Today’s Spacewalk Scheduled to Begin at 2:12pm CST

About Image: ( December 14, 2006) European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Christer Fuglesang, STS-116 mission specialist, participates in the mission's second of three planned sessions of extravehicular activity (EVA) as construction resumes on the International Space Station. Astronaut Robert L. Curbeam, Jr. (out of frame), mission specialist, also participated in the spacewalk. (Image Credit: NASA TV)

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Monday’s Spacewalk is Scheduled to begin at 2:12 p.m. EST

The decision to add the spacewalk was made Saturday, and the crew was notified during the spacewalk by Robert Curbeam and Sunita Williams. At the end of the mission’s third spacewalk, the pair made some preliminary attempts and succeeded in retracting all but 11 bays of the array.

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Robert Curbeam and Mission Specialist Christer Fuglesang will be conducting the spacewalk today and will first work on the array panel grommets and then will resume the shaking activities if necessary. Another objective of the fourth spacewalk is to collect additional information that could prove useful when the opposite side of the array is retracted on STS-117 in March.

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A little over 6½ hours has been scheduled for today’s spacewalk if needed.

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The spacewalk will be Curbeam’s fourth during STS-116. This will be Fuglesang’s third.

(Info taken from NASA.gov website)

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Update: The 6-hour, 38 minute excursion by Mission Specialists Robert Curbeam and Christer Fuglesang concluded tonight at 8:38 p.m. EST. Attention now turns to Discovery’s departure. Discovery is scheduled to undock at 5:09 p.m. Tuesday, ending STS-116’s eight-day stay at the station.

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