25-March-2008, 12:03 AM
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CBS News Space Place
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06:00 PM, 3/24/08, Update: Shuttle astronauts bid station crew farewell
With hugs and handshakes, the Endeavour astronauts said farewell to their space station colleagues today, gathering one last time to mark the end of a marathon five-spacewalk assembly mission before floating back into the shuttle, closing hatches and preparing to undock.
European Space Agency astronaut Leopold Eyharts, launched to the station aboard the shuttle Atlantis in February to help activate ESA's new Columbus research module, departed with Endeavour's crew, leaving his replacement, Garrett Reisman, behind with Expedition 16 commander Peggy Whitson and flight engineer Yuri Malenchenko.
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I think I just heard it's about 5 minutes to undocking, running a little late -- delayed because of the failure of a latch; the latch was recommanded... and I lost audio...
Edit, later, 50 minutes past the hour: Endeavour is well away, maybe 150 meters, performing fly-around.
CBS News Space Place:
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08:30 PM, 3/24/08, Update: Shuttle Endeavour undocks after solar panel glitch resolved
With shuttle pilot Gregory Johnson at the controls, the Endeavour gently undocked from the international space station this evening, a half hour behind schedule because of problems getting one of the lab's solar arrays locked in place. After a second command successfully got the left-side outboard arrays to latch as required, Endeavour disconnected from the station's shuttle docking port at 8:25 p.m.
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Landing is targeted for 7:05:08 p.m. Wednesday and forecasters are calling for good weather, with scattered clouds at 3,500 feet and winds out of the north at eight knots, gusting to 12. A second landing opportunity is available one orbit later, at 8:39:06 p.m.
"I know we're still three days out from landing but the weather is looking pretty reasonable," astronaut Terry Virts radioed the shuttle Sunday evening. "For now it looks good. We'll keep our fingers crossed."
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Last edited by 01101001; 25-March-2008 at 04:09 AM.
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