Nearly six days into NASA’s latest space shuttle mission, and the crew is spending Tuesday hard at work. The busy schedule for Endeavour’s crew includes some space station maintenance, television appearances, and preparation for another mission spacewalk.

First up, the crew of STS-118 is using robotic arms to install a new stowage platform on to the International Space Station. The external stowage platform-3 is expected to be attached to the Port 3 (P3) truss of the orbiting station before noon.

Mission Specialists Tracy Caldwell and Barbara Morgan are the arm operators on board the Endeavour. Pilot Charles Hobaugh and Expedition 15 Flight Engineer Clay Anderson will be at the controls of the station arm.

PHOTO CREDIT: (NASA) – Mission Specialist Barbara R. Morgan smiles for a photo near the aft flight deck of Space Shuttle Endeavour.

The work will involve the shuttle arm lifting the platform out of Endeavour’s payload bay and handing it off to the station arm, which will be used to install it.

Also going on inside the shuttle/station complex, cargo transfers between the two spacecraft continue. Preparations are also underway for the Endeavour crew’s third spacewalk of the mission, scheduled for tomorrow.

The crew’s day began with a 6:07 a.m. with a wakeup call that wished Caldwell a happy birthday.

Starting at 2:01 p.m., Morgan and Williams will take time out of their busy schedule Tuesday afternoon to answer questions from ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, and Fox.

Then at 5:09 p.m., Morgan, Anderson and Mission Specialists Dave Williams and Alvin Drew will participate in an education event with students at the Discovery Center of Idaho in Boise.

Both events will be aired live on NASA TV.