Launch from Cape Canaveral (
KSC); landing at Cape
Canaveral (
KSC);
ISS 10A /
Node 2 ("Harmony").
Docking to
ISS on
25.10.2007 and common work with the
ISS
expedition 16.
Transfer
Tani to
ISS and
Anderson to STS-120-crew.
First
EVA by
Parazynski and
Wheelock on 26.10.2007 (6h 14m) to retrieve and stow S-band
Antenna Support Assembly, detach Node 2 ("Harmony") heater cables and remove
cover from Node 2 aft berthing mechanism, stow grapple fixture on Node 2,
disconnect Z1/P6 truss fluid lines, install shrouds on P6 radiator and
Sequential Shunt Unit, move and attach Node 2 to Node 1 left-hand docking port
with Station robotic arm, pressurise area between Node 1 and Node 2 hatches,
perform leak check, open Node 1 hatch.
Second
EVA by
Parazynski and
Tani
on 28.10.2007 (6h 33m). Main tasks: Disconnect Z1 to P6 truss cables and unbolt
P6; outfit outside Node 2 with handrails, worksite interface fixtures, gap
spanners and install thermal covers, remote Node 2 berthing mechanism
restraints; install grapple fixture on Node 2; configure squib firing unit on
S1 truss for deploying radiators.
Third
EVA by
Parazynski and
Wheelock on 30.10.2007 (7h 08m). During this
EVA the
astronauts bolt P6 truss to P5 truss, attached P5 to P6 cabling, removed P6
radiator restraint and cover on Sequential Shunt unit and deploy radiator,
configured squib firing unit on P1 truss, relocated main Bus Switching Unit
from the Shuttle Cargo Bay to External Stowage Platform 2. Two blankets making
up one side of the newly installed P6 solar arrays were successfully
re-extended the 17-ton truss segment was bolted to the far left end of the
space station's main power truss. But the astronauts aborted extension of a
second set of panels after noticing an apparent guidewire hangup and a jagged
tear in one of the two remaining blankets.
This second set of blankets
was more than halfway extended at that point. In television views from the
station, it appeared as if several slats might have gotten hung up on a
guidewire, increasing tension in that area and ripping a seam.
Fourth
EVA by
Parazynski and
Wheelock on 03.11.2007 (7h 19m) to attach cufflink-like clips
across the 15-foot width of the torn P6-4B solar array blanket to provide the
strength needed to permit its full extension. This dramatic repair job was
carried out successful.
