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1. STS-127 MCC Status Report #28
2. STS-127 MCC Status Report #29

Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 02:09:14 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: STS-127 MCC Status Report #28

STS-127 Report #28 2:30 a m CDT Wednesday, July 29, 2009 Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas

HOUSTON – Shuttle astronauts will inspect Endeavour’s heat shield one more time today as they begin to set their sights on a Friday landing

The seven-member crew was awakened to the song “Yellow” by the band Coldplay, uplinked for Pilot Doug Hurley in honor of his International Space Station fly-around

Commander Mark Polansky, Mission Specialist Julie Payette and Hurley will use Canadarm to grapple the Orbiter Boom Sensor System and pull it out of its moorings in the cargo bay at 4:18 a m They’ll use the boom’s sensors to inspect the starboard wing leading edge, the nose cap and finally the port wing leading edge

Endeavour’s thermal protection system was cleared for landing earlier in the flight This late inspection will ensure that there has been no impact damage from micrometeoroids or space junk during its docked operations or fly-around of the station

Spacewalkers Dave Wolf, Chris Cassidy and Tom Marshburn will pack up their gear and stow it in the shuttle’s airlock for the return to Earth, and assist with early stowage of items no longer needed for shuttle operations after Tuesday’s undocking

The six-person Expedition 20 crew, led by Commander Gennady Padalka, will make final preparations for docking of Progress 34 The cargo craft is scheduled to link up at the station’s aft Zvezda docking port at 6:16 a m

Flight Engineers Mike Barratt, Bob Thirsk and Frank De Winne will continue research into the changes microgravity brings to their bodies’ disease-fighting systems with the Integrated Immune study Kopra has finished his first session with the Bodies in Space Environment experiment, a Canadian comparison of how the human mind perceives its position during spaceflight and on Earth

The two crews will begin their sleep periods about 5 p m

The next status report will be issued at the end of the crew day, or earlier if warranted

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Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:27:54 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: STS-127 MCC Status Report #29

STS-127 Report #29 6 p m CDT Wednesday, July 29, 2009 Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas

Space shuttle Endeavour’s crew spent the day inspecting the spacecraft’s heat shield one last time and began early preparations for Friday’s return home to the Kennedy Space Center, Florida

With the International Space Station and its six-person crew slipping further and further behind following Wednesday’s undocking, Endeavour’s crew turned its attention to unlimbering the robot arm and boom extension With its suite of sensitive instruments, the boom was used to scan the wing leading edges and nose cap for any sign of tiny impacts as part of a routine procedure to ensure the orbiter’s outer shield has a clean bill of health for reentry into the Earth’s atmosphere

While imagery experts pore over the data sent down during the scan to evaluate the Thermal Protection System’s integrity, shuttle Commander Mark Polansky and the STS-127 crew will focus on packing up the shuttle and checking out its flight control systems and thruster jets Thursday morning

Mission managers will be briefed on the Damage Assessment Team’s findings Thursday as well, but early indications are there were no impacts that would pose a concern for entry The formal presentation to the Mission Management Team is set for 11 a m CDT

On orbit, the crew will deploy two small research satellites and set up a special recumbent seat for Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata returning after 138 days in space (133 on the station)

The first half of the crew’s day Thursday will include the support of the entry team in Mission Control lead by Flight Director Bryan Lunney The team will watch over the checkout of all vehicle systems to ensure they are healthy and ready to support landing of Endeavour after 16 days in space Landing is scheduled for 9:48 a m CDT after 248 orbits of the Earth

The seven crew members have adjusted their wake/sleep cycles to correspond with landing day activities and will be awakened at 1:03 a m CDT Thursday by Mission Control That’s approximately when the next status report will be issued, or earlier if events warrant

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End of HSFNEWS Digest - 29 Jul 2009 to 30 Jul 2009 (#2009-84)

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