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To: RightWhale

YEA!...there's finally some down linked video! I guess I turned it on when they were on the wrong side of the planet.


595 posted on 12/14/2006 3:50:25 PM PST by cabojoe
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To: cabojoe

spaceflightnow.com

2310 GMT (6:10 p.m. EST)

After spacewalkers re-wired two of the space station's four main electrical circuits, flight controllers at the Johnson Space Center in Houston successfully activated a critical cooling system in a major milestone for station assembly.




majorly critical success


596 posted on 12/14/2006 4:27:13 PM PST by RightWhale (RTRA DLQS GSCW)
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To: cabojoe

spaceflightnow.com

1942 GMT (2:42 p.m. EST)

The spacewalkers have egressed the airlock hatchway to space. This is Curbeam's sixth spacewalk and the first for Williams.

1931 GMT (2:31 p.m. EST)

Mission Control has warned the station crew that lights and communications systems will be going off now as the partial powerdown is completed for the spacewalk.




The US side of the ISS is shut down while the reconnection of the power cables is completed.


600 posted on 12/16/2006 12:03:56 PM PST by RightWhale (RTRA DLQS GSCW)
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