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Apollo Quotes

  • “We can continue to try and clean up the gutters all over the world and spend all of our resources looking at just the dirty spots and trying to make them clean. Or we can lift our eyes up and look into the skies and move forward in an evolutionary way.”
    by Buzz Aldrin
  • “Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.”
    by Neil Armstrong
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ISS_STS128SpaceFlightNow.com has great coverage of ISS/STS128 Docking.

Discovery has just completed its rendezvous pitch maneuver (RPM) to allow the ISS to photograph the tiles of the shuttle some 500ft away (see photo on right).

The photo was taken over Australia

The SpaceFlightNow site has plenty of data including timeline coverage that does not need to be refreshed. eg:

0013 GMT (8:13 p.m. EDT Sun.)
The pitch maneuver has been completed. Discovery is back in the orientation where it started, with the payload bay looking up at the station.
0011 GMT (8:11 p.m. EDT Sun.)
Mission Control says Discovery’s commander is flying a textbook rendezvous pitch maneuver.
0010 GMT (8:10 p.m. EDT Sun.)
The main engine nozzles of Discovery are facing the station now as the shuttle points its tail upward.

If you want to see the docking that is due in about 50 minutes from this posting go to:

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts128/status.html

Photo courtesy of NASA. Originated from NASA via SpaceFlightNow

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