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Correction from previous update: At docking, the shuttle and station were 215 miles up and over the Atlantic west of Portugal.]]> Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:22:39 GMT
The shuttle and station crews will open hatches and hold the traditional welcome ceremony at 2:04 a.m. Endeavour’s crew will be working with Expedition 22 commander NASA astronaut Jeff Williams and flight engineers cosmonaut Max Suraev, NASA astronaut T.J. Creamer and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi.

Less than an hour after hatches are open, Mission Specialist Nicholas Patrick and Creamer will operate the station’s robotic arm to remove the Orbiter Boom Sensor System (OBSS) from Endeavour’s payload bay and hand it off to the shuttle robotic arm being operated by Terry Virts and Kay Hire.

Today’s Mission Status Briefing is set for 3:30 a.m. and will air live on NASA TV.]]> Wed, 10 Feb 2010 05:11:45 GMT Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:20:19 GMT
Docking is scheduled for 12:06 a.m.]]> Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:16:13 GMT Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:33:17 GMT
Today is docking day in space, as shuttle Endeavour closes the gap to the International Space Station and links up at about 12:06 a.m. Endeavour will be flown by Zamka and Pilot Terry Virts on its approach for docking to the station. After a series of jet firings to fine-tune Endeavour’s path to the complex, the shuttle will arrive at a point about 600 feet directly below the station about an hour before docking. At that time, Zamka will execute the rendezvous pitch maneuver, a one-degree-per-second rotational “backflip” to enable station crew members to snap hundreds of detailed photos of the shuttle’s heat shield and other areas of potential interest – another data point for imagery analysts to pore over in determining the health of the shuttle’s thermal protection system.

Once the rotation is completed, Zamka will fly Endeavour in front of the station before slowly closing in for a linkup to the forward docking port on the Harmony module. Less than two hours later, hatches will be opened between the two spacecraft and a combined crew of 11 will begin eight days of work.]]> Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:24:38 GMT Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:38:42 GMT Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:02:59 GMT Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:29:25 GMT Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:59:46 GMT