SUBMITTED BY ARTHUR N1ORC - AMSAT A/C #31468
*Fourth Spacewalk Pushed Back to Saturday* 1 November 2007
Image Above: Former President George Bush and Barbara Bush visit Mission Control at the Johnson Space Center, Houston, on Thursday and speak with the STS-120 and Expedition 16 crews. Image credit: NASA TV TO VIEW THE IMAGE GO TO:http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html
Friday’s spacewalk, already pushed back from Thursday, has been pushed back again one more day to Saturday. The shuttle and station crews will continue spacewalk preparations, transfer activities and enjoy some off-duty time today.
The spacewalk preparations include studying procedures, building tools and resizing a spacesuit glove. Mission Specialists Scott Parazynski and Doug Wheelock will conduct the excursion.
Parazynski will ride the Orbiter Boom Sensor System, the shuttle’s robotic arm extension, attached to the station’s robotic arm to access a damaged solar array. Wheelock will provide guidance to the arm operators while they are maneuvering Parazynski.
The International Space Station Program changed the priority of the fourth spacewalk from inspection of a rotary joint to repair of a solar array.
A fifth spacewalk planned to occur during the STS-120 mission has been pushed back until after Discovery leaves.
+ View images of P6 4B solar array from Mission Status Briefing http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts120/news/msb_sts120_fd09.html
*Mission Information* + STS-120 Mission Overview http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts120/index.html + Harmony Node 2 http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/behindscenes/harmony_payload.html + Space Shuttle Discovery http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/shuttleoperations/orbiters/discovery-info.html