Astronauts To Begin Second Spacewalk Today
Saturday, March 21, 2009 CDT
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Today's wakeup music was "In a Little While" by the group Pilgrim and Trout played for Discovery astronaut Richard Arnold at 7:43 a.m. EDT.
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Astronauts Steve Swanson and Joseph Acaba will begin the mission's second spacewalk at 12:43pm EDT. They will prepare a workstation on the Port 6 (P6) truss for later removal and replacement of P6 batteries by the STS-127 crew. The spacewalkers also will prepare a couple of cargo attachment systems for storing equipment and supplies on the outside of the space station, install a GPS antenna on the Japanese segment that will help guide the HTV resupply vehicle later this year, snap photos of a radiator truss whose corner has curled up and reconfigure a patch panel on the station's truss.
Info from the NASA.gov website
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Mission’s Second Spacewalk to begin today just before NOON, CDT.
Saturday, March 21, 2009 CDT
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Today's wakeup music was "In a Little While" by the group Pilgrim and Trout played for Discovery astronaut Richard Arnold at 7:43 a.m. EDT.
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Astronauts Steve Swanson and Joseph Acaba will begin the mission's second spacewalk at 12:43pm EDT. They will prepare a workstation on the Port 6 (P6) truss for later removal and replacement of P6 batteries by the STS-127 crew. The spacewalkers also will prepare a couple of cargo attachment systems for storing equipment and supplies on the outside of the space station, install a GPS antenna on the Japanese segment that will help guide the HTV resupply vehicle later this year, snap photos of a radiator truss whose corner has curled up and reconfigure a patch panel on the station's truss.
Info from the NASA.gov website
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Mission’s Second Spacewalk to begin today just before NOON, CDT.
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Mission UPDATE
Saturday Evening, March 21, 2009
6:29pm CDT
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Astronauts Complete Second STS-119 Spacewalk
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Astronauts Steve Swanson and Joseph Acaba ended the mission's second spacewalk at 7:21 p.m. EDT.
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Mission UPDATE
Saturday Evening, March 21, 2009
6:29pm CDT
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Astronauts Complete Second STS-119 Spacewalk
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Astronauts Steve Swanson and Joseph Acaba ended the mission's second spacewalk at 7:21 p.m. EDT.
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They prepared a worksite so that the STS-127 spacewalkers can more easily change out the Port 6 truss batteries later this year. On the Japanese Kibo laboratory they installed a second Global Positioning Satellite antenna that will be used for the planned rendezvous of the Japanese HTV cargo ship in September. They photographed areas of radiator panels extended from the Port 1 and Starboard 1 trusses and reconfigured connectors at a patch panel on the Zenith 1 truss that power Control Moment Gyroscopes.
After struggling with a balky pin that kept an unpressurized cargo carrier attachment system (UCCAS) from fully deploying, they tied UCCAS safely in place. Engineers will evaluate the issue.
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Today's spacewalk lasted six hours, 30 minutes. It was Swanson's fourth spacewalk and Acaba's first, and the 122nd spacewalk in support of station assembly and maintenance, totaling 768 hours, 33 minutes.
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NASA Television will carry a news briefing at 8 p.m. with STS-119 Lead Space Station Flight Director Kwatsi Alibaruho and STS-119 Lead Extravehicular Activity Officer Glenda Laws-Brown.
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Today's spacewalk lasted six hours, 30 minutes. It was Swanson's fourth spacewalk and Acaba's first, and the 122nd spacewalk in support of station assembly and maintenance, totaling 768 hours, 33 minutes.
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NASA Television will carry a news briefing at 8 p.m. with STS-119 Lead Space Station Flight Director Kwatsi Alibaruho and STS-119 Lead Extravehicular Activity Officer Glenda Laws-Brown.
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.Mission UPDATE
Sunday Morning, March 22, 2009
6:41am CDT
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Astronauts Begin New Day Aboard Station
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Today's wakeup music was "Alive Again" by Chicago played for space shuttle Discovery Commander Lee Archambault at 7:14 a.m. EDT.
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Astronauts aboard Discovery will enjoy some off duty time beginning at 10:18 a.m. before participating in a media interview and planning for Monday's third spacewalk.
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At 6:12 p.m., Discovery Commander Lee Archambault, Pilot Tony Antonelli, Mission Specialists Joseph Acaba, John Phillips and Sandra Magnus and International Space Station Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata will talk to reporters from CNN Espanol, CBS and WOFL-TV in Orlando, Florida.
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At 7:13 p.m., Acaba and Richard Arnold will review Monday's spacewalk procedures and at 9:09 p.m. they will camp out in the Quest airlock.
.Mission UPDATE
Sunday Morning, March 22, 2009
6:41am CDT
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Astronauts Begin New Day Aboard Station
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Today's wakeup music was "Alive Again" by Chicago played for space shuttle Discovery Commander Lee Archambault at 7:14 a.m. EDT.
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Astronauts aboard Discovery will enjoy some off duty time beginning at 10:18 a.m. before participating in a media interview and planning for Monday's third spacewalk.
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At 6:12 p.m., Discovery Commander Lee Archambault, Pilot Tony Antonelli, Mission Specialists Joseph Acaba, John Phillips and Sandra Magnus and International Space Station Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata will talk to reporters from CNN Espanol, CBS and WOFL-TV in Orlando, Florida.
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At 7:13 p.m., Acaba and Richard Arnold will review Monday's spacewalk procedures and at 9:09 p.m. they will camp out in the Quest airlock.
Info from the NASA.gov website
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Note:
I’ll be posting on Mission & final Spacewalk over the next few days so check back!!!
I’ll be posting on Mission & final Spacewalk over the next few days so check back!!!
GOD SPEED to the Crew of STS-119 Discovery...
AubreyJ.........
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