Walheim and Love
Spacewalkers waiting to begin
Rex Walheim and Stan Love are in the airlock early, waiting for their spacewalk to begin at 8:40 a.m. EST.
"Great work guys getting us in here," said lead spacewalker Rex Walheim.
"I promised you you could have a nap," said ISS commander Peggy Whitson, who helped Love and Walheim suit up.
"There's no napping," said Walheim.
On the mission's third spacewalk today, Love will function like a human forklift, holding three massive - but weightless - pieces of equipment while he is attached to the space station robot arm. On separate swings of the arm, he will move two European experiment modules and a gyroscope.
If the 6.5-hour spacewalk runs ahead of schedule, Walheim and Love will have several additional tasks: inspecting the starboard solar alpha rotary joint and inspecting damage to a handrail that might be causing glove damage.
Atlantis is scheduled to land at 9:06 a.m. Wednesday at Kennedy Space Center, shortly before the Navy shoots down a low-orbiting, non-functioning spy satellite that carries a toxic half-ton of hydrazine rocket fuel.
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The SOLAR and EuTEF modules sit on a rack in the shuttle's payload bay.
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