The Endeavour astronauts are up and at it on this 12th day of their mission to the International Space Station -- one which started with wake-up music from the astronaut band Bandella.Shuttle mission specialist Don Pettit and his crewmates were rousted from an orbital slumber with the song "Fever," sung by Pettit's wife, Michelle.
"That was great music," Pettit told colleagues in NASA's Mission Control Center in Houston.
"It was our pleasure, Don," fellow astronaut Alan Poindexter replied.
The music group Bandella, which plays in pubs in the Clear Lake area around NASA's Johnson Space Center, also includes Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield and U.S. shuttle veterans Stevie Ray Robinson and Catherine "Cady" Coleman.
The 10 space travelers aboard the joined shuttle-station complex now are getting ready for a day that mostly will be spent packing up the Leonardo cargo carrier.
The crews also will gather samples from a newly delivered water treatment system designed to convert urine, sweat and condensate into potable drinking water. The samples will be returned to Earth aboard Endeavour so engineers can test them.
You can check out the crew's schedule in this latest revision -- Rev K -- of the NASA TV Schedule.
More detailed timelines are in the Flight Day 12 Execute Package
You can watch all the action unfold here in The Flame Trench. Simply click the NASA TV box on the righthand side of this page to launch our NASA TV viewer and round-the-clock coverage of Endeavour's mission to the station.
Be sure to refresh this page, too, for periodic updates.
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