STS-132 spacewalkers Steve Bowen and Michael Good are making very good progress in today’s spacewalk and have asked Mission Control to remain outside and continue on to another task. After a stop at the International Space Station’s Quest airlock, they will move over to the space-to-ground antenna dish and boom that were installed on the central part of the space station during the first spacewalk. Once there, they will attempt to tighten the bolts connecting the dish to the boom, eliminating the 1-millimeter gap. If they are successful, they will remove the tether holding the dish and boom together and release the launch locks, allowing the antenna dish to rotate.
Bowen and Good are about 5 hours and 50 minutes into today’s planned 6.5-hour spacewalk.