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It's a girl!

Posted by Frank Morring, Jr. at 11/22/2009 4:09 PM CST

Astronaut Randy Bresnik took time off between two spacewalks to visit via video with his new daughter, born early today after keeping Bresnnik and his crewmates waiting during the second extravehicular activity (EVA) of the STS-129 mission of the space shuttle Atlantis to the International Space Station.

NASA TV

Abigail Mae Bresnik was born at 12:04 a.m. EST, almost nine hours after Bresnik and EVA partner Mike Foreman finished their spacewalk, NASA said Bresnik used the space station's internet telephone to stay in touch with flight surgeons during his wife Rebecca's labor in Houston Saturday night, and was connected to her with a phone patch when he woke up this morning. Mission Control Center-Houston also sent still photos of the new arrival up to the shuttle.
"I'm pretty thankful that things went well on Earth and things went well up here," Bresnik said in a brief video sent down from Atlantis this afternoon.

NASA TV

The combined crews had Sunday morning off after a busy week that including the orbiter's arrival, two EVAs and two false depressurization alarms that interrupted the crews sleep on Thursday and Friday nights (see previous post). Despite that problem, the mission continues to go well.
By the end of the day on Saturday the 12 space travelers on the two docked spacecraft had finished transferring about half of the pressurized cargo that arrived on Atlantis. The spacewalking team had gotten so far ahead that the final EVA of the mission tomorrow was being rewritten with new get-ahead tasks, and the robotics operators had attached two large pallets of spare parts to the station truss with the shuttle and station robotic arms.
Pressurized-cargo transfers resumed this afternoon, as did preparations for tomorrow's spacewalk, Bresnik will be joined by astronaut Bobby Satcher on that excursion.
Atlantis is scheduled to return to the Kennedy Space Center on Friday.

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