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- Astronaut Steve Bowen, participates in the mission's first session of extravehicular activity as construction and maintenance continue on the Space Station.

Home improvements continued aboard the International Space Station with installation of two new bedrooms and preparations to activate a water recycling facility. Station flight engineer Sandra Magnus and her predecessor Greg Chamitoff moved the port and starboard crew quarters to the station and installed them in the Harmony node. They also installed a rack with equipment for return to Earth inside the Leonardo Multi-Purpose Logistics Module. Other crew members also continued moving equipment and supplies between the two spacecraft. Transfer of all of the phone-booth-sized racks planned for this mission has been completed. Transfer work overall is about twenty five percent complete. Continued...

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- Astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Sandra Magnus are pictured with fresh fruit floating freely on the middeck of Shuttle Endeavour during flight day three activities.


The second spacewalk by Endeavour astronauts outside the ISS will be the focus of today's activities aboard the two spacecraft. Endeavour crew members, Commander Chris Ferguson, Pilot Eric Boe and mission specialists Don Pettit, Steve Bowen, Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper, Shane Kimbrough and Greg Chamitoff, were awakened at 7:55 a.m. The song was 'Summertime,' played for Pettit. It was recorded by Bandella. Members of that group include singer Michi Pettit, Don Pettit's wife, and astronauts Steve Robinson, Chris Hadfield and Cady Coleman. Continued...

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- Being First
- STS-126 astronaut Steve Bowen and Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper (out of frame) worked to clean and lubricate part of the station's starboard Solar Alpha Rotary Joints (SARJ) and to remove two of SARJ's 12 trundle bearing assemblies. The spacewalkers also removed a depleted nitrogen tank from a stowage platform on the outside of the complex and moved it into Endeavour's 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. http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegal ... _1224.html


» NASA TV LIVE: Endeavour Spacewalk Coverage » NASA: Image of The Day Archive http://www.space.gs/08/sts-126/18-nov-2008-1.html

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View From a Window
- The blackness of space and Earth's horizon provide the backdrop for this image of the docked Soyuz 13 (TMA-9) (foreground) and Progress 22 resupply vehicle.
The STS-116 crew protographed the Soyuz from a window on the International Space Station while Space Shuttle Discovery was docked with the station.
Image credit: NASA - Image Gallery

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A Different View
- European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Christer Fuglesang participates in the mission's second of three planned sessions of extravehicular activity
as construction resumes on the ISS. Image credit: NASA

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A Day's Work
- Anchored to the Space Station's Canadarm2 foot restraint, astronauts Robert L. Curbeam Jr. (top) and Christer Fuglesang (center) work on
the port overhead solar array wing of the station's P6 truss during the mission's fourth spacewalk. Image credit: NASA

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Working on the Solar Array
- Astronaut Robert Curbeam works on the port overhead solar array wing on the International Space Station's P6 truss during the mission's fourth spacewalk.
Image credit: NASA

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Feeling Secure
- With his feet secured on the Canadarm2, European Space Agency astronaut Christer Fuglesang, an STS-116 mission specialist, works to relocate
one of the two Crew Equipment Translation Aid carts during the second spacewalk on Dec. 14, 2006. Image credit: NASA

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The View
- As seen through windows on the aft flight deck of Discovery, the payload bay is featured in this image photographed by a STS-116 crewmember
during flight day two. Pictured in the payload bay is the Spacehab module and the boom is on the left. The shuttle's docking mechanism is visible in
the foreground. Image credit: NASA

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Backdropped by a Colorful Earth
-The astronauts Robert L. Curbeam, Jr. (left) and Christer Fuglesang participate in the first of the mission's three planned sessions of extravehicular
activity as construction resumes on the International Space Station. Image credit: NASA

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» Grin.hq.nasa.gov

- A View of The Public Viewing Area for the Space Shuttle landing in California, USA

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- 360 Degree Panorama Mars Pathfinder Landing Site. » GRIN: Information

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NASA's Canberra Com. Complex

- View of Canberra 70m antenna with flags from the three Deep Space Network sites. The Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex, located outside Canberra, Australia, is one of the three complexes which comprise NASA's Deep Space Network. The other complexes are located in Goldstone, California, and Madrid, Spain. Credit: GRIN

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FloridaToday Blog: Live in Orbit: Spacewalk Proceeding Well

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FloridaToday blog

Live in Orbit: Station Gets Boost
Florida Today Blog, Nov. 21, 2008

Endeavour commander Chris Ferguson and pilot Eric Boe have completed a 30-minute "reboost" maneuver, using shuttle thrusters to nudge the station's altitude roughly a mile. That puts the station in better position to dock with a Russian Progress cargo vehicle in a little over a week. "We saw a good reboost," flight communicator Terry Virts said from NASA's Mission Control Center.





The Progress is shown at left in processing at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It is scheduled to launch from there Wednesday and to dock with the station Nov. 30. Endeavour is scheduled to depart the station after a 12-day stay.





Elsewhere, officials are still mulling over how to resume activation of a new urine processing system, which eventually will recycle urine into drinking water. Despite some difficulty doing that, Expedition 18 flight engineer Sandra Magnus is continuing to hook up an apparatus that will provide on board tests of water quality. It's called the Total Organic Carbon Analyzer, or TOCA, and is shown here.



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