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erioladastra · « **Reply #60 on:** 05/06/2008 11:34 pm »

1J is now officially a 14+1+2 mission - a docked day was added to accomodate Battery Changeout ops in the airlock.

psloss · « **Reply #61 on:** 05/06/2008 11:53 pm »

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erioladastra - 6/5/2008 7:34 PM

1J is now officially a 14+1+2 mission - a docked day was added to accomodate Battery Changeout ops in the airlock.

Thanks for the update.

Jason Davies · « **Reply #62 on:** 05/06/2008 11:53 pm »

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erioladastra - 6/5/2008 6:34 PM

1J is now officially a 14+1+2 mission - a docked day was added to accomodate Battery Changeout ops in the airlock.

Yep, been coming since last week (per L2) but if it's official, official today, then cool.

Ford Mustang · « **Reply #63 on:** 05/06/2008 11:54 pm »

Some images have shown up on the KSC Hot Pics Gallery of the crew arrival for the TCDT.

rdale · « **Reply #64 on:** 05/06/2008 11:55 pm »

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erioladastra - 6/5/2008 7:34 PM

1J is now officially a 14+1+2 mission - a docked day was added to accomodate Battery Changeout ops in the airlock.

Thanks - I had a few questions on L2 when it was theorized about

Why does it take a day to replace batteries? And how did the batteries become toxic?

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #65 on:** 05/06/2008 11:56 pm »

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erioladastra - 7/5/2008 12:34 AM

1J is now officially a 14+1+2 mission - a docked day was added to accomodate Battery Changeout ops in the airlock.

Thanks. I don't think I mentioned it in an article, as it was still being worked, so this is very useful info!

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #66 on:** 05/07/2008 11:11 am »

TDCT: Countdown Clock will pick up at the T-24 Hour mark at 0800 Thursday. T-0 is targeted for 1100 Friday May 9th.

wjbarnett · « **Reply #67 on:** 05/07/2008 12:31 pm »

What does "battery changeout ops in the airlock" entail? What batteries are being changed?
Why? Is this normal/scheduled maintenance procedure just scheduled late? or what?

Your readers want to know

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #68 on:** 05/07/2008 01:55 pm »

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wjbarnett - 7/5/2008 1:31 PM

What does "battery changeout ops in the airlock" entail? What batteries are being changed?
Why? Is this normal/scheduled maintenance procedure just scheduled late? or what?

Your readers want to know

We're checking to get an expanded answer to that

ShuttleDiscovery · « **Reply #69 on:** 05/07/2008 05:26 pm »

Found this in the STS-124 Gallery

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-124/hires/jsc2008e038661.jpg

Ford Mustang · « **Reply #70 on:** 05/07/2008 11:06 pm »

Pictures of today's TCDT event are now appearing in the KSC Hot Pics Gallery:

erioladastra · « **Reply #71 on:** 05/07/2008 11:27 pm »

"Why does it take a day to replace batteries? And how did the batteries become toxic?"

The batteries are of a manufacture that it could potentially leak toixic material. We have been trying to phase out all such batteries on ISS. What will be involved is that the rack will have to be rotated down. The BCs are in a 4x4 matrix, the two bottom ones (for EMUs now) will be moved to the top two slots (for helmet lights), and the two new ones will go in there place. However, this is a very tricky rack to get access too and a test of rotated it might be performed next week.

STSFan10 · « **Reply #72 on:** 05/08/2008 04:34 am »

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erioladastra - 7/5/2008 6:27 PM

"Why does it take a day to replace batteries? And how did the batteries become toxic?"

The batteries are of a manufacture that it could potentially leak toixic material. We have been trying to phase out all such batteries on ISS. What will be involved is that the rack will have to be rotated down. The BCs are in a 4x4 matrix, the two bottom ones (for EMUs now) will be moved to the top two slots (for helmet lights), and the two new ones will go in there place. However, this is a very tricky rack to get access too and a test of rotated it might be performed next week.

That answers my question too, thanks!

ChrisC · « **Reply #73 on:** 05/08/2008 05:04 am »

Why was this suddenly added to the manifest? (if I'm right in believing that it was)

Unrelated .... I was just scanning the NASA TV breaking news schedule, and saw all the STS-124 crew interviews coming up, interviews of everyone except Chamitoff. I wonder why he was left out (or gets a pass from the endless PAO activities

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Paul Adams · « **Reply #74 on:** 05/08/2008 05:53 am »

Guy's - guess where I was on Tuesday.

psloss · « **Reply #75 on:** 05/08/2008 09:45 am »

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Paul Adams - 8/5/2008 1:53 AM

Guy's - guess where I was on Tuesday.

Pretty cool, Paul.

padrat · « **Reply #76 on:** 05/08/2008 10:01 am »

Quite a sight when you're on the 0-level and look up the stack, isn't it?

Paul Adams · « **Reply #77 on:** 05/08/2008 02:12 pm »

Pad Rat,

It was an increadible experiance and something I never thought I would be fortunate enough to do.

Everyone at the pad, and eleswhere, impressed the heck out of me. Complete dedication.

rdale · « **Reply #78 on:** 05/08/2008 02:16 pm »

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ChrisC - 8/5/2008 1:04 AM

Why was this suddenly added to the manifest? (if I'm right in believing that it was)

It was mentioned on L2 a week or so ago. It may have something to the upload mass available. As they talked about in the mission press conferences, the group responsible for deciding how much mid-deck payloads can go up have been slowly realeasing additional room for upmass. So a guess would be that they allowed enough upmass to add the new battery set, and since it's a (relatively) shorter mission the timeline extension was available too.

jacqmans · « **Reply #79 on:** 05/08/2008 02:32 pm »

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Paul Adams - 8/5/2008 4:12 PM
It was an increadible experiance and something I never thought I would be fortunate enough to do.

Everyone at the pad, and eleswhere, impressed the heck out of me. Complete dedication.

How did you became so lucky..
:frown: