The Atlantis astronauts are in the midst of moving the shuttle's inspection boom to a site on the International Space Station, where it will provide camera views during the second of three spacewalks planned during a weeklong stay at the outpost.Atlantis mission specialist Garrett Reisman plucked the 50-foot boom from the shuttle's cargo bay with the station's 57.5-foot robot arm. Operating the shuttle's 50-foot arm, pilot Tony Antonelli will take a handoff from Reisman and then put the boom in place outside the outpost.
Mission specialists Stephen Bowen and Michael Good will venture out of the U.S. Quest airlock Wednesday on a mission to swap out batteries that have been powering outpost systems since December 2000. The batteries are located on a girder at the far left end of the station's central truss.
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Once more we are seeing the Shuttle respond to a variety of tasks with immense versatility and remarkable safety. There was no foam loss and no tile damage. It simply makes no sense to throw it away when it is so productive, when years from now we will only have a tiny capsule with no payload bay that has to be hauled out of the ocean.
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