Can you tell us what’s involved in deploying the Japanese robotic arm, initially and eventually flying it?
It turned out that we need to do initial deploy in order for the EVA crews to access some of the launch locks. It was too close in the launch configuration to the module itself so that Ron and Mike cannot access those launch locks. So what we’re trying to do is to deploy it just a little bit and that’s called the ‘initial deploy’ so they can access. It’s not too far. It’s not too close, but it’s just right and we’ll leave it there. We’ll have them take off the launch locks and then we’ll do a final deploy so that’s away from the module and then later in the mission we’ll do a checkout of the arm, making sure that the brakes are working correctly and then move it into a storage configuration. And you’ll be doing the initial deploy? Yes. Driving it? Any pressure? Well, it’s the first time to fly that arm and it’s very close to the structure so you don’t want to bang it into the module and damage the arm or the module, so we’ll be very, very careful. Any other feelings about being the fir
