page_title: STS-120
section_title: 29 October (Flight day 7)
hierarchical_section_title: STS-120 / Mission timeline / 29 October (Flight day 7)
caption_attribution_description: STS-120 and Expedition 16 crewmembers pose for a group photo following a joint news conference in the Harmony node of the International Space Station while Space Shuttle Discovery is docked with the station. From the left (bottom) are astronauts Clayton Anderson, STS-120 mission specialist; Peggy A. Whitson, Expedition 16 commander; cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, Expedition 16 flight engineer representing Russia's Federal Space Agency; and George Zamka, STS-120 pilot. From the left (center) are astronauts Stephanie Wilson, STS-120 mission specialist; Pam Melroy, STS-120 commander; and Paolo Nespoli, mission specialist representing the European Space Agency (ESA). From the left (top) are astronauts Daniel Tani, Expedition 16 flight engineer; Scott Parazynski and Doug Wheelock, both STS-120 mission specialists.
context_page_description: STS-120 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station that launched on 23 October 2007 from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The mission is also referred to as ISS-10A by the ISS program. STS-120 delivered the Harmony module and reconfigured a portion of the station in preparation for future assembly missions. STS-120 was flown by Space Shuttle Discovery, and was the twenty-third Space Shuttle mission to the ISS.
context_section_description: The two crews used the morning to move the P6 truss from its overnight position on the station's robotic arm, over to the shuttle's robotic arm. The crew then moved the station's arm along the mobile transporter to an outboard work site that allows attachment of the P6 truss to its new location on the P5 truss on Tuesday. Managers on the ground had Whitson perform an experiment on the shavings Tani collected from the SARJ on Sunday's EVA, putting a magnet under a slip of paper, and testing to see if the shavings collected on the paper, to ascertain if they were metal. The test confirmed the particles collected by Tani were ferrous. This information allowed the managers on the ground to rule out some possibilities of the origin of the particles, such as the thermal covers, which are made of aluminized mylar.
  The Mission Management Team discussed the SARJ issues with the ISS team, and decided to add an extra docked day to the mission, between flight days 11 and 12. The new plan changed the objectives of EVA four from the heat shield repair materials testing, to a more thorough inspection of the starboard SARJ. With the new flight plan, Discovery would undock on 5 November 2007 with a landing on 7 November 2007, at approximately 05:11 EST.
caption: The two crews took time out to participate in a joint crew news conference, and to pose for a crew photo.
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