Love mounted on the shuttle robot arm
Walheim and Love
Spacewalkers begin work, head for payload bay
Rex Walheim and Stan Love have left the airlock and are headed to the shuttle payload bay, where they will move a European experiment module to its place on the Columbus module.
The spacewalk officially began when the pair switched their spacesuits to battery power at 8:07 a.m. Walheim's helmet camera will be No. 18, while his spacesuit will have an unbroken line. Love's camera will be No. 16, while his spacesuit has a broken line.
On the mission's third spacewalk, 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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