Expedition 18 commander Mike Fincke will continue troubleshooting efforts with a system designed to turn urine into drinking water, and the several of the shuttle astronauts will gather at 4:05 p.m. EST for space-to-ground interviews with ABC News, CBS News and NBC News. The interviews will be webcast live here in The Flame Trench.
The transfer of supplies also will continue today as the astronauts hustle equipment between the Leonardo cargo carrier, which is mounted to the Earth-facing port of the station's U.S. Harmony module, and the outpost. And preparations for a fourth and final spacewalk -- one scheduled to start at 1:45 p.m. EST Monday -- will cap the day.
The shuttle crewawoke about 9:05 a.m., or about 10 minutes later than scheduled, because of an antenna blockage problem. The line-of-sight between the antenna that receives uplinks from the ground and an orbiting communications satellite was temporarily blocked due to the orientation of the shuttle-station complex.
The wake-up music today: "Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You" by Frank Valli. The song was beamed up to Endeavour mission commander Chris Ferguson by his wife, Sandy, on their 23rd wedding anniversary.
You can watch all the action on Flight Day 10 unfold live here in The Flame Trench. Simply click the NASA TV box on the righthand side of the page to launch our NASA TV viewer and 24/7 coverage of STS-126.
And for those tracking the progress of our orbital web weavers, you can click to enlarge the NASA TV screen grab below. It shows a spider in a student experiment making what so far has been a bit of a tangled, disorganized web. Things are starting to look a little more symettrical, a sign that spiders, too, can adapt to weightlessness:
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