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1. STS-130 MCC Status Report #19
2. UPCOMING INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION CREW AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEWS
3. STS-130 MCC Status Report #20

Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 04:37:28 -0600 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: STS-130 MCC Status Report #19

STS-130 Report #19 5 a m CST Wednesday, Feb 17, 2010 Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas

HOUSTON – Endeavour pilot Terry Virts opened the windows one at a time early Wednesday, giving spacewalkers Robert Behnken and Nicholas Patrick an early look into the International Space Station’s room with a view that they had helped install

Behnken and Patrick wrapped up their third and final planned spacewalk, a 5-hour, 48-minute excursion, at 2:03 a m CST They completed all of their planned tasks, removing insulation blankets and removing launch restraint bolts from each of the cupola’s seven windows

Inside the cupola, Virts opened and then closed each window in turn, beginning at 11:25 p m with the circular 31 5-inch center window He was the first to look out of that largest station window, on Tranquility’s Earth-facing port, which will offer valuable views of the Earth and a good look for station robotic arm operators

Near the end of the spacewalk, all the windows were opened simultaneously Mission Specialist Kathryn Hire congratulated the spacewalkers for “raising the curtain on a bay window to the world ”

Early in the spacewalk, Behnken opened the second of two ammonia loops to allow coolant to flow through Tranquility, providing redundancy, and disconnected temporary power cables Patrick installed heater and data cables connecting Tranquility to Pressurized Mating Adapter 3, which was moved to Tranquility’s outboard port Tuesday

The spacewalkers installed handrails on Tranquility, relocated a foot restraint and closed a centerline camera flap on Harmony’s upper port, where PMA-3 had been attached They routed video signal converter cables from the “rats’ nest,” the complex of cable connections on the S0 truss, to the Zarya module That will help allow the station’s Canadarm2 eventually to be operated from the Russian portion of the station

Outfitting of Tranquility and the cupola continued, with astronauts preparing parts of the regenerative environmental control system for transfer to the module Expedition 22 Flight Engineer Soichi Noguchi replaced the Recycle Filter Tank Assembly, part of the Water Recycling System, before filling the replacement tank The replaced tank will be returned to Earth on Endeavour

The next shuttle status report will be issued after the crew’s wakeup call, scheduled for 3:14 p m , or earlier if events warrant

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Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:42:16 -0600 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: UPCOMING INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION CREW AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEWS

February 17, 2010

Nicole Cloutier-Lemasters Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111

Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100

Report #M10-028

UPCOMING INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION CREW AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEWS

HOUSTON -- The next set of International Space Station residents will be available to talk to journalists at 1 p m CST on Tuesday, March 2 The briefing from the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston will be broadcast live on NASA Television and the agency's Web site Questions also will be taken from participating NASA locations

The briefing participants are:

-Expedition 24 Flight Engineer and NASA astronaut Shannon Walker -Expedition 24 Flight Engineer and NASA astronaut Army Col Doug Wheelock -Expedition 24 Flight Engineer and Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin

Following the briefing, the crew members will be available for individual round-robin interviews, in person or by phone There also will be a photo opportunity To participate in the interviews, reporters should contact the Johnson newsroom at 281-483-5111, by 4 p m on Wednesday, Feb 24 U S and foreign nationals planning to attend the news briefing must contact the Johnson newsroom by 4 p m , Wednesday, Feb 24, to arrange credentials

Walker, Wheelock and Yurchikhin are scheduled to launch to the station aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft no earlier than June 14 They will dock to the space station two days later, joining Russian cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov, Mikhail Kornienko and NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson, who are scheduled to arrive at the station in April on another Soyuz spacecraft

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

http://www nasa gov/ntv

For the latest information about Expedition 24 and its crew, visit:

http://www nasa gov/station

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Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:49:44 -0600 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: STS-130 MCC Status Report #20

STS-130 Report #20 Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - 6 p m CST Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas

HOUSTON – The astronauts and cosmonauts on space shuttle Endeavour and the International Space Station have started an extra day of joint docked operations to complete relocation of the station’s regenerative life support system into the new Tranquility module

The 3:17 p m wakeup call music for the shuttle astronauts was “Oh Yeah” by Johnny A , played for Mission Specialist Stephen Robinson

About an hour later, all 11 astronauts and cosmonauts on the docked vehicles received a congratulatory phone call from President Barack Obama, who was accompanied at the White House by a dozen middle school students from across the country who are in Washington, D C for a national engineering competition

Internal outfitting of the new station modules fills up most of the timeline for this extra day on orbit, which was added specifically to support this activity Crew members will relocate the remaining system racks of the regenerative environmental control and life support system—both Water Recovery System racks, the Waste Hygiene Compartment, and the Oxygen Generation System—into empty rack spaces in Tranquility, and finish setting up hardware in the new cupola module

The plan to relocate the station’s robotic arm work station from Destiny into the cupola has been deferred for the station crew to complete after the shuttle departs to afford time for the on orbit crew and specialists in Houston to resolve issues of structural interference from hardware in the cupola

Shortly after midnight Thursday, the station’s altitude will be raised slightly by firing Endeavour’s small vernier thrusters for 33 minutes This adjustment combined with future altitude adjustments will set the stage for future spacecraft arrivals, including that of Discovery on the STS-131 mission in early April

The crew heads to bed shortly after 6 a m Thursday for an eight hour sleep period ending with a musical wakeup call from Mission Control at 2:44 pm

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

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End of HSFNEWS Digest - 17 Feb 2010 to 18 Feb 2010 (#2010-19)

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