STS-116 - Great Viewing

Have been watching the STS-116 activities at the International Space Station on the web.

Hope we get to see similar activities when we set up camp on the Moon.
- LRK -

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WATCH NASA TV NOW

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts116/index.html
MISSION NEWS
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If you want to build an orbiting city in the sky for say 10,000 inhabitants, will it be on the evening news or will the commercial firm doing the work have to put up their own web site to let us watch?
- LRK -

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STS-116 Mission Specialists Robert Curbeam and Christer Fuglesang completed their scheduled electrical work and are now concentrating on other spacewalking tasks.

Shortly after the start of the spacewalk at 2:41 p.m. EST, Curbeam and Fuglesang began STS-116’s work to rearrange the International Space Station's power system from a temporary status to a permanent setup by rewiring two of the station’s four power channels. Systems were powered up at 4:45 p.m. following the completion of the electrical work.

The remaining two channels will be rewired during the mission’s third spacewalk, slated for Saturday. The STS-116 crew is performing the electrical work to bring power generated by the P4 solar arrays on line for use by the station's systems and prepare for more arrays to be added next year.

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By the end of the Apollo missions going to the Moon was just a sound byte on the evening news. The ISS in LEO, going around Earth in 92 minutes is old hat. We have always been able to do that, right?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Space_Station

We have always had cell phones too, right, color TV with plasma panels, right, radio with transistors, right?

When will we be able to say we have always been living on the Moon and mining asteroids? Make it so.

Thanks for looking up with me.


Larry Kellogg

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NASA STS-116 FD-4 Execute Package
STATUS REPORT
Date Released: Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Source: Johnson Space Center

Good morning Joanie, Nick, and STS-116 & Increment 14 crews!

Welcome to another day of transfer ops! We were fortunate enough yesterday to see you on downlink video already transferring items...you're looking good up there! We apologize for all the transfer list change pages today. You'll see new items and several changes to return locations due to Spacehab optimizing their return weight and c.g. This was done to accommodate potential return items when identified.

Today you'll fill 2 PWRs in the Middeck, which will require you to retrieve them from Spacehab prior to the activity in the afternoon. You'll also need to pull 2 CWCs out of Spacehab to support the FD05 fills (because you have no transfer time scheduled prior to the first CWC fill tomorrow).

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Download Report
http://images.spaceref.com/news/2006/164700main_FD4-Xpack.pdf

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http://mynasa.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts116/launch/astro_webcast.html

NASA DIRECT
STS-116 Mission Webcast

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Hosted by Space Shuttle Discovery Flow Director Stephanie Stilson, this webcast takes you behind the scenes as NASA prepares for mission STS-116 to the International Space Station. Learn more about the mission objectives and payloads as the astronauts continue the expansion of the orbiting outpost.

Our guest astronaut, Richard M. Linnehan, answers questions about living and working in space. Linnehan flew on missions STS-78, STS-90 and STS-109, logging over 43 days in space and conducting three spacewalks totaling more than 21 hours.

During the webcast, you'll also get insight about what the astronauts eat while in orbit and how their food is prepared here on Earth.

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WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK

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