HSFNEWS Digest - 28 Feb 2011 to 1 Mar 2011 (#2011-23)

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Date: March 1st 2011

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STS-133 MCC Status Report #08
NASA AWARDS ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE AND OPERATIONS CONTRACT
STS-133 MCC Status Report #09

Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 06:24:18 -0600 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: STS-133 MCC Status Report #08

STS-133 Report #08 6 a m CST Monday, Feb 28, 2011 Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas

HOUSTON ï¿½ The first planned spacewalk of mission STS-133 is at the heart of todayï¿½s busy activities in space The 12 crew members now aboard the space station began their day with a wake-up call at 5:23 a m CST

ï¿½Oh What a Beautiful Morningï¿½ by Davy Knowles and Back Door Slam was played for Mission Specialist Nicole Stott who will choreograph the dayï¿½s spacewalk from inside the complex

After an overnight campout in the Quest airlock of the International Space Station, space shuttle Mission Specialists Steve Bowen and Alvin Drew will venture outside to begin the 6 5-hour spacewalk at 10:18 a m Bowen, the lead spacewalker, will wear a suit with red stripes and Drew will wear an all-white spacesuit

The first spacewalkï¿½s objectives will be to install an extension cable, a pump module vent tool, a camera wedge and extensions to the mobile transporter rail The pair outside the complex also will relocate a tool stanchion, store a failed pump module and participate in an experiment to be exposed to space

The first task will involve the installation of an extension cable in preparation for the installation of the Leonardo Permanent Multipurpose Module, one of Discoveryï¿½s two key deliveries this mission This task will be performed at the stationï¿½s Unity module

Next the spacewalkers will finish up work started by Expedition 24 Flight Engineers Tracy Caldwell Dyson and Doug Wheelock moving a failed pump module to a more permanent storage location on the space station

The spacewalkers will wrap up their excursion with several other tasks, including the Japanese ï¿½Message in a Bottleï¿½ experiment They will expose a metal canister to capture the vacuum of space The spacewalk is to end at 4:48 p m

During the spacewalk, Pilot Eric Boe will spend a couple hours transferring more cargo that was delivered by space shuttle Discovery Cargo transfers began almost immediately after the shuttle crew arrived at the space station and will continue throughout the docked part of the mission until complete

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

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Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:28:07 -0600 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: NASA AWARDS ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE AND OPERATIONS CONTRACT

Feb 28, 2011

Kylie Clem Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111

Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-3749

Report #C11-009

NASA AWARDS ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE AND OPERATIONS CONTRACT

HOUSTON -- NASA has selected Navarro Research and Engineering Inc of Oak Ridge, Tenn , to provide environmental management and services at the agency's White Sands Test Facility in Las Cruces, N M

The White Sands Test Facility Environmental Compliance and Operations (ECO) contract calls for a fixed-price two-year base period with a potential value of $3 1 million, and four one-year options with a total potential fixed-price value of $6 6 million Based on variable funding and work requirements, the entire maximum potential value of the contract is $80 million

Navarro's work includes hazardous waste management and operating permit compliance; management of the large-scale groundwater monitoring program; environmental clean-up projects and field investigations; air permit and emission inventory requirements; drinking water system compliance; petroleum tank system management; National Environmental Policy Act project evaluations; and recycling, waste minimization and pollution prevention

The two-year base period of performance for the contract is scheduled to begin on May 1 and extend through April 30, 2013 One-year options are available during the following four years The ECO contract is an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract with cost-plus-fixed-fee and fixed-price task orders The significant subcontractor on the contract is URS Group Inc of Oak Ridge

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http://www nasa gov

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Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 18:24:25 -0600 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: STS-133 MCC Status Report #09

STS-133 Report #09 7 p m CST Monday, Feb 28, 2011 Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas

HOUSTON ï¿½ Discovery spacewalkers wrapped up a six-hour, 34-minute spacewalk Monday, moving a failed 800-pound ammonia pump module, installing an extension cable and extending the rail track along the stationï¿½s main truss

Mission Specialists Steve Bowen and Al Drew also moved a pump module vent tool, installed a camera wedge, relocated a tool stanchion and worked with a Japanese project to bring a bit of space back to Earth

After the spacewalk, spacecraft communicator Stanley Love radioed the joint crew that mission managers have approved an extra day for the shuttle mission to set up the new Permanent Multipurpose Module that will be installed on the Unity moduleï¿½s Earth-facing port tomorrow The International Space Station mission management team is expected to make a decision Tuesday about a proposed Soyuz fly-about later in the mission

Mission Specialist Nicole Stott helped coach the spacewalkers from inside the station, while Mission Specialist Michael Barratt and station Commander Scott Kelly operated the stationï¿½s Canadarm2 for the spacewalk Astronaut Tim Kopra, who had been scheduled to be one of the spacewalkers himself before being hurt in a bicycle accident weeks before launch, joined Love on console in the station flight control room

The excursion began at 9:46 a m CST when the spacewalkers switched their suits to battery power The first task was to install the extension cable between the Unity and Tranquility nodes That included work in an area that will be inaccessible after the Leonardo Permanent Multipurpose Module is in place

Drew then retrieved a tool to be used on Wednesdayï¿½s spacewalk to remove ammonia from the failed pump Bowen installed a foot restraint on the station arm to get ready for the moduleï¿½s move from the armï¿½s mobile base to a more permanent position on an external stowage platform near the airlock The work was delayed slightly by a problem with the robotic arm controls in the cupola, but Barratt and Kelly moved to a duplicate control center in the Destiny Laboratory to complete their work with Canadarm2

The astronauts then removed tether and cart stoppers along the railway of the mobile transporter, and lengthened the track with an extension on each rail

Near the end of the spacewalk both astronauts worked with the Japanese ï¿½Message in a Bottle ï¿½ They opened a metal canister, autographed by astronauts, to capture a bit of the vacuum of space, then sealed it The canister will return on Discovery for display

The spacewalk was the sixth for Bowen and the first for Drew On leaving the airlock, Drew became the 200th human to walk in space

Inside the shuttle and station, transfer of equipment continued between the docked spacecraft The extra day will allow more time to transfer supplies and leave the station in the best possible posture

With the one-day extension in place, the winners of the "Top 40 Song Contest" now are set to be played early next week On Monday, March 7, the "Theme from Star Trek," which finished second in the contest, will serve as a wake-up song for the shuttle crew On Tuesday, March 8, "Blue Sky" by Big Head Todd and the Monsters will be played as the most requested song to wake up shuttle Discovery's crew

For the planned wakeup times, reference the mission television schedule:

http://www nasa gov/shuttletv

For daily STS-133 mission recap videos, visit:

http://www nasa gov/video

The next status report will be issued after crew wakeup, which is scheduled for 4:53 a m Tuesday, or earlier if warranted

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End of HSFNEWS Digest - 28 Feb 2011 to 1 Mar 2011 (#2011-23)

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