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\h        Space shuttle Discovery turned night into day along Florida's east coast

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\h        with a launch at one minute before midnight on August 28.

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\h        The spectacular liftoff began Discovery's 37th mission.

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\h        Two days after launch, Commander Rick Sturckow carefully guided the

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\h        100-ton space shuttle toward successful rendezvous and docking with the

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\h        350-ton space station as they orbited 225 miles above Earth.

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\h        With three spacewalks on the agenda during their eight days of docked

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\h        operations, the crews of shuttle and station got down to work with supply

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\h        and equipment transfers that would stretch throughout the mission.

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\h        In addition to supplies and research facilities, the flight delivered a new

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\h        crew member to the International Space Station.

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\h        Tim Kopra ended his time on board the space station, swapping places

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\h        with Nicole Stott who joined the six-member Expedition 20 crew.

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\h        The crew used the station's robotic arm to move the Leonardo Multi-

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\h        Purpose Logistics Module from Discovery’s payload bay to the Earth-

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\h        facing port on the station’s Harmony node .

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\h        From there, they unloaded 15,000 pounds of cargo from the module.

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\h        Danny Olivas and Nicole Stott spent about six and a half hours performing

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\h        the mission's first spacewalk, replacing an empty ammonia tank assembly

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\h        and retrieving two science experiments.

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\h        Inside the station, newly delivered crew and science equipment was installed.

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\h        On the mission's second spacewalk, it took Olivas and the European

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\h        Space Agency's Christer Fuglesang about six and a half hours to install

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\h        the new ammonia tank on the station and stow the depleted 1,295-pound

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\h        tank in the shuttle's payload bay.

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\h        The new tank provided 600 pounds of fresh ammonia to circulate through

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\h        the station's port cooling system.

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\h        Olivas and Fuglesang also were paired for the mission's third and final

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\h        spacewalk. During the seven-hour session, they deployed a payload

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\h        attachment system on the station’s truss, replaced a rate gyro assembly, a

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\h        power control module and two GPS antennas.

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\h        Using the station's robotic arm, the crew returned the logistics module to

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\h        Discovery's payload bay before the two crews parted and the shuttle

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\h        undocked from the station.

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\h        A weather delay kept Discovery and crew in space an extra day, and also

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\h        prevented them from returning to Earth where their mission began at

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\h        Kennedy Space Center.