Mission Status Center

EVA ENDS. Repressurization of the Quest airlock module began at 2:06 p.m. EST, marking the official end of today's spacewalk by Bobby Satcher and Randy Bresnik. The EVA lasted five hours and 42 minutes.

This was the third of three spacewalks planned for Atlantis' mission to the space station. The total time accumulated by the EVAs amounted to 18 hours and 27 minutes .

Astronauts Randy Bresnik and Bobby Satcher are back inside the airlock and are closing the hatch.

Spacewalkers are heading back toward the airlock to wrap up this last EVA of the Atlantis mission.

Now five hours into the EVA.

The spacewalking duo is working together on the starboard side of the station truss to finish up today's work on fluid line jumpers for the cooling system.

Bresnik is working on fluid jumper connections while Satcher does some work on the mobile base system.

The rest of today's EVA will be spend accomplishing various odds and ends as a means of "get-ahead" task.

The astronauts have completed the big-ticket item on the agenda for today's spacewalk by installing and activating the new high-pressure oxygen tank on the Quest airlock.

Installation of the new tank onto the outer diameter of the airlock is underway. The high-pressure gas tank measures 5 feet by 6.2 feet by 4.5 feet and weights approximately 1,240 pounds of which 220 pounds is gaseous oxygen at 2,450 pounds per square inch of pressure.

While the robot arm continues to maneuver the tank toward the airlock, spacewalker Randy Bresnik is installing two Materials International Space Station Experiment (MISSE) packages. These briefcase-like packages expose various materials and coatings to the environment of low-Earth orbit for an extended duration of time.

The spacewalkers have worked together to get this large doghouse-shaped oxygen tank freed from the ExPRESS Logistics Carrier 2, which was delivered to the space station on Saturday. The astronauts are manually handing the tank to the station's robot arm for hoisting over to the airlock.

Satcher is getting equipment situated for moving the high-pressure oxygen tank from the spare parts pallet to the Quest airlock module's outer hull.

Experiment cases are being retrieved from the payload bay by Bresnik for deploy on the station.

EVA BEGINS. The spacewalkers switched their suits to internal battery power at 8:24 a.m. EST, marking the official start time for today's EVA by Bobby Satcher and Randy Bresnik. This is the third of three spacewalks planned during Atlantis' mission at the International Space Station.

The depressurization has been completed and the Quest airlock's outer hatch leading to space has been opened.

Airlock depressurization has started.

All suited up and ready, the spacewalkers have moved into the section of the airlock that will be depressurized in a little while and the hatchway closed behind them.

Mission Control says the EVA start could delayed about an hour.

The two spacewalkers are suited up in the Quest module of the International Space Station for a planned 7:18 a.m. EST start of today's EVA. However, there's a problem with the valve on the drink bag in Satcher's suit that will require an interruption in preparations to resolve.

Astronauts Robert Satcher and Randolph Bresnik prepared for a planned five-hour 45-minute spacewalk Monday to install an oxygen tank on the International Space Station's Quest airlock module, set up a materials science space exposure experiment and carry out a variety of station assembly get-ahead tasks.

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Another workday has begun aboard the shuttle Atlantis and International Space Station with a wakeup call coming from Mission Control moments ago.

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After a few hours of free time this morning, the astronauts are back at work. Some news and educational downlink events are occurring today, and then later this afternoon reviews and final preps for tomorrow's spacewalk are scheduled.

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