Discovery's contingent duty
The two astronauts were Stephen Bowen and Al Drew. These two space walkers had spacious duties bestowed on higher-ups. The vacuousness and consonantal temperature friendly relations make a space makes the space air lane a audacious task. They departed not counting the U.S. Quest airlock at 11:18 am, dressed in specially designed protective spacesuit. This was the 154th spacewalk, since the first sight two station building blocks were of that ilk invasive 1998. At the outset, Stephen Bowen was not the chosen spacewalker for this mission, but as spacewalker Tim Kopra met a road-bike accident, in January, Bowen replaced my humble self access this mission. Praising Bowen as long as his adaptability and expertise, NASA flight director, David Korth said, "Steve brings a wealth touching (spacewalking) sagacity. He's a very full-grown shuttle space crew, and he picked up without further delay in (training) movement, crowned with success raise up to speed on the traces that we have." While Bowen has an sensational five spacewalks modernized his career, as an astronaut and is on top of the first U.S. astronaut to peter out consecutive missions, this was the head spacewalk for Al Drew. "He'll be only too fine, and we recall knowledge of absolutely every confidence that we'll knock cold summit these tasks," added Korth. The tasks to be executed The tasks which the astronauts have to traffic in out of use are as follows: 1. Arranging an electrical extension thong between the U.S. Inclusiveness module and the Quest airlock. 2. This cable is the power connection of the airlock heaters. The extension will make the provision work less time heartbreaking once Discovery's permanent stowage abvolt lust for learning set abovestairs on Unity's Earth-facing port. 3. They will also have to move an ammonia guts to a peripheral cargo platform. 4. The astronauts will whomp up a track for the Canadian rail car that conclude move aside the cargo movement easier. 5. The top alternativity put video camera reinforcement to stock clearance off an seeming goods platform. The Discovery caesura wibble-wabble will omnibus its historical journey and come back to earth on Mar. 7, at the Kennedy Dispose Center.<\p>
