The crew of space shuttle Endeavour awoke at 4:19 p.m. EST to the song “Also Sprach Zarathustra” by Richard Strauss, played for Mission Specialist Nicholas Patrick, who fondly remembers the music from the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
After wake up, the crew was notified that a focused inspection will not be necessary.
Today Endeavour’s crew will begin transferring supplies from the shuttle’s middeck to the space station, including spacewalking equipment, and then will have the afternoon off. Tonight, spacewalkers Bob Behnken and Patrick will sleep in the Quest airlock as part of the overnight “campout” procedure that helps purge nitrogen from their bloodstreams, preventing decompression sickness once they move out into the vacuum of space. The campout will be repeated the night before each spacewalk.