It will take up to eight hours tospin the new gyroscope's flywheel up to its full speed of about 6,600revolutions per minute. 'Congratulations, mission control,'Robinson said. The news was so goodto flight controllers it prompted lead spacewalk officer Cindy Begley to jumpout of her chair in applause. After connecting all the powercables necessary to both heat and power the new gyroscope, flight controllersreported it was not working properly.īut a few cable checks by Noguchifound one connector out of place and power was restored. Noguchi and Robinson did encounter aslight glitch during the gyroscope installation. 'Alright my friend, let's take this CMG home.' 'Outstanding, great work Soichi,'Robinson said as Noguchi hauled off the faulty, washing machine-sized gyroscopeout of its ISS berth from the end of the station's robotic arm. 'It's been great working with you guys.'ĭuring the gyroscope replacement,the spacewalkers played what Noguchi has called an 'orbital shell game,'placing the broken gyroscope in a holding area, plucking out its replacementfrom a berth in Discovery's payload bay and sliding the faulty unit into thatsame berth. 'Great worktoday,' said astronaut Michael Massimino, serving as capcom for ISS missioncontrol.
