STS 118 ISS Expedition 15 OBJECTIVE Background material

STS – 118 ISS - Expedition 15

OBJECTIVE • • • Background material for workshop Provide detailed overview of STS-118 Information on Station Expedition 15 Station construction plans for ’ 07 -’ 08 Q&A

ENDEAVOUR 119 th Shuttle Flight 20 th Flight for Endeavour First since 2002 Target Date: Aug 7 Window: 10 minutes Duration: 11 -14 days 3 - 4 Spacewalks

Mastrachio, Morgan, Hobaugh, Kelly, Caldwell, Williams, Drew

MISSION OBJECTIVES • Station Construction (13 A. 1) Deliver/Install Truss Section (S 5) Deliver External Storage Platform 3 (ESP-3) • Station Re-supply Spacehab Module • Station Repair Control Moment Gyro Replacement • Educational Opportunities • Test of Station-Shuttle Power Transfer System (SSPTS) • Other Experiments

Video of Inspection

Port Starboard

Video of S 5 Installation

Video of ESP-3 Installation

Replace Control Moment Gyro

Educational Activities Basil Seeds

Pennant Challenge

Teachable Moments

STS-118 Preparations

Space Station Activities Expedition 15

Yurchikhin Anderson Kotov

Minus Eighty Degree Laboratory Freezer for ISS (MELFI) Part of Nutrition Status Assessment Experiment Preserve experimental Materials for long duration

Microgravity Science Glovebox

Entering data from Oxygen Uptake Experiment

International Polar Year

Maintenance

BCAT-3 - Experiment planned for Expedition 15 Binary Colloidal Alloy

CFE - Capillary Flow Experiment

A Preview of Coming Attractions

STS - 120 Commander – Pamela Melroy

STS – 120 20 Oct 07 Move P 6 Truss - Re-deploy Arrays Add Node 2 - “Harmony”

STS – 122 6 Dec 07 European Space Agency - Columbus Module

Automated Transfer Vehicle European Space Agency - Ariane 5 launcher after 1 Jan 08

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On- Line Resources www. nasa. gov - Space Shuttle Section - Space Station Section (News and Media Resources) “See the ISS in the Night Sky”: www. jsc. nasa. gov/sightings/index. html

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