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Day 12 highlights

Spacewalking astronauts come to the rescue and repair the station's damaged solar array. Highlights are packed in the Flight Day 12 movie.

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Day 11 highlights

Preparing tools, maneuvering the space station robot arm and unberthing the shuttle boom for spacewalk are highlighted in the Flight Day 11 movie.

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STS-120 SRB cameras

Spectacular footage from six cameras mounted on shuttle Discovery's solid rocket boosters.

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Day 10 highlights

The astronauts getting equipment ready for the solar array repair spacewalk was the focus of activities on Flight Day 10.

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STS-120 day 9 highlights

This Halloween edition of the flight day highlights is complete with Clay Anderson's costume.

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STS-120 day 8 highlights

Moving the Port 6 truss to its permanent spot on the station and the ripped solar blanket are shown in the Flight Day 8 movie.

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STS-120 day 7 highlights

Juggling of the Port 6 solar array truss between the station and shuttle robotic arms highlighted work on Flight Day 7.

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STS-120 day 6 highlights

Spacewalk to detach Port 6 truss and discovery of debris in a solar array rotary joint are highlighted in the Flight Day 6 movie.

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STS-120 day 5 highlights

Highlights from Flight Day 5 see the astronauts enter into the newly-installed Harmony module.

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STS-120 day 4 highlights

The Flight Day 4 highlights movie shows Harmony's attachment to the station and the Discovery mission's first spacewalk.

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STS-120 day 3 highlights

This movie shows the highlights from Flight Day 3 as Discovery docked to the space station.

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STS-120 day 2 highlights

Flight Day 2 of Discovery's mission focused on heat shield inspections. This movie shows the day's highlights.

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STS-120 launch videos

Check out all angles of space shuttle Discovery's launch with our extensive video collection.

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STS-120 day 1 highlights

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

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STS-120: Crew arrival

The space shuttle Discovery astronauts arrive at the Kennedy Space Center for their countdown to launch.

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STS-120: The programs

In advance of shuttle Discovery's STS-120 mission to the station, managers from both programs discuss the flight.

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STS-120: The mission

Discovery's trip to the station will install the Harmony module and move the P6 solar wing truss. The flight directors present a detailed overview of STS-120.

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STS-120: Spacewalks

Five spacewalks are planned during Discovery's STS-120 assembly mission to the station. Lead spacewalk officer Dina Contella previews the EVAs.

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The Discovery crew

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

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Shuttle to undock today
BY WILLIAM HARWOOD
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS "SPACE PLACE" & USED WITH PERMISSION
Posted: November 5, 2007

The Discovery astronauts prepared the shuttle for undocking from the international space station today to close out a dramatic assembly mission that sets the stage for the long-awaited attachment of European and Japanese research modules over the next three shuttle flights.

With pilot George Zamka at the controls, Discovery was scheduled to disconnect from pressurized mating adapter No. 2 on the front of the Destiny laboratory module at 5:32 a.m. as the two spacecraft sailed high above the south Pacific Ocean.

The flight plan called for Zamka to guide Discovery to a point about 600 feet directly in front of the lab complex before firing thrusters to begin a photo-documentation fly around, looping up above the station then behind and below it before returning to his starting point.

The first of two separation rocket firings is planned at that point with a second burn a few minutes later to begin moving the shuttle away from the station.

"This is very similar to what we've seen in the past," said shuttle flight director Rick LaBrode. "The fly around occurs around 600 feet, all the way around. We essentially do a full lap. We try to time it such that we have good lighting for the entire fly around."

Flight controllers and engineers were looking forward to seeing the station with the newly installed Harmony module in its temporary location on the left side of the central Unity module and the redeployed P6 solar arrays extended and tracking the sun on the left end of the station's main power truss.

"The shuttle crew's continuously taking pictures of the outside of the station (during the fly around) to monitor how the external part of the station's operation," LaBrode said. "We get views during this flyaround that we don't normally get except during shuttle missions.

"Then, after the complete flyaround, we do sep 1. When we get basically right on top of it, we do sep 2. And we're off and away."

After a break for lunch, the astronauts plan to begin a final heat shield inspection using laser scanners and cameras on the end of a 50-foot-long boom attached to the shuttle's robot arm. A similar inspection was carried out the day after launch to look for any signs of ascent debris impact damage.

The goal of today's so-called late inspection is to check the shuttle's nose cap and wing leading edge panels for any damage that might have occurred since the first inspection because of impacts by space debris.

Sensors behind the leading edge panels recorded a half dozen or so readings over the coarse of the mission. Similar readings on past flights were chalked up the shuttle's aluminum structure responding to temperature changes. Today's inspection should provide the data necessary to resolve the matter.

The orbiter boom sensor system served as astronaut Scott Parazynski's work platform during a spacewalk Saturday to repair the left-side P6-4B solar array. The four sensors on the boom - two laser scanners, a video camera and a digital camera - were unpowered for about nine hours, but tests after the boom was reconnected to shuttle power showed they were "fully functional and ready to support" the late inspection, NASA's mission management team told the crew in an overnight message.

"The LCS (Laser Camera System) hardware appears nominal, and the unexpected indications from the LCS checkout are likely associated with the software and not thermally related," the MMT told the crew. "If there is time (Monday), the LCS checkout steps, which are part of the STBD survey procedures, will be performed to gather more data on the status of the LCS."

The repaired and redeployed P6 solar array and its port-side counterpart, P4, are now rotating to track the sun. Station flight director Heather Rarick said late Sunday the station is not yet tapping into the power generated by P6, pending final tests and checkout.

"We got the OK to let it rotate, so it's been tracking the sun like it's supposed to," she said. "I haven't heard any issues with it, no problems, everything seems to be working fine. So we're just waiting on a 'go' so we can start drawing the power off of it, using it to power some loads, and we're hoping that could be as early as (today). We have to have our specialists take a good, solid look, that everything's going to be OK when we go to do that."

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


EST........DD...HH...MM...EVENT

11/05/07
01:38 AM...12...15...00...ISS crew wakeup
02:08 AM...12...15...30...STS crew wakeup
03:38 AM...12...17...00...ISS daily planning conference
04:08 AM...12...17...30...Group B computer power up
04:23 AM...12...17...45...Centerline camera installation
04:48 AM...12...18...10...Undocking operations begin
05:18 AM...12...18...40...Sunset

05:32 AM...12...18...54...UNDOCKING
05:33 AM...12...18...55...Initial orbiter separation (+10 seconds)
05:34 AM...12...18...56...ISS holds current attitude
05:37 AM...12...18...59...Range: 50 feet; reselect -X jets
05:39 AM...12...19...01...Range: 75 feet; low-Z jets
05:48 AM...12...19...10...Sunrise
06:01 AM...12...19...23...Range: 400 feet; start flyaround
06:11 AM...12...19...33...Range: 600 feet
06:13 AM...12...19...35...Shuttle directly above station
06:19 AM...12...19...41...Noon
06:24 AM...12...19...46...Shuttle directly behind station
06:36 AM...12...19...58...Shuttle directly below station
06:47 AM...12...20...09...Separation burn No. 1
06:49 AM...12...20...11...Sunset
07:13 AM...12...20...35...Playback of undocking video
07:15 AM...12...20...37...Separation burn No. 2

07:19 AM...12...20...41...Sunrise
07:23 AM...12...20...45...Post undocking network reconfiguration
07:43 AM...12...21...05...Group B computer power down
08:03 AM...12...21...25...Crew meal
08:23 AM...12...21...45...ISS: Centerline berthing camera target installation
09:03 AM...12...22...25...Spacesuit installation
09:13 AM...12...22...35...OBSS unberth
09:38 AM...12...23...00...Starboard wing survey
09:53 AM...12...23...15...ISS: Hatch thermal cover installation
11:18 AM...13...00...40...Nose cap survey
12:18 PM...13...01...40...Port wing survey
01:00 PM...13...02...22...Mission status briefing on NASA TV
02:03 PM...13...03...25...OBSS berthing
02:18 PM...13...03...40...ISS: Daily planning conference
02:38 PM...13...04...00...SRMS powerdown
02:43 PM...13...04...05...Laser scanner downlink
04:23 PM...13...05...45...Crew choice downlink
04:28 PM...13...05...50...ISS crew sleep begins
06:38 PM...13...08...00...STS crew sleep begins
07:00 PM...13...08...22...Daily video highlights reel on NASA TV

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