STS-130/(20A) Mission Thread

[EarthlingX]

 

[Zipi]

Tranquility-to-Unity Tops Flight Day 5: [HD]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01zDCRnMWuo[/youtube]

 

[Zipi]

Flight Day 6 Highlights 1/2: (unofficial NasaTV record)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyW3M5bIr6Y[/youtube]

Flight Day 6 Highlights 2/2: (unofficial NasaTV record)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r1JtuJXShc[/youtube]

Flight Day 7 Highlights: (Official NasaTV Youtube Video)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmWvZ1kyKwQ[/youtube]

 

[Zipi]

SRB Replays 1:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cp_RMjJ28M[/youtube]

SRB Replays 2:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeMYrbjQD1A[/youtube]

 

[EarthlingX]

Crew Preparing to Relocate Cupola
Sun, 14 Feb 2010 09:25:52 PM GMT

The crew of space shuttle Endeavour awoke at 4:14 p.m. EST to the song “Forty Years On,” the Harrow School in London song, played for Harrow alumnus Mission Specialist Nicholas Patrick.

After further analysis of the center disk cover interference issue, the teams determined that there wasn’t an issue with relocating the cupola. The crew will spend time today preparing the cupola for its relocation. Terry Virts and Kathryn Hire will latch onto the cupola with the station’s robotic arm. They then will move the cupola to its permanent position on the Earth-facing side of the Tranquility node and then open the hatch. Robert Behnken and Stephen Robinson will grapple Pressurized Mating Adapter-3 with the station’s robotic arm near the end of the day for its relocation on flight day 9.

Crew Members to Answer Questions from Students
Mon, 15 Feb 2010 01:52:55 AM GMT

At 10:24 p.m. EST, Pilot Terry Virts and Mission Specialist Kathryn Hire will take time to answer questions about their mission prepared by students at NASA Explorer Schools.

The event is scheduled to air live on NASA TV.

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.. little late with Cupola pressurization ..
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.. venting residual air from Cupola ..
.. getting ready the robotic arm ..
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.. getting ready to latch ..


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.. latched ...

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.. live event ..


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[EarthlingX]

Cupola Grappled for Move to Tranquility Node
Mon, 15 Feb 2010 03:49:25 AM GMT

Pilot Terry Virts and Mission Specialist Kathryn Hire have latched onto the cupola with the station’s robotic arm. They will move the cupola to its permanent position on the Earth-facing side of the Tranquility node.

Mission Specialists Robert Behnken and Stephen Robinson will grapple Pressurized Mating Adapter-3 with the station’s robotic arm near the end of the day for its relocation on flight day 9.

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.. some jam, discussing with ground crew engineers ..
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.. they unjammed one bolt, now another one is jammed ..
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STS-130-06:19:35:00
.. ground team preparing commands to adjust the torque on the bolts ..
.. about 1h behind the schedule ...

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.. ready to start commands ..

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.. so far ok ..

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.. issue with the capture latches aborted the procedure ..

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.. working on it ..

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.. reset and restart ..
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.. success ..
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.. getting ready to move Cupola ..
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.. Soichi sending down scientific results ..
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[EarthlingX]

Cupola Being Relocated to Tranquility's Earth-Facing Port
Mon, 15 Feb 2010 05:30:36 AM GMT

Using the space station’s robotic arm, Mission Specialists Terry Virts and Kathryn Hire have started maneuvering the cupola from Tranquility’s forward side to Tranquility’s nadir (Earth-facing) port. This will be the cupola’s permanent home on the station. The cupola relocation operation is expected to take about 1 hour, 45 minutes.

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.. some problems with the electrical cable ..

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.. discussing ...
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.. SE of Australia, cleared to proceed ..
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.. everything looks good..
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.. go to move ..

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.. made contact ..
.. waiting for the latches ..

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[EarthlingX]

Cupola Relocated to Tranquility's Earth-Facing port
Mon, 15 Feb 2010 06:32:03 AM GMT

The crew has relocated the cupola at 1:25 a.m. EST from the Tranquility node’s forward side to Tranquility’s nadir (Earth facing) port. The next stage is to deploy four latches to temporarily place it on the node. A series of 16 bolts will secure the cupola to its permanent location.

STS-130-06:21:53:00
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.. Soichi reports successful data download ..
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STS-130-06:22:05:00
.. briefing in 10 min, media call Johnson Space Center ..

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.. ground team shift change ..

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[EarthlingX]

Cupola Latched and Bolted to Tranquility's Earth-Facing port
Mon, 15 Feb 2010 08:15:47 AM GMT

The crew relocated the cupola at 1:25 a.m. EST from the Tranquility node’s forward side to Tranquility’s nadir (Earth-facing) port. The second stage capture of the cupola was at 1:31 a.m. EST, signifying the completion of the module’s relocation. It is securely latched and all Common Berthing Mechanism bolts have been driven in. The crew relocated the cupola from the Tranquility node’s forward side to Tranquility’s nadir (Earth-facing) port.

Astronauts Battle Glitches to Move Space Station's Observation Deck

posted: 15 February 2010
01:34 am ET
This story was updated at 3:05 a.m. ET.

Astronauts moved a brand-new observation deck to its final destination on the International Space Station late Sunday despite jammed bolts and other glitches that threatened their work.

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.. working on the valve and suits ..
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.. arm will be moved in a couple of hours to move the PMA to where Cupola was before ..
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.. media event in about 2 hours ..
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Realtime ISS tracking at NASA
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2010.02.15 09:16 GMT

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[Zipi]

Timelapse of Cupola Relocation:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbUzrqI14FI[/youtube]

 

[EarthlingX]

Khm .. i'm a bit sleepy, and not sure .. but something very familiar about this video .. ? :shock: :?
nevermind ...

 

[Zipi]

Khm .. i'm a bit sleepy, and not sure .. but something very familiar about this video .. ? :shock: :?
nevermind ...

That's because you have seen this all live and made your own timelapse about it.

Here is Flight Day 8 Highlights:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYN-7G7mMXE[/youtube]

FD8 Crew Choice 1/2:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD3Owz_OOFU[/youtube]

FD8 Crew Choice 2/2:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERKGVcjJd-s[/youtube]

 

[EarthlingX]

Crew Preparing to Move Pressurized Mating Adapter-3
Mon, 15 Feb 2010 09:21:00 PM GMT
The crew of space shuttle Endeavour awoke at 4:15 p.m. EST to the song “Parabola” by Tool, played for Mission Specialist Robert Behnken.

The mission’s ninth day includes moving Pressurized Mating Adapter-3 (PMA 3) to the end of Tranquility to enhance micrometeoroid debris protection of the node, while cupola internal outfitting continues. The crew will have some off duty time later in the flight day.

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.. exercise device almost operational, first customers later today ..
.. they are moving it into Tranquility ..
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[MeteorWayne]

That's no "exercise device"...it's the COLBERT !!!! :lol:

Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill

 

[EarthlingX]

:lol: Thought so
.. just wasn't sure, and i don't know him (it) personally .. :roll:
Let's check it out a bit
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.. working on procedure to release the PMA-3 ..
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.. removing 1st set of 4 bolts ..
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.. procedure is going well so far ..
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.. second set ..
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.. releasing third set ..
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.. pause to wait for data connection with mission control to resume ..
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.. hatch is open to the Cupola ..
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.. removing cover and connection cables ..
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.. comm links back, continuing ..
.. final set of 4 bolts, then four latches ..
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all bolts released, now latches ..
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.. ready to move PMA-3, latches released ..

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.. on the move ..






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.. pause for inspection ..

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.. pause, realigning cameras ..
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.. berthing adapter prepared ..
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.. getting ready to move ..
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.. initial contact made, adjusting alignment ..
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[EarthlingX]

Pressurized Mating Adapter-3 Moved to Tranquility
Tue, 16 Feb 2010 02:03:20 AM GMT

Using the station’s robotic arm, the crew has moved Pressurized Mating Adapter-3 from its previous location on the Harmony module to the open port on the end of the Tranquility node.

Later, the crew will have some off duty time followed by preparing for tomorrow’s third and final spacewalk of the mission.

NASA Television will air a Mission Status Briefing at 5:30 a.m. with STS-130 Lead Space Station Flight Director Bob Dempsey.

Astronauts Move Space Station Docking Port to New Home

posted: 15 February 2010
10:00 pm ET

Astronauts moved an old docking port to a new spot on the International Space Station late Monday in the second straight day of tricky crane work 220 miles above Earth.

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.. securing bolts and latches ..
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.. cautiously going ahead with the procedure, due to previous trouble with Cupola on the same place ..
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.. Colbert video session will be taped ..
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bolts secured ..
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.. starting to move the arm ..

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[nimbus]

The pics at and after 07:16:23:00 are so cool..
btw if you have the bandwidth for it, there's a better 1+Mbps feed.
http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?id=1368163 1200 bps
http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?id=1368570 500 bps

 

[EarthlingX]

My connection is too slow, unfortunately .. :|

Yea, about 07:16:23:... pic was good, and me lucky



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.. astronauts just got the rest of the day off ..

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Cupola connecting going on ..
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.. one more hour of work for some ..
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.. lunch ..
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(speed limit) :

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over UK ..
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.. Colbert in operation, for check and private physician video session ..

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( rumor) TJ first to check Colbert ..
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[EarthlingX]

STS-130-07:21:05:00
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.. Soichi discussing micro organism experiments with JAXA ..
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over Pacific, heading over America to Canada ..
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team on the ground checking distances between PMA and radiators ...
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Colbert moved, operational, causing a queue among free astronauts ..
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over Africa, heading to Indian Ocean ..
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.. procedure review for EV3 in about 1.5h ..
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.. first Colbert reports being sent down ..
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over Southern Ocean, heading over New Zealand ..
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.. doing slow radiator rotation ..
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[EarthlingX]

2010.02.16 09:16 GMT

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STS-130 Flight Day 10 Planned Activities
Published by Klaus Schmidt on Tue Feb 16, 2010 8:09 am

1:14 GMT (4:14 pm EST) – Endeavour / ISS Crew Wakeup
21:54 GMT (4:54 pm EST) – EVA #3 Preparations Resume
2:09 GMT (9:09 pm EST) – EVA #3 Begins (Behnken And Patrick)
2:39 GMT (9:39 pm EST) – Node 3 Fluid And Cable Routing / PMA 3-To-Tranquility Cable Connections
3:39 GMT (10:39 pm EST) – Cupola MLI Removal
4:49 GMT (11:49 pm EST) – Cupola Launch Lock Release / Node 3 Worksite Interface & Handrail Install
5:49 GMT (12:49 am EST) – Video Signal Converter Cable Routing
7:09 GMT (2:09 am EST) – P1 Truss P-Clamp Release
8:39 GMT (3:39 am EST) – EVA #3 Ends
12:44 GMT (7:44 am EST) – ISS Crew Sleep Begins
13:14 GMT (8:14 pm EST) – Endeavour Crew Sleep Begins

 

[3488]

Thank you all very much for the updates.

Like your image links EarthlingX. :mrgreen:

My access is very limited till I get my own computer back.

Andrew Brown.

 

[EarthlingX]

Thank you all very much for the updates.

Like your image links EarthlingX. :mrgreen:

My access is very limited till I get my own computer back.

Andrew Brown.

Glad you like it

I hope your comp gets well soon

STS-130 Spacewalkers "Camping Out" in Airlock
Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:48:40 PM GMT

Mission Specialists Robert Behnken and Nicholas Patrick, set to perform the third spacewalk of the STS-130 mission, are spending the night in the Quest airlock of the International Space Station. The "campout" procedure, with the airlock pressure reduced to 10.2 psi, aims to lower their blood's nitrogen content and minimize the possibility of decompression sickness. The 6.5-hour spacewalk is scheduled to begin at 9:09 p.m. EST.

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[Zipi]

Flight Day 9 Highlights: (HD, shorter)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErqMNOz3bvM[/youtube]

Flight Day 9 Highlights, full length:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVcYL_UVqno[/youtube]

 

[EarthlingX]

My access is very limited till I get my own computer back.
Andrew Brown.

I hope your comp gets well soon

After a bit more awake view, i must correct myself:

Your computer must get well soon !!! :shock:

 

[EarthlingX]

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Third and Final STS-130 Spacewalk Tonight
Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:26:16 PM GMT

The crew of space shuttle Endeavour awoke at 4:15 p.m. EST to the song “Window on the World” by Jimmy Buffett, played for Mission Specialist Kathryn Hire.

The mission’s third and final spacewalk is today. Spacewalkers Robert Behnken and Nicholas Patrick will complete the work on the Tranquility node and the cupola’s exterior, including removing covers and launch locks. Inside, Expedition 22 Flight Engineer Soichi Noguchi will move a robotics workstation, which has served as a backup inside the Destiny laboratory, into the cupola.

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(rumor) looks like a great day for EVA ..
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pressurization of the airlock on the way, couple of minutes left ..

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.. ground team shift change ..
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.. over Northern Egipt ..
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.. post shift briefing going on ..

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.. pressurization almost complete, preparing to enter the station ..
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removing the respiration masks ..
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powering up space-suits, getting ready to get in ..
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.. checking, rechecking then check again ..
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.. check A ok ..
.. going through the procedure ..
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.. related activities continuing ..
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.. in the suits, doing leak check ..
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.. attaching tools ..
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.. station science activities going on in parallel ..
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.. de-pressurizing the crew lock ..
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