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1. STS-128 MCC Status Report #06
2. STS-128 MCC Status Report #07

Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:59:52 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: STS-128 MCC Status Report #06

STS-128 Report #06 Monday, August 31, 2009 - 1:00 p m CDT Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas

The combined crews of space shuttle Discovery and the International Space Station awoke today to start the first of eight days of joint operations With the successful docking last night, the crews will focus on transfer work and spacewalks

The shuttle crew wake-up song was “Mi Tierra,” performed by Gloria Estefan The song was selected for Mission Specialist Jose Hernandez Later today, Hernandez will participate in an interview with Univision, which will air on NASA TV at 9:29 p m CDT

Pilot Kevin Ford and Expedition 20 Flight Engineer Mike Barratt will use the station robotic arm to move the Leonardo Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM) from Discovery’s payload bay to the Earth-facing port on the station’s Harmony module They’re expected to start the nearly three-hour maneuver just after 2:30 p m Mission specialists Christer Fuglesang of the European Space Agency and Tim Kopra will assist with the attachment and activation activity After leak checks and pressurization, the teams are expected to open the hatches to the cargo module at 12:34 a m Tuesday

The MPLM is carrying 15,000 pounds of supplies and equipment for use on the station, including more science facilities The crew will spend the next several days unloading the hardware

Meanwhile, transfer of equipment from the shuttle’s middeck will get under way Mission specialists Pat Forrester, Hernandez and Danny Olivas will carry over items from the shuttle to the station, including the spacesuits to be used in the upcoming spacewalks Shuttle Commander Rick Sturckow will assist with transfer as well as monitor shuttle systems

Flight Engineer Nicole Stott, whose rotation with Kopra on the station crew was made official yesterday, will conduct some transfer work and familiarization of her new home in space She will join Olivas to set up their tools for tomorrow’s spacewalk The two will be joined later by all of the U S crew members and station Commander Gennady Padalka for a procedures review for that spacewalk

Expedition 20 flight engineers Roman Romanenko, Robert Thirsk and Frank De Winne will continue with station science, maintenance work and exercise

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

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Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:50:41 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: STS-128 MCC Status Report #07

STS-128 Report #07 Midnight CDT Tuesday, Sept 1, 2009 Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas

HOUSTON – The 8 tons of supplies, equipment and science experiments that space shuttle Discovery carried into space are now at the International Space Station and ready to be unpacked

Using the station’s 50-foot-long robotic arm Monday, STS-128 Pilot Kevin Ford and Expedition 20 Flight Engineer Mike Barratt removed the Leonardo multi-purpose logistics module from the shuttle’s cargo bay and installed it onto the station’s Harmony module Once attached, Mission Specialist Christer Fuglesang and Flight Engineer Frank DeWinne, both of the European Space Agency, became the first crewmembers to venture inside They spent the rest of their day preparing the pressurized cargo module for the transfer work that will be performed over the next six days

The shuttle and station crews already have gotten a start on transferring the cargo brought up inside the shuttle’s middeck In particular, the mission’s spacewalkers – Mission Specialists Danny Olivas and Jose Hernandez, and Flight Engineer Nicole Stott – worked to move the tools to be used during the three STS-128 spacewalks into the station’s airlock and get them ready for use

The first of those spacewalks is set to begin 4:49 p m Tuesday, as Olivas and Stott head outside the station to begin the task of replacing an empty ammonia tank assembly They’ll also be retrieving two science experiments that have been attached to the station’s exterior and transferring them to the shuttle’s cargo bay for return to Earth

Olivas and Stott will spend the night inside the Quest airlock at a lower air pressure to prepare their bodies for work in the vacuum of space Part of what’s called the “pre-breathe protocol,” the reduced air pressure helps force nitrogen out of the spacewalkers’ blood stream, which protects them from getting decompression sickness, also known as the bends

Discovery’s crew is scheduled to go to sleep just before 4 a m Tuesday and wake up at 11:59 a m The next shuttle status report will be issued after the crew wakes up call or earlier if events warrant

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End of HSFNEWS Digest - 31 Aug 2009 to 1 Sep 2009 (#2009-94)

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