Flight Day 14: Undocking And OBSS Late Inspection Updates |
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Flight Day 14: Undocking And OBSS Late Inspection Updates |
 Aug 19 2008, 08:10 PM
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5:32 a.m. EST - Undocking confirmed. Discovery has physically separated from the space station to mark the end of a week and half of joint docked operations to deliver a new module to the space station and relocate a pair of giant solar arrays during a mission highlighted by a dramatic spacewalk two days ago that essentially saved those arrays after they were damaged during deployment last Tuesday.
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Aug 19 2008, 08:10 PM
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5:35 a.m. EST - Pilot George Zamka is slowly backing Discovery away from the station. Engine firings must be made very carefully to make sure the exhaust plumes don't damage the space station, especially the delicate solar arrays.
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Aug 19 2008, 08:11 PM
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5:52 a.m. EST - Discovery is 250 feet from ISS. The shuttle is on its way out ot 400 feet in front of the space station where it will begin a lap around the station so that the crew can get photo documentation of the orbital complex in its new configuration with the Harmony module and P6 arrays relocated and redeployed.
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6:00 a.m. EST - Discovery's flyaround of the space station has begun. The shuttle will make one complete lap, then fly up above the station before firing its engines to leave the station for good.
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6:10 a.m. EST - The space shuttle is directly overhead of the space station at a relative distance of approximately 600 feet.
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Aug 19 2008, 08:11 PM
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6:25 a.m. EST - Discovery is now on the opposite side of the space station from where it began today's flyaround.
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6:30 a.m. EST - Three quarters of the way around the space station.
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6:46 a.m. EST - Now in front of the Destiny module where the shuttle began its 360 degree flyaround, Zamka has commanded the first of two separation burns. Discovery will continue until it is overhead of the station and then make another engine burn to depart the vicinity of ISS.
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Aug 19 2008, 08:12 PM
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7:18 a.m. EST - Pilot George Zamka has peformed the final separation burn on Discovery. The 6 second engine imparted a 1.5 foot per second velocity change to the orbiter and will send the shuttle out of the vicinity of the space station. For each orbit around the Earth, the shuttle and station will be 5 miles farther apart.
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