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flight day three of shuttle mission

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sts-133

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showing a successful link up of shuttle

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discovery to the international space

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station on its final flight

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rendezvous activities got started early

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saturday morning as the

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shuttle crew commander steve lindsey and

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his crew got busy with engine firings

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that brought discovery up underneath the

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international space station

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my call initiating rpm

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three

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two one mark

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from there they performed the

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standard rendezvous pitch maneuver a

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head over heels back flip of the shuttle

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that allowed station crew members using

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digital cameras with high powered lenses

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to capture imagery of the heat shield

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tiles on the underside of discovery

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they're looking for any evidence of

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damage done to that thermal protection

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system by debris on ascent or

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subsequently on orbit

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they then proceeded on into the docking

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which took place at 1 14 central time

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the 13th and final docking of shuttle

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discovery to the international space

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station there was something of a delay

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in finalizing the hard mate of the two

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vehicles they were had to wait until the

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relative motion of the two vehicles

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damped out and in the process that

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allowed unfortunately the stack rotated

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a bit in orbit because both vehicles

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were in free drift

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but that was resolved in about a half an

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hour's time the two vehicles had a hard

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mate and the space shuttle engines were

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used to bring the mated stack into a

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proper position so that the station's

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solar arrays could once again begin

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generating electricity to power the

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batteries

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the hatches between the two vehicles

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opened at 3 16 houston time and the crew

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of the space shuttle joined their

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station crewmates on board

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and began right away to begin transfer

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of spacewalk equipment that will be used

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by mission specialists al drew and steve

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bowen during spacewalks coming up on

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monday and wednesday

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the largest activity of the day was

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completed late in the crew day the

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installation of the express logistics

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carrier number four was completed

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through the use of the two robot arms

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the space station's robotic arm

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unbirthed the elc-3 from the payload bay

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and handed it off to the space shuttle

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arm then the station arm changed its

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base of operations from the harmony

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module to the mobile base system

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from there it was commanded by mission

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specialist nicole stott operating out of

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the cupola module to reach back out and

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take a grip once again on elc 4. the

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shuttle arm released it

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and stott guided elc-4 to a berth on the

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underside of the space station's truss

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structure on the starboard 3 element

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where the crew members completed their

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daily tasks it was really very

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impressive working from the cupola and

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watching how these arms work together

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and getting elc birth to the trust

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thanks those words nicole and you guys