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1. STS-133 MCC Status Report #01

Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 18:16:04 -0600 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: STS-133 MCC Status Report #01

STS-133 Report #01 6 p m Thursday, Feb 24, 2011 Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas

HOUSTON �With a new International Space Station module in its cargo bay, Discovery launched on its last mission under a blue Florida sky Thursday

The shuttle and its crew of six launched from the Kennedy Space Center at 3:53 p m CST with the Permanent Multipurpose Module prominent in its cargo bay The PMM is on its eighth trip to the station Seven were as the Multipurpose Logistics Module Leonardo

Commander Steve Lindsey, Pilot Eric Boe and Mission Specialists Alvin Drew, Steve Bowen, Michael Barratt and Nicole Stott are scheduled to rendezvous and dock with the station on Saturday During Discovery�s seven days at the station, Bowen and Drew will do two spacewalks to do maintenance work and install new components

The reinforced and rewired Leonardo will provide 2,472 cubic feet of additional pressurized space for the station It is scheduled to be unberthed from Discovery and connected to the station�s Unity node on Tuesday Among its contents are Robonaut 2, the robot much like a human upper torso

During the first 6 5 hour spacewalk on Monday, Bowen and Drew will stow a failed pump module, install an extension cable and perform other tasks On the second spacewalk, another scheduled 6 5-hour outing on Wednesday, they�ll vent ammonia from the failed pump, install a camera on Dextre, the Canadian robotic device more formally known as the Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator, and remove insulation from it, install Crew Equipment Translation Aid lights, and troubleshoot a radiator stowage beam bracket

Another major cargo item, the Express Logistics Carrier 4, is to be taken from Discovery�s cargo bay shortly after docking and attached to the station's starboard truss

Aboard the station waiting to welcome Discovery and its crew are station Expedition 26 Commander Scott Kelly, and Flight Engineers Oleg Skripochka, Alexander Kaleri, Dmitry Kondratyev, Paolo Nespoli and Catherine Coleman

The launch was momentarily delayed by an issue in the range safety command computer system

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

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