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1. STS-133 MCC Status Report #04
2. STS-133 MCC Status Report #05

Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 06:07:54 -0600 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: STS-133 MCC Status Report #04

STS-133 Report #04 Saturday, Feb 26, 2011 - 6:30 a m CST Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas

HOUSTON � Space shuttle Discovery has been steadily catching up to the International Space Station overnight and will be making its final docking with the orbiting laboratory at 1:16 p m

Discovery�s crew was awakened to begin preparations for the rendezvous at 5:53 a m The day�s wake up song was �Woody�s Roundup,� performed by Riders in the Sky, which was played for Mission Specialist Alvin Drew, who is making his second trip to the space station

The terminal initiation burn, an engine firing that will give Discovery one last big push toward the space station, is scheduled to take place at 10:33 a m That should bring Discovery to a point 600 feet below the space station at 12:15 p m , at which point Commander Steve Lindsey will fly the shuttle in a back flip below the station for the Rendezvous Pitch Maneuver

As he does so, station Flight Engineers Paolo Nespoli and Cady Coleman will be stationed at the windows of the Zvezda service module, armed with 800 mm- and 400 mm-lens cameras, with which to photograph Discovery�s heat shield The photos will be sent down to specialists on the ground for analysis

Following the back flip, Lindsey will fly Discovery to a point 310 feet directly in front of the station, and then allow the station to catch up with it for docking After a series of leak checks, the crews of the two vehicles should be able to open the hatches between them at 3:18 p m

Following a welcome ceremony and safety briefing for the stations six visitors, Discovery�s crew will get to work transferring the cargo they�re delivering Drew, Pilot Eric Boe and Mission Specialists Michael Barratt and Nicole Stott will use the shuttle and station robotic arms to remove the Express Logistics Carrier 4 from Discovery�s cargo bay and install it on the starboard side of the station�s truss system There it will be used to store spare parts, including the spare radiator launched with it

The next shuttle status report will be issued at the end of the crew�s day or earlier if warranted The crew is scheduled to go to sleep at 9:53 p m Saturday

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Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 17:18:40 -0600 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: STS-133 MCC Status Report #05

STS-133 Report #05 5 p m CST Saturday, Feb 26, 2011 Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas

HOUSTON � Space shuttle Discovery docked to the International Space Station at 1:14 p m CST Saturday with its cargo of a new station module, equipment and supplies for the orbiting laboratory

After a delay to let the relative motion between the two spacecraft, with a combined mass of 1 2 million pounds, dampen out, hatches separating crews were opened at 3:16 p m Shuttle astronauts, Commander Steve Lindsey, Pilot Eric Boe and Mission Specialists Alvin Drew, Steve Bowen, Michael Barratt and Nicole Stott moved into the station

Following handshakes, hugs and a welcoming ceremony by the station crew, Expedition 26 Commander Scott Kelly and Flight Engineers Oleg Skripochka, Alexander Kaleri, Dmitry Kondratyev, Paolo Nespoli and Catherine Coleman, Discovery astronauts received the standard station safety briefing

The crews promptly went to work, with Barratt and Stott preparing to use the station�s robotic arm to pluck Express Logistic Carrier 4 from the shuttle cargo bay and hand it off to the shuttle�s arm, operated by Drew and Boe After moving the base of Canadarm2, the shuttle arm was to hand ELC4 back for installation on the Earth-facing side of the station�s starboard truss There it will be used for stowage of spare parts, including a spare radiator launched aboard Discovery

As the shuttle slowly approached the station, with both spacecraft moving at 17,500 mph, it paused about 600 feet below it to do the standard backflip Nespoli and Coleman used cameras with 400 mm and 800 mm lenses for a minute-and-a-half photo session, shooting numerous pictures of the shuttle�s thermal protection system The photos will be sent down for analysis by experts to check for any damage

After both crews focus on transfer of equipment and supplies Sunday, Drew and Bowen will do 6 5-hour spacewalks on Monday and Wednesday On Tuesday the station arm, again controlled by Barratt and Stott, will take the Permanent Multipurpose Module from Discovery�s cargo bay and install it on the Earth-facing port of the station�s Unity node

The next shuttle status report will be issued after crew wakeup or earlier if warranted

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End of HSFNEWS Digest - 26 Feb 2011 to 27 Feb 2011 (#2011-21)

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