Spacewalker Steve Bowen prepared the space-to-ground antenna dish for removal, and he and Garrett Reisman released the eight bolts holding the boom of the antenna onto the pallet. Reisman has climbed onto the end of the space station’s 58-foot-long robotic arm so he can carry the boom via the robotic arm to the Z1 segment of the station’s truss, or backbone. Mission Specialist Piers Sellers is controlling the station’s robotic arm.
Bowen now will prepare for removal a new storage platform brought up for Dextre then he will join Reisman to install the antenna.
The spacewalkers are about an hour and 20 minutes into the spacewalk, which began at 7:54 a.m. EDT and is expected to last 6.5 hours.