International Space Station managers and mission operations personnel met Sunday and gave final approval for a third spacewalk Monday by Expedition 24 Flight Engineers Doug Wheelock and Tracy Caldwell Dyson to install a spare ammonia pump in the station’s starboard truss as well as approval to restart and activate half of the station’s cooling system that became inoperable two weeks ago due to a failure of the pump in the station’s starboard truss.The 150th spacewalk in support of space station assembly and maintenance dating back to 1998, is set to begin 6:55 AM (Eastern), Monday, August 16, 2010. NASA-TV will provide coverage. More from NASA and Miles O'Brien.
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