Daily activities STS-122

Flight Day 1 - Launch

• Launch
• Configure Shuttle for on-orbit activities
• Checkout of Shuttle robotic arm
• Switch on Columbus laboratory 'Launch-to-Activation' heaters

 

Flight Day 2

• Shuttle heat shield check using robotic arm and robotic arm extension
• Spacewalk preparations including EVA suit checks
• International Space Station rendezvous preparations

 

Flight Day 3 - Docking

• Rendezvous and docking including Shuttle backflip manoeuvre
• Preparations for first spacewalk
• Unberth robotic arm extension to provide clearance for unberthing Columbus during first spacewalk

 

Flight Day 4 – Spacewalk preparation

• OBSS focused inspection of Atlantis' OMS pod blanket begins
• Spacewalk #1 crew procedure review continues
• EVA astronauts 'campout' in Quest Airlock to help remove nitrogen from bloodstreams

 

Flight Day 5 – First spacewalk

• Attach Power and Data Grapple Fixture to Columbus; Prepare and unberth Columbus from Shuttle cargo bay; Prepare P1 truss Nirogen Tank Assembly for removal.
• Attach Columbus to Node 2 with Station robotic arm.
• Check out Node 2 docking mechanism for Columbus.

 

Flight Day 6

• Columbus commissioning - Connect utility cabling (power, data etc.) and ventilation ducting between Node 2 and Columbus; Replace launch to attachment pressure valves with on-orbit air distribution valves.
• Leak check on Columbus.
• Hatch open and Columbus ingress.
• Shuttle heat shield check
• EVA 2 preparations.
• EVA astronauts 'campout' in Quest Airlock to help remove nitrogen from bloodstreams.

 

Flight Day 7 – Spacewalk 2

• Remove and replace failed Nitrogen Tank Assembly on P1 truss section with new Nitrogen Tank Assembly in Shuttle cargo bay.
• Columbus commissioning – Additional audio, data connections; Install panelling in vestibule (between Node 2 and Columbus hatches); Install handrails and foot restraints; Install portable workstation and video cameras; Relocate European Physiology Modules facility from launch to on-orbit location and attach cabling.

 

Flight Day 8

• Columbus commissioning – Install interfaces for racks; Connect nitrogen lines from Node 2 to Columbus; Relocate European Drawer Rack from launch location to on-orbit location.
• Spacewalk 3 preparations.
• Spacewalk astronauts 'campout' in Quest Airlock to help remove nitrogen from bloodstreams.
• Crew off-duty time.

 

Flight Day 9 – Spacewalk 3

• Install SOLAR and EuTEF on Columbus External Payload facility from Shuttle cargo bay; Install failed Control Moment Gyroscope from External Stowage Platform 2 to Shuttle cargo bay for return to Earth.
• Columbus commissioning - Relocate Biolab from launch to on-orbit location; Install items in Biolab (power switches, DC converter); Remove launch locks from different Biolab assemblies; Install items on European Drawer Rack (smoke detector, partitions and air ducting).

 

Flight Day 10 - Columbus commissioning

• Columbus commissioning – Remove launch lock from Biolab Glovebox; Outfit Biolab; Biolab power data and cooling lines mated; Power data and cooling lines connected on European Drawer Rack; Water and data connections from European Drawer Rack to protein Crystallisation Diagnostics Facility; European Physiology Modules checkout procedures.
• Station reboost.
• Transfer operations between Interntional Space Station and Shuttle.
• Columbus vestibule leak check.

 

Flight Day 11 – Undocking

• Crew farewells, Shuttle crew into orbiter and close hatches.
• Orbiter Docking System leak check.

 

Flight Day 12

• Undocking
• Station flyaround
• Shuttle heat shield survey

 

Flight Day 13 - Landing

• Landing preparations

 

Flight Day 14 - Landing

• Landing preparations
• Deorbit
• Landing