{"id":11249,"date":"2010-02-11T17:22:33","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T21:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/c97669650d82a6591f97f3448e735be9"},"modified":"2010-02-11T17:22:33","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T21:22:33","slug":"first-spacewalk-tonight-for-sts-130","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=11249","title":{"rendered":"First Spacewalk Tonight for STS-130"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The crew of space shuttle Endeavour awoke at 4:14 p.m. EST to the song &#8220;Beautiful Day&#8221; by U2, played for Mission Specialist for Kay Hire.<\/p>\n<p>  The fifth day of the mission will focus on the first spacewalk and robotics work to install the Tranquility node. The spacewalk is expected to begin at around 9:09 p.m., although could begin a little earlier if the crew is ready.<\/p>\n<p>  Spacewalkers Nicholas Patrick and Bob Behnken will prepare Tranquility for its removal from Endeavour&#8217;s payload bay and then install avionics cabling once the new module is in place. Terry Virts and Hire will operate the station&#8217;s robotic arm to install Tranquility with the Cupola. The spacewalkers also will remove a tool platform from the station&#8217;s special purpose dexterous manipulator, or DEXTRE, while Tranquility is being maneuvered. Station Commander Jeff Williams and Hire will begin a leak check of the interface to Tranquility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The crew of space shuttle Endeavour awoke at 4:14 p.m. EST to the song &#8220;Beautiful Day&#8221; by U2, played for Mission Specialist for Kay Hire.<\/p>\n<p>  The fifth day of the mission will focus on the first spacewalk and robotics work to install the Tranquility node. The spacewalk is expected to begin at around 9:09 p.m., although could begin a little earlier if the crew is ready.<\/p>\n<p>  Spacewalkers Nicholas Patrick and Bob Behnken will prepare Tranquility for its removal from Endeavour&#8217;s payload bay and then install avionics cabling once the new module is in place. Terry Virts and Hire will operate the station&#8217;s robotic arm to install Tranquility with the Cupola. The spacewalkers also will remove a tool platform from the station&#8217;s special purpose dexterous manipulator, or DEXTRE, while Tranquility is being maneuvered. Station Commander Jeff Williams and Hire will begin a leak check of the interface to Tranquility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":612598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shuttle-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/612598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}