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Day 13 highlights

On Flight Day 13, the mission's final spacewalk attached the shuttle's heat shield inspection boom to the station.

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Day 12 highlights

Inspections of Endeavour's wings and nose for space debris hits were conducted on Flight Day 12.

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Day 11 highlights

Spacewalkers on Flight Day 11 tested a method for repairing damaged shuttle heat shield tiles in space.

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Day 10 highlights

Video highlights from Flight Day 10 as the astronauts enjoyed a mid-mission light-duty day.

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STS-123 day 9 highlights

Flight Day 9 saw Dextre moved to the Destiny lab, stowing the assembly pallet and a group dinner in the Zvezda module.

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STS-123 day 8 highlights

Finishing assembly of Dextre and delivering spare parts to the station occurred during the spacewalk on Flight Day 8.

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STS-123 day 7 highlights

The space station's handyman robot Dextre flexed its arms for the first time during Flight Day 7.

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STS-123 day 6 highlights

Flight Day 6 was dedicated to the second spacewalk and continued assembly of the Dextre robot.

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STS-123 day 5 highlights

The station and shuttle crews opened up and entered Japan's new Kibo logistics module during Flight Day 5.

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STS-123 day 4 highlights

Highlights of the Kibo logistics module's attachment to the station and the first spacewalk to begin Dextre assembly.

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STS-123 day 3 highlights

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

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STS-123 day 2 highlights

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

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STS-123 day 1 highlights

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

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Launching on the shuttle

Video cameras on the boosters and tank, plus a cockpit camera show what the shuttle and its astronauts experience during the trek to space.

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STS-120: In review

The STS-120 crew narrates highlights from its mission that delivered the station's Harmony module and moved the P6 power truss.

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STS-123: TCDT

The STS-123 astronauts complete their countdown dress rehearsal at Kennedy Space Center.

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STS-123: To the pad

Endeavour travels to pad 39A in the overnight hours of Feb. 18 in preparation for liftoff on STS-123.

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Introduction to ATV

Preview the maiden voyage of European's first Automated Transfer Vehicle, named Jules Verne. The craft will deliver cargo to the International Space Station.

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Crew gets some Sunday rest before tomorrow's undocking
BY WILLIAM HARWOOD
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS "SPACE PLACE" & USED WITH PERMISSION
Posted: March 23, 2008

With five spacewalks behind them, the Endeavour astronauts are enjoying a final few hours of off-duty time today before making preparations for undocking Monday evening. The joint shuttle-station crews will share an Easter meal later today before participating in a news conference to discuss the progress of the mission.

"Fortunately, the mission has been going extremely well so there's not a whole lot left for the crew to do," said space station Flight Director Bob Dempsey. "In fact, they're getting a half-day off to give them a chance to rest after the five EVAs and all the busy work they've been doing. And of course, preparing for the undocking and re-entry in a few days."

The astronauts were awakened at 12:28 p.m. by a recording of "I am Free" beamed up from mission control. The song was recorded by members of astronaut Mike Foreman's church near the Johnson Space Center.

"Good morning Endeavour," astronaut Al Drew called from mission control. "And a happy Easter to you, Mike."

"Thanks, Alvin," Foreman replied. "That's one of my favorite songs in church, so I especially want to thank all my friends at Friendswood United Methodist Church for their thoughts and prayers. ... That was awesome, how appropriate for this special day. It sounded as good up here as it does down there. Happy Easter."

Dempsey said the main items on today's agenda are a few final equipment and experiment sample transfers from the station to the shuttle for return to Earth.

"The main things that are left open is some transfer items, for example, the crew has some laptops they've been using for the last few days during the mission that need to be transferred back to the shuttle for return to Earth," he said. "There's also a number of biological specimens that need to be returned and because they're frozen, we keep them in the freezer on the space station up until the last possible moment. That'll happen later today. ... And then the spacesuits need some final configuration and transfer over to the shuttle.

"There are two suits we need to transfer back to the shuttle," Dempsey said. "This is is how we accomplish things like rotating suits on the space station. Two new suits come up on the space shuttle, are used and then are left behind and we take two of the older suits (and bring them down). In addition, we need to configure those suits so that if the shuttle crew has to do a contingency spacewalk before re-entering they would have two good suits. So that'll be the main activities today by several of the crew members.

"And then the final thing that's kind of on the open to-do list is the very important crew photo. That's where both the station and shuttle crew will get together and take sort of a goodbye photo, a team photo, of everyone together."

Undocking is targeted for 7:56 p.m. Monday, which will set the stage for landing at 7:04 p.m. Wednesday. The preliminary weather forecast calls for favorable conditions.

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


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

03/23/08
12:28 PM...12...10...00...Crew wakeup
03:28 PM...12...13...00...Crews off duty
06:30 PM...12...16...02...Mission status briefing on NASA TV
08:18 PM...12...17...50...Joint crew meal
09:18 PM...12...18...50...EVA prep for transfer to shuttle
09:18 PM...12...18...50...Rendezvous tools checkout
11:18 PM...12...20...50...Joint crew news conference
11:58 PM...12...21...30...Joint crew photo

03/24/08
01:43 AM...12...23...15...RIGEX activation
03:13 AM...13...00...45...ISS crew sleep begins
03:43 AM...13...01...15...STS crew sleep begins
04:00 AM...13...01...32...Daily video highlights reel on NASA TV
09:30 AM...13...07...02...Flight director update on NASA TV
11:43 AM...13...09...15...Crew wakeup

Monday's undocking timeline


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

03/24/08
06:39 PM...13...16...11...ISS maneuvers to undocking attitude
06:42 PM...13...16...14...Sunrise
07:09 PM...13...16...41...ISS in undocking attitude
07:13 PM...13...16...45...Noon
07:21 PM...13...16...53...US arrays in undocking configuration
07:44 PM...13...17...16...Sunset

07:56 PM...13...17...28...UNDOCKING

07:58 PM...13...17...30...ISS holds attitude
08:01 PM...13...17...33...Range: 50 feet; reselect -X jets
08:03 PM...13...17...35...Range 75 feet; low Z
08:13 PM...13...17...45...Sunrise
08:25 PM...13...17...57...Range: 400 feet; start fly around
08:34 PM...13...18...06...Range: 600 feet
08:36 PM...13...18...08...Shuttle directly above ISS
08:40 PM...13...18...12...ISS in TEA attitude
08:44 PM...13...18...16...Noon
08:48 PM...13...18...20...Shuttle directly behind ISS
08:59 PM...13...18...31...Shuttle directly below ISS
09:11 PM...13...18...43...Separation burn No. 1
09:15 PM...13...18...47...Sunset
09:39 PM...13...19...11...Separation burn No. 2
09:45 PM...13...19...17...Sunrise

STS-123 deorbit and landing opportunities




ORBIT....SITE..TIG........LANDING

03/26/08

248......KSC...06:01 PM...07:04 PM (Nominal end of mission)
249......KSC...07:36 PM...08:39 PM
250......EDW...09:04 PM...10:06 PM
251......EDW...10:39 PM...11:41 PM

03/27/08

264......KSC...06:24 PM...07:27 PM (EOM + 1)
265......KSC...08:00 PM...09:02 PM
266......EDW...09:30 PM...10:32 PM
267......EDW...11:06 PM...12:08 AM

03/28/08

279......KSC...05:12 PM...06:15 PM (EOM + 2)
280......KSC...06:48 PM...07:50 PM
281......EDW...08:18 PM...09:21 PM
.........NOR...08:19 PM...09:22 PM
282......EDW...09:53 PM...10:56 PM
.........NOR...09:55 PM...10:57 PM
283......EDW...11:30 PM...12:31 AM

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