The following video talks about NASA’s activities yesterday, as the shuttle crew starts making preparations to come home:
The video talks about the view out of the new Cupola, boosting the space station to a higher orbit, stowing equipment in the shuttle for the return home, capping off oxygen tanks and so on.
Day 11 home movies:
NASA mentions:
The hatches between space shuttle Endeavour and the International Space Station were closed at 3:08 a.m. EST Friday. During 9 days, 52 minutes of joint operations, the station got a new module and a viewport offering a valuable, enjoyable vantage.
Hatch closure came after a farewell ceremony by the two crews. Endeavour Commander George Zamka, Pilot Terry Virts and Mission Specialists Kathryn Hire, Stephen Robinson, Nicholas Patrick and Robert Behnken said their goodbyes in the Harmony module to Station Commander Jeff Williams and Flight Engineers Maxim Suraev, Oleg Kotov, Soichi Noguchi and T.J. Creamer.
As shuttle astronauts filed out of the forward end of Harmony, Williams formally rang the station bell marking their departure. Endeavour is scheduled to undock from the station at 7:54 p.m. Friday and land at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center at 10:16 p.m. Sunday.
Here is the crew farewell:
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