HSFNEWS Digest - 7 Mar 2011 to 8 Mar 2011 (#2011-30)

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Date: March 8th 2011

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STS-133 MCC Status Report #22
INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION CREW HOLDS NEWS CONFERENCE
STS-133 MCC Status Report #23

Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 04:12:49 -0600 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: STS-133 MCC Status Report #22

STS-133 Report #22 Monday, March 7, 2011 - 2:30 a m CST Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas

HOUSTON ï¿½ Space shuttle Discoveryï¿½s crew started its last day at the International Space Station with a special wake up call

The ï¿½Theme from Star Trek,ï¿½ performed by Alexander Courage, served as the wake up music for Discoveryï¿½s crew at 2:23 a m It received the second most public votes from a Top 40 list in a Space Shuttle Program-sponsored song contest The top two songs with the most votes from that list earned the right to be played as wake up music for Discoveryï¿½s crew during its final mission As a bonus, actor William Shatner recorded a special introduction to the song:

ï¿½Space, the final frontier These have been the voyages of the Space Shuttle Discovery Her 30 year mission: To seek out new science To build new outposts To bring nations together on the final frontier To boldly go, and do, what no spacecraft has done before ï¿½

It was a fitting beginning to the day that will see Discovery undock from the space station for the last time Discovery was the first space shuttle to dock to the International Space Station, during the STS-96 mission in 1999, marking just one time it did what no spacecraft had done before

Todayï¿½s undocking is scheduled for 6 a m Afterward, Pilot Eric Boe will fly the shuttle around the space station, allowing the shuttle crew to take photos of the station with its newest addition, the Leonardo Permanent Multipurpose Module The fly around will begin at 6:29 a m When itï¿½s complete, the shuttle will perform two engine firings, at 7:15 a m and 7:43 a m , respectively, to begin increasing the distance between the two vehicles

The crewï¿½s afternoon will be devoted to a final inspection of Discoveryï¿½s heat shield using the orbiter boom sensor system and its suite of cameras The imagery collected during todayï¿½s survey, which begins at 10:13 a m , will be sent down to analysts on the ground Theyï¿½ll study it to ensure that no damage has been done to Discoveryï¿½s thermal protection system while itï¿½s been in space

The next status report will be issued at the end of the crewï¿½s day or earlier if warranted The crew is scheduled to begin their sleep period at 6:23 p m

The winning song in the contest will be played during Tuesdayï¿½s wake up call, at 2:23 a m To see the results for all 40 songs, visit:

https://songcontest nasa gov

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Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 13:01:38 -0600 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION CREW HOLDS NEWS CONFERENCE

March 7, 2011

Nicole Cloutier-Lemasters Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111

Stephanie Schierholz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100

Report #M11-045

INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION CREW HOLDS NEWS CONFERENCE

HOUSTON -- Three crew members launching in May to live and work aboard the International Space Station will hold a news conference at 1 p m CST on Monday, March 21, at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston The briefing will be broadcast live on NASA Television and the agency's website Questions will be taken from participating NASA centers

NASA astronaut Mike Fossum, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Satoshi Furukawa and Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov will participate in individual round-robin interviews, in person or by phone, following the news conference The crew also will participate in a photo opportunity for reporters at Johnson

Media representatives planning to attend the briefing or participate in the round-robin interviews must contact the Johnson newsroom at 281-483-5111 by 5 p m on Friday, March 11 All of the required paperwork for international journalists must be submitted to the newsroom by March 11

Fossum, Furukawa and Volkov are three of the six crew members who will comprise Expeditions 28 and 29 The trio is scheduled to launch to the station aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on May 30

They will join Expedition 28 NASA astronaut Ron Garan, and Russian cosmonauts Alexander Samokutyaev and Andrey Borisenko, who will stay aboard the station until mid-September

In early October, NASA's Dan Burbank, and Russia's Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin, will join Fossum, Furukawa and Volkov to complete the Expedition 29 crew For astronaut and cosmonaut biographical information, visit:

http://www jsc nasa gov/Bios

For NASA TV streaming video, schedules and downlink information, visit:

http://www nasa gov/ntv

For more information about the crew members and their mission, visit:

http://www nasa gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition28

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Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 16:10:39 -0600 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: STS-133 MCC Status Report #23

STS-133 Report #23 4 p m CST Monday, March 7, 2011 Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas

HOUSTON ï¿½ Discovery undocked from the International Space Station at 6 a m CST, ending a stay of eight days, 16 hours and 46 minutes

As the shuttle moved away, station Commander Scott Kelly praised the cooperation among crew members of both spacecraft Discovery Commander Steve Lindsey said the team effort had allowed them ï¿½to accomplish well over 100 percent of our objectives ï¿½

Pilot Eric Boe flew the orbiter in a vertical circle around the station while crew members took pictures of the station to document its condition One big change from the previous fly around by Atlantis during STS-132 last May was the addition of the Permanent Multipurpose Module brought up by Discovery The circle complete, Discovery did two separation burns to take it away from the station

Lindsey later had words for Bryan Lunney, the lead STS-133 shuttle flight director working his last shift before leaving NASA ï¿½Bryan has been a great friend, a terrific flight director and a leader Weï¿½re going to really miss him,ï¿½ the Discovery commander radioed down during a farewell gathering in Mission Control

Lindsey, Boe and Mission Specialist Alvin Drew devoted much of their day to the standard late inspection of the heat resistant reinforced carbon-carbon surfaces Using the robotic arm and its 50-foot orbiter boom sensor system extension, they began the inspection just after 10 a m with a look at the right wing

The subsequent nose cap inspection was followed by a look at the left wing Images and data from the survey are sent to the ground for evaluation by experts They will make sure no damage to the thermal protection system occurred during its stay in orbit

The crew is to begin its sleep period at 6:23 p m

Tuesday morning the Top 40 song contest winner will be played at 2:23 a m to wake Discoveryï¿½s crew ï¿½Blue Skyï¿½ by Big Head Todd and the Monsters, which received 722,662 votes (29 percent of the 2,463,774 votes cast) was originally written as a tribute to the space program and workforce and is routinely played in concert by the four-member band

Work aboard Discovery Tuesday will focus on cabin stowage and checkout of the reaction control system and its flight control surfaces The first landing opportunity at Kennedy Space Center is at 10:57 a m Wednesday

The next status report will be issued after the crewï¿½s wakeup call or earlier if warranted

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End of HSFNEWS Digest - 7 Mar 2011 to 8 Mar 2011 (#2011-30)

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