* Photo for the Day *
- Flight Day 5 -
STS-133 Mission Specialists Steve Bowen (foreground) and Alvin Drew participate in the mission's first spacewalk as construction and maintenance continue on the International Space Station... During the six-hour, 34-minute spacewalk, Bowen and Drew installed the J612 power extension cable, move a failed ammonia pump module to the External Stowage Platform 2 on the Quest Airlock for return to Earth at a later date, installed a camera wedge on the right hand truss segment, installed extensions to the mobile transporter rail, and exposed the Japanese "Message in a Bottle" experiment to space.
View more Images from Flight Day 5 HERE
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View more Images from Flight Day 5 HERE
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Image credit: NASA - Feb. 28, 2011
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Special Note: 2nd and final scheduled Spacewalk of Discovery’s STS-133 mission will be tomorrow morning sometime. I will update this post when I find out the correct start time...
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- Spacewalk info-
Tuesday, March 01, 2011 06:0pm CST
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At 6:17pm EST, International Space Station Commander Scott Kelly became the first crew member to enter the newly-installed Permanent Multipurpose Module (PMM). The PMM was attached to the Earth-facing port of the station’s Unity node earlier in the day and will provide 2,472 cubic feet of pressurized volume for storage and scientific use. Discovery and station astronauts will use their mission extension day to help unload cargo from PMM and dispose of trash in the HTV.
Now, about Wednesday’s spacewalk... Mission Specialists Steve Bowen and Alvin Drew are preparing for the second spacewalk of the mission by “camping out” in the Quest airlock starting at 7:48pm this evening. The space station crew goes to sleep at 8:53pm and the remainder of the Discovery crew goes to sleep at 9:23pm...
Now, about Wednesday’s spacewalk... Mission Specialists Steve Bowen and Alvin Drew are preparing for the second spacewalk of the mission by “camping out” in the Quest airlock starting at 7:48pm this evening. The space station crew goes to sleep at 8:53pm and the remainder of the Discovery crew goes to sleep at 9:23pm...
Info/Image above taken from the NASA.gov website
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Now if I’m correct, Bowen and Drew will be “camping out” for about 14 hours tonight thus making the Spacewalk kickoff sometime between 9am and 10am CST Wednesday morning. Check back in morning early and I will have the correct start time in a NEW Post on Spacewalk.
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