SPACEWALK LIVE This Afternoon
On NASA TELEVISION
About Photo: S117-E-07264 (13 June 2007) --- Astronauts Steven Swanson and Patrick Forrester (out of frame), both STS-117 mission specialists, participate in the mission's second planned session of extravehicular activity (EVA), as construction resumes on the International Space Station. Among other tasks, Forrester and Swanson removed all of the launch locks holding the 10-foot-wide solar alpha rotary joint in place and began the solar array retraction.
Image/Info Credit: NASA
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Short Note on Today’s Spacewalk
STS-117 Mission Specialists Patrick Forrester and Steven Swanson will continue to activate the International Space Station’s new truss segment during STS-117's fourth and last spacewalk today. The spacewalk is scheduled to last around 6 hours...
(Info taken from the NASA.gov website)
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4th Spacewalk is slated to begin at: 12:53 pm EDT
And should conclude about 6:30 pm EDT
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Note: The spacewalk officially began today at 12:25 pm EDT and the 6-hour, 29-minute excursion wrapped up at 6:54 pm EDT
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Read the latest updates on Flight and Spacewalk HERE
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Watch the Spacewalk LIVE at NASA TELEVISION
Note: I’ll be posting on the scheduled landing of Atlantis at Cape Canaveral, Florida this coming Thursday, June 21, 2007... So Check Back!
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GOD SPEED to the Crew of STS-117 Atlantis...
AubreyJ.........
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