Atlantis - The Final Space Shuttle Mission by Tony Riches

Author:Tony Riches
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Science & Technical
Publisher: WWD
Published: 2012-01-09T05:00:00+00:00

On this eleven day mission to the International Space Station, the crew unloaded nearly three tons of cargo from the orbiter. The sixth spacewalk in support of the station assembly and the fiftieth was completed successfully on day three, 16 minutes ahead of the planned schedule by Ed Lu and Yuri Malenchenko, when they routed and connected nine power, data and communications cables between the Zvezda module and the other Russian-built module, Zarya, as well as installing the six-foot-long magnetometer to the station to serve as a compass showing the station in respect to the Earth.

On flight day four the crew entered the International Space Station and the Atlantis crew was the first to see the interior of the Russian Zvezda service module since it was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in July. Transfer of supplies and maintenance tasks continued well into the fifth day, including six 100 pound bags of water, all of the food for the first resident crew, office supplies, onboard environmental supplies, a vacuum cleaner and a computer and monitor - to the interior of the station.

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