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Check out this awesome time-lapse video of the AMS install! :thumbup:

 
Daily Mission Recap - FD 4

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHuJELfSNuU&feature=feedu[/ame]
 
NASA just confirmed that the Soyuz documentary photography manoeuvre is officially GO! :woohoo:

Here's the NASA TV video of the manoeuvre. Top-left is the view that the crew will have from the Soyuz Orbital Module window (i.e. what we'll see in the images and video). The images and video should be released within 24 hours of the Soyuz landing. I think we can all agree that they're going to be some pretty cool images/videos! :thumbup:

 
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Will we also have cool video/pics of the Soyuz taken from the Shuttle?
 
diogom said:
Will we also have cool video/pics of the Soyuz taken from the Shuttle?
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I don't know - the Shuttle crew will be scheduled to be asleep, but they can wake up if they want to. They may be able to get some good shots of the Soyuz out of the Shuttle CDR's left (orbiter's port) flight-deck window.
 
Don't forget that the PLBD cameras and ISS cameras can be controlled from the ground so there will be Soyuz photos as well.
 
A couple of videos this time:

First, Daily Mission Recap - FD5

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s71i5X90ug&feature=feedu[/ame]

Second, EVA shortened by faulty sensor

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_3FG3SN89Q&feature=feedu[/ame]

And, Unique Photo Opportunity In Space Set For Monday

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa2vdohUp0U&feature=feedu[/ame]
 
Some detailed info on the Soyuz photo opportunity:

From ISS On-Orbit Status Report for 21/05/2011.

For Soyuz undocking day (5/23), Dmitri & Paolo reviewed uplinked procedural material descriptive of the undocking and subsequent camera activities from the Soyuz BO/Orbital Module, shooting imagery of the ISS before deorbit. [In order to have time for the imagery operations, 25S undock will occur on daily orbit 13 (5:32pm EDT) instead of daily orbit 14 as originally planned. The 25S crew will use nominal procedures for all the undocking preparations, including nominal suit leak checks for all three. The BO/SA (Descent Module) hatch will be leak-checked by monitoring the delta-P created when the suit leak checks increase pressure in the SA. ISS maneuvers to the undock attitude on RS thruster control about 40 minutes before undock. Shortly after sunrise, ISS goes to Free Drift, and the undock command is executed, opening the Soyuz hooks. Following physical separation, the ISS resumes attitude control (snap-and-hold), and then Dima will perform a manual separation burn of about 1 m/s (30 sec), which will take Soyuz out to a range of about 22 m. Dima will then fly out to about 200 meters and begin station-keeping. At this point, about 10 minutes after the undock command, Paolo will open the BO/SA hatch, ingress the BO, and get set up for photo/video and LDI-11 laser range finder operations. Meanwhile, the ISS will return to the original Soyuz undock attitude from the snap and hold attitude. 23 minutes after the undock command, ISS will begin a 129° maneuver (0.2°/sec; ~15 min total) to an attitude designed to provide the best perspective of the ISS and Endeavour. The plan has Paolo begin photography about 5 minutes before the maneuver and continue to capture still and video images for about 10 minutes after the maneuver is complete. While Dima is stationkeeping, Paolo will pause imagery operations as needed to take range readings with the LDI-11. Stationkeeping ends when Dima performs the final separation burn, ~0.73 m/s; the timeline has the last 5 minutes of operations in the BO after that burn is complete. 48 minutes after the undock command Paolo will remove the media cards for return, secure the camera and camcorder in the BO, return to the SA, and close the BO/SA hatch. Suit leak checks will be repeated; certainly for Paolo, and potentially for Dima, if he needs to remove his gloves to perform his tasks. The hatch leak check will be done by decreasing BO pressure per nominal procedure. Once those leak checks are complete, 25S resumes a nominal separation and descent timeline. The 4 min (115.2 m/s) deorbit burn will begin approximately 4h 4m after the undock command, Soyuz re-enters the atmosphere approximately 23 minutes after the deorbit burn is complete. The parachute will open 8 minutes after they reach the atmosphere and they’ll be on the ground again 15 minutes after that.]
 
Here's the NASA TV video of the manoeuvre.
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Really, someone should show them Orbiter !

I wasn't seeing the flyaround that way. So, the Soyuz holds its position and the ISS rotates. Interesting, of course that way you limit the possibility that a jammed thruster rams the TMA into the solar arrays :hmm: Glad that Paulo Nespoli will take the pics, he showed impressive photographer skills during his stay aboard the ISS :thumbup:
 
I was about to say the same thing!(About orbiter) Though about the maneuver, I wasn't thinking too much about that until you mentioned it.

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Ripley said:
I just heard on the Italian state radio that the Pope himself had a call with the whole crew, and spoke with Paolo Nespoli about his mother.

http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2011/05/sts-134-obss-focused-inspection-pope-call-iss/
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By the way, I just heard about this on the news here in the US.
 
Just an FYI, following today's FI with the OBSS, Endeavour's TPS has been cleared for entry by the DAT! :thumbup:

And for those of us who don't speak NASA: ;)
Following today's close-up inspection of a damaged heatshield tile using the Shuttle's robot arm extension boom, Endeavour's heatshield has been declared safe for re-entry!
 
Just an FYI, following today's FI with the OBSS, Endeavour's TPS has been cleared for entry by the DAT!
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... and we'll wonder why public find spaceflight uninteresting... :rolleyes:

Thanks for the translation :tiphat:

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Fincke & Feustel are back inside the Quest airlock, after 7h45' of hard work in space ! :thumbup:

Looks like that Fincke is showing some skills at catching loose bolts on the fly, he probably played baseball a lot !

Trouble with bolts holding thermal covers in place on one of the space station's solar array drive mechanisms has forced flight controllers to modify plans for lubricating the underlying drive gear. When astronaut Michael Fincke removed the first two thermal covers, several supposedly captive bolts popped loose and floated free. Fincke managed to snag at least two bolts with his gloved hand, one from each panel, but two others apparently floated away.

Flight controllers, unsure about what was causing the bolts to release from lock washers in the thermal covers, told Fincke and astronaut Andrew Feustel not to remove as many covers as originally planned and to lubricate the solar alpha rotary joint as best they can with reduced access.

"We're going to minimize the number of covers we're going to take off," astronaut Steve Swanson radioed the crew from mission control. "We're going to continue with cover 16, since we're partway done with that, we're going to do cover 13 and cover nine. And those are the only covers we're going to take off at this time, we'll do the best job we can at lubing it, etc., but that's how far we're going with the covers."

He told the Fincke not to drive the bolts all the way out with his power tool and instead to loosen them and attempt to make the final few rotations by hand to avoid putting too much stress on the materials.

"I'd like to be even more methodical than usual on these," Fincke told Feustel. "We'll get the job done, but be very careful."

"The obvious concern is foreign object debris, in other words, any of the bolts or washers coming free," said mission control commentator Kyle Herring. "The obvious desire also is to get the port solar alpha rotary joint lubricated because it will be quite some time before that opportunity presents itself again. So that's what the teams have been discussing in the background."

Working to finish removing cover No. 16, Fincke reported yet another bolt popping off. Again, he managed to catch it with his gloved hand.

"I got the bolt," Fincke reported.

"That's your, like, fourth great catch, Mike," astronaut Gregory Chamitoff said from the shuttle Endeavour's flight deck.

"We're watching very closely and Spanky's doing a great job of being gentle," Swanson said. "And again, he gets the golden glove award for another catch. That's fantastic. We really don't have a good answer now why that's happening. We're going to have to talk about it."

Pressing ahead, Fincke removed panel 13 and nine without incident, reporting that each cover's bolts remained in place.

While that work was going on, Feustel used a nitrogen vent tool to purge an ammonia line used earlier to re-fill the coolant reservoir in the station's left-side outboard solar array. He reported a spray of ammonia ice crystals exiting the vent tool toward the rear of the station, staying well clear to prevent any hitting his spacesuit.

"I saw one piece that looked like it was headed my way, it was headed low, so I can't confirm it actually made contact," he reported. "It went out of my view sort of down past my waist and my legs. That was the only piece that I felt would be worth looking for. The other items were small, probably less than a centimeter in size, flakes, that were headed my way. The one piece that was coming was probably one-and-half centimeters in diameter, maybe a little larger."

Feustel then joined Fincke at the solar alpha rotary joint to begin lubricating the drive gear with Bracote grease.
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Daily Mission Recap - FD6

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryTnDTqTrQk&feature=feedu[/ame]

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Daily Mission Recap - FD7

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCTZegCAAZ4&feature=feedu[/ame]
 
Surprises me that nobody has used Orbiter to re-construct the views we can look forward to today............

Anyway, REALLY looking foward to these images !! I've got a nice 16x20 frame waiting for one of these shots.
 
watching NASA TV with live view of soyuz station-keeping through docking camera and snapping pictures of ISS/Shuttle combo.
You can hear the camera of Paulo clicking away. This is freaking awesome !!
Can't wait to see these images.
This will be one for the history books !!!

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Hope Paulo doesn't forget to take the chip out of the camera before he leaves the camera behind in the docking module....:rofl:
 
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