Next Space Station Spacewalk to Be Broadcast on NASA TV

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Sept. 2, 2012

Joshua Buck 
Headquarters, Washington 
202-358-1100 
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Kelly Humphries 
Johnson Space Center, Houston 
281-483-5111 
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MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-171

NEXT SPACE STATION SPACEWALK TO BE BROADCAST ON NASA TV

WASHINGTON -- In the wake of an unsuccessful attempt to install a 
replacement power-switching unit on the truss of the International 
Space Station, two crew members will venture outside for a second 
time in six days to complete the work. NASA Television will provide 
live coverage of the spacewalk beginning at 6 a.m. EDT, Wednesday, 
Sept. 5. The spacewalk is scheduled to begin about 7:15 a.m. 

Expedition 32 flight engineers Sunita Williams of NASA and Akihiko 
Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency again will don U.S. 
spacesuits and exit the Quest airlock to complete the installation of 
a spare Main Bus Switching Unit (MBSU). The MBSU is a boxy, 236-pound 
component that relays power from the station's solar arrays to its 
systems. An 8- hour, 17-minute spacewalk on Aug. 30 -- the third 
longest in history -- ended with the spacewalkers unable to finish 
bolting the switching unit into its housing on the truss. 

This spacewalk will be the 165th in support of space station assembly 
and maintenance, the sixth in Williams' career and the second for 
Hoshide. Williams will wear the spacesuit bearing red stripes. 
Hoshide will be clad in the spacesuit with no markings. 

NASA will conduct a multi-center news conference following the 
conclusion of Wednesday's spacewalk. The news conference will be 
broadcast on NASA TV and include space station program and mission 
operations representatives. News media representatives who would like 
to participate by telephone must call the newsroom at NASA's Johnson 
Space Center in Houston 15 minutes before the news conference begins. 
Priority will be given to journalists participating in person. 
Questions by phone will be taken as time permits. Journalists should 
check the NASA TV schedule Wednesday for the news conference start 
time. 

For NASA TV streaming video, schedule and downlink information, visit: 


http://www.nasa.gov/ntv 

For more information about the International Space Station and its 
crew, visit: 

http://www.nasa.gov/station 

	
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