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1. STS-132 MCC Status Report #02
2. STS-132 MCC Status Report #03

Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 04:19:57 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: STS-132 MCC Status Report #02

STS-132 Report #02 Saturday, May 15, 2010 - 4 a m CDT Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas

HOUSTON � Space shuttle Atlantis� crew of six are awake and ready to embark on their first full day in space for the mission Today, the crew will focus on a routine inspection of the orbiter and preparations for their docking to the International Space Station

The crew awoke at 3:20 a m CDT to �You�re My Home� performed by Billy Joel The song was played for Commander Ken Ham, who is on his second spaceflight

The main focus of the day will be the six-hour-long inspection of Atlantis� wing leading edges and nose cap Ham, Pilot Tony Antonelli and Mission Specialists Garrett Reisman and Piers Sellers will use the shuttle�s robotic arm and specialized cameras to downlink the detailed views of the thermal protection system for analysis by specialists on the ground

Meanwhile, Michael Good and Steve Bowen are scheduled to unpack and ready the spacesuits that will be used for the three planned spacewalks Later in the day, Bowen will join Reisman will perform a checkout of the tools needed for the rendezvous and docking to the station, which is planned for 9:27 a m Sunday

The Expedition 23 Commander Oleg Kotov and Russian Flight Engineers Alexander Skvortsov and Mikhail Kornienko, Flight Engineer Soichi Noguchi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, and NASA Flight Engineers T J Creamer and Tracy Caldwell Dyson are likewise making preparations for the arrival of the shuttle crew

As part of the Daily Planning Conference, the station crew was informed of a possible debris avoidance maneuver The team is still assessing if a maneuver will be required, but if so, they could implement it remotely during crew sleep Saturday evening A final decision is expected to be made by 4 p m If a maneuver is executed, it would be a 0 5 meter-per-second retrograde burn at 8:08 p m , and would not affect rendezvous with Atlantis on Sunday

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

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Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 16:51:01 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: STS-132 MCC Status Report #03

STS-132 Report #03 4:50 p m CDT Saturday, May 15, 2010 Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas

HOUSTON � Atlantis astronauts checked out spacesuits and rendezvous tools in preparation for Sunday�s docking with the International Space Station, scheduled for 9:27 a m CDT They also did a modified thermal protection system inspection

The shuttle and its crew of six, Commander Ken Ham, Pilot Tony Antonelli and Mission Specialists Garrett Reisman, Michael Good, Steve Bowen and Piers Sellers are bringing six new 375-pound batteries to the station, along with the Russian Mini-Research Module and other equipment, supplies and experiments They will spend about seven days at the station Reisman, Bowen and Good will perform a total of three spacewalks

Good and Bowen spent several hours Saturday checking out spacesuits and preparing them for transfer to the station�s Quest airlock, where the spacewalks will originate Reisman, who spent much of his day working with Antonelli and Ham on the thermal protection system survey, did manage to spend some time helping with the suit and spacewalk equipment checkouts

Before the thermal protection checkout began, the crew encountered a problem with a cable snagging the pan-tilt unit on the end of the 50-foot orbiter boom sensor system It is the mount for senor package 1, the Laser Dynamic Range Imager and the intensified video camera

As a result, mission control decided to switch to sensor package 2, a laser camera and a digital camera mounted near the end of the boom That system, which requires daylight or another light source, has a resolution of a few millimeters and can scan at about 2 5 inches per second Its images of the right wing, the nose cap and much of the left wing were sent to the ground for detailed analysis Additional images will be available after the rendezvous pitch maneuver and from station assets The change is not expected to affect Sunday�s rendezvous and docking or otherwise impact the mission

Managers in mission control decided not to perform a debris avoidance maneuver that would have taken place Saturday a little after 8 p m Flight controllers had been carefully monitoring a piece of orbital debris that had threatened to come near the station Sunday, but updated tracking information showed the object will remain a safe distance away and the maneuver is not needed

The station crew, Commander Oleg Kotov and Russian Flight Engineers Alexander Skvortsov and Mikhail Kornienko, Soichi Noguchi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, and NASA Flight Engineers T J Creamer and Tracy Caldwell Dyson, are shifting their sleep schedule in preparation for welcoming Atlantis astronauts

The next shuttle status report will be issued after crew wakeup, scheduled for 2:20 a m , or earlier if warranted

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