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1. STS-130 MCC Status Report #25
2. STS-130 MCC Status Report #26

Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 04:47:53 -0600 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: STS-130 MCC Status Report #25

STS-130 Report #25 5 a m CST Saturday, Feb 20, 2010 Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas

HOUSTON – Space shuttle Endeavour undocked from the International Space Station at 6:54 p m CST after a visit totaling 9 days, 19 hours and 48 minutes

Endeavour delivered the final addition to the U S segment, the Tranquility node, along with the cupola, an observatory module that will be used for scientific observations of Earth and celestial bodies, and as a robotics control room The station is now 98 percent complete by volume, 90 percent by mass

After undocking, shuttle Pilot Terry Virts moved the shuttle to 400 feet ahead of the station, and then flew a full circle around it while camera-wielding shuttle crew members and cameras in Endeavour’s payload bay focused on documenting the state of the station with Tranquility and the cupola

After the fly around, Virts executed two burns of Endeavour’s jets to maneuver the shuttle behind the station and leave the area Later, Endeavour crew members began the late inspection of its thermal protection system using the Orbiter Boom Sensor System Commander George Zamka, Mission Specialists Kathryn Hire, Stephen Robinson, and Nicholas Patrick and Virts worked in shifts to examine the reinforced carbon-carbon panels and heat shield tiles on the starboard wing, nose cap and port wing

Tomorrow is to be the last full day of orbital activities for the STS-130 crew and will focus on landing preparations Zamka, Virts and Robinson will check out Endeavour’s flight control systems and steering jets to make sure they’re ready for re-entry

Landing for Endeavour is planned to take place at 9:16 p m on Sunday at Kennedy Space Center, weather permitting

The crew is bedtime is 6:14 a m as it adjusts for scheduled entry on Sunday The wakeup call is set for 2:14 p m The JSC Newsroom will close at 5 a m and reopen at 3 p m The next status will be issued after the crew awakens, or earlier if events warrant

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Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 18:14:46 -0600 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: STS-130 MCC Status Report #26

STS-130 Report #26 6 p m CST Saturday, Feb 20, 2010 Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas

HOUSTON – Preparations for landing take center stage today as the astronauts on space shuttle Endeavour get set to wrap up a two-week flight that added the last components of the U S section of the International Space Station

Today’s wakeup call, at 2:15 p m , was “The Distance” by Cake, played for all six astronauts from their flight control team in the Mission Control Center in Houston

Pilot Terry Virts and Mission Specialist Steven Robinson will berth the shuttle’s robotic arm before joining Commander George Zamka for the routine pre-landing checkout of Endeavour flight control system and reaction control system They will manipulate all of the flight control surfaces and then test fire each of the reaction control system jets to make sure both of those systems are in good shape to support entry and landing

Later in the day those three will join Mission Specialists Kathryn Hire, Nicholas Patrick and Robert Behnken to pack up the crew cabin for the first landing attempt, at 9:16 p m Sunday at the Kennedy Space Center, weather permitting

Tonight at 8:49 p m the six Endeavour astronauts will talk about their flight in interviews with CNN, CNN Español, and Univision

On board the International Space Station the crew’s work day is being shifted to its normal cycle The next wakeup call for Expedition 22 Commander Jeff Williams and Flight Engineers Max Suraev, Oleg Kotov, Soichi Noguchi and T J Creamer is 12:00 a m Sunday

The next status will be issued after the crew work day, or earlier if events warrant

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End of HSFNEWS Digest - 20 Feb 2010 to 21 Feb 2010 (#2010-22)

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