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STS-74
Monday, November 13, 1995 6 p.m. CST
With all of the systems that will be used to put the Russian Docking
Module in place for a Wednesday link-up with the Mir Space Station checked
out and ready to go, the STS-74 crew settled down for 8 hours of sleep
Monday afternoon.
Atlantis, orbiting flawlessly 238 miles above the Earth, is about 2,000
miles away from Mir and catching up at 135 miles per orbit.
Earlier in the day, Commander Ken Cameron, Pilot Jim Halsell and Mission
Specialists Chris Hadfield, Jerry Ross and Bill McArthur checked out the
docking module, the Orbiter Docking System, the shuttle's robot arm and
the Orbiter Space Vision System and found all to be in good working order.
Ross and McArthur also inspected the space suits they will don should a
space walk become necessary during Tuesday's mating operation or the
actual linkup of Atlantis to Mir.
After an 8:31 p.m. CST wake-up call, Atlantis' astronauts will begin the
process of moving the docking module. At 11:31 p.m., Hadfield will power
up the Orbiter Space Visions System. At 11:46 p.m., Hadfield and McArthur
will grapple the module with the robot arm. At 12:21 a.m. Tuesday, the
pair will remove the module from its payload bay moorings and Cameron and
Halsell will prepare the Orbiter Docking System for connection to the
docking module. At 12:56 a.m., Hadfield and McArthur will use the robot
arm to move the docking module over the Orbiter Docking System, then place
the arm in a "limp" mode with the docking module and Orbiter Docking
System just four inches apart. Cameron will fire Atlantis' steering jets,
forcing the hooks and latches to engage and locking the Russian Docking
Module in place. Hadfield and Ross will then test the mated Russian
docking module's systems.
After a rendezvous burn of the shuttle's steering jets at 2:16 a.m., the
crew will continue work to configure the docking module systems for
Wednesday's docking with the Russian space station. Another firing of the
shuttle's thrusters is scheduled for 10:20 a.m.
The astronauts will end their day at 12:31 p.m. Tuesday, beginning a
six-hour sleep shift that will synchronize their sleep cycle with that of
the Mir 20 cosmonauts.
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