07.11.11

2 a.m. CDT Monday, July 11, 2011
Mission Control Center, Houston, TexasSTATUS REPORT: STS-135-06

STS-135 MCC STATUS REPORT #06

HOUSTON – Space shuttle Atlantis’ crew will be getting down to the
main objective of their mission today, as they temporarily install
the Raffaello multipurpose logistics module on the International
Space Station and begin unloading its contents.

The crew started their fourth day in space at 2:02 a.m., after being
awakened by the Chumbawamba song “Tubthumping.” It was played for
Mission Specialist Sandy Magnus.

Magnus, along with Pilot Doug Hurley, will be at the controls of the
space station’s robotic arm beginning at 4:09 a.m. to remove the
Raffaello module from the shuttle’s cargo bay. They’ll install it on
the station’s Harmony node 30 minutes later.

Once that is complete, Magnus will work with Commander Chris Ferguson
to prepare the module’s hatch for opening at 12:39 p.m., after which
the crew will begin unloading the 9,402 pounds of supplies it carried
into space.

In addition, Ferguson and Mission Specialist Rex Walheim will begin
moving another 2,281 pounds of cargo brought up on Atlantis’ middeck
over to the space station. And later in the day, the entire shuttle
crew will come together with station Flight Engineers Ron Garan,
Satoshi Furukawa and Mike Fossum to review the procedures for the
mission’s spacewalk. Fossum and Garan will perform that spacewalk on
Tuesday.

Meanwhile, here on the ground, flight controllers were able to verify
that the track of a piece of orbital debris they began watching on
Saturday will not be a threat to the shuttle and station. No
adjustments to the shuttle and station’s orbit will be necessary to
avoid the debris, which is part of satellite COSMOS 375 and one of
more than 500,000 pieces of debris tracked in Earth’s orbit.

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