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1. STS-132 MCC Status Report #12
2. STS-132 MCC Status Report #13

Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 01:28:16 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: STS-132 MCC Status Report #12

STS-132 Report #12 Thursday, May 20, 2010 - 1:30 a m CDT Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas

HOUSTON � The space shuttle crew gets a little break from the busy pace of the last several days Today they will open the hatches on the new module Rassvet and prepare for a third spacewalk, but the shuttle astronauts will have some off-duty time as well

The crews woke to Elvis Costello�s �Welcome to the Working Week� at 12:59 a m CDT The song was played for Mission Specialist Stephen Bowen

The first tasks of the day will focus on the new module, Mini-Research Module-1, which was attached to the station Tuesday Expedition 23 Commander Oleg Kotov and Flight Engineer Alexander Skvortsov will perform leak checks in the Russian segment before opening hatches around 5:30 a m

Their station counterparts, Flight Engineers Tracy Caldwell Dyson, Mikhail Kornienko, Soichi Noguchi and T J Creamer will have a routine day of science work, maintenance and exercise sessions

The shuttle crew will have a few hours of off duty time in the afternoon, but otherwise, the day will largely focus on preparations for the third and final spacewalk Mission Specialists Garrett Reisman, Mike Good and Bowen will gather and prepare the tools needed and configure the airlock Commander Ken Ham, Pilot Tony Antonelli and Mission Specialist Piers Sellers will join them to review the procedures before Reisman and Good settle in to spend the night in the Quest module as part of the �camp out� for their excursion

Ham, Antonelli, Sellers and Caldwell Dyson will talk with media representatives at 7:25 a m The event, with media from the Associated Press, FOX News Radio and CBS News, will air live on NASA television

The next status report will be issued after the end of the crew workday or earlier if events warrant

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Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 14:07:39 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: STS-132 MCC Status Report #13

STS-132 Report #13 Thursday, May 20, 2010 - 2:00 p m CDT Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas

HOUSTON � Spacefarers opened hatches between the International Space Station and its new Russian Rassvet module for the first time at 5:52 a m CDT today

Also known as Mini-Research Module 1, Rassvet was transported to the station by Atlantis and installed by Mission Specialists Garrett Reisman and Piers Sellers using the station�s Canadarm2 The module is almost 20 feet long, 7 7 feet wide and weighs 11,188 pounds Carrying almost 6,500 pounds of internal and external cargo to the station, Rassvet has eight science work stations and will be used both as a docking and stowage compartment

Crew members wore eye and breathing protection as a standard precaution when entering a new module Station Commander Oleg Kotov initially reported that the inside of the module looked clean, but as unpacking activities ramped up reported some metal filings drifting inside the new module Flight controllers in Houston and Moscow were working with the crew to develop a technique for safely removing the floating debris

Atlantis Commander Ken Ham, Pilot Tony Antonelli and Sellers transferred equipment, supplies and experiments between the shuttle and station Mike Good and Reisman prepared for their Friday spacewalk, configuring tools and preparing suits and the airlock Intravehicular officer Antonelli , who choreographed the flight�s first two spacewalks, and Steve Bowen, who participated in the second spacewalk, helped with preparations

The major task of the spacewalk is to replace the final two of the six batteries being changed out on the Port 6 truss Four were replaced Wednesday Spacewalkers also will install an ammonia jumper and take a power and data grapple fixture from Atlantis� cargo bay into the station It will be installed later on the Zarya module, to provide a base for the station arm to work in that area

Ham, Antonelli, Sellers and station Flight Engineer Tracy Caldwell Dyson answered questions from representatives of Associated Press, FOX News Radio and CBS News

Just before lunch, the crew talked with spacewalk experts on the ground The crew got about four hours of afternoon free time, until the spacewalk procedure review near the end of their workday The spacewalkers will spend the night in the Quest airlock with its pressure reduced to 10 2 to psi

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

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End of HSFNEWS Digest - 20 May 2010 to 21 May 2010 (#2010-66)

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