Jacques van Oene
August 6th 05, 09:30 AM
STS-114 MCC Status Report #21
Friday, Aug. 5, 2005 - 7 p.m. CDT
Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas
Discovery astronauts and their hosts on the International Space Station
undocked the Raffaello Multi-Purpose Logistics Module from the Station's
Unity Node Friday and reberthed it in the Shuttle's cargo bay.
Discovery Commander Eileen Collins, Pilot Jim Kelly and Mission Specialists
Soichi Noguchi (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), Steve Robinson, Andy
Thomas, Wendy Lawrence and Charlie Camarda, also made preparations for
Saturday's undocking of the orbiter. Station crewmembers, Commander Sergei
Krikalev and NASA Science Officer John Phillips, helped.
Raffaello is loaded with more than 5,000 pounds of items bound for Earth,
including equipment, experiment results and even personal gear of
crewmembers dating back to Expedition 6, which left the Station in May 2003.
Items for return to Earth have accumulated aboard the orbiting laboratory
since the last Shuttle visit in December 2002.
Lawrence and Kelly used the station arm to unberth the module and return it
to Discovery. The berthing was completed at 9:03 a.m. CDT. Raffaello, one of
three pressurized cargo carrying modules built in Italy for use aboard the
Shuttle, brought 3,768 pounds of equipment and supplies to the Station.
After Raffaello was secured in Discovery's cargo bay, Camarda and Thomas
used the Shuttle arm to hand off the Orbiter Boom Sensor System to the
Station arm. Lawrence and Kelly reberthed the OBSS in its position on the
starboard sill of the cargo bay.
After that operation, Lawrence radioed congratulations to those on the
ground for the performance of the Canadian-built OBSS and robotic arms. She
and Kelly radioed down the Halleluiah Chorus from Handel's Messiah to
emphasize those congratulatory words.
Discovery is scheduled to undock from the International Space Station at
2:24 a.m. CDT Saturday. Landing at Kennedy Space Center in Florida is
scheduled for 3:46 a.m. CDT Monday.
The next STS-114 mission status report will be issued Saturday morning, or
earlier if events warrant.
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Jacques :-)
www.spacepatches.info
Friday, Aug. 5, 2005 - 7 p.m. CDT
Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas
Discovery astronauts and their hosts on the International Space Station
undocked the Raffaello Multi-Purpose Logistics Module from the Station's
Unity Node Friday and reberthed it in the Shuttle's cargo bay.
Discovery Commander Eileen Collins, Pilot Jim Kelly and Mission Specialists
Soichi Noguchi (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), Steve Robinson, Andy
Thomas, Wendy Lawrence and Charlie Camarda, also made preparations for
Saturday's undocking of the orbiter. Station crewmembers, Commander Sergei
Krikalev and NASA Science Officer John Phillips, helped.
Raffaello is loaded with more than 5,000 pounds of items bound for Earth,
including equipment, experiment results and even personal gear of
crewmembers dating back to Expedition 6, which left the Station in May 2003.
Items for return to Earth have accumulated aboard the orbiting laboratory
since the last Shuttle visit in December 2002.
Lawrence and Kelly used the station arm to unberth the module and return it
to Discovery. The berthing was completed at 9:03 a.m. CDT. Raffaello, one of
three pressurized cargo carrying modules built in Italy for use aboard the
Shuttle, brought 3,768 pounds of equipment and supplies to the Station.
After Raffaello was secured in Discovery's cargo bay, Camarda and Thomas
used the Shuttle arm to hand off the Orbiter Boom Sensor System to the
Station arm. Lawrence and Kelly reberthed the OBSS in its position on the
starboard sill of the cargo bay.
After that operation, Lawrence radioed congratulations to those on the
ground for the performance of the Canadian-built OBSS and robotic arms. She
and Kelly radioed down the Halleluiah Chorus from Handel's Messiah to
emphasize those congratulatory words.
Discovery is scheduled to undock from the International Space Station at
2:24 a.m. CDT Saturday. Landing at Kennedy Space Center in Florida is
scheduled for 3:46 a.m. CDT Monday.
The next STS-114 mission status report will be issued Saturday morning, or
earlier if events warrant.
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Jacques :-)
www.spacepatches.info