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Shuttle Updates Space Shuttle Endeavour is docked Endeavour is currently scheduled to undock from the International Space Station today
Thursday, February 18, 2010 01:39 Eastern standard Time
Work continues on Tranquillity (Node 3), the new "Room with a view". Wednesday, February 17, 2010 4:35:02 PM The crew of space shuttle Endeavour awoke at 4:17 p.m. EST to the song “Oh Yeah” by Johnny A., played for Mission Specialist Stephen Robinson. President Obama, congressional leaders and middle school students spoke with the astronaut crews of the International Space Station and the Space Shuttle Endeavour at 5:14 p.m. EST Wednesday and congratulated them on their successful ongoing mission. The call took place from the Roosevelt Room of the White House. Wednesday, February 17, 2010 3:12:00 AM Behnken and Patrick Conclude Third Spacewalk Spacewalkers Robert Behnken and Nicholas Patrick completed a 5-hour, 48-minute spacewalk at 3:03 a.m. EST. The pair finished all their scheduled tasks. This was the last of three STS-130 spacewalks, the 233rd conducted by U.S. astronauts, the sixth for Behnken and the third for Patrick. It was the 140th in support of International Space Station assembly and maintenance, totaling 873 hours, 16 minutes. A Mission Status Briefing will air at 5:30 a.m. with STS-130 Lead Space Station Flight Director Bob Dempsey and STS-130 Lead Spacewalk Officer Art Thomason.
3rd eva (spacewalk) in progress. Final STS 130 spacewalk began at 9:15p ET with astronauts Bob Behnken and @Astro_Nicholas video of eva 3 sts 130 below Tuesday, February 16, 2010 10:32:54 PM
Final Spacewalk of STS-130 Continues Mission Specialists Nicholas Patrick and Robert Behnken are conducting the mission’s third and final spacewalk. The ammonia loops are open. With the cupola now located on its permanent home on Tranquility’s Earth facing port and the Pressurized Mating Adapter 3 on the end of the node, Patrick and Behnken are free to begin getting them into the right configuration. Patrick is connecting the mating adapter’s heater and data cables to Tranquility. Then he will work with Behnken to remove six panels of insulation over the cupola’s windows. Once the insulation is out of the way, Patrick will be able release the three bolts on each of the seven window’s covers; those bolts held the covers in place during Endeavour’s launch. While he does so, Behnken will get back to outfitting Tranquility by installing four worksite interfaces and five more handrails.
Robert Behnken, Nicholas Patrick Complete Second Spacewalk Spacewalkers Robert Behnken and Nicholas Patrick completed a 5-hour, 54-minute spacewalk at 3:14 a.m. EST. The pair completed all their scheduled tasks. This was the second of three STS-130 spacewalks, the 232nd conducted by U.S. astronauts, the fifth for Behnken and the second for Patrick. It was the 139th in support of International Space Station assembly and maintenance, totaling 867 hours, 28 minutes. Inside the complex, the crew has completed the Tranquility node activation work. today : Crew Preparing to Relocate Cupola The crew of space shuttle Endeavour awoke at 4:14 p.m. EST to the song “Forty Years On,” the Harrow School in London song, played for Harrow alumnus Mission Specialist Nicholas Patrick. After further analysis of the center disk cover interference issue, the teams determined that there wasn’t an issue with relocating the cupola. The crew will spend time today preparing the cupola for its relocation. Terry Virts and Kathryn Hire will latch onto the cupola with the station’s robotic arm. They then will move the cupola to its permanent position on the Earth-facing side of the Tranquility node and then open the hatch. Robert Behnken and Stephen Robinson will grapple Pressurized Mating Adapter-3 with the station’s robotic arm near the end of the day for its relocation on flight day 9. 22:23 2/14/2010 - Hire confirms cupola grappled
Crew Members to Answer Questions from Students At 10:24 p.m. EST, Pilot Terry Virts and Mission Specialist Kathryn Hire take time to answer questions about their mission prepared by students at NASA Explorer Schools.
The event has just concluded on NASA
TV. 22:48 2/14/2010, middle school students from Tampa asking great
questions! regular coverage continues.
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. Shuttle Silhouette
Tranquility (Node 3) Open for Business
Preparations for 2nd walk
underway
Image above: STS-130 and Expedition 22 crew members
work in the Harmony node of the International Space Station. Image credit:
NASA Endeavour's Tuesday morning wake-up music Endeavour's Wednesday wake-up music Space Shuttle Endeavour is docked
All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below. Sleep shift in effect: The ISS crew’s workday began last evening at 4:14pm and ended this morning at 7:44 EST (see time table at bottom). STS-130/Endeavour docked smoothly at the ISS PMA-2 (Pressurized Mating Adapter-2) port at ~12:57am EST this morning, late by ~51 min -- of which ~35 min delay was due to lost alignment during retraction, followed by regaining alignment (slowed by gravity gradient) before continuing retraction and hook drive (similar signature was seen on STS-126). After successful completion of the RPM (R-Bar Pitch Maneuver), Endeavour had arrived at +V-Bar (310 ft straight in front of ISS) at few minutes later. The station now hosts eleven occupants as Mission 20A is underway. [The combined crew is comprised of ISS-CDR Jeff Williams (USA), FE-1 Maxim Suraev (Russia), FE-4 Oleg Kotov (Russia), FE-5 Soichi Noguchi (Japan), FE-6 TJ Creamer (USA), STS-CDR George Zamka, PLT Terry Virts, MS1 Kay Hire, MS2 Steve Robinson, MS3 Nicholas Patrick and MS4 Robert Behnken.] Hook closure to rigidize the Shuttle-ISS linkup was at 12:57am. After the docking, the station was reoriented as planned to minimize the risk of micrometeoroid/debris impacts upon the Shuttle (-XVV = -x-axis in velocity vector, +z-axis in local vertical). [Earlier, at 10:18pm, the ISS maneuvered to docking attitude after attitude control authority was handed over from USOS (US Segment) to RS MCS (Russian Segment Motion Control System) at ~10:13pm. Control returned to US Momentum Management at ~1:35am.] Before the docking, FE-1 Suraev performed final STTS communications configuration checks for the docking. Upon docking, Maxim switched USOS/RS comm systems to their mated-flight mode.Crew of Endeavour Complete Inspections, Ready For Docking Tomorrow The STS-130 crew has completed their inspection of the
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