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Station restocking nearly complete for shuttle crew BY WILLIAM HARWOOD STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS "SPACE PLACE" & USED WITH PERMISSION Posted: July 17, 2011 
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL--The Atlantis astronauts put in a final day of logistics transfer work Sunday, moving a last few items into the Raffaello multi-purpose logistics module for return to Earth before taking a few hours off for a final bit of rest and relaxation. If all goes well, the cargo module will be detached from the station's forward Harmony module early Monday, setting the stage for the shuttle's undocking Tuesday morning.
Like the cargo module's light bulbs. "One of the things that we take out, which people may not realize, we take the light bulbs out as we're leaving, because they're the same kind of fixtures that we use on the space station. So we keep them as spares, this is something we do on every flight. So when you see the light scavenge activity on the timeline, you know we're getting close to undocking." The primary goal of the 135th and final shuttle mission was to deliver five tons of supplies and equipment, including more than 2,600 pounds of food, to the International Space Station. Combined with logistics scheduled for delivery aboard Russian Progress supply ships, the lab complex should be able to support a full-time crew of six through 2012. The astronauts have been busy the past few days loading Raffaello with an estimated 5,666 pounds of packing material, trash and no-longer-needed equipment that will be returned to Earth. That work should be wrapped up today, giving the final shuttle crew time for a half day off to relax and enjoy the view. Using the space station's robot arm, Raffaello will be disconnected from the station Monday starting around 6:49 a.m. EDT (GMT-4) and mounted back in Atlantis' cargo bay. A few hours later, shuttle commander Christopher Ferguson, pilot Douglas Hurley, Sandra Magnus and Rex Walheim will bid the station crew farewell and move back aboard the shuttle, sealing the hatches between the two spacecraft for the last time. Undocking is scheduled for 2:28 a.m. Tuesday, setting the stage for the shuttle program's final re-entry and landing around 5:57 a.m. Thursday at the Kennedy Space Center. Forecasters are predicting favorable weather. In a bit of good news for the shuttle crew, a detailed analysis of general purpose computer No. 4, which unexpectedly shut down Thursday, shows the machine is healthy and in good shape for undocking and re-entry. "In this morning's handover to the orbit one team, the data processing systems officer here in mission control reported to (shuttle) Flight Director Kwatsi Alibaruho that the analysis of the data dumped from general purpose computer number four indicates that all of its software has been exonerated from any complicity in the unexpected shutdown of that GPC Thursday afternoon," said Rob Navias, the mission control commentator. "Yesterday, GPC-4, which had been reloaded with software and reactivated on Friday, ran for several hours to perform some diagnostics and to provide additional data for the data processing experts to analyze. GPC-4 is considered to be a healthy computer, it's in good shape. The final analysis indicates that it's unexpected shutdown was simply a hardware transient and it is up and running in good shape." Systems management software was reloaded into GPC-4 early today. GPC-1 is running guidance, navigation and control software while GPCs 2 and 3 are in standby mode, available for use as needed. "So good news, GPC-4 in good shape," Navias said. "Although it will be watched in the days ahead, it should be fully available or entry and landing of Atlantis in the pre-dawn hours next Thursday." Here is an updated timeline of the crew's planned activities for flight day 10 (in EDT and mission elapsed time; includes revision K of the NASA television schedule; best viewed with fixed-width font): DATE/EDT...DD...HH...MM...SS...EVENT 07/16 10:59 PM...08...11...30...00...Crew wakeup 07/17 12:34 AM...08...13...05...00...ISS daily planning conference 01:19 AM...08...13...50...00...ISS: MCA disconnect 02:04 AM...08...14...35...00...Middeck transfers 02:19 AM...08...14...50...00...MPLM transfers resume 03:19 AM...08...15...50...00...ISS: MCA remove 04:04 AM...08...16...35...00...Glacier freezer transfer to shuttle 04:24 AM...08...16...55...00...MPLM vestibule CPA install 05:54 AM...08...18...25...00...MPLM racks configured 06:24 AM...08...18...55...00...PAO event 06:39 AM...08...19...10...00...Crew meals begin 07:39 AM...08...20...10...00...ISS: MCA reconnect 08:44 AM...08...21...15...00...Crew off duty 11:44 AM...09...00...15...00...Transfer tagup 11:44 AM...09...00...15...00...ISS daily planning conference 01:59 PM...09...02...30...00...ISS crew sleep begins 02:29 PM...09...03...00...00...STS crew sleep begins 02:30 PM...09...03...01...00...Mission status briefing on NASA TV 04:00 PM...09...04...31...00...Flight day 10 highlights on NASA TV 08:00 PM...09...08...31...00..."Space Shuttle" video on NASA TV 09:00 PM...09...09...31...00..."Launching our Dreams" video on NASA TV 10:10 PM...09...10...41...00...Flight director update on NASA TV 10:29 PM...09...11...00...00...Crew wakeup
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