 | Kibo Installation The crews of space shuttle Discovery and the International Space Station wrapped up a busy day on 3rd June 2008, completing a six-hour, 48-minute spacewalk and expanding the Japanese segment of the orbital outpost. Mission specialists Mike Fossum and Ron Garan completed STS-124's first spacewalk at 7:10 p.m. EDT. During the excursion, the pair retrieved a shuttle inspection tool, serviced and inspected components of a solar alpha rotary joint and prepared the largest component of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Kibo laboratory for installation on the International Space Station. The spacewalkers first transferred the Orbiter Boom Sensor System (OBSS) from the station's truss to space shuttle Discovery. The OBSS, which attaches to the shuttle's robotic arm for detailed inspection of the shuttle's heat shield, was left at the station during the previous shuttle mission to provide room for the giant Kibo module in Discovery's payload bay. Next, the spacewalkers prepared Kibo's Japanese Pressurized Module (JPM) for installation. After inspecting the common berthing mechanism on the Harmony Node's left side and opening a window cover, Fossum and Garan worked together in the shuttle's cargo bay to remove contamination covers from the JPM's docking surfaces. Fossum also disconnected heater cables and removed locking bolts from the shutters of the JPM's forward window. For their final tasks, Garan and Fossum moved to the station's starboard solar alpha rotary joint, which has been operating in a degraded mode due to debris contamination. Garan installed a replacement of one of the joint's 12 trundle bearing assemblies. Meanwhile, Fossum inspected a depression on the joint's race ring and tried out several techniques for cleaning the debris. Mission specialists Karen Nyberg and Akihiko Hoshide used the station's robotic arm to remove the JPM from the shuttle's payload bay and install it on Harmony, completing the task at 7:01 p.m. On the following day, the crew powered up the newly installed JPM and opened the hatches to begin outfitting the lab. (X9 speed) |
 | Walking the Void Astronauts Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper and Steve Bowen completed the first of four spacewalks scheduled for Endeavours mission to the International Space Station. The spacewalk was the 115th in support of ISS construction. Piper and Bowen began the spacewalk at 12:09 p.m. CST and ended it at 7:01 p.m. They spent six hours and 52 minutes outside the station working on several tasks, including removing a depleted nitrogen tank from a stowage platform on the outside of the complex and moving it into Endeavours cargo bay. They also moved a flex hose rotary coupler from the shuttle to the station stowage platform, as well as removing some insulation blankets from the common berthing mechanism on the Kibo laboratory. |
 | ISS US EVA-9 On 23rd July 2007, two International Space Station crew members successfully completed a 7-hour, 41-minute spacewalk that saw the removal and jettison of a refrigerator-size ammonia reservoir. Astronaut Clay Anderson was the lead spacewalker, EV1, wearing the spacesuit with red stripes. Fyodor Yurchikhin, the cosmonaut and station commander, wearing the all-white suit, was EV2. Cosmonaut Oleg Kotov operated the Canadarm2 from the U.S. laboratory Destiny. After leaving the Quest airlock and setting up equipment, the first task was installation of a television camera stanchion. The spacewalkers took it from an external stowage platform and installed it on the Earth-facing side of the station's main truss at the interface Starboard 0-Port 1 (S0-P1) truss segments. Next they moved to separate tasks. Anderson reconfigured a power supply for an S-Band Antenna Assembly, and then set up and got on a foot restraint at the end of Canadarm2. Yurchikhin replaced a circuit breaker, called a remote power controller module. It ensures power redundancy for a move of the Mobile Transporter rail car on the station's truss. Back together, Anderson and Yurchikhin removed flight support equipment, where the camera stanchion had been mounted, and an attached Flight Releasable Attachment Mechanism. Together they have a mass of about 212 pounds. While Anderson jettisoned them from the end of the arm, Yurchikhin moved to the Z1 truss, where he disconnected and stowed cabling associated with the ammonia reservoir, called the Early Ammonia Servicer (EAS). The EAS was installed on the P6 truss during STS-105 in August 2001, as an ammonia replenishment reservoir if a leak had occurred. It was never used, and was no longer needed after the permanent cooling system was activated last December. The EAS has to be removed before the P6 truss can be moved to the end of the station's main truss. With Anderson still on the arm, both crew members moved to the P6 Truss and released its remaining connections to the station. Once it was free, Anderson held the EAS while the arm maneuvered him to the jettison point, below the right side of the ISS main truss. The EAS weighs a little over 1,400 pounds on Earth. The jettison was much like that of the stanchion equipment. Anderson shoved the EAS opposite the station's direction of travel. A subsequent reboost by Russian thrusters changes the station's orbit to provide clearance from the EAS. The reboost also prepares for the 2nd August launch of the Progress 26 cargo carrier and the 7th August launch of Discovery to the station. The final scheduled spacewalk task was cleaning the Earth-facing docking port, or Common Berthing Mechanism (CBM) of the Unity node. That was done to prepare for the relocation of Pressurized Mating Adapter-3 (PMA-3), scheduled for late August. The move is being made to clear the PMA-3's present position, on the starboard CBM of Unity, for a series of events that will culminate with the arrival of the Harmony node and its preparation to receive future space shuttles. Crew members completed three get-ahead tasks. They removed an auxiliary equipment bag from the P6 Truss and attached it to the Z1 Truss. They also removed a malfunctioning Global Positioning System antenna on the S0 Truss and released bolts on two fluid trays attached to the S0. The trays are to be installed on Node 2, the Harmony node, during STS-120 this fall. After cleanup Anderson and Yurchikhin re-entered Quest and concluded the spacewalk. It was the first spacewalk for Anderson and the third for Yurchikhin. |
 | JLP Relocation (time lapse) Time lapse of the NASA TV feed of the relocation of the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) JLP (Japanese Logistics Module) from the Node 2 module ("Harmony") to the zenith Common Berthing Mechanism of the Kibo ("Hope") laboratory module on the International Space Station (ISS) on June 6, 2008 during Space Shuttle mission STS-124. This video is at approximately 30 times actual speed. There is no audio track. |
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