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| Image to left: Astronaut Sunita Williams conducts
a Surface, Water and Air Biocharacterization (SWAB) air sampling in
the Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station. Credit:
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Crew unpacks cargo and prepares for spacewalk
Flight Engineer Sunita Williams, KD5PLB, gave a tour of the space station
for Clay Anderson, KD5PLA, who will be arriving on the STS-117 flight.
Williams also continued unpacking items from the newly arrived ISS Progress
25 cargo craft.
She performed laptop status checks on two science payloads – the
Minus Eighty Degree Laboratory Freezer for ISS and the Commercial Generic
Bioprocessing Apparatus 2.
Additionally, she held a ham radio session with students at Toyon Elementary
School in San Jose, Calif. Toyon is a NASA Explorer School.
The Russian crew members were busy with Russian spacewalk preparations
Monday. A spacewalk procedure and preliminary timeline review has been
completed. Checks of the spacewalk support panel in the docking compartment
and familiarization with spacewalk tasks have also been conducted. Williams
configured the camcorder for recording video of the Russian event.
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