The crew of space shuttle Atlantis awoke at 3:20 a.m. EDT to the song “Alive Again” by Matt Maher, played for Mission Specialist Mike Good.<\/p>\n
The crew has been told there will be no focused inspection of the shuttle’s heat shield, but they will gather some additional imagery of it on flight day 5.<\/p>\n
The fourth day of the mission will focus on the first spacewalk, expected to begin at about 8:15 a.m. and last 6.5 hours.<\/p>\n
Spacewalkers Garrett Reisman and Steve Bowen will install a second station space-to-ground Ku-band antenna and a spare parts platform on Dextre, the two-armed robotic Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator.<\/p>\n
The first spacewalk will be the only one not devoted to battery replacement, but Reisman and Bowen will loosen battery bolts on the port-6 backbone segment of the station in preparation for the other spacewalks. Atlantis brought to the station six new 375-pound batteries to be installed during the second and third spacewalks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The crew of space shuttle Atlantis awoke at 3:20 a.m. EDT to the song “Alive Again” by Matt Maher, played for Mission Specialist Mike Good.<\/p>\n
The crew has been told there will be no focused inspection of the shuttle’s heat shield, but they will gather some additional imagery of it on flight day 5.<\/p>\n
The fourth day of the mission will focus on the first spacewalk, expected to begin at about 8:15 a.m. and last 6.5 hours.<\/p>\n
Spacewalkers Garrett Reisman and Steve Bowen will install a second station space-to-ground Ku-band antenna and a spare parts platform on Dextre, the two-armed robotic Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator.<\/p>\n
The first spacewalk will be the only one not devoted to battery replacement, but Reisman and Bowen will loosen battery bolts on the port-6 backbone segment of the station in preparation for the other spacewalks. Atlantis brought to the station six new 375-pound batteries to be installed during the second and third spacewalks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":612598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28806","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\/28806","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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28806\/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=28806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}