Second Spacewalk Under Way
Mission Specialists Michael Lopez-Alegria and John Herrington began
STS-113's second spacewalk at 12:36 p.m. CST (1836 GMT) today. Their work
is focussed on activating and outfitting the P1 (P-One) Truss, which was
installed onto the International Space Station on Tuesday. Their tasks
include connecting fluid lines from the P1 Truss to the S0 (S-Zero)
Truss, relocating launch restraints and relocating a Crew Equipment
Translation Aid handcar from the P1 to the S1 (S-One) Truss. They are
also scheduled to install the second Wireless video system External
Transceiver Assembly that will be used to support helmet camera
communications from future spacewalkers.

STS-113 Commander Jim Wetherbee and Pilot Paul Lockhart are providing
support to the Thanksgiving Day spacewalkers. Wetherbee is operating
Space Shuttle Endeavour's robot arm, and Lockhart is coordinating
spacewalk activities. Also, NASA Science Officers Peggy Whitson and Don
Pettit are at the controls of the station's robot arm. The spacewalk is
the 23rd spacewalk based out of the station and is scheduled to end about
7 p.m. CST today (0100 GMT Friday).


News Item 
11/28/2002 14:39:52 Endeavour spacewalkers Michael Lopez-Alegria and John
Herrington successfully completed the first major task of today's
spacewalk, the connection of fluid jumper lines linking cooling system
plumbing the International Space Station's new Port One (P1) truss
segment to the rest of the station's growing truss system.

The spacewalkers are about 30 minutes ahead of their timeline as they
began the next task, removal of keel pins which helped support P1 in
Endeavour's cargo bay during launch. The spacewalk began at 12:36 p.m.
CST, almost 45 minutes ahead of schedule.