Endeavour's seven astronauts awakened this morning to The Clash's "London Calling," and hope to get started on their 15-day mission's top priorities."I guess my family really wanted to wake me up this morning," said 44-year-old spacewalker Steve Bowen, who is scheduled to conduct the mission's first spacewalk Tuesday with Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper. "We're all up and ready to go today."
It's the crew's first full day of work on the International Space Station after docking around 5 p.m. Sunday, two days after launching from Kennedy Space Center.
In addition to preparing for the spacewalk, the crew plans to transfer the Italian-made Leonardo cargo container from the shuttle's payload bay to the station, so its more than seven tons of cargo can be offloaded.
The move can proceed because mission managers late Sunday decided there is no need to do a more in-depth inspection of part of Endeavour's starboard wing, NASA commentators said this morning. The tip of the wing would have been blocked from reach by shuttle cameras once Leonardo was installed.
The relocation is expected to begin around 11:30 a.m. and take several hours, and the container's hatch may be opened around 8:35 p.m.
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A recap of the day's schedule is listed below, and you can look at a schedule of mission events being broadcast here:
9:25 a.m. Crew wake-up.
11:25 a.m. Transfer begins of Leonardo cargo module from Endeavour to the International Space Station.
2:05 p.m. Installation of Leonardo module completed.
3:30 p.m. Mission status briefing.
6 p.m. Mission Management Team briefing.
8:35 p.m. Leonardo hatch opened.
11:20 p.m. Spacewalkers Stefanyshyn-Piper and Bowen begin pre-spacewalk "campout" procedure to avoid decompression sickness.
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