HSFNEWS Digest - 27 May 2011 to 28 May 2011 (#2011-64)

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Date: May 28th 2011

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STS-134 MCC Status Report #23
NASA ASTRONAUT CADY COLEMAN AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEWS ON EVE OF SHUTTLE LANDING
STS-134 MCC Status Report #24

Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 10:28:41 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: STS-134 MCC Status Report #23

STS-134 Report #23 10:30 a m CDT Friday, May 27, 2011 Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas

HOUSTON ï¿½ Its work with the space shuttle complete, the orbiter boom sensor system has a new home on the International Space Stationï¿½s main truss and a new name, the second of the day

The move was completed during the fourth and final spacewalk of Endeavourï¿½s STS-134 mission Mission Specialists Mike Fincke and Greg Chamitoff took the boom from the stationï¿½s Canadarm2 and secured it on the S1 truss segment at 12:42 a m CDT

Endeavour Pilot Greg Johnson and station Flight Engineer Ron Garan at the armï¿½s controls in the Cupola took the 50-foot boom from the station arm They moved the boom to the S1 truss and handed it off to the two spacewalkers Fincke and Chamitoff secured it in attachment fixtures, making it officially a part of the station called the ISS boom assembly

The spacewalkers subsequently retrieved a power and data grapple fixture from the left end of the truss assembly and brought it back to the boom They removed an electrical flight grapple fixture, which the shuttle arm had used, and replaced it with the fixture they had brought back That fixture enables Canadarm2 to attach to the boomï¿½s end, to use it as an extension should the need arise

With the grapple fixture replacement, the boom became the enhanced ISS boom assembly, a name that should stick for a while

The last major task was working with Dextre, the special purpose dexterous manipulator, part of the Canadian robotics suite that includes the shuttle and station arms At the express logistics carrier 3 on the truss, they removed launch restraints from a spare arm for the robot-like device brought up by Endeavour

That completed, Fincke and Chamitoff began the standard cleanup tasks, then moved back into the Quest airlock Repressurization began at 6:39 a m , marking the end of the 7-hour, 24-minute spacewalk

Andrew Feustel, who participated in the first three spacewalks, coached Fincke and Chamitoff through their tasks as intravehicluar officer Astronaut Steve Swanson was spacewalk capcom from the station flight control room Endeavour Commander Mark Kelly again worked with photo and video documentation

While the Friday excursion was the last scheduled spacewalk by shuttle astronauts, it also was a day of milestones

At 4:02 a m , Fincke and Chamitoff completed the 1,000th hour of spacewalk activity for space station assembly and maintenance It also left Fincke on the threshold of a personal mark About 7 p m Friday evening he will become the U S astronaut with the most time in space, more than 377 days, including two long-duration station missions That will surpass the time in space of Peggy Whitson, chief of the Astronaut Office

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

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Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 11:10:55 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: NASA ASTRONAUT CADY COLEMAN AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEWS ON EVE OF SHUTTLE LANDING

May 27, 2011

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

Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100

Report #M11-105

NASA ASTRONAUT CADY COLEMAN AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEWS ON EVE OF SHUTTLE LANDING

HOUSTON -- NASA astronaut Cady Coleman, back on Earth after working last week in orbit with the space shuttle Endeavour and International Space Station crews, will be available for live satellite interviews from 6 - 8 a m CDT on Tuesday, May 31 This is one day before Endeavour's final landing at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, scheduled for 1:35 a m June 1

On May 23, Coleman completed 159 days in space as a member of the Expedition 26 and 27 crews This was the first time a station crew returned to Earth while a shuttle was docked to the complex

Coleman's interviews will air live on NASA Television To arrange an interview, news media representatives must contact the Johnson Space Center newsroom at 281-483-5111 or send an e-mail to stephanie l luna@nasa gov no later than 2 p m on Sunday, May 29 The e-mail must include contact information and technical points of contact to allow a NASA producer to finalize the interview arrangements during the Memorial Day holiday weekend

Coleman and her crewmates, Expedition 27 Commander Dmitry Kondratyev and Flight Engineer Paolo Nespoli of the European Space Agency, landed at 9:27 p m May 23 in Kazakhstan During their mission, they worked on more than 150 microgravity experiments in human research, biology and biotechnology, physical and materials sciences, technology development and Earth and space sciences

Coleman is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received a doctorate from the University of Massachusetts Before her flight on Expedition 27, Coleman flew on two shuttle missions, STS-73 in 1995 and STS-93 in 1999

The interviews will air on NASA TV's Live Interview Media Outlet channel The channel is a digital satellite C-band downlink by uplink provider Americom It is on satellite AMC 3, transponder 9C, located at 87 degrees west, downlink frequency 3865 5 MHz based on a standard C-band, horizontal downlink polarity FEC is 3/4, data rate is 6 0 Mbps, symbol rate is 4 3404 Msps, transmission DVB-S, 4:2:0

Video b-roll from Coleman's mission will air May 30 from 5:30 to 6 a m CDT For NASA TV streaming video, downlink and scheduling information, visit:

http://www nasa gov/ntv

For Coleman's complete biography, visit:

http://www jsc nasa gov/Bios/htmlbios/coleman html

For more information about the International Space Station, visit:

http://www nasa gov/station

For more information about the shuttle mission, visit:

http://www nasa gov/shuttle

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Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 20:00:09 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: STS-134 MCC Status Report #24

STS-134 Report #24 Friday, May 27, 2011 - 8 p m CDT
Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas

HOUSTON ï¿½ The combined shuttle and station crews turn their focus to final docked activities today The crew will perform hardware maintenance, reconfigure spacesuits and continue transfer work

The crews of space shuttle Endeavour and Expedition 28 woke at 7:01 p m CDT to the song ï¿½Will You Carry Me?ï¿½ performed by Michael FitzPatrick FitzPatrick has been an Electrical, Environmental, Consumables, and Mechanical flight controller at NASA's Johnson Space Center for more than 20 years and supported 80 missions

Commander Mark Kelly, Pilot Greg Johnson and Expedition 28 Flight Engineer Ron Garan will participate from space in a community gathering in Tucson, Ariz at 9:16 p m They will answer questions about their mission from a gathering of 100 local public school students from the area, the University of Arizona and NASA Space Grant partners

At 7:46 a m Saturday, Johnson will talk to reporters from television stations in Michigan and Ohio

Mission Specialists Mike Fincke and Greg Chamitoff will replace one of the beds for the Carbon Dioxide Removal Assembly (CDRA) Meanwhile, Kelly, Garan and Mission Specialist Drew Feustel will reconfigure the spacesuits from yesterday's spacewalk Feustel will later join European Space Agency astronaut Roberto Vittori to continue transferring cargo between the shuttle and station Johnson and Kelly will also participate in an activity to study spinal elongation during spaceflight

International Space Station crew members Commander Andrey Borisenko and Flight Engineers Alexander Samokutyaev will continue with station maintenance and support

The next status report will be issued Saturday afternoon, or earlier if warranted

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End of HSFNEWS Digest - 27 May 2011 to 28 May 2011 (#2011-64)

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