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Saturday, March 22, 2008 11:30 AM

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http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

Webcast is on NOW ! Live from ISS/STS-123...

Click the Link , above , wait for it to load...Full screen options will be on the right...Under 'Other Viewing Options'...Select Windows Media or Real Player , your preference...


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Saturday, March 22, 2008 11:56 AM

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Saturday, March 22, 2008 1:26 PM

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Work summary Via CBS Space News , as of 7pm EDT:

"7:00 PM, 3/22/08, Update: Heat shield inspection boom mounted on space station

Astronaut Garrett Reisman, operating the space station's robot arm, handed the shuttle Endeavour's 50-foot-long heat shield inspection boom to spacewalkers Robert Behnken and Michael Foreman, who plugged in keep-alive power and mounted it on the front of the station's solar power truss.

Behnken's end snapped into an attachment fitting with no problem, but Foreman had to wrestle his into place due to minor alignment problems. After several adjustments, he coaxed his end into its mounting bracket.

"Wait, I've got it soft docked, Rick," Foreman called to spacewalk coordinator Richard Linnehan as his end snapped into place.

"Good work, Mike," Behnken called.

"OK, copy soft dock, Mike," said Reisman. "It looks like you're right on the edge of good alignment."

"Yeah, with a little elbow grease," Foreman replied. "I've got good alignment with the plates on the outside where they belong."

"Excellent, good job, Mike."

The spacewalkers then attached a thermal cover to the boom's instrument package to keep its laser scanner and camera system from getting too cold over the next few weeks.

Endeavour's orbiter boom sensor system, or OBSS, was stowed on the space station because the crew of the next shuttle assembly mission, scheduled for launch May 25, is ferrying the huge Japanese Kibo lab module to the station. That module is so large, the shuttle Discovery will not have enough room to carry an OBSS of its own.

The Discovery astronauts will retrieve Endeavour's boom and use it to inspect their shuttle's heat shield after they have docked with the station and attached Kibo.

WIth the OBSS safely mounted on the station, Behnken and Foreman are moving on to separate tasks. Behnken will attempt to install a materials science space exposure experiment package to the Columbus module while Foreman begins an inspection of the station's right side solar array rotary joint."



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