Report for 08-09 Sep 2011

The crew worked on the staggered lunch schedule on Thursday and Friday. They made such good progress both days that the brushing of the chamber was completed on Friday afternoon. That means vacuum-wipe down-vacuum can start Monday. Air drills continue to be problematic, with the success rate (running for 1/2 hour without issues)dropping below 50% on Friday. We made garb kits for the crew to use next week so that work can continue unimpeded.

Planning and staging for the return to the LVEA has begun. Christina will assess cleaning needs around HAM 7-8-9 on Monday and report back. Apollo will move a cleanroom over HAM 7-8 ASAP. The crew will start bring the compressor trailer, etc. back from Y-end on Monday as well.

*BSC-7 FTIR re-test results came in this week. ALL readings were at or below detectable! The consensus seems to be that the big hit on the first set of FTIRs was a false positive.