Jacques van Oene
July 30th 05, 08:43 PM
STS-114 MCC Status Report #08
Friday, July 29, 2005 - 11:45 p.m. CDT
Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas
Astronauts Soichi Noguchi and Steve Robinson will step outside for their
first spacewalk, and the first of this mission, early Saturday. The six and
a half hour spacewalk is scheduled to begin from Discovery's airlock at 3:44
a.m. CDT.
Discovery's crew was awakened at 10:43 p.m. CDT by the Japanese song
"Sanpo," sung by a group of children, including Noguchi's. The Station crew
was awakened at 11:09 p.m. CDT by a tone onboard.
Noguchi and Robinson's spacewalk preparations, including a pure oxygen
pre-breathe and exercise procedure, will get underway at 12:39 a.m. CDT,
with Intravehicular (IV) crewmember Andy Thomas' assistance. The procedure
will purge the spacewalkers' blood of nitrogen to prevent the painful
symptoms of "the bends" while wearing their low-pressure spacesuits.
About the same time, Station Commander Sergei Krikalev and NASA Science
Officer John Phillips will maneuver the Station's robotic arm into a
position to support the spacewalk. At 12:55 a.m. CDT the pair will "walk
off" Canadarm2 from the Mobile Base System to the Destiny lab and change its
operating base. The arm will be operated by Shuttle Pilot Jim Kelly and
Mission Specialist Wendy Lawrence during the spacewalk to help install the
External Stowage Platform-2 (ESP-2) Attachment Device (ESPAD) onto Station.
After the excursion begins and the spacewalkers have completed about an hour
of tool setup, the first task is to test thermal protection system repair
techniques. Noguchi and Robinson will work side-by-side in Discovery's cargo
bay at a pallet of purposely damaged orbiter heat shield samples. They will
practice the Emittance Wash Applicator (EWA) repair of tile samples and the
NOAX (Non-Oxide Adhesive eXperimental) repair of Reinforced Carbon-Carbon
samples.
After the testing is complete, the pair will move on to their Station
assembly tasks. They will install the ESPAD and associated cabling on the
Station's Quest airlock so that the ESP-2 can be installed on top during the
third spacewalk.
Next, Noguchi will replace a Global Positioning System (GPS) antenna on the
Station's truss structure. At the same time, Robinson will retrieve tools
for the second spacewalk's Control Moment Gyroscope-1 replacement and swap
connectors to restore power to the Station's CMG-2. The last job will be for
both crewmembers to route cabling for the ESP-2 installation on the third
spacewalk.
Once the spacewalk has begun and the Station's airlock's hatch is opened as
an emergency door, the hatches between Discovery and Station will be
re-opened so the crews can work together to support the spacewalk and
continue transfer work. Commander Eileen Collins, Mission Specialist Charlie
Camarda, Krikalev, Phillips and Lawrence will continue transferring water
and other equipment to the Station from Discovery and the Raffaello cargo
module. The hatches will be closed before the end of the spacewalk again to
allow the crew to re-enter the Shuttle airlock. Once the crew is inside and
the Shuttle's airlock is repressurized, the hatches will be re-opened.
At 8:09 a.m. CDT, Kelly and Camarda are scheduled to perform additional
surveys of Discovery's wing leading edge Reinforced Carbon-Carbon with the
Shuttle arm and Orbiter Boom Sensor System. They will use the sensors to
focus on seven areas of interest along the port wing.
The crews of Discovery and the Station are scheduled to go to sleep about
2:39 p.m. CDT.
The next STS-114 mission status report will be issued Saturday afternoon, or
earlier, if events warrant.
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Jacques :-)
www.spacepatches.info
Friday, July 29, 2005 - 11:45 p.m. CDT
Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas
Astronauts Soichi Noguchi and Steve Robinson will step outside for their
first spacewalk, and the first of this mission, early Saturday. The six and
a half hour spacewalk is scheduled to begin from Discovery's airlock at 3:44
a.m. CDT.
Discovery's crew was awakened at 10:43 p.m. CDT by the Japanese song
"Sanpo," sung by a group of children, including Noguchi's. The Station crew
was awakened at 11:09 p.m. CDT by a tone onboard.
Noguchi and Robinson's spacewalk preparations, including a pure oxygen
pre-breathe and exercise procedure, will get underway at 12:39 a.m. CDT,
with Intravehicular (IV) crewmember Andy Thomas' assistance. The procedure
will purge the spacewalkers' blood of nitrogen to prevent the painful
symptoms of "the bends" while wearing their low-pressure spacesuits.
About the same time, Station Commander Sergei Krikalev and NASA Science
Officer John Phillips will maneuver the Station's robotic arm into a
position to support the spacewalk. At 12:55 a.m. CDT the pair will "walk
off" Canadarm2 from the Mobile Base System to the Destiny lab and change its
operating base. The arm will be operated by Shuttle Pilot Jim Kelly and
Mission Specialist Wendy Lawrence during the spacewalk to help install the
External Stowage Platform-2 (ESP-2) Attachment Device (ESPAD) onto Station.
After the excursion begins and the spacewalkers have completed about an hour
of tool setup, the first task is to test thermal protection system repair
techniques. Noguchi and Robinson will work side-by-side in Discovery's cargo
bay at a pallet of purposely damaged orbiter heat shield samples. They will
practice the Emittance Wash Applicator (EWA) repair of tile samples and the
NOAX (Non-Oxide Adhesive eXperimental) repair of Reinforced Carbon-Carbon
samples.
After the testing is complete, the pair will move on to their Station
assembly tasks. They will install the ESPAD and associated cabling on the
Station's Quest airlock so that the ESP-2 can be installed on top during the
third spacewalk.
Next, Noguchi will replace a Global Positioning System (GPS) antenna on the
Station's truss structure. At the same time, Robinson will retrieve tools
for the second spacewalk's Control Moment Gyroscope-1 replacement and swap
connectors to restore power to the Station's CMG-2. The last job will be for
both crewmembers to route cabling for the ESP-2 installation on the third
spacewalk.
Once the spacewalk has begun and the Station's airlock's hatch is opened as
an emergency door, the hatches between Discovery and Station will be
re-opened so the crews can work together to support the spacewalk and
continue transfer work. Commander Eileen Collins, Mission Specialist Charlie
Camarda, Krikalev, Phillips and Lawrence will continue transferring water
and other equipment to the Station from Discovery and the Raffaello cargo
module. The hatches will be closed before the end of the spacewalk again to
allow the crew to re-enter the Shuttle airlock. Once the crew is inside and
the Shuttle's airlock is repressurized, the hatches will be re-opened.
At 8:09 a.m. CDT, Kelly and Camarda are scheduled to perform additional
surveys of Discovery's wing leading edge Reinforced Carbon-Carbon with the
Shuttle arm and Orbiter Boom Sensor System. They will use the sensors to
focus on seven areas of interest along the port wing.
The crews of Discovery and the Station are scheduled to go to sleep about
2:39 p.m. CDT.
The next STS-114 mission status report will be issued Saturday afternoon, or
earlier, if events warrant.
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Jacques :-)
www.spacepatches.info