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1. STS-127 MCC Status Report #08
2. STS-127 MCC Status Report #09

Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 06:01:30 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: STS-127 MCC Status Report #08

STS-127 Report #08 6 a m CDT Sunday, July 19, 2009 Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas

HOUSTON – The astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station complex will take a break from spacewalking today, but continue their robotics work to prepare for the following day’s excursion

The joint crew was awakened at 5:33 a m CDT with the song “Learning to Fly,” by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, for former Navy SEAL Chris Cassidy, who is making his first space flight aboard the space shuttle Endeavour

With focused inspection of Endeavour’s heat shield no longer necessary, the crew will have additional time to complete transfers of supplies and equipment from the shuttle to the station and review plans for Monday’s second spacewalk of the mission

Commander Mark Polansky and Pilot Doug Hurley will begin the day by grappling the Integrated Cargo Carrier in the rear of Endeavour’s cargo bay, lifting it and handing it off to the station’s robotic arm Mission specialists Julie Payette and Tim Kopra will guide the station’s arm as it accepts the carrier and installs it on the mobile base system This placement will allow spacewalkers to transfer the spare parts to an external stowage platform on the station

Spacewalkers Dave Wolf and Tom Marshburn will configure their space suits and tools, and review the procedures for Monday’s spacewalk

Departing Expedition 20 astronaut Koichi Wakata, now a member of Endeavour’s crew, will work on the station’s Advanced Resistive Exercise Device He’ll replace a shock absorber, known as a “dashpot,” that helps prevent vibrations from simulated weightlifting from interfering with sensitive science experiments on the station

Mission specialist Julie Payette and Flight Engineer Bob Thirsk will talk with Canadian dignitaries and news media in a 20-minute event starting at 5:08 p m

Expedition 20 Commander Genady Padalka will take temperature, humidity, air flow and surface temperature readings in the station’s Russian segment

The crew is scheduled to go to bed at 9:33 p m and wake up at 5:33 a m on the 40th anniversary of the first human moon landing

The next shuttle status report will be issued at the end of the crew’s day, or earlier if events warrant

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Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:44:32 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: STS-127 MCC Status Report #09

STS-127 Report #09 4:30 p m CDT Sunday, July 19, 2009 Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas

HOUSTON – The Space Shuttle Endeavour and International Space Station crews were successful in their robotic arm tasks today, but encountered a problem with one of the bathrooms on the station

Robotic arm operators aboard Endeavour and the station installed the Integrated Cargo Carrier – Vertical Light Deployable, or ICC-VLD --- a cargo pallet--- on the port side of the space station’s mobile base system Station arm operators Julie Payette and Tim Kopra finished the move at 11:55 a m CDT

The pallet contains three hardware spares that spacewalkers Dave Wolf and Tom Marshburn will move to a stowage platform on the outside of the Port 3 truss during Monday’s spacewalk

The Kibo robotic arm was commanded through a series of calibrations in preparation for later use in the mission, when Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency payloads will be transferred from the Exposed Section, another platform where the experiments are temporarily mounted, to the newly installed Exposed Facility for operation The Exposed Facility was installed on the aft end of Kibo Saturday

Wolf and Marshburn spent the remainder of their day preparing special tools, reviewing procedures and beginning their campout for the second spacewalk, which is set to start Monday at 10:28 a m CDT

Meanwhile, station flight controllers and crew members spent part of the day troubleshooting a problem with the Waste and Hygiene Compartment, or WHC, the toilet in the U S Destiny module The system’s dose pump failed after running for about 15 minutes Sunday The pump introduces the correct amount of chemicals into the system to help separate liquids from solid waste About six liters of pre-treated water may have flowed into the pump separator and other areas where it should not have, flooding the separator

Astronauts Mike Barratt and Frank De Winne began work on the toilet to replace parts that likely were contaminated The suspect dose pump and a control panel are also on tap for replacement to restore the toilet

The WHC is one of two toilet systems aboard the space station Temporarily, the six station crew members will use the facilities in the Russian Zvezda module while the seven astronauts will use the shuttle Waste Compartment System, or WCS, that is located in Endeavour’s middeck

The temporary shutdown of the U S toilet on the station will not impact joint docked operations

Shortly after 5 p m Canadian Space Agency Astronauts Bob Thirsk and Payette will speak with the Canadian Minister of State for Science and Technology Gary Goodyear, Member of Parliament Steven Bleany and CSA President Steve MacLean This mission marks the first time the pair of astronauts has been in space together at the same time

The crew is scheduled to go to bed about 9:30 p m and wake up at 5:33 a m on the 40th anniversary of the first landing by humans on the moon on Apollo 11 on July 20, 1969

The next shuttle status report will be issued at the beginning of the crew’s work day, or earlier if events warrant

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End of HSFNEWS Digest - 19 Jul 2009 to 20 Jul 2009 (#2009-74)

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