Image above: STS-126 mission specialists Heide Stefanyshyn-Piper and Steve Bowen participate in interviews with the Associated Press, KMSP-TV in Minneapolis and WCVB-TV in Boston. Photo credit: NASA TVThe STS-126 and Expedition 18 crews worked Wednesday to prepare the station for larger crews. They also prepared for the second spacewalk of the mission.
Expedition 18 flight engineer Sandra Magnus and her predecessor Greg Chamitoff installed two new bedrooms in the Harmony node. Meanwhile, STS-126 mission specialist Don Pettit and Expedition 18 commander Mike Fincke spent the bulk of the day configuring hardware on the new Water Recovery System.
The crews also moved equipment and supplies between the two spacecraft.
Mission specialists Heide Stefanyshyn-Piper and Shane Kimbrough will camp out overnight in the station’s Quest Airlock in preparation for the second spacewalk of the mission. The purpose of this “camp out” is to purge the nitrogen from their bodies before their planned exit Thursday at 1:45 p.m. EST. Piper and mission specialist Steve Bowen completed the mission’s first spacewalk Tuesday.
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