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1. HOUSTON WELCOMES HOME FINAL SPACE SHUTTLE CREW
2. STS-135 MCC Status Report #21
3. STS-135 MCC Status Report #22

Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 13:55:34 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: HOUSTON WELCOMES HOME FINAL SPACE SHUTTLE CREW

July 18, 2011

Kylie Clem Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111

Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100

Report #M11-146

HOUSTON WELCOMES HOME FINAL SPACE SHUTTLE CREW

HOUSTON -- After space shuttle Atlantis' scheduled landing Thursday, July 21, a welcome home ceremony for the STS-135 astronauts is planned for Friday, July 22 Journalists and the public are invited to attend the 4 p m CDT event at Ellington Field's NASA Hangar 990 Gates to Ellington Field will open at 3:30 p m

Reporters planning to attend must contact NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston at 281-483-5111 by 5 p m on Wednesday, July 20 Arrangements will be made for live television satellite trucks upon request News media representatives planning to set up live TV equipment should plan to arrive at the event site no later than 3 p m

The ceremony will be broadcast live on NASA Television For NASA TV downlink information, schedules and links to streaming video, visit:

http://www nasa gov/ntv

Shuttle Commander Chris Ferguson, Pilot Doug Hurley and Mission Specialists Sandra Magnus and Rex Walheim are wrapping up a 13-day mission to deliver supplies to the International Space Station that will help sustain its operation in the post-shuttle era

To follow the status of the landing and for more information on the STS-135 mission, visit:

http://go nasa gov/STS-135

For information about NASA and agency programs, visit:

http://www nasa gov

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Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:11:41 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: STS-135 MCC Status Report #21

STS-135 Report #21 4 p m CDT Monday, July 18, 2011 Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas

HOUSTON � 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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Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 21:05:29 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: STS-135 MCC Status Report #22

STS-135 Report #22 Monday, July 18, 2011 - 9 p m CDT Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas

HOUSTON � The final space shuttle crew is now just hours away from undocking from the International Space Station, one more time

Commander Chris Ferguson, Pilot Doug Hurley and Mission Specialists Sandy Magnus and Rex Walheim began their day at 8:59 p m Their wakeup call came in the form of Coldplay�s �Don�t Panic,� which was played for Hurley

After 37 space shuttle visits, in which 10 modules, four sets of solar arrays, 354 feet of truss and countless science experiments � not to mention the necessities of day-to-day living in space � have been delivered, space shuttle Atlantis will pull away from the space station for the last time at 1:28 a m

Before the crew gets too far away, however, they�ll have one more service to perform for the orbiting laboratory Hurley will move the shuttle out to a distance of 600 feet away, and then fly half a loop around the station, so that Atlantis� astronauts can document once more the product of the space shuttle fleet�s efforts

Although a fly-around has been performed following undocking for most of the shuttle missions to the station, this last half lap should provide some new views The space station will rotate 90 degrees to give the shuttle crew a view down its long axis, an angle not normally visible

The fly-around should be complete by 2:50 a m , at which point Atlantis� engines will fire in a series of burns to begin moving it further away from the space station The crew on board will spend the second half of its day inspecting the shuttle�s heat shield for any damage it may have received while in space

The next 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 just before 1 p m on Tuesday

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