Sun, Nov 25, 2007
Pair Also Performs Prep Work For Columbus Docking
International Space
Station Commander Peggy Whitson and Flight Engineer Dan Tani
completed a seven hour, four minute spacewalk at 11:54 a.m. Eastern
Standard Time, Saturday.
The spacewalk exercise moved the external outfitting of the
Harmony node to its new position in front of the US laboratory
Destiny. All scheduled tasks were performed including a look at the
starboard Solar Alpha Rotary Joint. The spacewalker's were even
able to do what NASA characterized at "get-ahead" work, and said
that the walk was very similar to the November 20th space work.
Whitson, the space station commander, and Tani, a flight
engineer, began the task 4:50 a.m. Eastern Standard Time, according
to NASA. The two moved a 300-pound (136-kilogram) fluid tray for
the cooling system to a permanent location near the Destiny
laboratory, according to Bloomberg.
Tani configured tools, and then removed two fluid caps to
prepare for connection of that permanent cooling Loop B. Just as in
the Nov. 20th spacewalk, much of this outing was devoted to work
with a fluid tray.
The 300-pound, 18.5-foot tray was changed from its temporary
position on the S0 truss, at the center of the station's main
truss, to Destiny, on top of the port avionics tray.
The team used a similar method as the procedures on Nov. 20,
bolting down a tray and hooking up fluid line connections.
Whitson later removed a thermal cover of a centerline berthing
camera system and eight launch restraints that will help dock and
attach the European Space Agency laboratory Columbus during the
STS-122 mission of Atlantis next month.
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