HSFNEWS Digest - 12 Jul 2011 to 13 Jul 2011 (#2011-85)

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Date: July 13th 2011

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STS-135 MCC Status Report #08
NASA INVITES PUBLIC TO "VIRTUAL DINNER" WITH FINAL SHUTTLE CREW
NASA SETS NEWS CONFERENCE WITH SHUTTLE AND SPACE STATION CREWS
STS-135 MCC Status Report #09

Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 02:04:59 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: STS-135 MCC Status Report #08

STS-135 Report #08 Tuesday, July 12, 2011 - 2 a m CDT Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas

HOUSTON ï¿½ Transfer work will be going on inside and outside of the International Space Station today, as the crew performs the first and only spacewalk of the STS-135 mission

Space shuttle Atlantisï¿½ crew was awakened at 1:59 a m by the song ï¿½Moreï¿½ by Matthew West It was played for Mission Specialist Rex Walheim

Walheim today will be choreographing from inside the space station the spacewalk being done outside by Expedition 28 Flight Engineers Mike Fossum and Ron Garan Fossum and Garan will be packing a pump module that failed in 2010 into the shuttleï¿½s cargo bay It was moved into a temporary storage location on external stowage platform-2 during the STS-133 mission earlier this year Returning it to Earth will allow engineers to look into what caused its failure and then refurbish it for use as a spare

Fossum and Garan will also be installing the Robotic Refueling Mission experiment on a platform used by the Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator, or Dextre, to hold spare parts The Robotic Refueling Mission will demonstrate and test the tools, technologies and techniques needed to robotically refuel and repair satellites in space

The spacewalk is scheduled to begin at 7:44 a m , and last six and a half hours

Meanwhile, inside the space station, every member of the shuttle crew and many of the station crew will be working to unload the newly installed Raffaello multipurpose logistics module It brought up 9,400 pounds of cargo to the space station, all of which must be unloaded and replaced with 5,700 pounds of trash and used equipment to return home

The next status report will be issued at the end of the crewï¿½s day or earlier if warranted The crew is scheduled to go to sleep just before 6 p m

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Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 09:29:33 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: NASA INVITES PUBLIC TO "VIRTUAL DINNER" WITH FINAL SHUTTLE CREW

July 12, 2011

William Jeffs Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111

Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100

Report #H11-224

NASA INVITES PUBLIC TO "VIRTUAL DINNER" WITH FINAL SHUTTLE CREW

HOUSTON -- The public can share a virtual dinner with the final space shuttle crew on Thursday, July 14 by preparing grilled chicken, barbecue brisket, baked beans and southwestern corn at home using NASA's recipes

Food scientists at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston prepared the special "All-American Meal" for the STS-135 shuttle crew, as the iconic American spacecraft makes its last voyage The four shuttle astronauts, and possibly the six International Space Station crew members, are scheduled to eat the meal on the fifth day of the STS-135 mission

"Since the mission is in July, we thought it would be fun to have a typical summer meal often enjoyed in our backyards with friends and family," said Michele Perchonok, NASA food scientist and manager of the shuttle food system

For the special space recipes or "formulations" as they are called by NASA food scientists, plus more information, video and imagery, visit:

http://go nasa gov/AllAmericanMeal

The crew's All American menu begins with crackers, brie cheese and sausage The main course features grilled chicken, Southwestern corn and baked beans The meal concludes with the quintessential American dessert, apple pie The shuttle and station crews both have the meal on their menus, but the station crew has barbecued brisket as the entree

The crackers, brie, sausage and apple pie are commercial off-the-shelf products repackaged for spaceflight NASA food scientists prepared the chicken, brisket, corn and beans in a laboratory at Johnson before the mission

For more information about the STS-135 mission, including the crew's full menus, visit:

http://go nasa gov/STS-135

NASA's web coverage of STS-135 includes mission information, a press kit, interactive features, news conference images, graphics and videos Mission coverage, including the latest NASA Television schedule, is available on the main space shuttle website at:

http://www nasa gov/shuttle

NASA is providing continuous television and Internet coverage of the mission NASA TV features live mission events, daily status news conferences and 24-hour commentary For NASA TV streaming video, downlink and schedule information, visit:

http://www nasa gov/ntv

Live updates to the NASA News Twitter feed will be added throughout the mission and landing To access the feed, go to the NASA gov homepage or visit:

http://www twitter com/nasa

All four of Atlantis' crew members are posting updates to Twitter You can follow them at:

http://www twitter com/Astro_Ferg

http://www twitter com/Astro_Doug

http://www twitter com/Astro_Sandy

http://www twitter com/Astro_Rex

To connect with NASA on Twitter and other social networking sites, visit:

http://www nasa gov/connect

For more information about the space station, visit:

http://www nasa gov/station

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Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 10:55:01 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: NASA SETS NEWS CONFERENCE WITH SHUTTLE AND SPACE STATION CREWS

July 12, 2011

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

Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100

Report #M11-142

NASA SETS NEWS CONFERENCE WITH SHUTTLE AND SPACE STATION CREWS

HOUSTON -- The 10 crew members aboard space shuttle Atlantis and the International Space Station will hold a news conference at 8:24 a m CDT on Friday, July 15 Reporters may ask questions in person from participating NASA centers, including Johnson Space Center in Houston, Kennedy Space Center in Florida and NASA Headquarters in Washington

To participate, U S journalists must call the public affairs office at one of the NASA centers by 4 p m local time on Tuesday, July 12

Reporters at Johnson who do not have STS-135 mission credentials must request access badges by July 14 Reporters must be in place at least 20 minutes before the news conference begins

The final shuttle mission is delivering the Raffaello multi-purpose logistics module filled with supplies and spare parts to sustain space station operations after the shuttles are retired

NASA Television will provide live coverage of the 40-minute news conference Part of the conference will be for Japanese media outlets in native language NASA TV will replay the event with translation at 10 a m

For NASA TV downlink, schedule and streaming video information, visit:

http://www nasa gov/ntv

For information about the STS-135 and the Space Shuttle Program, visit:

http://www nasa gov/shuttle

For information about the station's Expedition 28 crew and the station program, visit:

http://www nasa gov/station

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Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 18:29:43 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: STS-135 MCC Status Report #09

STS-135 Report #09 6 p m CDT Tuesday, July 12, 2011 Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas

HOUSTON ï¿½ Two International Space Station astronauts completed a six-hour, 31-minute spacewalk at 2:53 p m CDT Tuesday, retrieving a failed pump module for return to Earth, installing two experiments and repairing a new base for the stationï¿½s robotic arm

Flight Engineers Mike Fossum and Ron Garan used that arm, Canadarm2, in their first and most lengthy task, retrieval of the failed 1,400-pound pump module from the stationï¿½s cooling system that failed last year Garan rode the arm to the pump moduleï¿½s stowage rack where he and Fossum removed it

Still on the arm, operated by Atlantis Pilot Doug Hurley and Mission Specialist Sandra Magnus in the stationï¿½s cupola, Garan took the pump module to a carrier in Atlantisï¿½ cargo bay There Fossum bolted it into place for the ride home

Coached by intravehicular officer and Atlantis Mission Specialist Rex Walheim, with help from spacewalk capcom and astronaut Steve Bowen in the station flight control room, the spacewalkers moved on to their next task, installation of the Robotic Refueling Mission experiment The experiment is designed to help in development of ways to robotically refuel satellites in space

Fossum was making his seventh spacewalk and Garan his fourth (all with Fossum) They removed the refueling experiment from the cargo bay Fossum, now on the arm, carried the experiment to a platform on Dextre, the Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator

Fossum removed the foot restraint he and Garan had used at the end of the Canadarm2, then moved to the front of the Zarya module There he freed a wire stuck in one latch door at a data grapple fixture installed during the STS-134 mission in May The fixture can serve as a base for Canadaram2, considerably extending its range of operation

Meanwhile, Garan deployed a materials experiment also installed during STS-134, on a carrier on the stationï¿½s starboard truss The eighth in a series of station materials experiments, it focuses on optical reflector materials It was not deployed during the previous flight because of concerns about outgasing from insulation on the nearby Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer experiment, also installed during the earlier mission

Back together again, the two spacewalkers moved on to Pressurized Mating Adaptor 3 on the Tranquility node They installed an insulating cover on the end of the PMA, an area exposed to considerable sunshine

Inside the shuttle-station complex, transfer of material from the Raffaello multipurpose logistics module began The work to unload the more than 9,400 pounds of supplies and equipment brought up by Raffaello and then repack it with 5,700 pounds of equipment, supplies and trash to return home will continue for much of Atlantis stay at the station

The next status report will be issued after crew wakeup or earlier if warranted The crew is scheduled to awaken just before 1:30 a m Wednesday

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End of HSFNEWS Digest - 12 Jul 2011 to 13 Jul 2011 (#2011-85)

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