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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 they then

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proceeded on into the docking which took

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place at 1 14 central time the 13th and

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final docking of shuttle discovery to

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the international space station there

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was something of a delay in finalizing

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the hard mate of the two vehicles they

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were had to wait until the relative

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motion of the two vehicles damped out

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and in the process that allowed

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unfortunately the stack rotated a bit in

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orbit because both vehicles were in free

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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

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bring the mated stack into a proper

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position so that the station's solar

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arrays could once again begin uh

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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 and a stott

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guided elc-4 to a berth on the underside

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of the space station's truss structure

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on the starboard 3 element where the

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crew members completed their daily tasks

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it was

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really very impressive working from the

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cupola and watching how these arms work

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together and getting elc birth to the

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trust

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thanks for those words nicole and you