Mission Managers Give "Go" for Saturday Spacewalk

The International Space Station?s mission management team this morning gave a unanimous ?go? for the first of two spacewalks Saturday to replace a faulty oven-sized cooling system component in the station?s truss that failed last weekend.

Expedition 24?s Doug Wheelock and Tracy Caldwell Dyson are scheduled to begin Saturday?s planned seven-hour spacewalk at 6:55 a.m. EDT. The first spacewalk will focus on removing the ammonia pump module that failed last Saturday and putting its  [...]

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