STS-123 MCC Status
Report #16
(18 March 2008) With the addition of a
now-fully-assembled new robot to the International Space Station, the station
and space shuttle Endeavour crews have a busy day of robotics work ahead of
them.
The crew's day started at 1:28 p.m. CDT. Their wake-up
call came in the form of Ayaka Hirahara's "Hoshi Tsumugi no Uta" - a Japanese
song that translates to "Song of Spinning Stars." The song was played for
Mission Specialist Takao Doi, a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
astronaut.
The first robotic work of the day is scheduled to start at
3:43 p.m. when Mission Specialist Leopold Eyharts and International Space
Station Flight Engineer Garrett Reisman will tuck away the arms of Dextre, the
Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator. That will prepare the robot for its move
to its temporary home on a Destiny laboratory power and data grapple fixture,
by Eyharts and Pilot Gregory H. Johnson.
Attaching Dextre to Destiny
will free up the station's robotic arm, Canadarm2, which has been holding
Dextre since early this morning. That will allow Johnson and Reisman to use
Canadarm2 to remove the Spacelab Logistics Pallet that Dextre was assembled on
from the station's truss and stow it back inside Endeavour's cargo bay for
return to Earth. Canadarm2 will then be attached to the station's mobile base
system so that it can be moved along the truss to its next worksite by Eyharts
and Expedition 16 Commander Peggy Whitson.
Other activities for the day
include resizing spacesuits by Mission Specialists Robert L. Behnken and Mike
Foreman for their next spacewalk on flight day 11, and two hours of off-duty
time for the shuttle crew members.
The next STS-123 status report will
be issued near the end of the crew's day at about 5 a.m. Wednesday, or earlier
if events warrant.
(source: NASA)
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