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Status Report: STS-133-22.

STS-133 MCC Status Report # 22

2:30 am CST Monday, March 7, 2011

Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas

L’equipaggio dello Space Shuttle Discovery ha iniziato il suo ultimo giorno alla Stazione Spaziale Internazionale con un risveglio per una chiamata molto speciale.

Il "Theme from Star Trek", eseguito da Alexander Courage, è servito come musica per la sveglia dell'equipaggio del Discovery alle 0823 UTC. È stata la seconda classificata nel concorso dove i voti del pubblico hanno scelto fra una lista di 40 brani. Le due canzoni con il maggior numero di voti hanno guadagnato il diritto di essere usate come sveglia musicale per l'equipaggio del Discovery durante la sua ultima mission.

As a bonus, the actor William Shatner has recorded a special introduction to the song:

"Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Space Shuttle Discovery . His thirty-year mission: to search for new science. To build new outposts. To bring the UN into the final frontier. To boldly go, and do what no spacecraft has ever done before. "

It was a deserved start to the day that will see for the last time the separation of Discovery from the ISS. Discovery was the first spacecraft to dock with International Space Station during STS-96 in 1999, scoring on a shot that no spacecraft had done before.

The posting of today is expected at 1200 UTC. Later, the shuttle pilot Eric Boe will drive around the Space Station, allowing his colleagues to take photos of the station with its newest addition, the permanent multi-purpose module Leonardo. The flight around the ISS will begin at 1229 UTC. At the end, the shuttle will make two starts of the engines, namely the 1315 and 1343 UTC, to start increasing the distance between the two vehicles.

the afternoon the crew will be dedicated to a final inspection of Discovery's heat shield using the OBSS, the Orbiter Boom Sensor System, and its suite of cameras. The images collected during the investigation today, which will begin at 1613 UTC, the analysts will be sent to Earth. Make checks to ensure that Discovery's thermal protection system has not been damaged during its stay in space.

The crew will begin the sleep period at 0023 UTC.

The song contest winner will be played as alarm on Tuesday at 0823 UTC. To see the results of all 40 songs, visit:

https: / / songcontest.nasa.gov

[original Status Report NASA / JSC]