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To: WSGilcrest

I felt the same way...except I wanted to poke a stick in it.


590 posted on 12/13/2006 6:17:29 PM PST by cabojoe
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spaceflightnow.com

1530 GMT (10:30 a.m. EST)

The Discovery astronauts are gearing up for a critical spacewalk today to begin re-wiring the international space station while engineers debate whether to add an unplanned spacewalk early next week to help coax an unruly solar array into full retraction.

Astronauts Robert Curbeam and Christer Fuglesang, Sweden's first man in space, are scheduled to begin a planned six-hour spacewalk at 3:12 p.m., their second in three days. The goal of this excursion is to switch two of the station's four major electrical circuits over to the lab's permanent power system.

The other two circuits will be re-wired during a spacewalk Saturday by Curbeam and newly arrived station astronaut Sunita "Suni" Williams. Both spacewalks are required to route electricity from the station's main arrays through big switching units and transformers on the solar array truss that make up the lab's permanent power system.




591 posted on 12/14/2006 9:32:46 AM PST by RightWhale (RTRA DLQS GSCW)
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To: cabojoe

spaceflightnow.com

1805 GMT (1:05 p.m. EST)

Spacewalk preparations are underway aboard the space station today, along with powerdowns and reconfigurations in advance of the electrical re-wiring to be performed during the EVA. No particular problems have been reported today.


592 posted on 12/14/2006 10:42:20 AM PST by RightWhale (RTRA DLQS GSCW)
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To: cabojoe

spaceflightnow.com

1940 GMT (2:40 p.m. EST)

Depressurization of the airlock has been completed. The outer hatch of the airlock module is being opened.




And out they go. They'll deal with the pleats problem some other time.


593 posted on 12/14/2006 11:46:29 AM PST by RightWhale (RTRA DLQS GSCW)
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To: cabojoe

spaceflightnow.com

2230 GMT (5:30 p.m. EST)

One hour and 54 minutes into a planned six-hour spacewalk, astronauts Robert Curbeam and Christer Fuglesang completed their electrical re-wiring work to route electricity from the space station's solar arrays into two of the four main circuits making up the lab's permanent power system.




Are they done already? Maybe they could kick that fanfold gizmo.


594 posted on 12/14/2006 3:23:45 PM PST by RightWhale (RTRA DLQS GSCW)
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