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we're standing by for the beginning of

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this rendezvous pitch maneuver is due to

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begin at 12 15 pm central time

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you can see the shadow of the spacecraft

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beginning to creep up there on

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my discovery holding right at 650 feet

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away from the station

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station discovery on the big

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so as discovery flies with the

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international space station over south

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america the station

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casting a shadow down there on the

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shuttle

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katie coleman and paulo nespoli have

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taken a position

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inside the zvezda service module they

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they will begin to take pictures of

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discovery as soon as it begins this uh

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maneuver

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to a flip over on its back and show its

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underside to the crew so they can take a

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look at all the different heat shield

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my call initiating rpm

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three

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so at 12 15 pm central time space

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shuttle discovery begins its final

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backflip maneuver known as the

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rendezvous pitch maneuver it will flip

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over on its back katie coleman and paulo

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nespoli are in the zvezda service module

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of the international space station both

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of them have cameras and hands snapping

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away hundreds of pictures of discovery

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during this maneuver

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apollo nestle has a lens that is 800

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millimeters

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coleman has a 400 millimeter lens in her

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hands

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they will take very detailed photographs

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of discovery's heat shield all the

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different tiles that are on the bottom

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of the shuttle to make sure that they

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are in good shape after discoveries ride

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this is a historic moment for discovery

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it was the first shuttle to ever do this

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maneuver back on sts-114 in 2005.

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this rpm maneuver was created in the

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wake of shuttle columbia

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it was put into every shuttle mission

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that has visited the space station since

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then

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it gives the ground teams here in

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a chance to take a look at the shuttle

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in detail to make sure that the outer

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part of the shuttle and the heat shield

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as katie coleman and paulo nespoli take

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these pictures

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of the underside of discovery it's a

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very methodical way that they do this

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they focus on certain areas of the

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both nespoli and coleman have practiced

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they've worked very closely with these

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two cameras and they've seen both

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diagrams and video

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of the parts of the shuttle that they

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discovery currently 582 feet away from

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esplee and coleman have wrapped up their

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photographs of discovery's heat shield

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they spend one minute 29 seconds taking

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those pictures as we mentioned

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they take several hundred pictures

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between the two of them

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once we get an exact count later on

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today of how many they uh took we will

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make sure we pass it on to you

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but they will begin the process of

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downlinking those photos to the ground

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teams here in houston soon after

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discovery putting on quite a show there

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as it and the

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space station fly

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over the northeastern part of south

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america about to head out over the

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we are now less than an hour away from

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discovery's crew has almost wrapped up

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you can see the shadows getting fairly

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long

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on the exterior of discovery this is why

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they talked about the window opening at

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12 15

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p.m central time and 12 23 p.m central

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time

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they have to get proper

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lighting on discovery to make sure that

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the pictures turn out as expected

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but those shadows began to appear uh