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1. STS-125 MCC Status Report #06
2. NASA TV TO PROVIDE COVERAGE OF NEXT SOYUZ LAUNCH, DOCKING
3. STS-125 MCC Status Report #07

Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 03:42:16 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: STS-125 MCC Status Report #06

STS-125 Report #06 Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 4:00 a m CDT Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas

Mission Specialists John Grunsfeld and Drew Feustel are now just hours away from beginning the first of five spacewalks of Atlantis’ mission to the Hubble Space Telescope The crew awoke this morning to “Stickshifts and Safetybelts” performed by Cake It was played for Feustel

Today’s spacewalk is set to begin at 7:16 a m CDT and will last 6 5 hours Grunsfeld will be the first astronaut to exit the shuttle’s air lock and will begin preparations in Atlantis’ payload bay Feustel will exit a few minutes later and will make his way onto Atlantis’ robotic arm Mission Specialist Megan McArthur will operate the arm while Feustel performs his activities outside the shuttle

The first task for Grunsfeld and Feustel is the removal of the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 and the installation of Wide Field Camera 3 The new camera weighs almost 900 pounds and measures 2 feet tall by 6 feet wide by 7 feet long It will be Hubble’s first panchromatic camera and will allow astronomers to observe galaxy evolution, dark matter and dark energy

The next task is to replace the Science Instrument Command and Data Handling Unit (SCI&DH) with a ground spare The SCI&DH allows Hubble’s science instruments to send and receive data, and it experienced a failure in September of last year Commanding was switched over to the unit’s back-up channel, but the new SCI&DH will restore full redundancy

Feustel and Grunsfeld also will install the Soft Capture Mechanism (SCM) on the bottom of the telescope This will allow future spacecraft to rendezvous and berth with the telescope

The final task of the spacewalk will be the installation of three Latch Over Center Kits (LOCKS) This will make it easier on the mission’s other spacewalks for the astronauts to open and close Hubble’s large access doors At the end of the day, the entire crew will review procedures for the mission’s second spacewalk, which will be conducted by Mike Good and Mike Massimino tomorrow

The crew will enter its sleep period at 7:31 p m and will awake at 3:31 a m The next status report will be issued at the end of the crew’s day or earlier, if events warrant -end-

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Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 16:45:47 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: NASA TV TO PROVIDE COVERAGE OF NEXT SOYUZ LAUNCH, DOCKING

May 12, 2009

Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100

James Hartsfield Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111

Report #M09-082

NASA TV TO PROVIDE COVERAGE OF NEXT SOYUZ LAUNCH, DOCKING

HOUSTON -- NASA Television will provide live coverage as the next residents of the International Space Station launch and arrive at the station to expand its crew to six people Coverage begins May 15 when the crew members leave Star City, Russia, en route to the launch site in Kazakhstan

On May 27, Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko, European Space Agency astronaut Frank De Winne and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Bob Thirsk will launch aboard a Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 5:34 a m CDT (4:34 p m Baikonur time) They will arrive at the station at 7:36 a m CDT on May 29 to join the station's Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineers Mike Barratt of NASA and Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency The six men will form the Expedition 20 crew, the station's first six-person crew This mission also will be the first time crew members are aboard representing all five International Space Station partners

Events to be broadcast on NASA TV include (all times CDT):

Friday, May 15 5 p m -- Video File of Expedition 20 crew's traditional breakfast ceremony in Star City, Russia, prior to departure for the Baikonur launch site (replayed at 10 p m )

May 26, Tuesday 11 a m -- Video File of Expedition 20 crew prelaunch activities and training, Soyuz spacecraft rollout and final crew prelaunch news conference in Baikonur May 27, Wednesday 3:45 a m -- Video File of Expedition 20 prelaunch activities in Baikonur 4:45 a m -- Live coverage begins of Expedition 20 launch, scheduled at 5:34 a m 11 a m -- Video File of Expedition 20 launch day activities, launch and post-launch interviews

May 29, Friday 7 a m -- Live coverage begins of Expedition 20 docking to the space station, scheduled at 7:36 a m A post-docking news conference will follow 8:30 a m -- Live coverage begins of Soyuz hatch opening, expected at approximately 8:45 a m , and Expedition 20 welcoming ceremony 12 p m -- Video File of Soyuz docking to the station, hatch opening and welcoming ceremony

For NASA TV streaming video, downlink and schedule information, visit:

http://www nasa gov/ntv

For more information about the space station, visit:

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Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 17:03:33 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: STS-125 MCC Status Report #07

STS-125 Report #07 5 p m CDT Thursday, May 14, 2009 Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas

The Hubble Space Telescope can now see farther into space and across a wider spectrum of colors, thanks to the work done during the first spacewalk of the STS-125 mission

Mission Specialists John Grunsfeld and Andrew Feustel spent 7 hours and 20 minutes in space shuttle Atlantis’ cargo bay, installing the new Wide Field Camera 3 and replacing the telescope’s Science Instrument Command and Data Handling Unit, or SIC&DH

The new camera will allow Hubble to take large-scale, extremely clear and detailed photos over a wider range of colors than the camera they removed After it was installed, ground controllers at the Space Telescope Operations Control Center at Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland confirmed that WFC3 was receiving power as expected

The SIC&DH is a computer that sends commands to Hubble’s science instruments and formats science data for transmission to the ground One side of the previous SIC&DH failed in September just before STS-125 was originally scheduled to launch The mission was postponed to give teams on the ground time to prepare a replacement and train the crew for the task Though the telescope was able to continue, this replacement restored redundancy

Grunsfeld also installed a mechanism that will allow future spacecraft to capture the telescope, and Feustel installed two of three Latch Over Center Kits, or LOCK, that will make opening and closing Hubble’s large access doors easier on the remaining spacewalks An aft shroud latch repair was installed on the middle LOCK

Before coming in, the spacewalkers configured a platform they installed on the shuttle’s robotic arm to clear the view for a Friday inspection of some shuttle heat shield tiles using the orbiter boom sensor system The teams on the ground weren’t able to get a full view of the tiles during Tuesday’s inspection The crew will perform that inspection before Friday’s spacewalk begins

The crew will enter its sleep period at 7:31 p m and will awake at 3:31 a m to begin preparations for the second spacewalk of the mission, scheduled to begin at 7:16 a m The next status report will be issued at the end of the crew’s day or earlier if events warrant

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