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STS-124 day 1 highlights

The highlights from shuttle Discovery's launch day are packaged into this movie.

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Discovery rolls out

Discovery travels from the Vehicle Assembly Building to pad 39A in preparation for the STS-124 mission.

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STS-124: The programs

In advance of shuttle Discovery's STS-124 mission to the station, managers from both programs discuss the flight.

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STS-124: The mission

A detailed preview of Discovery's mission to deliver Japan's science laboratory Kibo to the station is provided in this briefing.

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STS-124: Spacewalks

Three spacewalks are planned during Discovery's STS-124 assembly mission to the station.

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STS-124: The Crew

The Discovery astronauts, led by commander Mark Kelly, meet the press in the traditional pre-flight news conference.

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Reisman prepares for home after station expedition
BY WILLIAM HARWOOD
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS "SPACE PLACE" & USED WITH PERMISSION
Posted: June 10, 2008

The Discovery astronauts are working through a final day of equipment transfers to and from the international space station before closing hatches late today and undocking early Wednesday. Outgoing flight engineer Garrett Reisman, returning to Earth after three months in space, planned to squeeze in a final few hours of handover time, briefing his replacement, Gregory Chamitoff, on the intricacies of life aboard the station.

"We schedule a minimum of 16 hours of handover between the two flight engineers when one is leaving and one's coming up," station Flight Director Emily Nelson said early today. "If you can imagine, you're going to leave your house and someone else is going to live in it for six months. You need to show them where everything is, you need to show them what you do on a regular basis to keep everything up and maintain it.

"A lot of what is in their handover package ... shows where we've thought out in advance, here are all the things that you need to show Greg, in this case, so that he knows immediately where everything is, he's had everything shown to him, everything from the basic housekeeping tasks of cleaning filters and changing out batteries and those kinds of things to how to operate the internet protocol phone, how to get logged into email on the machines that are up there, even how to use the cycle ergometer, the bikes they've got up there.

"So it's mostly just your kind of day to day, all the things that they're going to be doing in the background all day long," Nelson said. "A lot of payload details get passed from one to the other at that time, any lessons learned ... tips and tricks for how to get by up there."

Reisman was launched to the station last March. Assuming an on-time landing Saturday aboard Discovery, he will have logged 95 days in space. Early today, engineers in space station control centers in Houston, Cologne, Germany and Moscow congratulated Reisman on a productive station stay.

"Garrett, best wishes to you as you spend your last day of this mission on the space station," said Mark Vande Hei at the Johnson Space Center. "Thanks for all your hard work in space over the last several months. We all look forward to your return."

"Thanks, Mark, it's really nice for you to say that," Reisman replied. "I couldn't imagine what these past three months would have been like without all the great help you've given me. And that goes out to all the centers, I just want to say thank you to everybody. ... You guys have been just better than I ever expected."

"Yeah, we appreciate those words and those sentiments are definitely felt down here as well," Vande Hei said.

The Discovery astronauts plan to take a break this afternoon, enjoying a few hours of off-duty time before gathering in the Harmony module for a farewell ceremony with Chamitoff, station commander Sergei Volkov and flight engineer Oleg Kononenko. Hatch closure is expected around 4 p.m., setting the stage for the shuttle's undocking at 7:42 a.m. Wednesday.

"I think when they leave, it's going to be very sad for me to see them go," Chamitoff said Monday. "I think that one moment, when we close the hatch, that's going to be the hard moment. After that, I'm with really good friends that I've spent years training with and they've already been here for two months, so they know how to do it and they'll show me the ropes."

Here is an updated timeline of today's activity (in EDT and mission elapsed time; includes revision M of the NASA television schedule):


EDT........DD...HH...MM...EVENT

06/10/08
04:32 AM...09...11...30...Crew wakeup
06:32 AM...09...13...30...ISS daily planning conference
07:32 AM...09...14...30...Middeck transfers
09:42 AM...09...16...40...Oxygen system teardown
10:42 AM...09...17...40...EVA gear stowed
12:12 PM...09...19...10...Crew meal
01:12 PM...09...20...10...Crew off duty period
02:10 PM...09...21...08...Media interviews
02:45 PM...09...21...43...Mission status briefing on NTV
03:57 PM...09...22...55...Farewell ceremony
04:07 PM...09...23...05...Hatches closed
04:32 PM...09...23...30...Rendezvous tools checkout
04:32 PM...09...23...30...Orbiter docking system leak checks
07:32 PM...10...02...30...ISS crew sleep begins
08:02 PM...10...03...00...STS crew sleep begins
09:00 PM...10...03...58...Daily video highlights reel on NTV

For readers interested in a look ahead, here's an updated undocking timeline for Wednesday (in EDT and mission elapsed time):


EDT........DD...HH...MM...EVENT

06/11/08
06:58 AM...10...13...56...Noon
07:26 AM...10...14...24...Sunset
07:42 AM...10...14...40...UNDOCKING
07:43 AM...10...14...41...ISS holds attitude
07:47 AM...10...14...45...Range: 50 feet; reselect -X jets
07:49 AM...10...14...47...Range 75 feet; low Z
08:02 AM...10...15...00...Sunrise
08:11 AM...10...15...09...Range: 400 feet; start fly around
08:20 AM...10...15...18...Range: 600 feet
08:22 AM...10...15...20...Shuttle directly above ISS
08:29 AM...10...15...27...Noon
08:34 AM...10...15...32...Shuttle directly behind ISS
08:45 AM...10...15...43...Shuttle directly below ISS
08:57 AM...10...15...55...Separation burn No. 1
08:57 AM...10...15...55...Sunset
09:25 AM...10...16...23...Separation burn No. 2

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