STS-80
Report # 21 
Thursday, November 28, 1996, 6 p.m. CST 
 
 STS-80 Mission Specialists Tammy Jernigan and Tom Jones will have
their Thanksgiving dinners waiting for them tonight when they finish
the first of two space walks scheduled for the flight.

  Jernigan and Jones will depress Columbia's airlock at about 8:16
p.m. to begin a series of evaluations of equipment and procedures that
will be used during construction and maintenance of the International
Space Station. Tonight, the two spacewalkers will demonstrate and
evaluate a maintenance task simulating the change out of an ISS
battery. For this task, Jernigan and Jones will test a six-foot-tall,
telescoping crane designed for use in moving large Orbital Replacement
Units. The spacewalk is scheduled to be completed at 2:56 a.m. Friday.

  Following the spacewalk, the astronauts will celebrate their holiday
aboard Columbia with shelf-stable turkey dinners. The second spacewalk
of the mission is set for Saturday night.

  The crew was awakened at 2:56 p.m. today with the song "Some
Guys Have All the Luck" by Robert Palmer. They will go to sleep
at 7:56 a.m. Friday and awaken for Day 11 of STS-80 at 3:56
p.m. Friday.

  Columbia is performing as expected and is orbiting at an altitude of
about 220 statute miles.


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