STS-105
Report # 16 
 Saturday, August 18, 2001 - 5:30 a.m. CDT 
 
 Discovery astronauts Dan Barry and Pat Forrester will perform the second spacewalk of the STS-105 mission today, hooking up heating cables and installing handrails on the International Space Station's Destiny Laboratory in advance of the arrival of a large truss structure at the complex next year. Meanwhile, the new Expedition Three crew aboard the station will continue packing the Multipurpose Logistics Module Leonardo for its return to Earth

Discovery's astronauts, including the returning Expedition Two crew, were awakened at 4 a.m. Central time by "Hotel California," performed by the Eagles. It was requested for Expedition Two Commander Yury Usachev by his wife.

The new station crew, Commander Frank Culbertson and Cosmonauts Vladimir Dezhurov and Mikhail Tyurin, are beginning a four-month stay on the station. They will be separated from Discovery's crew by closed hatches to accommodate today's spacewalk.

Barry and Forrester are to emerge from the shuttle's airlock a little after 9 a.m. Central time. Commander Scott Horowitz will operate the shuttle's robotic arm to move the spacewalkers around while Pilot Rick Sturckow will serve as the spacewalk choreographer.

The heating cables Barry and Forrester will install are for the S0 truss, to be delivered to the station next year. The spacewalk is the 26th in support of the assembly of the International Space Station and is expected to last around 6 hours.

Discovery and the station are orbiting the Earth every 90 minutes at an average altitude of 246 statute miles with all systems functioning well. The next status report will be issued about 6 p.m., or earlier, if events warrant.