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Mission Control Center
Houston, Texas

STS-135 MCC Status Report No. 11
Wednesday, July 13, 2011, 6 p.m. CDT

Atlantis crew members spent much of Wednesday moving equipment and supplies
from the multipurpose logistics module Raffaello to the International Space
Station.

They had some help from station Commander Andrey Borisenko and Flight
Engineers Sergei Volkov and Satoshi Furukawa in the transfer operations. The
bottom line was that the more than 9,400 pounds of material in Raffaello was
considerably reduced.

Station lead flight director Chris Edelen said at an afternoon briefing that
about half of the cargo had been moved from Raffaello and the shuttle's
middeck to the space station. Almost 5,700 pounds of unneeded equipment and
supplies from the station will be packed aboard the module for return to
Earth.

The transfer activity can be strenuous. While the cargo bags are weightless,
they do have mass. They require effort to be put in motion, effort to change
their direction and effort to stop their motion.

Crew members opened Pressurized Mating Adaptor 3, attached to the
Tranquility node, and stored some of the material from Raffaello there. On
Tuesday spacewalkers had put an insulating cover on the outside of PMA-3 to
protect it from temperature extremes.

A little before noon CDT, all four shuttle crew members talked with
representatives of WBNG-TV and WICZ-TV in Binghamton, N.Y., near Pilot Doug
Hurley's home town of Apalachin, and KGO-TV of San Francisco. Mission
Specialist Rex Walheim is from nearby San Carlos.

The next status report will be issued after crew wakeup or earlier if
warranted.

 




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