Image above: STS-114 Commander Eileen Collins works out on the bicycle ergometer on Space Shuttle Discovery's middeck. Credit: NASA

Flight Day 10 is under way for the Space Shuttle Discovery crewmembers. After Wednesday's busy and successful spacewalk, they are planning on a light duty day today. However, it will be punctuated by a series of special events.

At 3:29 a.m. EDT, Commander Eileen Collins and Mission Specialists Steve Robinson and Charlie Camarda will conduct an in-flight media interview. Later this morning, Japanese Astronaut Soichi Noguchi and Collins will talk with Japanese officials, including Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.

The Discovery crew will join the International Space Station crew for a special meal afterwards. Then at 8:04 a.m., they plan to conduct a commemorative in-flight event paying tribute to the STS-107 Columbia crew.
Watch it live on NASA TV.

Mission Control awoke the crew at 11:09 p.m. EDT to "Amarillo by Morning" by George Strait.

Back on Earth, NASA managers are studying a ruffled thermal blanket on Discovery's exterior, below the commander's window. An engineering team is developing a plan for a potential additional spacewalk to repair it.

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