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Atlantis set for undocking; Endeavour rollout underway BY WILLIAM HARWOOD STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS "SPACE PLACE" & USED WITH PERMISSION Posted: February 18, 2008 As the shuttle Endeavour creeps toward the launch pad in Florida, the Atlantis astronauts, along with outgoing space station flight engineer Dan Tani, are gearing up to undock from the international space station after a successful three-spacewalk assembly mission. With pilot Alan Poindexter at the controls, undocking is targeted for 4:27 a.m., although the crew has asked permission to depart a few minutes ahead of schedule to improve lighting. Poindexter plans to guide the shuttle through a full loop around the station before leaving the area around 6 a.m. At the Kennedy Space Center, meanwhile, engineers are hauling Endeavour from the Vehicle Assembly Building to pad 39A, reaching the midpoint of the six-hour trip around 2:30 a.m. Endeavour is targeted for launch March 11 on the next space station assembly mission. Here is a timeline of today's activities (in EST and mission elapsed time; includes rev. L of the NASA TV schedule): EST........DD...HH...MM...EVENT 02/18/08 12:45 AM...10...10...00...STS/ISS crew wakeup 02:15 AM...10...11...30...ISS daily planning conference 02:45 AM...10...12...00...Group B computer power up 03:13 AM...10...12...28...Sunrise 03:38 AM...10...12...53...Station in undocking attitude 03:40 AM...10...12...55...Undocking operations begin 03:43 AM...10...12...58...Noon 03:50 AM...10...13...05...Forward port prepped for undocking 03:54 AM...10...13...09...ISS KU antenna parked 04:14 AM...10...13...29...Sunset 04:15 AM...10...13...30...Russian solar arrays feathered 04:20 AM...10...13...35...U.S. solar arrays feathered 04:27 AM...10...13...42...UNDOCKING 04:29 AM...10...13...44...ISS holds attitude 04:32 AM...10...13...47...Range: 50 feet 04:34 AM...10...13...49...Range 75 feet 04:39 AM...10...13...54...Russian arrays resume sun track 04:40 AM...10...13...55...Forward docking port depressurized 04:44 AM...10...13...59...Sunrise 04:56 AM...10...14...11...Range: 400 feet; start fly around 05:06 AM...10...14...21...Range: 600 feet 05:08 AM...10...14...23...Shuttle directly above ISS 05:15 AM...10...14...30...Noon 05:19 AM...10...14...34...Shuttle directly behind ISS 05:31 AM...10...14...46...Shuttle directly below ISS 05:42 AM...10...14...57...Shuttle direcly in front of ISS 05:42 AM...10...14...57...Separation burn No. 1 05:45 AM...10...15...00...Sunset 06:12 AM...10...15...27...Separation burn No. 2 06:15 AM...10...15...30...Sunrise 06:15 AM...10...15...30...Group B computer power down 06:15 AM...10...15...30...Videotape replay of undocking 06:20 AM...10...15...35...Post undocking network reconfiguration 06:50 AM...10...16...05...Crew meal 07:50 AM...10...17...05...Spacesuit installation 08:10 AM...10...17...25...Heat shield sensor boom (OBSS) sensor powerup 08:20 AM...10...17...35...Starboard wing survey 08:20 AM...10...17...35...EVA unpack and stow 08:50 AM...10...18...05...Post-ISS EVA entry preps 10:00 AM...10...19...15...Nose cap survey 11:00 AM...10...20...15...Mission status briefing on NASA TV 11:15 AM...10...20...30...Port wing survey 12:35 PM...10...21...50...OBSS berthing 01:20 PM...10...22...35...Shuttle robot arm (SRMS) powerdown 02:00 PM...10...23...15...Laser scanner downlink 03:30 PM...11...00...45...Post-MMT update on NASA TV 04:30 PM...11...01...45...ISS crew sleep begins 04:45 PM...11...02...00...STS crew sleep begins 05:00 PM...11...02...15...Daily video highlights reel on NASA TV
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