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1. STS-127 MCC Status Report #06
2. STS-127 MCC Status Report #07

Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 07:21:20 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: STS-127 MCC Status Report #06

STS-127 Report #06 Friday, July 18, 2009 - 7:00 a m CDT Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas

HOUSTON – The third and final piece of Japan’s Kibo laboratory will be assembled on orbit Saturday, a symphony of robotic and spacewalking performances by the 13 member orchestra aboard the International Space Station complex

The players awakened at 6:03 a m to the strains of “Home,” by Marc Broussard, played for lead spacewalker Dave Wolf, who heard the call while camped out in the Quest airlock with Tim Kopra, the newest addition to the Expedition 20 crew

Spacewalk preparations resume at 6:43 a m , followed by the start of robotic operations by Mission Specialist Koichi Wakata and Endeavour Pilot Doug Hurley, who will use the station’s Canadarm2 to grapple the Japanese Exposed Facility at 9:38 a m and lift it out of the payload bay at 12:43 p m They’ll hand the facility to the shuttle’s Canadarm at 1:43 p m and move the station’s arm into position for installation at 2:53 p m The shuttle arm will hand off the new Kibo component to the station arm at 4:23 p m , and then the station arm will be used to move the new “porch” into position for installation to the Kibo pressurized module at 4:38 p m

Wolf and Kopra are set to begin their six and a half-hour spacewalk at 10:58 a m They’ll remove insulation from Kibo’s berthing mechanism, disconnect power cables providing electricity to the shuttle’s Integrated Cargo Carrier, apply a specially designed tool to release the station’s Earth-facing Unpressurized Cargo Carriers Attachment System, secure covers on the Harmony and Unity modules’ common berthing mechanisms, and set up a payload attach system on the station’s backbone Mission Specialists Chris Cassidy and Tom Marshburn will help coordinate the spacewalk from inside

STS-127 Commander Mark Polansky will help out with the exposed facility arm-to-arm handoff and work with cargo, water and nitrogen transfers, and Mission Specialist Julie Payette will assist with robotic and camera operations

Expedition 20 Commander Genady Padalka and Flight Engineers Mike Barratt, Bob Thirsk, Roman Romanenko and Frank De Winne will focus on station maintenance and exercise, helping out as needed with the spacewalk and robotics tasks

Meanwhile, imagery experts and mission managers continue to review data and photos to assess the health of Endeavour’s heat shield

The next shuttle status report after the spacewalk or earlier if events warrant

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Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:50:31 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: STS-127 MCC Status Report #07

STS-127 Report #07 9 p m CDT Friday, July 18, 2009 Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas

HOUSTON – In a complex and choreographed activity, the crews of Endeavour and the International Space Station installed the Exposed Facility on the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Kibo laboratory today, the top priority for the mission, and completed the first of five spacewalks planned

Early in the day, space shuttle managers notified the crew of Endeavour that a Focused Inspection of the orbiter’s heat shield will not be required

Though plagued by communication problems, crew members Dave Wolf and Tim Kopra completed all of their primary tasks during a 5 hour, 32 minute spacewalk STS-127 lead spacewalker Dave Wolf and the newest space station crew member Tim Kopra began the spacewalk at 11:19 a m , when they switched their spacesuits to battery power The spacewalk ended at 4:51 p m

The Japanese Exposed Facility is the space station’s new porch and will expose science experiments to the extreme environments of space The JEF was installed by Shuttle Commander Mark Polansky and Mission Specialist Julie Payette, who operated the shuttle robotic arm, and by Pilot Doug Hurley and Mission Specialist Koichi Wakata, who operated the station robotic arm

Spacewalkers Wolf and Kopra began by preparing the berthing mechanisms on the Kibo laboratory and the JEF for the installation The two also completed deploying an unpressurized cargo carrier attachment system (UCCAS) on the Port 3 truss that had failed to unfurl during STS-119 in March The UCCAS will be used in the future to store equipment and supplies on the outside of the station

After a series of robotic arm “hand offs,” the JEF was officially latched to the Kibo laboratory at 6:29 p m The process involved three robotic arm systems The space station and shuttle arms moved JEF from Endeavour’s payload bay to the Kibo laboratory and Kibo’s robotic arm was used to view the installation

The station crew is scheduled to go to bed at about 9 p m with the shuttle crew following about 30 minutes later Wake up Sunday is scheduled for 5:33 a m

The next shuttle status report will be issued after crew wake, or earlier if events warrant

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End of HSFNEWS Digest - 18 Jul 2009 to 19 Jul 2009 (#2009-73)

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