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1. STS-130 MCC Status Report #01
2. NASA ADMINISTRATOR, JSC DIRECTOR SET MEDIA ROUNDTABLE TODAY AT JSC
3. STS-130 MCC Status Report #02

Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 04:20:35 -0600 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: STS-130 MCC Status Report #01

STS-130 Report #01 4 a m CST Monday, Feb 8, 2010 Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas

HOUSTON – After a one day delay due to clouds, space shuttle Endeavour launched at 3:14 a m CST Monday from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida with a new module and an attached cupola for the International Space Station that should increase human understanding of our home planet It was the last scheduled night launch in shuttle program history

Commander George Zamka, Pilot Terry Virts and mission specialists Kay Hire, Stephen Robinson, Nicholas Patrick and Robert Behnken began their 13-day mission with an eight and a half minute dash to orbit to begin the pursuit of the orbital outpost, lighting up the central Florida coast as Endeavour arced to the northeast en route to space

When Endeavour lifted off, the station was traveling at almost five miles a second about 212 miles over western Romania Endeavour is scheduled to dock with the station at 11:09 p m Tuesday over the northern coast of Spain

Aboard the station waiting to welcome Endeavour crew members are Expedition 22 Commander Jeff Williams, cosmonaut flight engineers Max Suraev and Oleg Kotov, Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi and NASA astronaut T J Creamer

Shortly after reaching orbit, Endeavour’s crew began the process of converting the shuttle from a launch vehicle to an orbiting spacecraft Payload bay doors were scheduled to be opened a little less than an hour and a half after launch Before beginning their first sleep period in space about 9:15 a m , crew members will check out the shuttle’s robotic arm and survey the Tranquility Node 3 and its attached cupola robotic station and viewport that will be installed on the station later this week

The crew will be awakened about 5:15 p m CST this afternoon for a work day that will focus on using the robotic arm and its Orbital Boom Sensor System extension to check the reinforced thermal protection on the leading edges of Endeavour’s wings and nose cap for any damage that may have occurred on launch They also will prepare for rendezvous and docking and check out the spacesuits Patrick and Behnken will wear for three spacewalks, devoted largely to installation of Tranquility and the outfitting of the new module, the cupola and a docking port that will be relocated during docked operations

Endeavour’s flight is the 130th of the shuttle program and the 32nd dedicated to station assembly, resupply and maintenance The mission also will deliver equipment, supplies and scientific experiments to the station

The next shuttle status report will be issued after crew wakeup or earlier if warranted

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Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 07:38:53 -0600 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: NASA ADMINISTRATOR, JSC DIRECTOR SET MEDIA ROUNDTABLE TODAY AT JSC

Feb 8, 2010

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

Report #J10-001

NASA ADMINISTRATOR, JSC DIRECTOR SET MEDIA ROUNDTABLE TODAY AT JSC

HOUSTON – NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and Johnson Space Center Director Mike Coats will be available for a roundtable discussion with media at 2:30 p m CST today, Monday, Feb 8, at the Johnson Space Center Bolden and Coats will discuss the fiscal year 2011 budget request and bold new developments in the nation's civil space effort

Media planning to attend should contact the JSC newsroom at 281-483-5111 no later than noon CST The event will not be broadcast on NASA Television

For more information on NASA and its programs, visit:

www nasa gov

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Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 18:39:43 -0600 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: STS-130 MCC Status Report #02

STS-130 Report #02 6:30 p m CST Monday, Feb 8, 2010 Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas

HOUSTON – The astronauts onboard space shuttle Endeavour are into their first full day in space and on the way to install the final components of the U S segment of the International Space Station

The wakeup call at 5:14 p m was “Give Me Your Eyes” by Brandon Heath, played for Pilot Terry Virts, the only first–time flyer on this crew of Endeavour One of his first tasks is to assist Commander George Zamka with a firing of the shuttle’s jets to refine its approach to the International Space Station for the planned Tuesday night docking

Mission Specialists Kay Hire and Nick Patrick will be at the controls of the shuttle robotic arm tonight to unberth the Orbiter Boom Sensor System from the starboard sill to begin the standard post-launch inspection of the thermal protection system tiles and reinforced carbon carbon panels on Endeavour’s nose cap and wing leading edges

The inspection, commanded in shifts by Zamka, Virts, Hire, Patrick and Mission Specialist Steve Robinson, uses cameras and lasers at the end of the OBSS to provide 3-D views of the orbiter That data will be reviewed by experts on the ground looking for any evidence of damage sustained during launch

Later in their day spacewalkers Patrick and Bob Behnken conduct a checkout of the spacesuits they will wear during three spacewalks to complete installation of the Tranquility node and cupola module to the station Then they’ll install the centerline camera in Endeavour’s Orbiter Docking System while Hire and Robinson complete a check out of the rendezvous tools the crew members will use during Tuesday night’s approach to the station

On the station, Expedition 22 Commander Jeff Williams and Flight Engineers Max Suraev, Oleg Kotov, Soichi Noguchi and T J Creamer are wrapping up preparations of the station and its systems for almost nine days of joint docked operations with the shuttle crew

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

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