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1. STS-135 MCC Status Report #04
2. STS-135 MCC Status Report #05

Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 02:32:43 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: STS-135 MCC Status Report #04

STS-135 Report #04 Sunday, July 10, 2011 - 2:30 a m CDT Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas

HOUSTON � Space shuttle Atlantis� crew began their third day in space at 2:29 a m , just hours away from the scheduled final docking of a space shuttle with the International Space Station

The wakeup call for Commander Chris Ferguson, Pilot Doug Hurley and Mission Specialists Sandy Magnus and Rex Walheim came in the form of �Mr Blue Sky� by Electric Light Orchestra That song was played for Ferguson

The shuttle has been closing the distance between it and the space station since it reached orbit on Friday, and with the help of a final firing of the shuttle�s jets, scheduled for 7:29 a m , it will finish closing that distance by 9:06 a m At that point, the shuttle will be directly below the International Space Station, and in place for the rendezvous pitch maneuver, a back flip that will expose the tiles on the shuttle�s underbelly to the space station, where station crew members will be standing by with cameras to document its condition

At the windows in the Russian segment of the space station, Flight Engineer Ron Garan will use a 800 mm camera to gather photos of Atlantis� heat shield, while Flight Engineer Satoshi Furukawa will have a 400 mm camera, and Flight Engineer Sergei Volkov will use a 1,000 mm

The back flip will last about eight minutes Once it�s complete, Ferguson will move Atlantis to a point 310 feet directly in front of the space station and begin slowing down so that the station can catch up with the shuttle, for a 10:07 a m docking After a series of leak checks, hatches between the two vehicles are scheduled to open at 12:19 p m

This will be the 37th visit to the space station by a space shuttle, and Atlantis� 33rd docking with the orbiting complex

The next status report will be issued at the end of the crew�s day or earlier if warranted Atlantis� crew is scheduled to go to sleep just before 6 p m

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Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 16:24:52 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: STS-135 MCC Status Report #05

STS-135 Report #05 Sunday, July 10, 2011 - 4 p m CDT
Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas

HOUSTON � Atlantis docked with the International Space Station at 10:07 a m CDT Sunday with a cargo-carrying module in its payload bay filled with equipment and supplies for the orbiting laboratory

�Atlantis arriving,� said Flight Engineer Ron Garan after the ceremonial ringing of the station�s bell �Welcome to the station for the last time �

After a pause to let the relative motion between the two spacecraft dampen out and do leak checks, hatches separating crews were opened at 11:47 a m Shuttle crew members, Commander Chris Ferguson, Pilot Doug Hurley and Mission Specialists Sandra Magnus and Rex Walheim, entered the station moments later to begin their week-plus stay

First came the standard safety briefing for the new arrivals Then work began

Ferguson and Hurley used the shuttle arm to take its 50-foot extension boom from the station�s Canadarm2 operated by station Flight Engineers Garan and Satoshi Furukawa The station arm had plucked the boom from its stowage position on the shuttle cargo bay sill The handoff was to prepare to use the boom for any needed shuttle heat shield inspection later this week Magnus worked with TV setup and Walheim transferred spacewalk gear

Docking had gone just as planned Ferguson and the crew of space shuttle Atlantis began their final approach to the station from about eight miles distance with the terminal initiation burn at 7:29 a m

About 600 feet below the station, Atlantis did a backflip to enable station crew members to photograph the shuttle�s heat shield Flight Engineers Mike Fossum, Satoshi Furukawa and Sergei Volkov used cameras with 1,000 mm, 800 mm and 400 mm lenses, respectively, to take high resolution digital photos of the shuttle�s upper and lower surfaces The photos were being sent to mission control to be evaluated by experts on the ground to look for any damage

Flight controllers began monitoring reports from the Department of Defense�s U S Strategic Command that a piece of orbital debris may come near the station and shuttle complex about noon on Tuesday The debris, part of satellite COSMOS 375, is one of more than 500,000 pieces of debris tracked in Earth�s orbit The team expected updated tracking information following today�s docking to help determine if a maneuver using the shuttle�s thrusters is necessary to avoid the debris

The next status report will be issued after crew wakeup or earlier if warranted The crew is scheduled to awaken just before 2 a m Monday

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