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To: RightWhale

Thanks...I stayed up late for the docking and missed everything that happened afterwards. I really like watching the rendevous pitch maneuver.


357 posted on 09/11/2006 5:17:32 PM PDT by cabojoe
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To: cabojoe

0835 GMT (4:35 a.m. EDT)

At 4:35 a.m. EDT, the third of four electrically driven bolts was tightened to connect the Port 3/Port 4 truss to the space station. That completes the minimum required mating of the truss and gives the OK for the crew to press forward with today's planned spacewalk. Joe Tanner and Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper are suited up in the airlock and set to begin the EVA.

The station has now grown from 432,000 pounds in mass to 467,000 pounds. This is the first large expansion of the complex since November 2002, just before the Columbia accident suspended station construction.


358 posted on 09/12/2006 1:53:57 AM PDT by cabojoe
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