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1. STS-132 MCC Status Report #04
2. STS-132 MCC Status Report #05

Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 02:32:23 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: STS-132 MCC Status Report #04

STS-132 Report #04 Sunday, May 16, 2010 - 2:30 a m CDT Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas

HOUSTON � Atlantis astronauts prepare to dock with the International Space Station today Once the two spacecraft are mated, crew members will also start the first of many robotic operations and prepare for the mission�s first spacewalk

The crew, Commander Ken Ham, Pilot Tony Antonelli and Mission Specialists Garrett Reisman, Michael Good, Steve Bowen and Piers Sellers woke at 2:20 a m CDT �Sweet Home Alabama� performed by Lynyrd Skynyrd, was the wake up song played for Antonelli

Approximately four hours after wake up, Ham will perform the final burn, called the terminal intercept (TI) burn, to put Atlantis on trajectory to meet the orbiting complex By 8:26 a m Atlantis should be positioned beneath the station to begin the rendezvous pitch maneuver Station crew members will use two digital cameras to capture detailed images of the shuttle�s underside to ensure it has not been damaged

Docking to the station is scheduled for 9:27 a m with hatch opening about two hours later Expedition 23 Commander Oleg Kotov, and Flight Engineers Alexander Skvortsov, Mikhail Kornienko, Soichi Noguchi, T J Creamer and Tracy Caldwell Dyson, will welcome the shuttle crew onboard and provide them with a station safety briefing before beginning the first tasks of the joint mission

Caldwell Dyson and Sellers will use the station�s robotic arm to move the Integrated Cargo Carrier from the payload bay to the station�s mobile transporter This will enable the carrier and its attached hardware to be prepositioned for use throughout the mission

Good, Bowen and Reisman will transfer the spacesuits and spacewalk equipment over to the station�s Quest airlock and begin setting up for the first extravehicular activity (EVA) The day will end with most crew members gathering for a review of the spacewalk

The station crew is scheduled for sleep at 5:50 p m and the shuttle crew thirty minutes later

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

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Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 15:53:00 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: STS-132 MCC Status Report #05

STS-132 Report #05 3:30 p m CDT, Sunday, May 16, 2010 Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas

HOUSTON � Atlantis docked with the International Space Station at 9:28 a m Sunday about 220 miles above the far South Pacific Ocean to begin more than seven days together Hatches between the two were opened at 11:18 a m

The shuttle approach and docking went smoothly Commander Ken Ham flew the shuttle through the rendezvous pitch maneuver, the backflip to enable three station crew members in the Zvezda service module to take 398 photos of Atlantis� thermal protection system Flight Engineers Tracy Caldwell Dyson, T J Creamer, both U S astronauts, and Russian station Commander Oleg Kotov used cameras with 400- and 800-mm lenses

The photo session was more intense than usual because an equipment malfunction had altered the standard inspection process Saturday A backup procedure was used, but time prevented completion of the port wing survey Additional inspections are being considered

Ham, helped by Pilot Tony Antonelli and other crew members, maneuvered Atlantis to a point ahead of the station and then back toward the docking port

After a brief welcoming ceremony by the station crew, Atlantis� astronauts got the standard station safety briefing Then the crew, Ham, Antonelli and Mission Specialists Garrett Reisman, Michael Good, Steve Bowen and Piers Sellers, promptly got to work with initial transfers of equipment and supplies Spacesuits were among the first items to go to the station

Monday, Reisman and Bowen are scheduled to do the first of three 6 5-hour spacewalks scheduled for the week In preparation, all Atlantis� crew members gathered for an hour-long spacewalk procedure review before their Sunday bedtime Reisman and Bowen will spend the night �camped out� in the Quest airlock, with pressure reduced to 10 5 psi to avoid formation of nitrogen bubbles in their blood in the vacuum of space

During the spacewalk they will install a second station space-to-ground Ku-band antenna and a spare parts platform on Dextre, the two-armed robotic Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator They also will loosen battery bolts on the port-6 truss segment in preparation for the other spacewalks Atlantis brought to the station six new 375-pound batteries, to be installed there during the second and third spacewalks

Sellers and Caldwell Dyson used the station�s robotic arm to transfer a cargo carrier from Atlantis to the arm�s mobile base system to prepare for the spacewalks

A piece of orbital debris that had been followed closely by flight controllers passed the station at a distance of more than 10 miles just over an hour after docking

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

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End of HSFNEWS Digest - 16 May 2010 to 17 May 2010 (#2010-62)

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