STS-124 Fossum1 EVA2
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Astronaut Mike Fossum, STS-124 mission specialist, participates in the mission's second scheduled session of extravehicular activity (EVA) as construction and maintenance continue on the International Space Station. During the seven-hour, 11-minute spacewalk, Fossum and astronaut Ron Garan (out of frame), mission specialist, installed television cameras on the front and rear of the Kibo Japanese Pressurized Module (JPM) to assist Kibo robotic arm operations, removed thermal covers from the Kibo robotic arm, prepared an upper JPM docking port for flight day seven's attachment of the Kibo logistics module, readied a spare nitrogen tank assembly for its installation during the third spacewalk, retrieved a failed television camera from the Port 1 truss, and inspected the port Solar Alpha Rotary Joint (SARJ).
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STS-124STS-124 ist die Missionsbezeichnung für einen Flug des US-amerikanischen Space Shuttles Discovery (OV-103) der NASA. Es war die 123. Space-Shuttle-Mission, der 35. Flug der Raumfähre Discovery und der 26. Flug eines Space Shuttles zur Internationalen Raumstation (ISS). Der Start erfolgte am 31. Mai 2008. .. weiterlesen