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Mission Control Center
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STS-135 MCC Status Report No. 20
Sunday, July 17, 2011, 9:30 p.m. CDT

The STS-135 flight day 11 wakeup call came from Houston, as always, but in a
broader sense of the word than usual.

"Good morning, Atlantis, from all of us at the Johnson Space Center!"
chorused an auditorium-full of Johnson employees in a message recorded
before Atlantis' launch. "Have a great mission!"

Johnson Space Center is home not only to the astronaut corps, but also
Mission Control and the Space Shuttle Program, itself.

The message was preceded in the 9:29 p.m. wakeup call by Keith Urban's "Days
Go By," which was chosen by Mission Specialist Rex Walheim.

Walheim and his fellow crew members -- Commander Chris Ferguson, Pilot Doug
Hurley and Mission Specialist Sandy Magnus -- are scheduled to close the
hatches between the International Space Station and a space shuttle for the
last time today, at 8:19 a.m. But before they do that, they'll pack up the
last of the cargo to come home from the station on the shuttle's middeck and
move the Raffaello multipurpose logistics module back into place inside the
shuttle's cargo bay.

The crew finished packing Raffaello on flight day 10, and now it's just a
matter of getting it -- with its 5,666 pounds of returning cargo -- back in
place for the trip home. When it's unpacked back on Earth, multipurpose
logistic modules will have returned 20 tons of supplies and equipment to
Earth, and carried another 50 tons into space since their first mission,
STS-102 in 2002.

After returning to the space shuttle for the remainder of the mission, the
crew will prepare for Tuesday's undocking from the space station, checking
out the tools they'll use for that activity and setting up a camera inside
the shuttle hatch.

The next status report will be issued at the end of the crew's day or
earlier if warranted.


 




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