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Topics of the day:

1. STS-131 MCC Status Report #07
2. NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER DIRECTOR MICHAEL L COATS AVAILABLE THURSDAY TO DISCUSS CENTER'S ROLES IN 2011
3. STS-131 MCC Status Report #08

Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 08:44:30 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: STS-131 MCC Status Report #07

STS-131 Report #07 9 a m CDT Thursday, April 8, 2010 Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas

HOUSTON � It was moving day aboard the International Space Station as the Leonardo Multipurpose Logistics Module was relocated from Discovery�s payload bay to a port on the Harmony node at 11:24 Wednesday night

The Italian-built module�s more than 17,000 pounds of cargo includes four experiment racks along with the final private crew quarters This is the final roundtrip to the station for the 21-foot-long, 15-foot-diameter Leonardo Once back on Earth, the module will be reconfigured with increased shielding on the outside for the STS-133 mission in September when it will be left on the station as a permanent module

Crew members continued the transfer of items from Discovery�s middeck to the station and configured the Quest airlock module for the first of three planned spacewalks, scheduled to begin Friday morning at about 12:40 Discovery Mission Specialists Rick Mastracchio and Clayton Anderson will serve as the spacewalk team for all three

Thursday morning, shuttle Pilot James P Dutton Jr joined Mastracchio and Anderson to review procedures for the first spacewalk of the mission Anderson and Mastracchio will end their day preparing for Friday morning�s spacewalk by camping overnight in Quest

They will spend tonight in Quest, sealed off from the rest of the station, at a reduced atmospheric pressure That will purge nitrogen from their bloodstreams as a measure against suffering from decompression sickness during the spacewalk

Earlier today, shuttle crew members Alan G Poindexter, Mastracchio and Stephanie Wilson talked about the mission with the Tom Joyner Radio Show in Dallas, WVIT-TV in Hartford, Conn , and Fox News Radio Mastracchio is from Connecticut

The 13 crew members of the joint shuttle and station will go to bed about noon and be awakened by Mission Control at 7:51 Thursday evening

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

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Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 08:14:20 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER DIRECTOR MICHAEL L COATS AVAILABLE THURSDAY TO DISCUSS CENTER'S ROLES IN 2011

April 8, 2010

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

Report #J10-010

NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER DIRECTOR MICHAEL L COATS AVAILABLE THURSDAY TO DISCUSS CENTER'S ROLES IN 2011

HOUSTON -- NASA Johnson Space Center Director Michael L Coats will be available to media at 4 p m CDT Thursday, April 8, to discuss the center's roles in 2011 and beyond

Coats will be available only to media in person at JSC The event will not be broadcast on NASA TV and questions will not be taken by phone Media planning to attend must contact the JSC Newsroom at 281-483-5111 no later than 2 p m CDT April 8 to arrange credentials

The event will be held in the JSC press briefing room in the Office of Communications and Public Affairs building

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Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 20:11:22 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: STS-131 MCC Status Report #08

STS-131 Report #08 8:00 p m CDT Thursday, April 8, 2010 Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas

HOUSTON � Mission Specialists Clayton Anderson and Rick Mastracchio will leave the Quest airlock after midnight for the mission�s first spacewalk to prepare a new ammonia tank and gyro assembly for the International Space Station and to retrieve a science experiment from the station�s porch, the Japanese Kibo Laboratory�s exposed facility

The wakeup call at 7:51 p m CDT for the astronauts on board Discovery was �Defying Gravity,� from the musical �Wicked,� sung by Idina Menzel and Kristen Chenoweth, played for Mission Specialist Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger, who will be choreographing Anderson and Mastracchio

The 6-� hour spacewalk is scheduled to begin at 12:41 a m Mastracchio, the mission's lead spacewalker, will wear a spacesuit marked with red stripes, while Anderson will wear an all-white spacesuit

The two will perform three spacewalks during their time at the station Anderson and Mastracchio performed two spacewalks together during the STS-118 mission in August 2007

During the spacewalk, Pilot James P Dutton Jr and Mission Specialist Stephanie Wilson will use the station�s robotic arm to remove the new ammonia tank from the shuttle�s payload bay

Commander Alan G Poindexter and Mission Specialist Naoko Yamazaki, along with the Expedition 23 crew, will continue with the transfer of supplies from the shuttle to the station The crew will be transferring about 7 6 tons to the station They will pack the empty Multi-Purpose Logistics Module and middeck with 3 4 tons of science experiments and trash to return home The two crews have moved more than half the equipment and supplies from the shuttle�s middeck but have only completed 11 percent of the total transfer requirement

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

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