STS-80 Flight Day 10

Abstract

On this tenth day of the STS-80 mission, the flight crew, Cmdr. Kenneth D. Cockrell, Pilot Kent V. Rominger, Mission Specialists, Tamara E. Jernigan, Thomas D. Jones, and F. Story Musgrave, conduct a thorough check of the tools that Jernigan and Jones will be using for their spacewalk. The astronauts also prepare the middeck for the first spacewalk. The first extravehicular activity will test a telescoping crane which will be used during the assembly of the International Space Station to move large components from module to module. The two astronauts will use the crane to move a simulated space station battery back and forth around the cargo bay.