down
good morning endeavor we show you just
off the east coast of australia and
that's morning's wakeup music is a
message to andy from men at work
and good
rogers are we
views of the uh pam stew satellite uh
from uh endeavor the range to the
satellite is about 2 000 feet this is a
station keeping position that endeavor
will
basically match the movements of the
satellite
for the next six to eight hours or so
this satellite is a cylindrically shaped
spacecraft with a
size of about two feet by three
feet this is mission control houston uh
the good news reported uh to the crew
from chris hadfield here in mission
control that the attitude measurement
system has locked on to the uh pam stew
satellite
using
lasers mounted in one of the canisters
on the
experiment rack in the back end of
endeavour's payload bay
i sure i think i should say do you
usually have a mile cable building
affirmative we are watching uh your
camera view that you're downlinking
we'll have it for another few minutes
okay great just want to make sure you're
getting it
we're getting a rock solid image and we
show that you're still tracking
you can thank the
cecil b
mario and andy back in the uh
brown referencing mario runko and andy
thomas operating cameras providing the
view of the pam stew satellite
at a range of about
1740 feet
from endeavor
debra houston we're with you on tdrs
east and the folks in the park again
want to pass along their congratulations
to the cinematographer and the key grip
in the back
just a fantastic picture endeavor thank
you
a lot for
john
we've just got a request to delay the
next pam stew rendezvous by a day so
and and we're going to accommodate that
plan it looks like that means
essentially we'll swap flight day 8 and
flight day 9 activities
and of course there'll be a lot of
impacts to that
beginning here
gosh post sep
so we wanted to give you a heads up on
that we're going to continue
troubleshooting right now but
the pam stu folks i think that it'll be
real beneficial to them to give them
just a little bit more time to analyze
the data
and see if they can
come up with some workarounds to some of
the problems that they've been seeing
that's the direction we're headed and of
course if you've got any insights and
then any suggestions as to ways to
minimize
any negative impact on the crew to doing
that would sure like to hear that
okay
we're just discussing the same thing on
board so it sounds like we're thinking
alike
we don't have any
suggestions on the uh
on the laser office we'll continue
taking all the video that we can
so uh linda can use that
of course we've got plenty of uh
we're glad to stay up here another day
and we've got plenty of prop for
and we copy that john and we'll make
sure we put that in the list of options
uh that are considered
the of course uh of course cryo is
cryo's the real uh the real limiting
factor for you
the lights are going down right now
i appreciate anything you can do to put
in
we'll fight the good fight jones
endeavor houston for john
yeah john uh
of course all kidding aside that we we
did take a look at uh your cryo margin
and uh we just uh we don't we don't see
any way to uh conserve enough cryo to
really get an extension day uh you know
of course we're protecting wave off days
but
we don't think an actual extension day
is in the cards
okay well i know you looked at it
once we uh stick it takes so much effort
for us to get up here you know we've
been in training for this flight for uh
almost a year now
and i wish i had a nickel for every
day that rick davis kept us in the sam
uh we couldn't applaud those like those
comments anymore
from a ground standpoint this is one of
the most exciting missions so most of us
have been involved with and
gosh we'd like to see it go on for a lot
longer
the story of the mere cooperative ray
began back a couple of years ago when
team members from the international
space station program
conceived of the project that would
power on the russian space station and
provide invaluable information to the
designers of the array
for the international space station the
u.s portion of the project was managed
by nasa's lewis research center
the cooperative array project followed
an aggressive timeline taking less than
two and a half years from the inception
to space
deployment the video that is being sent
to us from the mere space station
is
was recorded during the spacewalk in
this particular view an array on the
base block of the module
is the article
towards the front of the picture which
is uh straight the collaborative array
can be seen
as a accordion feature behind that array
and the space walkers are in the shadow
on the right right hand side of the
picture
to once again orient this particular
picture
the golden straight feature towards the
left side of the screen is actually an
array that is on the base block of the
mir space station
the
array that is being unfurled
is an accordion feature that is behind
it in this particular view you can see
the accordion
shape of the array as it's being
unfolded a little bit clearer
these are pictures were recorded by nasa
astronaut and cosmonaut researcher
shannon lucid from the interior of the
mir space station
this is the second spacewalk of the week
in this particular view you can see
the
heads of the two space walkers and their
movements as they uncrank
the
solar array
the individual on the lower portion of
the deploy device
is cranking in a
slightly slower fashion that's actually
a little bit tighter crank and then that
the person
on the space walker on the far side is
cranking at a slightly higher rate
this is a very physically intensive
exercise
both men were
re-entered into the space lock to
complete the eva
this particular piece of video was taken
towards the end of the deployment
overall it took about three hours for
uh
any franco and usa
to deploy the entire array
it is a very physically demanding
activity since it requires both men to
hand crank the array to its full
extended position
after a brief pause to uh switch out
concepts on the uh space station we are
once again receiving a downlink of the
uh deploy
of the mirror cooperative solar array
the eva today began
around 1am moscow time
which was about midnight decreed moscow
time that is the time with which the
mission control center works with
the crew members were back inside
by about
6
am
decreed mascot time which is about 7 00
am
moscow time
even with a little more light it's uh
difficult from this position to tell the
two
space walkers apart however the two men
that did the job today for a joint
project were mayor 21 commander yuri
onye franco and flight engineer yuri
usachev
on the left-hand side of the
array that runs down the center of the
screen
is the boom crane this was used to
remove the
solar ray
canister from the docking module where
it was
stored for the launch
here at the position on the one module
the canister was actually moved into
position uh early tuesday morning moscow
time
in preparation for today's array
for today's uh spacewalk and deploy of
the array
the uh can't beat
the cables for the array also will run
out and
positioned for today's activities
we have completed the replay of the
spacewalk activities this is now a live
picture from the mere space station
showing the solar array in its deployed
conditions
foreign
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