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1. STS-132 MCC Status Report #06
2. NASA ANNOUNCES TELEPHONE MEDIA BRIEFING WITH NEEMO 14 CREW
3. STS-132 MCC Status Report #07

Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 02:52:29 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: STS-132 MCC Status Report #06

STS-132 Report #06 Monday, May 17, 2010 - 3 a m CDT Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas

HOUSTON � Two astronauts will venture outside their spacecraft today in the first of three planned spacewalks for the mission They will install back-up communications equipment onto the station and a work platform onto a station robot

The station and shuttle crews awoke at 2:20 a m CDT Matt Maher�s �Alive Again� was the featured wake-up song, played for Mike Good

Mission specialists Garrett Reisman and Stephen Bowen spent the night in the Quest Airlock to prepare for the planned six and a half hour spacewalk They are expected to egress from the airlock at 7:15 a m Good and Expedition 23 Flight Engineer T J Creamer will help with the suit-up preparations and Good will join Pilot Tony Antonelli, the intravehicular officer, to assist during the spacewalk Mission Specialist Piers Sellers and Flight Engineer Tracy Caldwell Dyson will support robotic arm operations throughout

The first task of the spacewalk will be the installation of a back-up Ku-band antenna known as the SGAnt or Space-to-Ground Antenna The task will start at the mobile transporter to remove the SGAnt, then Reisman will hand carry the boom and antenna to its installation point on the Z1 truss Bowen will meet Reisman there to attach the antenna, connect power and data cables and remove protective insulation During that time, Reisman will travel on the arm to retrieve the antenna dish and bring it to the worksite for installation Time permitting, Bowen will install a heat shield and remove position locks on the antenna

Reisman will again return to the pallet to collect Dextre�s storage platform He and Bowen will meet at Dextre�s worksite atop the Destiny laboratory to attach the platform to the robot If possible, they will also install a maintenance tether and connect two electrical fuses

The final task will have Bowen at the end of the left or port truss, to loosen bolts on the six batteries that will be replaced in the later spacewalks

Throughout the extravehicular activity, shuttle Commander Ken Ham will oversee the activities and work on transfer of supplies to the station Expedition 23 Commander Oleg Kotov and Flight Engineers Alexander Skvortsov and Mikhail Kornienko will support station operations and maintenance Soichi Noguchi will also assist with transfer

The station crew is scheduled for sleep at 5:50 p m and the shuttle crew thirty minutes later

The next shuttle status report will be issued near the end of the crew�s workday, or earlier if warranted

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Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 13:44:55 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: NASA ANNOUNCES TELEPHONE MEDIA BRIEFING WITH NEEMO 14 CREW

May 17, 2010

Lynnette Madison Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111

Ashley Edwards/Michael Braukus Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1756/1979

Carole Duval Canadian Space Agency 450-926-4370

Report #M10-072

NASA ANNOUNCES TELEPHONE MEDIA BRIEFING WITH NEEMO 14 CREW

WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a media teleconference Friday, May 21, at 3:15 p m EDT with the crew of the NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations, or NEEMO, living underwater off the coast of Florida

On May 10, NASA sent two astronauts, a veteran undersea engineer and a scientist on a 14-day expedition to test exploration concepts and to learn more about working in an unforgiving, treacherous space-like environment

Reporters should contact NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston at 281-483-5111 by noon May 21 for dial-in information Canadian reporters should RSVP to the Canadian Space Agency at 450-926-4370

Canadian Space Agency astronaut and veteran spacewalker Chris A Hadfield leads the 14th NEEMO mission aboard the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Aquarius Underwater Laboratory The crew also includes NASA astronaut and flight surgeon Thomas Marshburn, Electric Rover Deputy Project Manager Andrew Abercromby and research scientist Steve Chappell

Audio of the teleconference will be streamed live on NASA's website at:

http://www nasa gov/newsaudio

The University of North Carolina at Wilmington (UNCW) operates Aquarius on behalf of NOAA as part of the agency's Undersea Research Program Reporters can monitor the UNCW webcam at: http://www uncw edu/aquarius/thumb_cam htm

The NEEMO missions are a cooperative project among NASA, NOAA and UNCW For more information about NEEMO 14 visit:

http://www nasa gov/neemo

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Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 15:26:25 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: STS-132 MCC Status Report #07

STS-132 Report #07 3:30 p m CDT Monday, May 17, 2010 Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas

HOUSTON � Atlantis astronauts completed a 7-hour, 25 minute spacewalk Monday, installing a second antenna for high-speed Ku band transmissions and adding a spare parts platform to Dextre, a two-armed extension for the station�s robotic arm

Mission Specialists Garrett Reisman and Steve Bowen also loosened bolts holding six replacement batteries The 375-pound batteries are to be installed during the mission�s second and third spacewalks, on Wednesday and Friday The antenna and the batteries came to the station on Atlantis on a cargo carrier, which was moved to the station�s main truss on Sunday

Monday�s spacewalk began at 6:54 a m CDT when Reisman and Bowen switched their suits to battery power After setup they removed the antenna�s nearly nine-foot-long boom from the cargo carrier and Reisman, on the end of station�s Canadarm2, carried it high above the station and then to the Z1 truss

Intravehicular officer and Atlantis Pilot Tony Antonelli coached them through their activities Mission Specialist Piers Sellers and station Flight Engineer Tracy Caldwell Dyson operated the arm

After the spacewalkers attached and connected the boom, Reisman made a return trip to the cargo carrier on the end of the arm sometimes fully extended in a windshield-wiper-like maneuver He removed the six-foot-diameter dish antenna, then held it as the arm took him back to the Z1 truss There he and Bowen installed it, then refastened bolts and hooked up balky connections

Because of a gap that remained between the dish and the boom, spacewalkers did not remove dish launch locks, to keep it from rotating They also used a tether to strap the spare antenna�s dish and boom together

While Bowen recharged his suit�s oxygen supply, Reisman removed the spare-parts platform from the cargo carrier, took it to Dextre atop the U S laboratory Destiny, and installed it

More than six hours after the start of the spacewalk, Reisman and Bowen both said they were willing to work beyond the 6 5 hours planned for the activity Bowen moved on the cargo carrier to loosen bolts on the six 375-pound batteries while Reisman did cleanup work on Canadarm2, removing a foot restraint and retrieving an adapter from the arm�s latching end effector

As the spacewalkers were wrapping up their work, Mission Control reported that the shuttle�s arm had successfully grappled the Russian Mini-Research Module-1 in Atlantis� cargo bay The 19 7-foot module, named Rassvet, is scheduled to be installed Tuesday on the Zarya service module

Today�s spacewalk was the second for Reisman and the fourth for Bowen It was the 144th spacewalk for station assembly and maintenance Those spacewalks total 900 hours, 58 minutes

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

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End of HSFNEWS Digest - 17 May 2010 to 18 May 2010 (#2010-63)

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