21.   If the nascent outpost is in good shape, shuttle astronauts will not return until May, this time with supplies and equipment, including a Russian cargo crane.

22.   If the sunlight catches the glint of escaping particles, they should be visible to the shuttle astronauts and cameras.

23.   ILC Dover, a subsidiary of Hamilton Sundstrand, makes the suits that shuttle astronauts use during spacewalks.

24.   In December, shuttle astronauts caught up with the previously launched Zarya module and used the robot arm to link it with the Unity module.

25.   Its products range from colorants in Crayola Washable Markers to the orange spacesuits that shuttle astronauts wear.

26.   Late Tuesday, shuttle astronauts focused their efforts on the installation of five large power storage batteries.

27.   Meade and Discovery crew mate Mark Lee plan to conduct the first untethered spacewalks by shuttle astronauts in a decade.

28.   Mission controllers in Houston traditionally wake up shuttle astronauts in the morning with music.

29.   NASA officials say the experiment is probably the most complex tried by shuttle astronauts.

30.   Nonetheless, there were no plans to pull the shuttle astronauts away from radar operations to exercise more.