Submitted by Arthur - N1ORC
A Thanksgiving Day spacewalk will highlight activities aboard Endeavour and the International Space Station today. Endeavour Mission Specialists Mike Lopez-Alegria and John Herrington will exit the station's Quest airlock for a second time during this mission to begin a 6½-hour spacewalk.....STS-113 MCC Status Report #10

Thursday, Nov. 28, 2002  8:00 a.m. CST

Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas

A Thanksgiving Day spacewalk will highlight activities aboard Endeavour

and the International Space Station today.

Endeavour Mission Specialists Mike Lopez-Alegria and John Herrington will

exit the station's Quest airlock for a second time during this mission to

begin a 6½-hour spacewalk. Scheduled to begin about 1:20 p.m. central

time, the work outside the station today will see Lopez-Alegria and

Herrington connect fluid lines from the new Port One (P1) truss segment

to the Starboard Zero (S0) truss; install a second wireless video antenna

system to the P1; relocate stanchions that were used to hold the P1 in

place during launch; and move a Crew Equipment Translation Aid railway

handcar from the P1 to the Starboard One (S1) truss.

Endeavour Pilot Paul Lockhart will coordinate the spacewalk from the

orbiter's flight deck and Endeavour Commander Jim Wetherbee will provide

photo and TV support. From the ISS, Expedition Five NASA Science Officer

Peggy Whitson will provide robotic arm support using the station's

Canadarm2, and will be assisted by Expedition Six NASA ISS Science

Officer Don Pettit.

Expedition Five Commander Valery Korzun, Whitson and Flight Engineer

Sergei Treschev will also continue their handover and training briefings

for Expedition Six Commander Ken Bowersox, Flight Engineer Nikolai

Budarin and Pettit.

Whitson and Bowersox will take some time today to test the station's

bicycle ergometer, which experienced some trouble over the weekend. In

addition to being used for exercise, it is used as part of a

pre-spacewalk protocol to purge nitrogen from crewmembers' bodies.

Testing of the Carbon Dioxide Removal Assembly in the station's Destiny

laboratory continued overnight and showed that maintenance work performed

by the crew on Wednesday had resolved a faulty valve problem with the

system.