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Mission Control Center
Houston, Texas

STS-135 MCC Status Report No. 21
Monday, July 18, 2011, 4 p.m. CDT

Atlantis and International Space Station crew members said their goodbyes
and closed hatches between the two spacecraft at 9:28 a.m. CDT, ending seven
days, 21 hours, 41 minutes of docked operations.

Shuttle Commander Chris Ferguson, Pilot Doug Hurley and Mission Specialists
Sandra Magnus and Rex Walheim are spending their night with Atlantis still
docked to the station. They will begin their journey home with undocking,
scheduled for about 1:30 a.m. Tuesday.

Aboard the station, Commander Andrey Borisenko and Flight Engineers
Alexander Samokutyaev, Ron Garan, Sergei Volkov, Satoshi Furukawa and Mike
Fossum will work during the coming days stowing equipment and supplies left
by Atlantis. About 9,400 pounds of it came up on Raffaello, the
multi-purpose logistics module.

Almost 2,300 pounds of additional cargo, including scientific equipment and
experiments, was brought up on Atlantis' middeck.

Hatches were closed separating Raffaello and the station, beginning at 12:03
a.m. Monday when the hatch on the cargo carrier was closed. It was undocked
from the station's Harmony node and returned to Atlantis' cargo bay by
Magnus and Hurley using the station's Canadarm2. Raffaello and its return
cargo of almost 5,700 pounds of unneeded equipment and trash from the
station, was secured in the cargo bay shortly before 7 a.m.

At the farewell ceremony before the shuttle crew returned to Atlantis,
Ferguson presented to the station a small U.S. flag that had flown on STS-1.
It will remain on the station's Harmony node until the arrival of an
astronaut launched in a U.S. spacecraft returns it to Earth. Ferguson said
that later it will fly again, on a spaceflight beyond low Earth orbit.

He also presented a shuttle model signed by program officials and the
mission's lead shuttle and station flight directors. What you don't see is
the signatures of the tens of thousands who rose to orbit with us over the
past 30 years, if only in spirit, Ferguson said.

Ferguson thanked station commander Andrey Borisenko for the hospitality and
his crew's help in making the mission a success. Borisenko replied by
wishing the shuttle crew a safe trip home and happy landings.

Station Flight Engineer Ron Garan said the best thing Atlantis did was bring
up Magnus. Sandy, we can't thank you enough for all that you did. Magnus was
a previous station resident and Atlantis' load master, responsible for the
major mission activity of moving cargo between the two spacecraft.

Shortly after hatches between the two spacecraft were closed, Atlantis crew
members began preparations for undocking. Ferguson and Hurley installed the
centerline camera while hatch leak checks were still under way. Subsequently
Hurley and Walheim checked out rendezvous tools.

The camera and the tools will provide information as shuttle crew members
move Atlantis away from the station. Undocking is scheduled for 1:28 a.m.
Tuesday.

The next status report will be issued after crew wakeup at 8:59 p.m. Monday
or earlier if warranted.

 




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