Second of Three STS-130 Spacewalks
Should Begin Tonight
Around 9:10pm...
Original Post Date:
Saturday, February 13, 2010
3:10pm EST
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Image credit: NASA
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Astronauts Ready for Tonight’s Spacewalk
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Mission Specialists Robert Behnken and Nicholas Patrick will hook up exterior fluid lines and do other work on Tranquility during their second spacewalk of the flight, scheduled to begin about 9:10pm. Early in their day, they configured spacewalk tools and worked on another spacesuit for Patrick, to resolve a power supply issue. The crew began an hour-long review of spacewalk procedures about 4:10am. The spacewalkers started their overnight campout in the Quest airlock about 6:40am.
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Keep up with the latest Mission News
and Updates HERE
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Watch Spacewalks/Mission Live
at NASA TV
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POST UPDATE:
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Spacewalk Begins
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About above image: Mission Specialists Nicholas Patrick and Robert Behnken work outside the International Space Station during the second spacewalk of the STS-130 mission.
Image credit: NASA TV
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Second STS-130 Spacewalk Begins
9:20 EST
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At 9:20pm EST, STS-130 spacewalkers Robert Behnken and Nicholas Patrick switched their suits to battery power, officially starting today’s excursion outside the orbiting laboratory. Behnken is wearing a spacesuit marked with solid red stripes. Patrick is wearing an all-white suit. This will be Behken’s fifth and Patrick’s second spacewalk.
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Behnken and Patrick will spend their first four hours connecting the ammonia loops on the new Tranquility node to those of the Destiny laboratory. There are two loops, with two lines apiece, each of which must be connected to both Tranquility and Destiny and routed through a bracket on Unity, which connects Tranquility to Destiny. Behnken will open one of the loops so that ammonia will be allowed to flow to the node from the station’s external thermal control system.
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Today’s spacewalk is expected to last about 6.5-hours.
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Post Update:
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Second STS-130 Spacewalk Complete
Sunday, February 14, 2010
3:17am EST
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Mission Specialists Nicholas Patrick and Robert Behnken have completed the second STS-130 spacewalk to outfit the Tranquility module at 3:14am EST Sunday.
[Good work team -- good work!]
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Say it again...
I Love this stuff!!!
Should Begin Tonight
Around 9:10pm...
Original Post Date:
Saturday, February 13, 2010
3:10pm EST
.
Image credit: NASA..............
.
Astronauts Ready for Tonight’s Spacewalk
.
Mission Specialists Robert Behnken and Nicholas Patrick will hook up exterior fluid lines and do other work on Tranquility during their second spacewalk of the flight, scheduled to begin about 9:10pm. Early in their day, they configured spacewalk tools and worked on another spacesuit for Patrick, to resolve a power supply issue. The crew began an hour-long review of spacewalk procedures about 4:10am. The spacewalkers started their overnight campout in the Quest airlock about 6:40am.
.
.........................................
.
Keep up with the latest Mission News
and Updates HERE
...
Watch Spacewalks/Mission Live
at NASA TV
.............................
.
POST UPDATE:
.
Spacewalk Begins
.
About above image: Mission Specialists Nicholas Patrick and Robert Behnken work outside the International Space Station during the second spacewalk of the STS-130 mission.Image credit: NASA TV
....................
.
Second STS-130 Spacewalk Begins
9:20 EST
.
At 9:20pm EST, STS-130 spacewalkers Robert Behnken and Nicholas Patrick switched their suits to battery power, officially starting today’s excursion outside the orbiting laboratory. Behnken is wearing a spacesuit marked with solid red stripes. Patrick is wearing an all-white suit. This will be Behken’s fifth and Patrick’s second spacewalk.
.
Behnken and Patrick will spend their first four hours connecting the ammonia loops on the new Tranquility node to those of the Destiny laboratory. There are two loops, with two lines apiece, each of which must be connected to both Tranquility and Destiny and routed through a bracket on Unity, which connects Tranquility to Destiny. Behnken will open one of the loops so that ammonia will be allowed to flow to the node from the station’s external thermal control system.
.
Today’s spacewalk is expected to last about 6.5-hours.
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Post Update:
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Second STS-130 Spacewalk Complete
Sunday, February 14, 2010
3:17am EST
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Mission Specialists Nicholas Patrick and Robert Behnken have completed the second STS-130 spacewalk to outfit the Tranquility module at 3:14am EST Sunday.
[Good work team -- good work!]
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Say it again...
I Love this stuff!!!
AubreyJ.........
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