NASA STS-117 Status
Report #22
(19 June 2007) The astronauts on space
shuttle Atlantis woke up this morning with the hatch to the International Space
Station closed and only hours left before undocking for the two-day trip back
to Earth.
Today's wakeup call came at 5:38 a.m. CDT with
"Feelin' Stronger Every Day" by Chicago, played for Pilot Lee Archambault.
Expedition 15 Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and Flight Engineers Oleg Kotov and
Clayton Anderson were awakened on board ISS at the same time.
At 7:45
a.m. Archambault and Mission Specialist Patrick Forrester will begin powering
on shuttle systems that have been turned off to conserve power during the
docked phase of the flight, and at 8:28 Mission Specialists Steven Swanson and
Jim Reilly will set up the centreline camera in the orbiter docking
system.
At 9:42 a.m. the hooks and latches holding Atlantis and ISS
together will release, and springs in the ODS will push the shuttle away.
Archambault will fire shuttle thrusters to move 450 feet in front of the
station before starting a full flyaround at 10:07 a.m. to get a good look at
the reconfigured spacecraft.
At 11:25 a.m. another firing of Atlantis'
thrusters will begin the final separation of the two spacecraft for this
flight. At a range of 46 miles Archambault, Forrester and Swanson will use the
shuttle robot arm to lift the Orbiter Boom Sensor System from the starboard
payload bay sill and conduct a late inspection of the thermal protection system
on both wings and the orbiter's nose cap.
Today and tomorrow Mission
Specialist Suni Williams, in the 192nd day of her spaceflight, will be
scheduled for more exercise to help prepare her for Thursday's scheduled
landing at the Kennedy Space Center, when her body will feel the pull of
gravity for the first time since her launch last December.
The next
STS-117 status report will be issued Tuesday evening or earlier if events
warrant.
(source: NASA Johnson Space Center)