STS-114 Report #26 Sunday, Aug 7, 2005 -- 8:30 p m CDT Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas

DiscoveryÂ’s Return to Flight mission is scheduled to conclude with a landing at NASAÂ’s Kennedy Space Center early Monday morning

Discovery has two opportunities to land at the Kennedy Space Center on Monday The first begins with a 3 minute, 7 second deorbit burn of the Orbital Maneuvering System engines at 2:40 a m , followed by landing at 3:47 a m CDT

In the event weather prevents landing on that first opportunity, a second is available, with deorbit burn at 4:15 a m resulting in a 5:22 a m CDT landing It will be the 15th night landing in Florida and 20th overall for the Space Shuttle Program

Weather forecasters predict favorable conditions with good visibility and only a slight chance of showers over the water in the vicinity of the three-mile-long landing strip The backup site at CaliforniaÂ’s Edwards Air Force Base was not activated for Monday

The crew was awakened at 7:39 p m CDT by the song “Come on Eileen” by Dexy’s Midnight Runners It was played for Discovery’s Commander Eileen Collins from the Mission Control Team

Collins, Pilot Jim Kelly and Mission Specialist Steve Robinson, who also serves as DiscoveryÂ’s Flight Engineer, and Mission Specialist Andy Thomas will be on the flight deck for landing Mission Specialists Soichi Noguchi, Wendy Lawrence and Charlie Camarda will be on DiscoveryÂ’s middeck

After its departure Saturday, Discovery is now about 200 miles away from the International Space Station and increasing that gap by about 9 miles each time it orbits the Earth Onboard the Station, Commander Sergei Krikalev and NASA Station Science Officer John Phillips have returned to their normal schedule, waking up at 1 a m CDT Monday

The next STS-114 mission status report will be issued Monday morning, or earlier, if events warrant