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Astronauts Add Room on ISS; Spacecraft to Study Sun The Shedding Light on the Shedding Light on the News News& Eandvents Events of North/Centra of Titusville,l Mims,Brevard Scottsmoor, County, Port Florida St. John, and now Merritt Island & Cocoa Vol.Vol. 5 7 No. 928 THURSDAY,THURSDAY, FEBRUARY OCTOBER 18 30,, 2010 2008 www.NorthBrevardBeacon.comwww.NorthBrevardBeacon.com NASA astronaut Nicholas Patrick, STS- 130 mission specialist, participates in the mis- sion’s first session of extravehicular activity as construction and maintenance continue on the International Space Station. During the six-hour, 32-minute spacewalk, Patrick and astronaut Robert Behnken (out of frame), mission specialist, re- located a temporary platform from the Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator, or Dextre, to the sta- tion’s truss structure and installed two han- dles on the robot. NASA photo Astronauts add room on ISS; spacecraft to study sun Compiled by Susan Walden bris. Shuttle Commander George Zamka and Mission Cape Canaveral Air Froce Station sending the SDO into The astronauts now have a room with a view at the Specialists Stephen Robinson and Kathryn Hire worked space on its mission to evaluate the complex mecha- International Space Station. with station Commander Jeff Williams to outfit the nisms of the sun. Crew members on Space Shuttle Endeavour and the vestibule between Unity and Tranquility after the hatch The spacecraft’s orbit will be in a geosynchronous ISS got their first look inside the orbiting outpost’s opening. orbit 22,300 miles high. From that altitude, it will point its newest module and cupola Feb. 12. As that work continued, Endeavour Pilot Terry Virts instruments at the sun and relay the readings instantly to The 13-day mission delivered a connecting module and station Flight Engineer Soichi Noguchi transferred a ground station in New Mexico. The research is expect- that increases the space station’s interior space node 3, parts of the Advanced Resistive Exercise Device and an ed to reveal the sun’s inner workings by constantly tak- called Tranquility, which provides additional room for Air Revitalization System rack into Tranquility. ing high resolution images of the sun, collecting readings crew members and many of the station’s life support and The mission includes three spacewalks. from inside the sun and measuring its magnetic field ac- environmental control systems. Attached to the node is a There are four remaining space shuttle missions left. tivity. This data is expected to give researchers the in- cupola, which is a robotic control station with six win- The next launch is scheduled for March 18, 1:34 p.m. on sight they need to eventually predict solar storms and dows around its sides and another in the center that will Discovery. other activity on the sun that can affect spacecraft in orbit, astronauts on the ISS and electronic and other give the astronauts a panoramic view of Earth, celestial After launching Endeavour early Feb. 8, NASA em- systems on Earth. objects and visiting spacecrafts. ployees and contractors got back to work for the Solar STS-130 astronauts who went into the module initially Dynamics Observatory mission. wore goggles and masks to protect against floating de- The Atlas V roared to life Feb. 11 in the morning from NEXT ISSUE: March 4 PAGE 2 NORTH BREVARD BEACON Thursday, February 18, 2010 Tastee Donuts – best donuts around Susan Walden never have any products a day old. 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