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| Image above: Flight Engineer Clay Anderson, at the
end of the station's robotic arm, jettisons the Early Ammonia Servicer.
Image credit: NASA TV |
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Station crew completes successful spacewalk
Two International Space Station crew members Monday successfully wrapped
up a 7-hour, 41-minute spacewalk that saw the removal and jettison of
a refrigerator-size ammonia reservoir.
During the spacewalk Flight Engineer Clay Anderson, KD5PLA, and Commander
Fyodor Yurchikhin, RN3FI, also installed a television camera stanchion,
reconfigured a power supply for an antenna assembly, and performed several
get-ahead tasks.
Riding on the end of the space station's robotic arm maneuvered by Flight
Engineer Oleg Kotov, Anderson jettisoned the Early Ammonia Servicer (EAS)
by shoving it opposite of the station's direction of travel.
After the spacewalk, the docked Progress 25 cargo craft fired its thrusters
raising the International Space Station’s orbit. This reboost, along
with a reboost performed Friday, provides the proper phasing for an upcoming
Progress 26 launch and docking. Monday's Progress firing also cleared
the station after the EAS was jettisoned and provides flight day three
rendezvous opportunities when space shuttle Endeavour arrives on mission
STS-118.
The Progress 24 cargo craft will undock from the Pirs docking compartment
on Aug. 1 and burn up in the Earth’s atmosphere.
Progress 26 is scheduled for launch on August 2 and will reach the station
on August 5. Two days later on August 7, space shuttle Endeavour is targeted
for launch with a station rendezvous and docking planned for August 9.
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