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06-08-2008, 01:12 PM
About halfway into today's six hour, 20-minute spacewalk, Ron Garan has installed a new Nitrogen Tank Assembly on the right hand S1 truss. Mike Fossum has completed taking photographs and two samples of a dust-like material inside the port Solar Alpha Rotary Joint, or SARJ. The port SARJ continues to operate normally, but the composition of the debris is unknown, so the samples will be returned to Earth for analysis.
Next, the spacewalkers will move to the Kibo robotic arm. After Saturday's first-ever deploy of the arm, spacewalkers now can remove previously inaccessible launch locks and insulation from the arm's wrist and elbow cameras.
After that, Fossum and Garan will undertake a television repair task. During the second spacewalk, Fossum and Garan retrieved a faulty television camera from the exterior of the space station. They replaced the camera's power supply Saturday, and are returning it to its spot on the Port 1 truss during today's spacewalk.
Next, the spacewalkers will move to the Kibo robotic arm. After Saturday's first-ever deploy of the arm, spacewalkers now can remove previously inaccessible launch locks and insulation from the arm's wrist and elbow cameras.
After that, Fossum and Garan will undertake a television repair task. During the second spacewalk, Fossum and Garan retrieved a faulty television camera from the exterior of the space station. They replaced the camera's power supply Saturday, and are returning it to its spot on the Port 1 truss during today's spacewalk.