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*Crews Continue Spacewalk Preparations, Cargo Transfers* 31October 2007
Image Above: The shuttle and station crews participate in the joint crew news conference taking questions from reporters in America, Italy and Russia. Image credit: NASA TV TO VIEW IMAGE GO TO: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html The STS-120 and Expedition 16 crews are continuing cargo transfers and preparing for Thursday’s spacewalk. They took a break this morning to participate in the traditional joint crew news conference. They fielded questions from reporters in America, Italy and Russia.
The spacewalk preparations include preparing equipment and reviewing procedures. Mission Specialists Scott Parazynski and Doug Wheelock will conduct the excursion, which is slated to kick off at 4:58 a.m. EDT Thursday.
Early this morning Mission Specialist and European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli and STS-120 Commander Pam Melroy talked to Italian President Giorgio Napolitano. The astronauts took questions from the Italian leader while they were inside the Harmony node. The newly delivered Harmony was U.S. funded and Italian built.