pounds of supplies it carried into space.

In addition, Ferguson and Mission Specialist Rex Walheim will begin moving
another 2,281 pounds of cargo brought up on Atlantis' middeck over to the
space station. And later in the day, the entire shuttle crew will come
together with station Flight Engineers Ron Garan, Satoshi Furukawa and Mike
Fossum to review the procedures for the mission's spacewalk. Fossum and
Garan will perform that spacewalk on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, here on the ground, flight controllers were able to verify that
the track of a piece of orbital debris they began watching on Saturday will
not be a threat to the shuttle and station. No adjustments to the shuttle
and station's orbit will be necessary to avoid the debris, which is part of
satellite COSMOS 375 and one of more than 500,000 pieces of debris tracked
in Earth's orbit.

The next status report will be issued at the end of the crew's day or
earlier if warranted. The crew is scheduled to go to sleep just before 6
p.m.

 




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