Flight Days 4, 5, and 6

Flight Day 4: This day's major activity was an EVA (Extra Vehicular Activity) that had two crew member's doing a space walk to install a large exterior structural support truss segment to the International Space Station. Early on in the day, the Shuttle was doing a water dump to space while we were doing a small maneuver with the Station and we had some complications. There was a good 30min of tension but nothing bad happened, Molly saved the day. (not really) Here's a snapshot of the Mission Control Center that I took on this day along with what our console looks like. We are the console closest to the front screens on the left hand side (ADCO console)

Flight Day 5: On this day we really had nothing planned on our shift of any consequence to the team. However, the PHALCON console (the power guy), was retracting one of our solar panels and lets just say it didn't go as planned. So, they way these things work is a command is sent by the crew onboard and the 100ft long solar panel starts folding up like an accordian. Well, you know when you try to fold up a really large map and it sometimes folds the wrong way and you get really pissed off, that's pretty much what happened and they still haven't gotten it fully retracted as of now.

Flight Day 6: Today alot of the Space Station was powered down so that the new solar panels that were launced up to us on the last mission can be wired to power some of our equipment. The crew is doing another spacewalk as I am typing this, unplugging wires and plugging them in somewhere else. There was another water dump today on the Space Shuttle but not quite as exciting as Flight Day 4.

More mission photos and info to come