The joined crews of Discovery and the International Space Station are outfitting the newly opened U.S. Harmony module in advance of preparations for the second of five spacewalks planned during the shuttle's stay at the outpost.
A ventilation duct has been routed into Harmony and air is being circulated between the cylindrical module and the remainder of the station. In addition, the astronauts have been troubleshooting some minor trouble with the orbiter's laptop computer network.
Also on tap today: A round of space-to-ground media interviews with reporters from CBS News, Fox News and WHAM-TV in Rochester, N.Y., the hometown of Discovery mission commander Pam Melroy.
Melroy will take part in the interviews along with shuttle pilot George Zamka, mission specialists Stephanie Wilson, Douglas Wheelock and Clay Anderson; station commander Peggy Whitson and outpost flight engineer Yuri Malenchenko.
Shuttle mission specialist Scott Parazynski and station flight engineer Dan Tani will be prepping for a spacewalk on Sunday.
You can check out the crew's detailed schedule as well as messages beamed up from Mission Control in the Flight Day 5 Execute Package here: FD05exec.pdf
You can also watch the interviews live here in The Flame Trench. Simply click the link below the image above to launch our NASA TV viewer and 24/7 coverage of NASA's 120th shuttle mission.
The timing for major mission events can be found in the latest version -- Rev C -- of the NASA TV schedule here: tvsked_revc.pdf
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