{"id":28831,"date":"2010-05-17T08:06:01","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T12:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/e759b3ea61846f2de9422c57087e9e84"},"modified":"2010-05-17T08:06:01","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T12:06:01","slug":"sts-132-crew-conducting-first-spacewalk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=28831","title":{"rendered":"STS-132 Crew Conducting First Spacewalk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At 7:54 a.m. EDT, STS-132 spacewalkers Garrett Reisman and Steve Bowen switched their suits to battery power, signifying the start of today&#8217;s 6.5-hour excursion. Space shuttle Atlantis Pilot Tony Antonelli will be inside the International Space Station, choreographing the activities and coordinating communications between the spacewalkers and Mission Control in Houston. <\/p>\n<p> This is the 237<sup>th<\/sup> spacewalk conducted by U.S. astronauts, the 144<sup>th<\/sup> in support of space station assembly and maintenance, the second for Reisman and the fourth for Bowen. Reisman, lead for this spacewalk, is wearing an all-white spacesuit, and his helmet cam displays number 19. Bowen will wear a spacesuit marked with a red stripe; his helmet cam displays number 20. <\/p>\n<p> Once outside, Reisman and Bowen will install a spare space-to-ground antenna, place a spare parts platform on the Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator known as Dextre, and loosen battery bolts so the batteries can be swapped during the next two spacewalks.<\/p>\n<p> During the spacewalk, Mission Specialist Piers Sellers will control the station&#8217;s 58-foot-long robotic arm, on which Reisman will ride, to maneuver the ammonia tank assembly and other pieces of hardware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 7:54 a.m. EDT, STS-132 spacewalkers Garrett Reisman and Steve Bowen switched their suits to battery power, signifying the start of today&#8217;s 6.5-hour excursion. Space shuttle Atlantis Pilot Tony Antonelli will be inside the International Space Station, choreographing the activities and coordinating communications between the spacewalkers and Mission Control in Houston. <\/p>\n<p> This is the 237<sup>th<\/sup> spacewalk conducted by U.S. astronauts, the 144<sup>th<\/sup> in support of space station assembly and maintenance, the second for Reisman and the fourth for Bowen. Reisman, lead for this spacewalk, is wearing an all-white spacesuit, and his helmet cam displays number 19. Bowen will wear a spacesuit marked with a red stripe; his helmet cam displays number 20. <\/p>\n<p> Once outside, Reisman and Bowen will install a spare space-to-ground antenna, place a spare parts platform on the Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator known as Dextre, and loosen battery bolts so the batteries can be swapped during the next two spacewalks.<\/p>\n<p> During the spacewalk, Mission Specialist Piers Sellers will control the station&#8217;s 58-foot-long robotic arm, on which Reisman will ride, to maneuver the ammonia tank assembly and other pieces of hardware.<\/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-28831","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\/28831","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=28831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28831\/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=28831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}