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07-23-2009, 06:05 AM
The combined STS-127 and Expedition 20 crew was awakened at 5:33 a.m. EDT with the song “Tiny Dancer,” performed by Elton John. The song was selected for Endeavour Commander Mark Polansky.
At 9 a.m. EDT NASA Television will air a news conference introducing the crew of Expedition 21, astronaut Jeff Williams, Russian cosmonaut Maxim Suraev and spaceflight participant Guy Lalibert? of Canada.
The Kibo robotic arm will be used for the first time operationally to move space station hardware. Koichi Wakata and Tim Kopra will transfer two experiments and a communication system from the Japanese Exposed Section to the Japanese Exposed Facility. The Inter-orbit Communication System (ICS) is the Kibo-specific communications system for uplinking and downlinking data, images and voice between Kibo and the Mission Control Center at Tsukuba Space Center by way of Japan’s own relay satellite, the Data Relay Test Satellite, or DRTS. The two experiments are Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image (MAXI) and Space Environment Data Acquisition equipment – Attached Payload (SEDA-AP).
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At 9 a.m. EDT NASA Television will air a news conference introducing the crew of Expedition 21, astronaut Jeff Williams, Russian cosmonaut Maxim Suraev and spaceflight participant Guy Lalibert? of Canada.
The Kibo robotic arm will be used for the first time operationally to move space station hardware. Koichi Wakata and Tim Kopra will transfer two experiments and a communication system from the Japanese Exposed Section to the Japanese Exposed Facility. The Inter-orbit Communication System (ICS) is the Kibo-specific communications system for uplinking and downlinking data, images and voice between Kibo and the Mission Control Center at Tsukuba Space Center by way of Japan’s own relay satellite, the Data Relay Test Satellite, or DRTS. The two experiments are Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image (MAXI) and Space Environment Data Acquisition equipment – Attached Payload (SEDA-AP).
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