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*Crew Unpacks Cargo and Prepares for Spacewalk*

Image to left: Astronaut Sunita Williams conducts a Surface, Water and Air Biocharacterization (SWAB) air sampling in the Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station. Credit: NASA

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Flight Engineer Sunita Williams gave a tour of the space station for Clay Anderson who will be arriving on the STS-117 flight. Williams also continued unpacking items from the newly arrived ISS Progress 25 cargo craft. She performed laptop status checks on two science payloads – the Minus Eighty Degree Laboratory Freezer for ISS and the Commercial Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus 2. Additionally, she held a ham radio session with students at Toyon Elementary School in San Jose, Calif. Toyon is a NASA Explorer School.

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The Russian crew members were busy with Russian spacewalk preparations Monday. A spacewalk procedure and preliminary timeline review has been completed. Checks of the spacewalk support panel in the docking compartment and familiarization with spacewalk tasks have also been conducted. Williams configured the camcorder for recording video of the Russian event.

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