ASTRONAUTS WORKING OUTSIDE STATION - Mission Specialists Mike Fossum and Ron Garan began the second STS-124 spacewalk at 11:04 a.m. EDT. The spacewalkers will install two cameras on the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Kibo laboratory and prepare the laboratory for the attachment of the smaller section of the module. The Japanese Experiment Logistics Module - Pressurized Section was delivered during STS-123. More (Source: NASA - Jun 5)
CREWS TO ENTER JAPANESE LAB TODAY - The shuttle and station crews will open the newly installed Japanese laboratory Kibo for business today. Hatch opening is planned for 4:52 p.m. EDT. The experiment module was installed on the Harmony Node’s port side Tuesday. After a leak check, mission specialists Karen Nyberg and Akihiko Hoshide will prepare Kibo for activation before opening the hatches. Shortly after entering Kibo with Hoshide, Expedition 17 Commander Sergei Volkov will sample the air and test for contamination. They will wear protective goggles and masks until they are sure the Japanese lab’s air is clean. More (Source: NASA - Jun 4)
STS-124 COMPLETES FIRST SPACEWALK, INSTALLS JPM - The crews of space shuttle Discovery and the International Space Station wrapped up a busy day Tuesday, completing a six-hour, 48-minute spacewalk and expanding the Japanese segment of the orbital outpost. Mission specialists Mike Fossum and Ron Garan completed STS-124’s first spacewalk at 7:10 p.m. EDT. More (Source: NASA - Jun 4)
CREWS BEGIN JOINT OPERATIONS - Space Shuttle Discovery arrived at the International Space Station at 2:03 p.m. EDT delivering the second component of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Kibo laboratory and a new Expedition 17 crew member. The STS-124 astronauts entered the station for the first time after the hatches between the two spacecraft opened at 3:36 p.m More (Source: NASA - Jun 2)
DISCOVERY TO DOCK WITH STATION TODAY - Space shuttle Discovery is scheduled to dock with the International Space Station at 1:54 p.m. EDT. About an hour before docking, STS-124 Commander Mark Kelly and Pilot Kenneth Ham will guide the shuttle through a Rendezvous Pitch Maneuver, or back-flip, giving the Expedition 17 crew the opportunity to take pictures of the orbiter’s protective heat-resistant tiles. These photos will be sent to engineers on Earth for analysis. More (Source: NASA - Jun 2)
DISCOVERY IN ORBIT - May 31 5:11 p.m. EDT - Space shuttle Discovery rocketed into space safely this evening to begin a 14-day mission to attach a new scientific module to the International Space Station. Launch came at 5:02 p.m. EDT from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida and set Discovery on a trajectory to intercept the space station in two days. More (Source: NASA - May 31)
NASA FUELS SHUTTLE DISCOVERY FOR LAUNCH - NASA fueled space shuttle Discovery on Saturday for a late afternoon launch to the international space station. Everything seemed to be going NASA's way, including the weather. With no hurdles in sight, the launch team pumped more than 500,000 gallons of fuel into Discovery's big external tank soon after daybreak, finishing on schedule in three hours. More (Source: Washington Post - May 31)
NASA CLEARS SHUTTLE FOR LIFTOFF ON SATURDAY - NASA managers cleared space shuttle Discovery and a crew of seven for launch on Saturday to install Japan's research laboratory onto the International Space Station, officials said on Thursday. Liftoff is scheduled for 5:02 p.m. EDT (2102 GMT) from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The shuttle will be carrying a bus-sized lab module named Kibo, a Japanese word for hope. More (Source: Reuters - May 30)
SPACE SHUTTLE MISSION LOADED WITH 'HOPE' - There's a lot of hope packed aboard the shuttle Discovery, bound for the space station. Kibo ("Hope" in Japanese) is set to be the newest, largest laboratory on the International Space Station (ISS). The tour bus-sized room built by Japan is scheduled to launch aboard Discovery's STS-124 mission Saturday afternoon from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. More (Source: Space.com - May 27)
Previous Next
