Astronauts Check Out Harmony

INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION (AP) -- Two astronauts go into Harmony on Saturday, the international space station's new live-in compartment.<br/><br/>They floated around the school-bus-size room and

Saturday, October 27th 2007, 2:00 pm

By: News On 6

INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION (AP) -- Two astronauts go into Harmony on Saturday, the international space station's new live-in compartment.

They floated around the school-bus-size room and took air samples, while other crew members took pictures.

Harmony was installed on Friday during a six-and-a-half-hour spacewalk and will serve as a docking port for European and Japanese laboratories during future missions.

Up next on the crew's to-do list are preparations for tomorrow's spacewalk to install handrails and other equipment to the outside of Harmony. The spacewalkers also will examine a rotary joint for the space station's solar wings. It has exhibited electrical
current spikes in the past month.

Astronauts also must make some computer repairs. Both Discovery and the space station have had some networking problems over the past few days.