Today’s wakeup song was “Tubthumping” by Chumbawamba, played at 3:02 a.m. EDT for space shuttle Atlantis Mission Specialist Sandy Magnus.
After breakfast, the crews aboard Atlantis and the International Space Station will get to work. The primary task will be moving the 12.5-ton Raffaello multi-purpose logistics module from the shuttle cargo bay to the Earth-facing port on the station’s Harmony node. Shuttle Pilot Doug Hurley and Magnus will be at the controls of the station robotic arm, Candarm2, to perform the delicate task.
Raffaello is 21 feet long and 15 feet in diameter and is packed with more than 8,000 pounds of spare parts, spare equipment, food and other supplies that will sustain space station operations through 2012. Raffaello carries eight Resupply Stowage Platforms (RSPs), two Intermediate Stowage Platforms (ISPs), six Resupply Stowage Racks (RSRs) and one Zero Stowage Rack.
Mission Control has verified that the track of a piece of orbital debris will not be a threat to the International Space Station and space shuttle Atlantis. No adjustments to the docked spacecraft’s orbit will be necessary to avoid the debris, which is part of satellite COSMOS 375 and one of more than 500,000 pieces of debris tracked in Earth’s orbit.