ISS News Feb 15: Astronauts move old space station docking port

On Monday night, February 15, 2010, the astronauts aboard the space station (pop quiz - name them!) moved the old docking adapter to a new position. The station's robot arm removed the 10-year-old adapter from the space station and transferred it to a port at the new room, Tranquility. There, it will provide an extra docking location for visiting vessels, and also serve as a buffer against micrometeorite hits.

Simultaneously, the crews of the space shuttle and space station connected power and data lines in the new $27 million observation deck, that had been moved to its permanent location early Monday. Later this week, the domed, seven-windowed lookout will receive another addition: a robotic work station for operating the station's mechanical arm.

On Tuesday night, astronauts Robert Behnken and Nicholas Patrick will conduct a space walk in which they will unlock the shutters on the lookout's windows. This will allw the crew inside to open the shutters.

Behnken and Patrick were the astronauts who operated the robot arm during Monday night's moving operation.

"Take the rest of the afternoon off," Mission Control radioed after the relocation job was completed. Mission Control gave the two crews Tuesday morning off to prepare for the spacewalk finale; it's afternoon to the astronauts, who are working the graveyard shift in orbit.

Endeavour and its crew of six will depart the space station Friday after a visit of 1 1/2 weeks. They've already accomplished their major objective: delivering and installing Tranquility and the observation deck, European contributions.

Here's the link to yahoonews:
Astronauts move old space station docking port

And here's the link to NASA's website.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html