Fourth Spacewalk Complete - Shuttle Mission Extended One Day

Fourth and Final Spacewalk Complete -

Shuttle Mission Extended One Day
Monday, November 24, 2008
9:45pm CST
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Image above: STS-126 Mission Specialist Steve Bowen works outside the International Space Station during the mission’s fourth spacewalk.
Credit: NASA TV
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Steve Bowen and Shane Kimbrough ended their mission's fourth spacewalk Monday at 7:31 p.m. EST. The excursion lasted six hours and seven minutes.

They worked on the starboard and port solar alpha rotary joints, installed a camera on the Port 1 Truss and installed a GPS antenna and retracted a latch on the Kibo laboratory.

Inside the station, the other shuttle and station crew members completed maintenance on the Water Recovery System's Urine Processor Assembly (UPA) and started another processing cycle. Engineers hoped that the maintenance performed would enable the UPA to run for its full four-hour processing time.

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In addition, the Space Shuttle Program Mission Management Team formally approved extending STS-126 by one day. The STS-126 mission was extended so the astronauts could continue troubleshooting the International Space Station's new Water Recovery System.
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The crews of the International Space Station and Space Shuttle Endeavour now will spend Thanksgiving Day together, and the shuttle will undock on Friday.
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Space Shuttle Endeavour's Landing is now targeted to take place at the Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility at about 1:18pm EST, Sunday.
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All above info/links/photos from NASA.gov website
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