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Subj: Home Safe Space Station
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AMSAT News Service Bulletin 103.03 From AMSAT HQ
SILVER SPRING, MD. April 13, 2003
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Commander Ken Bowersox and NASA Science Officer Don Pettit spent
Tuesday, April 8 performing a number of tasks outside the International
Space Station making it safer for the next crew. Along with fixing a
stuck light support, they rerouted cables to ensure that more than one
of the station's control-moment gyros won't be disabled if power is
disrupted. The gyros make the station stable.
The spacewalkers also reconfigured a power connector on a mechanism
that holds the central S0 truss and the starboard one truss together.
The work should prevent the mechanism's inadvertent release.
Other tasks included securing a loose thermal blanket, replacing a
faulty part, and installing pressure-relieving clamps on lines on the
U.S. laboratory.
This was second EVA, or extra-vehicular activity, for Pettit and
Bowersox, and it lasted six hours, 26 minutes, ending a few minutes
earlier than expected.
[ANS thanks Florida Today for the above information.]
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