Rick
06-07-2008, 10:23 AM
Astronauts Mike Fossum and Ron Garan completed their second STS-124 spacewalk at 6:15 p.m. EDT, when the Quest airlock was repressurized. The spacewalk lasted seven hours, eleven minutes.
This was Fossum's fifth spacewalk, Garan's second, the 111th spacewalk devoted to space station assembly and maintenance, the 12th of 2008, and the 196th by U.S. astronauts.
The astronauts completed a number of tasks to outfit the Kibo Japanese Pressurized Module, or JPM. They installed television cameras on the front and rear of the JPM to assist Kibo robotic arm operations, removed thermal covers from the Kibo robotic arm, prepared an upper JPM docking port for Friday's attachment of the Kibo logistics module, readied a spare nitrogen tank assembly for its installation during Sunday's third spacewalk, and retrieved a failed television camera from the Port 1 truss.
At the end of the spacewalk, Fossum inspected the port Solar Alpha Rotary Joint, or SARJ. He described and photographed some features that appeared to be lines of grease.
Inside the space station, astronauts moved all the racks from the Japanese logistics module into the Kibo JPM, and closed the logistics module's hatch. The logistics module is ready to be relocated Friday from its current location on top of the Harmony node to its permanent location on top of the JPM. Both Kibo JPM power channels have been activated and are functioning normally.
This was Fossum's fifth spacewalk, Garan's second, the 111th spacewalk devoted to space station assembly and maintenance, the 12th of 2008, and the 196th by U.S. astronauts.
The astronauts completed a number of tasks to outfit the Kibo Japanese Pressurized Module, or JPM. They installed television cameras on the front and rear of the JPM to assist Kibo robotic arm operations, removed thermal covers from the Kibo robotic arm, prepared an upper JPM docking port for Friday's attachment of the Kibo logistics module, readied a spare nitrogen tank assembly for its installation during Sunday's third spacewalk, and retrieved a failed television camera from the Port 1 truss.
At the end of the spacewalk, Fossum inspected the port Solar Alpha Rotary Joint, or SARJ. He described and photographed some features that appeared to be lines of grease.
Inside the space station, astronauts moved all the racks from the Japanese logistics module into the Kibo JPM, and closed the logistics module's hatch. The logistics module is ready to be relocated Friday from its current location on top of the Harmony node to its permanent location on top of the JPM. Both Kibo JPM power channels have been activated and are functioning normally.