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so as mentioned in the beginning of our

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show a lot of spacewalk preparation

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happening one spacewalk happened earlier

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this week joining me now to give us a

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little more insight the lead eva officer

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for increment 42 alex canelecos alex

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thanks so much for joining me i've had

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you here a few times

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one of my eva experts so i really

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appreciate you you're just coming off

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console aren't you that's right i spent

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the evening from 11 p.m central time to

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8 pm working console work we're in

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between the two evas planned ebas this

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this fall all right well i'll try to

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make it quick so we can get you home and

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get some sleep so as i mentioned we had

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one spacewalk successfully done earlier

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this week on tuesday tell me a little

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bit you know what happened how did it go

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all right so uh we had two crew members

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go out the door and uh reid wiseman and

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alex gerst went out the the door and

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both of them were work were rookie

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astronauts as far as spacewalks are

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concerned first time first time and we

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haven't actually done that in quite a

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while so it was it was really neat to

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see them go out the door they did a

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great spacewalk it was about six hours

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and 13 minutes okay and the major tasks

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were to perform a pump module relocate

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back in december we performed two

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spacewalks to repair a pump module

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and the failed one was left in a not

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optimal location and so this uh the

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beginning of the spacewalk we moved that

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from the non-optimal location to a good

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spare location okay and then the rest of

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the day was spent kind of getting ready

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for

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kind of subsequent evas that we have

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coming up so one of them was we

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retrieved a

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a light

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that had a burnt out bulb and right now

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alex is doing some iva work some work

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inside to replace that bulb and he is uh

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we'll actually take that bulb outside on

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the next cva and install it in a new

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location so that's going right back out

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it's going right back out

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and what was what was that light used

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for so several of our lights outside are

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used in conjunction with cameras okay so

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especially during night passes

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we can get better views

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from our cameras a lot of times our

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cameras are used for evas or they are

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also used for uh robotics and so when

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the crew members are flying the arm the

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canadian robotic arm they need really

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good views uh to watch from for

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clearances and make sure that the arm's

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not going to run into anything don't

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want to smash into anything got to be

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careful right so that that's what that

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light was used for okay and so that was

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was it were there any other tasks the

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other major task was um installing a

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relay box okay to our mt which is our

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mobile transporter and what this um

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relay box does is it allows the mt to

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have more redundancy in case it lost

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some power okay so like you just said

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one eva in the bag and another one

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coming up next week and we're going to

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be switching up crew members a little

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bit and some different tasks tell us

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about what's going to be happening

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that's right so reid uh wiseman will go

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out again as ev1 and joining him is

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butch wilmore butch will be ev2 and they

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will go out and actually do a remove and

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replace of the sequential shunt unit and

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where there's several of these on board

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and one of them has failed and basically

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this unit

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shunts the arrays from the batteries

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and kind of manages power levels uh when

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we're charging our batteries so kind of

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like a voltage regulator that's that's

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exactly right and uh so this unit will

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be um arnard it's one of eight that will

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be removed and replaced and so we'll

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we'll do that at the very beginning of

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the eva it involves some pretty pretty

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rigorous timing we have to perform this

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in an eclipse so it has to be night out

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during the during this portion and our

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eclipse times are only about 30 minutes

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so the crew has to be very efficient

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during this

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and then after that they'll go into

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doing kind of a little leapfrog activity

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with several cameras lights and antennas

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and so we're getting ready to relocate

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our permanent logistics module on space

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station to a new a new location on node

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node three and in order to do that we

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have to relocate a lot of antennas and

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cameras and so for the rest of the eva

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they're basically removing one camera

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and stanchion and putting it somewhere

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else and then they're taking another one

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and moving it

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another place and also this allows us to

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optimize our camera and antenna

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reception that we get for evas okay so

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kind of clear clearing the way for that

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relocate and moving things around and

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again a lot of this work being done

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on these evas is getting us ready for a

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lot coming up i mean i'm pretty sure

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starting january we're going to have a

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lot more spacewalks coming up on station

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why don't you and this is going to be

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increment 42 which

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you're the guy you're the one that's got

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to make sure he's going to go off

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without a hitch so what do you guys what

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are you guys getting ready for uh coming

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up next year so right now actually in

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the next uh several years we have quite

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a quite a wall of spacewalks ahead of us

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a lot of them deal with space station

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reconfig we're moving several modules

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we're about to receive two international

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docking adapters which will allow our

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commercial crew vehicles to dock to the

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international space station very

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important and in order to do all these

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relocates and installs we have to get

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the station reconfigured both from a

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power standpoint and data standpoint as

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well as just getting camera views

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correct and so that's what we'll be

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doing in january as well we have

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two potentially three scheduled evas in

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which we will be routing cables to

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supply power heater heating power and

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data to the international docking

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adapters when they arrive one's arriving

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in 2015 and one will be arriving in

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2016.

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additionally in those evas we are going

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to lubricate the canadian end effector

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on the arm the canadian arm and defector

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and right now it's just having some high

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currents when it's going to latch on to

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certain payloads so in order to reduce

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those currents we're actually going to

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lubricate several of the screws and m

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drivers that are involved in in when we

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okay as well as we're going to be

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removing several covers that allow these

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international docking adapters to

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install um onto the international space

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station okay well like you said wall of

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evas a lot of work coming up for these

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crews on board the station a lot of work

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being done last week and next week or

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this week and next week

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a lot to come going to be a whole new

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station once all that stuff gets moved

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around and uh installed and ready for

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commercial crew so it's going to be a

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really exciting time alex thanks so much

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for uh joining me here today really

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appreciate it and we're gonna be looking

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forward to these spacewalks they're

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always really interesting always great

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to see um glad a lot glad this week went