* Astronomy

Spacewalk Planned to Help the ISS Keep its Cool 

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Ford Hands Over ISS Command to Hadfield

Aki Answers from ISS

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Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 33 Flight Engineer Aki Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency took questions from Japanese university students and summarized the major accomplishments of his four-month mission on the orbital laboratory during an in-flight educational event on Nov. 14. Hoshide, Expedition 33 Commander Suni Williams of NASA and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko will return to Earth Nov. 19 in their Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft for a parachute-assisted landing before sunrise on the steppe of Kazakhstan.

Suni and Aki's Spacewalk Success

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International Space Station program managers provide analysis to media following the successful 6 hour, 28 minute follow-on EVA performed by Expedition 32 spacewalkers Suni Williams and Aki Hoshide on Sept. 5. Williams and Hoshide successfully installed a replacement Main Bus Switching Unit (MBSU) after cleaning and lubricating the power relay unit's bolts and posts. The MBSU is routing power from the space station's solar arrays to components of the orbiting laboratory. The spacewalking duo also successfully removed and replaced a camera on the space station's Canadarm2 robotic arm. A "frozen" bolt prevented the duo from completing these tasks during their spacewalk last week.