The Expedition 14 crew continued with preparations for a Feb. 22 spacewalk this week. The spacewalkers have conducted leak checks and have installed lights and additional equipment on their Russian Orlan space suits.

The crew conducted its Orlan dry run Tuesday morning. Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria and Flight Engineer Mikhail Tyurin began preparing their Russian suits around 5 a.m. EST and donning their suits for a communications and systems test.

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Students attending Escola Camilo Castelo Branco school in Carnaxide, Portugal are scheduled to take part in an ARISS contact with Expedition 14 Flight Engineer "Suni" Williams , KD5PLB. "Suni" will be using the callsign NA1SS during the contact. This telebridge supported event is scheduled to take place on Monday, February 26, 2007 at 15:51 UTC. Ground station operations will be provided by VK5ZAI located in Kingston SE, South Australia.

Live audio will be available on IRLP and EchoLink through the ARISS Audio Distribution Project.

IRLP users can connect to the main channel of "Discovery" Reflector 9010. The audio feed will begin approximately 10 minutes before the scheduled contact time. Streaming audio is also available through www.discoveryreflector.ca:8000/listen.pls (expect a 2 to 3 minute delay on this stream).