KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - Spacewalkers Bob Behnken and Nick Patrick successfully conducted a six and a half hour spacewalk today, helping to grow the International Space Station by over 30,000 pounds and completing the primary task for space shuttle Endeavour's STS-130 mission. The new Tranquility module will be powered up and hooked into the space station's system over the course of the next several days to bring assembly of the space station to 98 percent complete.
STS-130 MISSION ARCHIVE PAGE STS-130 PHOTO GALLERIES February 12, 2010 FREE VIDEOS: WATCH: FLIGHT DAY FIVE HIGHLIGHTS WATCH: ISS FLIGHT DIRECTOR UPDATE WATCH: INTERVIEW WITH MCC EGIL CONTROLLER KEVIN JENNINGS WATCH: MISSION STATUS BRIEFING WATCH: POST-MMT BRIEFING ALL-ACCESS SUBSCRIBERS: DOWNLOAD VIDEO: FLIGHT DAY FIVE HIGHLIGHTS DOWNLOAD VIDEO: ISS FLIGHT DIRECTOR UPDATE DOWNLOAD VIDEO: INTERVIEW WITH MCC EGIL CONTROLLER KEVIN JENNINGS DOWNLOAD VIDEO: MISSION STATUS BRIEFING DOWNLOAD VIDEO: POST-MMT BRIEFING February 11, 2010 FREE VIDEOS: WATCH: MISSION STATUS BRIEFING ALL-ACCESS SUBSCRIBERS: DOWNLOAD VIDEO: EVA # 1 COVERAGE, 500 KBPS - PART 1 DOWNLOAD VIDEO: EVA # 1 COVERAGE, 500 KBPS - PART 2 DOWNLOAD VIDEO: EVA # 1 COVERAGE, 500 KBPS - PART 3 DOWNLOAD VIDEO: EVA # 1 COVERAGE, 500 KBPS - PART 4 DOWNLOAD VIDEO: EVA # 1 COVERAGE, 1.2 MBPS - PART 1 DOWNLOAD VIDEO: EVA # 1 COVERAGE, 1.2 MBPS - PART 2 DOWNLOAD VIDEO: EVA # 1 COVERAGE, 1.2 MBPS - PART 3 DOWNLOAD VIDEO: MISSION STATUS BRIEFING February 10, 2010 FREE VIDEOS: WATCH: IN-CABIN VIEW DURING LAUNCH WATCH: ENDEAVOUR DOCKS WITH ISS WATCH: FLIGHT DAY THREE HIGHLIGHTS WATCH: ENDEAVOUR / ISS HATCH OPENING AND WELCOME CEREMONY WATCH: ISS FLIGHT DIRECTOR UPDATE WATCH: MISSION STATUS BRIEFING WATCH: BACKFLIP RENDEZVOUS PITCH MANEUVER ALL-ACCESS SUBSCRIBERS: DOWNLOAD VIDEO: IN-CABIN VIEW DURING LAUNCH DOWNLOAD VIDEO: ENDEAVOUR DOCKS WITH ISS DOWNLOAD VIDEO: DOCKING COVERAGE - 1.6 GIGABYTES DOWNLOAD VIDEO: FLIGHT DAY THREE HIGHLIGHTS DOWNLOAD VIDEO: ENDEAVOUR / ISS HATCH OPENING AND WELCOME CEREMONY DOWNLOAD VIDEO: ISS FLIGHT DIRECTOR UPDATE DOWNLOAD VIDEO: MISSION STATUS BRIEFING DOWNLOAD VIDEO: BACKFLIP RENDEZVOUS PITCH MANEUVER February 9, 2010 FREE VIDEOS: WATCH: POST-MMT BRIEFING ALL-ACCESS SUBSCRIBERS: DOWNLOAD VIDEO: POST-MMT BRIEFING HI-DEFINITION VIDEO FLIGHT DAY 5 HIGHLIGHTS ENDEAVOUR LAUNCH Today's EVA, the first of three scheduled for the mission, began at 9:17 p.m. EST when Behnken and Patrick switched their spacesuits to internal battery power and exited through the station's Quest airlock. The main task for the spacewalkers was to assist Kathy Hire and Terry Virts who worked the station's 50 foot long robotic arm to lift Tranquility out of Endeavour's payload bay and berth it to the Unity connecting nodes port-side common berthing mechanism. After Tranquility, designated Node 3, was attached to the station, Behnken and Patrick set about the task of connecting temporary data and power cabling that will regulate the module's temperature and systems until it is permanently hooked into the station's power and cooling systems. "Houston, for EVA, you guys can be advised we have good avionics and heater cable activation, so all those connections look good down here," radioed CAPCOM Hal Getzelman from mission control at Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX. "Great news,Houston. We appreciate it," intravehicular spacewalk coordinator astronaut Stephen Robinson replied from on board Endeavour. "Well thank you, Steve," replied Behnken. "I'm really glad for how successful it was, for getting this far and getting that power on node 3. Let the activation of node 3 begin!" "I whole heartedly agree," Patrick said. "It's been a great year of training with all those wonderful trainers back in Houston and I also really appreciatd the support from our friends at the NBL who made all the training possible." "A noble start for the STS-130 EVA extravaganza!" Robinson concluded. Tranquility represents that last major piece of U.S-built hardware to be delivered to the space station and essentially completes the U.S. segment of the outpost. On the shuttle's final mission later this year, astronauts will leave a specially-modified Multi-Purpose Logistics Module, MPLM, at the station as a sort of "bonus" module since the MPLM's will no longer be needed after assembly of the station is complete and the shuttle fleet retired. The final module, re-designated a Permanent Multipurpose Module, PMM, is built in Italy by Thales-Alenia Aerospace under contract to NASA. Leonardo is the MPLM that will be converted to a PMM. STS-133 is currently the last scheduled Space Shuttle Launch and is scheduled for September 16, 2010. The PMM will be transferred to the station through the Shuttle robotic arm and mated to the nadir facing port of Unity. The spacewalk ended at 3:49 a.m. EST Friday morning and brings the total EVA time on ISS to 861 hours and 34 minutes. This was Behnken's fourth spacewalk (he had three previously on STS-120 that brought Harmony to the station) and Patrick's first. (The Spacearium / SpaceflightNews.net)
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