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The repair tests will see heat resistant putty-like material, applied with caulk gun to repair coating loss and fill fine cracks. Crew will capture imagery of tile repair samples in Sample Box Assembly and wing leading edge.
Astronaunts Piers Sellers and Mike Fossum are carrying out their third and final spacewalk of STS-121, testing out repair options for future flights.
They will perform Reinforced Carbon-Carbon/tile crack repair on eight damaged samples using Non-Oxide Adhesive (NOAX). Heat resistant putty-like material, applied with caulk gun to repair coating loss and fill fine cracks.
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The repair tests will see heat resistant putty-like material, applied with caulk gun to repair coating loss and fill fine cracks. Crew will capture imagery of tile repair samples in Sample Box Assembly and wing leading edge.
Digital still camera will be tested to determine its usefulness at detecting tile subsurface delaminations; tests will determine if camera is flown as standard equipment on future flights.
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The spacewalk will focus on setting up the SSRMS (Space Station Remote Manipulator System) and the PLB (Payload Bay) with the new digital Infrared (IR) Camera, followed by the execution of the following task objectives:
DTO (Detailed Test Objective), 848/RCC (Reinforced Carbon-Carbon) evaluations, and DTO 851/IR Camera tests for recording video of Orbiter WLE (Wing Leading Edge) and an RCC test article.
After cleanup ops, A/L ingress and pre-repress will conclude the spacewalk which is expected to last 6.5 hours.
DTO (Detailed Test Objective), 848/RCC (Reinforced Carbon-Carbon) evaluations, and DTO 851/IR Camera tests for recording video of Orbiter WLE (Wing Leading Edge) and an RCC test article.
After cleanup ops, A/L ingress and pre-repress will conclude the spacewalk which is expected to last 6.5 hours.
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