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1. STS-132 MCC Status Report #10
2. STS-132 MCC Status Report #11

Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 01:32:32 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: STS-132 MCC Status Report #10

STS-132 Report #10 Wednesday, May 19, 2010 - 1:30 a m CDT Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas

HOUSTON � The flight control team and on-orbit crew prepare for another excursion into space today Astronauts will replace station batteries and fix a camera cable on today�s spacewalk, the second of the mission

The wake up music was �Start Me Up� by the Rolling Stones The song, played at 1:20 a m CDT, was dedicated to Piers Sellers, who is on his third spaceflight

The team focuses on the second extravehicular sojourn today Astronauts Stephen Bowen and Michael Good are expected to egress from the Quest Airlock at 6:15 a m to get an early start on the spacewalk First, Good will adjust a cable on the end of the orbiter boom This brief task was added after discovering early in the flight that the cable was inhibiting a camera from maneuvering correctly Good will adjust the cable and use a plastic tie to hold it in position

Next, the two spacewalkers will replace three batteries on the station port solar array Each of the batteries weighs more than 360 pounds and will require an intricate choreography between the spacewalkers to swap out safely The spacewalk is expected to last six and a half hours

Throughout the spacewalk, shuttle Commander Ken Ham will provide photo and television support, Pilot Tony Antonelli will serve as the intravehicular officer and Mission Specialists Garrett Reisman and Sellers will again operate the station robotic arm Expedition 23 Flight Engineer Tracy Caldwell Dyson will assist with spacewalk preparations as well

Her station crew counterparts, Commander Oleg Kotov, Flight Engineers Alexander Skvortsov, Mikhail Kornienko, Soichi Noguchi and T J Creamer will work on varied space station activities, including packing unneeded supplies into the Progress and Soyuz spacecraft

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

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Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 14:05:14 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: STS-132 MCC Status Report #11

STS-132 Report #11 2 p m CDT, Wednesday, May 19, 2010 Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas

HOUSTON � Atlantis astronauts Steve Bowen and Michael Good changed out four of the six 375-pound batteries on the International Space Station�s port 6 truss during a 7-hour, 9-minute spacewalk Wednesday, getting a leg up on a major mission priority

Plans called for three of the batteries to be replaced today, and mission managers hoped the fourth could be changed out Remaining batteries are to be swapped during a Friday spacewalk by Good and Garrett Reisman

The spacewalk, the fifth for Bowen and the third for Good, got under way at 5:38 a m CDT, more than 25 minutes ahead of the scheduled start that already had been moved up 30 minutes One reason for the early scheduled start was addition of a task to remove a cable snag in the orbital boom sensor system�s pan and tilt mechanism Bowen accomplished that task in less than 30 minutes, while Good began work with the batteries

After testing, Mission Control declared the heat shield inspection mechanism fully functional

Atlantis Pilot Tony Antonelli was the intravehicular officer, providing guidance and advice to the spacewalkers Mission Specialists Reisman and Piers Sellers operated the station�s Canadarm2 Spacewalkers took each battery from the cargo carrier held by the station arm, installed it in a space from which they had removed an old battery, then bolted the old battery into the cargo carrier for return to Earth

The fourth old battery was stowed temporarily on the truss It will be taken to the cargo carrier during the Friday spacewalk

After the battery work and cleanup of the area, the spacewalkers moved on to the new backup Ku band antenna on the Z1 truss They tightened bolts holding its dish to its boom, closing a gap left there after Monday�s spacewalk They removed launch latches, leaving the antenna ready to operate

That done, they cleaned up the area and returned to the Quest airlock The spacewalk officially ended at 12:47 p m , when Quest repressurization began

Today�s spacewalk was the 145th for station assembly and maintenance Those spacewalks total 908 hours, 7 minutes

The next status report will be issued after crew wakeup or earlier if events warrant

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End of HSFNEWS Digest - 19 May 2010 to 20 May 2010 (#2010-65)

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