The crew of space shuttle Discovery awoke at 8:21 p.m. EDT to “The Pigeon and a Boy” by Joe Hisaishi, played for Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Naoko Yamazaki.
Today the Leonardo Multi Purpose Logistics Module, or MPLM, will be attached to the station’s Harmony module so its 17,000 pounds of science materials and experiments can be transferred to the International Space Station. The work to transfer the racks and supplies will occupy much of the combined shuttle and station crews’ time while the two spacecraft are docked. MPLM operations begin at 10:21 p.m. when the space station robotic arm grapples it and lifts it out of Discovery’s Payload Bay.