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Japanese logistics module move atop Kibo lab today BY WILLIAM HARWOOD STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS "SPACE PLACE" & USED WITH PERMISSION Posted: June 6, 2008 The Discovery astronauts are working through a busy day inside the international space station, continuing the outfitting of the Japanese Kibo laboratory module and preparing to move a smaller storage module to its permanent home on Kibo's upward-facing port. At 8 a.m. today, video from cameras mounted on the shuttle's solid-fuel boosters was played on the NASA satellite television system, showing dramatic views of the orbiter as it climbed toward space last Saturday. The booster cam footage is part of NASA's post-Columbia focus on monitoring the health of the shuttle's heat shield from launch through end of mission. The video released today was some of the best footage yet of a shuttle launch from the perspective of the boosters. While small bits of debris could be seen swirling between the shuttle and its external tank just before booster separation, nothing major could be seen and nothing of any significance hit the orbiter. The major item on the agenda today for the Discovery astronauts is to move the Japanese pressurized logistics module, or JLP, from its temporary mounting point atop the Harmony module, where it was positioned after delivery in March, to its permanent location on the outboard upward facing port of the Kibo module. Eight of Kibo's equipment and experiment racks were launched inside the logistics module and all eight had to be moved into the laboratory before the relocation later today. In preparation for the move, the crew late Thursday locked one end of the station's robot arm to a grapple fixture on the front face of the station's main solar power truss. The other end of the arm will be used to lock onto the logistics module. After depressurizing the vestibule between the logistics module and Harmony, Karen Nyberg, space station flight engineer Gregory Chamitoff and Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide will disconnect and maneuver the module about 30 feet or so to its final location. "We will grapple to the JLP," Nyberg said in a NASA interview. "Aki (Hoshide) and Greg will be working the mechanism that releases the bolts that connect it to (Harmony). Then wešll maneuver it, basically, straight zenith and then translate it down over to its new berthing mechanism and then again install it then on top of the JPM (Kibo) in its permanent location." Hoshide plans to test the video workstation in Kibo that will be used later to operate the module's robot arm. He also will disengage brakes on the arm's joints and then reapply them in a procedure designed to release any stresses that might have built up in the arm during launch. Here is an updated timeline of today's activity (in EDT and mission elapsed time; includes revision H of the NASA television schedule): EDT........DD...HH...MM...EVENT 06/06/08 06:32 AM...05...13...30...Crew wakeup 08:00 AM...05...14...58...Solid rocket booster video replay on NTV 08:17 AM...05...15...15...ISS daily planning conference 09:42 AM...05...16...40...Logistics module (JLP) vestibule configure for demating 09:47 AM...05...16...45...Middeck transfers 12:12 PM...05...19...10...JLP vestibule depressurization 12:27 PM...05...19...25...Media interviews with shuttle, station commanders 01:02 PM...05...20...00...Crew meals begin 02:02 PM...05...21...00...JLP grappled 02:12 PM...05...21...10...Harmony/JLP demate 02:57 PM...05...21...55...JLP unberthed 03:07 PM...05...22...05...JLP moved to Kibo (JPM) outboard 03:37 PM...05...22...35...JLP install on JEM 03:57 PM...05...22...55...1st stage bolts 04:17 PM...05...23...15...2nd stage bolts 05:57 PM...06...00...55...JLP vestibule pressure check 06:57 PM...06...01...55...Japanese robot arm activation 07:27 PM...06...02...25...Japanese robot arm stress release 07:30 PM...05...02...28...Mission status briefing on NTV 09:32 PM...06...04...30...ISS crew sleep begins 10:02 PM...06...05...00...STS crew sleep begins 11:00 PM...06...05...58...Daily video highlights reel on NTV
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