Is there work before 127 arrives to get Kibo ready to accept these new components?
Yes. STS-124 crew members, Karen Nyberg and Aki Hoshide performed the checkout — and Greg Chamitoff and Sandy Magnus are part of the checkout crew members of the Kibo’s robotic arm. But what I’ll do during my Expedition 18 time is have the final checkout of the Kibo’s robotic arm by demonstrating the very similar trajectory of the motion of the arm during the STS-127 — those trajectories are the trajectories for the transfer of the payloads to the Exposed Facility. And after that is completed, we will be ready to use the Kibo robotic arm for the first time operationally. Kibo is Japan’s first manned space facility. How are the people in Japan responding to the flight of the Japanese components and the Japanese astronauts to the space station and the start of operations in Kibo? When STS-123 and STS-124 delivered the first two components of the Kibo module to the ISS, we had very big media coverage of those missions. It created very big enthusiasm among the people in Japan in human sp
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