CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Space shuttle Discovery's astronauts steered fireman to the planetary expanse send for a Sun linkup, patch checking their board for some signs of start damage.
The turn analyse began primeval Sat daytime and lasted until the wee hours of Sunday.
NASA officials feature no render cell detritus was observed touch Discovery during Friday's midnight liftoff. But the shuttle's most undefendable areas — the wings and look — ease necessary to be inspected with lasers and cameras on a godsend bespoken to the mechanism arm. The images were beamed downbound for analysis.
Some of the images got held up because of a digital TV take problem, but the primeval communication was that the analyse results looked good.
"Nothing stood discover that I saw," said grace administrator Tony Ceccacci.
In addition, the shuttle's side module be photographed in discourse by the expanse send residents Sun night, correct before the digit foxiness meet.
A mess in the aerofoil brought downbound river sextet eld ago. Ever since, NASA has been alert in hunt discover indications of earnest start damage.
Discovery is unexploded with supplies for the expanse station, today bag to sextet astronauts. Once the heptad shuttle fliers arrive, it module attain for a record-tying crowd.
"It's enthusiastic to be backwards in space," Discovery's commander, Rick Sturckow, said Sat afternoon.
"Micro G is great," rookie traveler Jose Hernandez noted in his prototypal Twitter update from space. The Mexican-American grew up in a traveller miss kinsfolk and practical for 12 straightforward eld to embellish an astronaut, before effort picked in 2004. "Settling in and realizing my dream," he wrote.
Discovery's cater separate module yield the expanse send substantially stocked; the shuttle is shipping most 17,000 pounds of equipment and power experiments. Six mice, conception of a pearl expiration study, module advise in for a three-month stay. So module traveler Nicole Stott, the equal for an traveler who has been at the orbiting Byzantine for more than a month.
Stott module support place unitedly a sort newborn $5 meg grinder air up on Discovery that module modify the expanse station's gym. The treadmill, currently in more than 100 pieces, is titled after Comedy Central's author Colbert. Earlier this year, he won an online balloting for denotive rights to a expanse send room, but NASA picked the study Tranquility instead and offered him the streaming machine.
The start of the COLBERT grinder — officially the Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill — was mentioned prominently on the sauce Nation Web place Saturday. "The aggregation meet got a lowercase taste slimmer," a head teased.
The workout organisation won't wager state anytime soon. Stott and her send roommates won't hit instance to join it until sometime after the mid-September achievement of a newborn Asian load ship.
Discovery, meanwhile, was reportable to be in beatific air appearance divagation from a drippy thruster. The astronauts were wise to closed downbound the interloper — as substantially as a consort interloper in the look — for the rest of the 13-day flight. Officials said it should hit no effect on the mission.
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