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Topics of the day:

1. STS-132 MCC Status Report #08
2. NASA ANNOUNCES OPPORTUNITIES TO SEE SHUTTLE AND SPACE STATION
3. NASA'S SHUTTLE ATLANTIS BRINGING A NEW "DAWN" FOR SPACE STATION SCIENCE
4. STS-132 MCC Status Report #09

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Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 02:31:04 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: STS-132 MCC Status Report #08

STS-132 Report #08 2 a m CDT Tuesday, May 18, 2010 Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas

HOUSTON � With a new day comes a new dawn as Atlantis and International Space Station astronauts continue with robotics activities today to add a new module to the orbiting complex

The crew members woke at 1:50 a m CDT to the tunes of The Village People �Macho Man� was the featured song played for Mission Specialist Garrett Reisman

Today, the crew will be focused on the addition of the Russian Mini-Research Module-1 (MRM-1) to the station The module, named Rassvet, Russian for �dawn,� will be docked to the Earth-facing port on the Zarya module

Shuttle Commander Ken Ham and Pilot Tony Antonelli will maneuver the shuttle robotic arm to unberth the module from Atlantis� payload bay and position it for handoff to the station robotic arm Reisman and Mission Specialist Piers Sellers will be at the station arm controls to maneuver MRM-1 to its new position on the Russian segment Expedition 23 Commander Oleg Kotov will monitor the activities from the Russian segment as the MRM-1 engages into its automated docking sequence for the final attachment to station

Meanwhile, Mission Specialists Michael Good and Steve Bowen will prepare for the mission�s next spacewalk They will prepare the suits and gather tools needed for their extravehicular excursion on Wednesday

Their Expedition crew counterparts, Flight Engineer Alexander Skvortsov, Tracy Caldwell Dyson, Mikhail Kornienko, Soichi Noguchi and T J Creamer will work on station maintenance activities and experiments

At 1:20 p m , Ham, Reisman, Sellers, Kotov, Skvortsov and Caldwell Dyson will gather in the Harmony module to talk with reporters from MSNBC, Fox News and CNN

The next shuttle status report will be issued at the end of the crew�s workday or earlier if warranted

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Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 15:19:07 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: NASA ANNOUNCES OPPORTUNITIES TO SEE SHUTTLE AND SPACE STATION

May 18, 2010

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

Michael Curie Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100

Report #M10-074

NASA ANNOUNCES OPPORTUNITIES TO SEE SHUTTLE AND SPACE STATION

WASHINGTON -- Space shuttle Atlantis and the International Space Station are flying together 220 miles overhead until Sunday, May 23 Circling the Earth every 90 minutes, the spacecraft offer unique sighting opportunities for sky gazers around the world

With the shuttle attached, the station appears even brighter than usual in the morning and evening sky The station may be seen every day from various locations around the world just prior to sunrise and just after sunset

There are good sighting opportunities, weather permitting, on Tuesday for Alabama, Kentucky and Tennessee; on Wednesday for California and Texas; and on Thursday for Florida For information about when the spacecraft will be visible over your city, visit:

http://www jsc nasa gov/sightings

Atlantis delivered the Russian-built Mini Research Module-1 to the station, and the mission's three spacewalks focus on storing spare components outside the station, including a communications antenna, parts for the Canadian Dextre robotic arm, and replacing six solar array batteries

The International Space Station, a unique partnership among the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Japan, Canada and Europe, is celebrating its 10th anniversary of continuous human occupancy this year Construction began in 1998, and 23 crews have lived aboard the orbiting complex since 2000 Station residents are conducting important science and technology experiments

For more information about the International Space Station and its crew, visit:

http://www nasa gov/station

For more information about the science performed aboard the station, visit:

http://www nasa gov/mission_pages/station/science

For more information about the space shuttle, visit:

http://www nasa gov/shuttle

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Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 15:21:39 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: NASA'S SHUTTLE ATLANTIS BRINGING A NEW "DAWN" FOR SPACE STATION SCIENCE

May 18, 2010

Kelly Humphries Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111

Michael Curie Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100

Report #H10-114

NASA'S SHUTTLE ATLANTIS BRINGING A NEW "DAWN" FOR SPACE STATION SCIENCE

WASHINGTON -- NASA's space shuttle Atlantis is delivering science experiments and a new Russian laboratory to the International Space Station, continuing the transition from station assembly to continuous scientific research through the end of the decade

The Russian-built Mini Research Module-1, also known as Rassvet (dawn in Russian), will host a variety of biotechnology, biological science, fluid physics and educational research experiments Rassvet was attached Tuesday morning to the bottom port of the station's Zarya module

The shuttle crew will conduct nine short-duration experiments during the STS-132 mission and return samples from 16 space station experiments They will help enable nearly 130 long-duration station experiments in biology, physical and materials sciences, technology development, Earth and space science

"The Mini Research Module-1 provides important new real estate for experiments to be conducted on the space station and will be a cornerstone of Russian laboratory facilities for years to come," said Julie Robinson, International Space Station program scientist at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston "This new module enhances the station's research capabilities and enables new investigations to be performed "

The laboratory contains a pressurized compartment with eight workstations equipped with facilities such as a glove box to keep experiments separated from the in-cabin environment; two incubators to accommodate high- and low-temperature experiments and a vibration isolation platform to protect payloads and experiments It also will be used for cargo storage

The module contains four other workstations, complete with mechanical adapters, to install payloads into roll-out racks and shelves On its exterior, Rassvet will piggy-back an experiment airlock destined for use outside the final Russian module, named the Multipurpose Laboratory Module, which is planned for launch in 2012

The 2005 NASA Authorization Act designated a portion of the station as a National Laboratory, accessible to other government agencies, commercial entities and academic researchers

Among the studies the STS-132 astronauts will conduct is the ninth in a series of U S National Laboratory Pathfinder experiments aimed at developing vaccines to fight disease-causing bacteria The commercial payload will study how several different pathogenic organisms react to the microgravity environment Previous similar experiments led to development of a potential vaccine for Salmonella bacteria that cause food poisoning Approval from the Food and Drug Administration is being sought for this as an investigational new drug

Another commercial National Lab pathfinder, Cells-4, will examine cellular replication to determine the use of spaceflight to enhance or improve cellular growth processes used in ground-based research The shuttle astronauts also will participate in a first-of-its-kind Canadian experiment called Hypersole that aims to determine how the sensitivity of the sole of the foot affects balance control

The shuttle crew delivered 10 experiments to the space station These include: Genara-A, a European experiment that looks at how plants grow without gravity; Ferulate, a Japanese experiment to study the strength of cell walls in microgravity; Cube Lab, a low-cost, 1 kilogram platform for commercial and educational projects; an experiment that studies the properties of colloids, which are tiny solid particles suspended in liquid, in microgravity; and the Smoke and Aerosol Measurement experiment, which is a follow-on investigation to previous tests of smoke detection technology

Several experiments will return to Earth aboard Atlantis Among these are an European Space Agency experiment that will document the nature and distribution of radiation inside the station and create a method to measure absorption rates in biological samples; the first samples of ceramic glasses produced in Space Dynamically Responding Ultrasonic Matrix System, or SpaceDRUMS, which enables samples of materials to be processed without ever touching a container wall; samples of pharmaceutical quality intravenous fluid produced for the first time in space; and the Canadian Space Agency's Advanced Plant Experiment-CSA2, which compares the genes and tissue of white spruce (Picea glauca) grown in space with those grown on Earth to help forestry researchers understand the influence of gravity on plant physiology, growth and wood formation

For more information about the science performed aboard the International Space Station, visit:

http://www nasa gov/mission_pages/station/science

For more information about the STS-132 mission, visit:

http://www nasa gov/shuttle

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Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 15:48:38 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: STS-132 MCC Status Report #09

STS-132 Report #09 4 p m CDT Tuesday, May 18, 2010 Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas

HOUSTON � The International Space Station has a new module named Rassvet, the Russian word for dawn Atlantis astronauts used the station�s Canadarm2 to connect the module just after sunrise over Argentina

Mission Specialist Garrett Reisman guided the docking probe of Rassvet, at the end of the 58-foot robotic arm, into the receptacle on the Earth-facing port on the Zarya module There was about 1 millimeter of clearance on either side of the probe Capcom Steve Swanson in the station flight control room radioed up that Reisman had made �a hole in one �

Mission Specialist Piers Sellers operated a computer linked to the module, also known as Mini-Research Module 1, and the Russian part of the station The interface between the 19 7-foot Rassvet, weighing with its cargo a total of 17,760 pounds, and Zarya was sealed at 7:50 a m CDT, about three hours after the module had been lifted from Atlantis� cargo bay

Atlantis Commander Ken Ham and Pilot Tony Antonelli used the shuttle�s robotic arm to lift Rassvet from the cargo bay to hand it off to the station arm Then they moved that arm into position for its cameras to monitor the move

The new module will host a variety of biotechnology and biological science experiments and fluid physics and educational research Rassvet contains a pressurized compartment with eight workstations, including a glove box to keep experiments separated from the in-cabin environment; two incubators to accommodate high- and low-temperature experiments; and a special platform to protect experiments from onboard vibrations

Attached to its exterior is an experiment airlock that will be used on another Russian laboratory module set for delivery in 2012

After the midday meal, Reisman and Sellers used Canadarm2 to unberth the orbiter boom sensor system from the sill of Atlantis� cargo bay They handed it off to the shuttle arm, again operated by Ham and Antonelli, which itself could not reach the arm extension�s grapple fixture while docked The OBSS will be used to monitor activities during the mission�s second spacewalk on Wednesday

The spacewalkers, Mission Specialists Michael Good and Steve Bowen, configured tools and prepared spacesuits for the spacewalk Plans call for them to change out three batteries on the station�s port-side truss segment with three of the six new ones brought up by Atlantis The remaining three of the 375-pound batteries are to be changed out on the Friday spacewalk by Reisman and Good

Good and Bowen will spend tonight in the Quest airlock with pressure reduced to 10 2 psi, to reduce the possibility of developing the bends in the low pressure of the suits, which will be under 5 psi At the end of the workday, the Atlantis crew along with three station crew members met for an hour-long spacewalk procedures review

As part of that review, crew members will talk about a task added to their spacewalk to resolve a problem encountered during the heat shield survey the day after launch They will put a tie wrap on two cables to relieve a snag that is preventing full use of a laser range imager and an intensified video camera on the extension�s pan-tilt assembly

The task is to be performed early in the spacewalk As a result, the crew�s bedtime was moved up 30 minutes They�ll get an early wakeup call and an early start on the spacewalk, now scheduled to begin at 6:15 a m

At 1:20 p m , Ham, Reisman, Sellers, station Commander Oleg Kotov, and Flight Engineers Alexander Skvortsov and Tracy Caldwell Dyson took a break to field questions of reporters from MSNBC, FOX News and CNN

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

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End of HSFNEWS Digest - 18 May 2010 to 19 May 2010 (#2010-64)

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