Today’s wake up music was “Voyage to Atlantis” by the Isley Brothers, played at 3:58 a.m. EST for Atlantis Mission Specialist Robert Satcher.
Satcher will help direct today’s primary activity, the second STS-129 spacewalk. He will be the intravehicular crew member, choreographing the activities and coordinating communications between Mission Control in Houston and spacewalkers Mike Foreman and Randy Bresnik. The spacewalk is set to begin at 9:43 a.m. Also on today’s agenda is the installation of the Express Logistics Carrier 2 onto the International Space Station’s exterior.
Because of last night’s false space station alarms, the wakeup call moved 30 minutes later than planned. The spacewalk has been shortened to six hours, eliminating about 30 minutes of “get ahead” tasks that originally were scheduled.