[sarex] STS-114 MCC Status Report #12

["ARTHUR Z. ROWE" <N1ORC@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

SUBMITTD BY ARTHUR N1ORC - AMSAT A/C #31468

STS-114 MCC Status Report #12
Sunday, July 31, 2005 – 11:15 p.m. CDT
Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas

Now spacewalk veterans, Astronauts Soichi Noguchi and Steve Robinson 
will step outside for the second of three planned spacewalks today at 
3:14 a.m. CDT. The sole objective of the 6 ˝-hour excursion is to 
replace a failed International Space Station attitude control gyroscope.

The pair will have about an hour of setup time after exiting Space 
Shuttle Discovery’s airlock and positioning themselves at the Station’s 
Z1 truss segment. Mission Control will shut down the failed Control 
Moment Gyroscope 1 (CMG1) about 4:09 a.m. CDT and then give a go for the 
spacewalkers to start removing it about 15 minutes later. Mission 
Specialist Andy Thomas will choreograph the activities from inside and 
relay information from Mission Control to the spacewalkers.

Noguchi will take the failed CMG to Discovery’s cargo bay while riding 
the Station’s robot arm. He will temporarily store it until the new gyro 
is removed and the old one can be placed in its carrier with Robinson’s 
help. Noguchi will then carry the new gyro at the end of the robot arm 
to the Z1 truss. Discovery Pilot Jim Kelly and Mission Specialist Wendy 
Lawrence will operate Canadarm2 for the spacewalk.

After it is installed, Station flight controllers will power up and 
check out the new gyroscope about 8:14 a.m. CDT and start it up at 8:39 
a.m. CDT. With CMG1 replaced, the full complement of four gyroscopes 
will be available for Station operations. CMG2 has operated well since 
the spacewalkers restored power to it in the first spacewalk Saturday.

Inside the orbiting complex, Station residents Sergei Krikalev and John 
Phillips and Discovery Commander Eileen Collins and Mission Specialist 
Charlie Camarda will continue transferring equipment and supplies 
between the two vehicles. Collins will focus on collecting byproduct 
water from Discovery’s power generation system for transfer to Station.

Discovery’s crew was awakened at 10:09 p.m. CDT by the song "Walk of 
Life," by Dire Straits for Robinson. The Space Station crew was awakened 
at 10:39 p.m. CDT by a tone onboard.

The crews of Discovery and the Space Station are scheduled to go to 
sleep about 2:09 p.m. CDT.

The next STS-114 mission status report will be issued Monday afternoon, 
or earlier, if events warrant.

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