The Atlantis astronauts worked early Sunday to complete a final few equipment transfers from the International Space Station before a crew news conference, a final joint meal with the station crew and undocking to wrap up a successful three-spacewalk assembly mission.

Credit: NASA TV

"They're going to start with final transfer activities and get the last remaining cargo off the International Space Station that they plan to return in Atlantis' middeck," shuttle Flight Director Mike Sarafin said Saturday. "They'll transfer the suits they used to perform their spacewalks back into Atlantis and we'll perform a final verification, make sure all the science and transfers are back across the hatch and ready for return.

"Around midday, they'll close hatches, perform some leak checks and then if all goes as planned, will undock Atlantis from the International Space Station. Following undock, pilot Tony Antonelli will perform a one-lap fly around, a full 360-degree rotation around the exterior of the International Space Station at a range of 400 to 600 feet. We should get some outstanding views for engineering data as well as a good view of the (Russian) Rassvet module that was recently installed."

The astronauts planned to participate in a joint crew news conference aboard the station at 6:25 a.m. EDT, followed by lunch and a brief farewell ceremony at 8:10 a.m. If all goes well, Atlantis will undock from the space station at 11:22 a.m. to wrap up a busy week of assembly work.

Ths is Antonelli's second flight as pilot and his second time to manually guide a space shuttle through a loop around the station.

"I get to fly, so that’s the most important part for me," he said before launch in a NASA interview. "I get to fly the separation. ... I'll do a one-lap fly around of the space station. We train that a lot in the sim. It turns out the view is much better for real and the flying is more fun when you can actually feel the vehicle moving around.

"It'll be crowded on the flight deck. There are only six of us, but everybody that can fit a camera in the window will want to either take a peek and/or take a picture and so it will be crowded in there. But (I'm) really looking forward to that. We'll undock in the afternoon. We'll do our fly around and then it'll be almost dinner and bedtime and we can just talk about what a great afternoon it was."

Here is an updated timeline of today's activity (in EDT and mission elapsed time; includes revision H of the NASA television schedule; best viewed with fixed-width font):

EDT........DD...HH...MM...SS...EVENT

05/23
12:50 AM...08...10...30...00...Crew wakeup
02:20 AM...08...12...00...00...ISS daily planning conference
03:55 AM...08...13...35...00...Middeck transfers
05:05 AM...08...14...45...00...Rendezvous tools checkout
06:05 AM...08...15...45...00...Joint crew photo
06:25 AM...08...16...05...00...Joint crew news conference
07:10 AM...08...16...50...00...Joint crew meal
08:10 AM...08...17...50...00...Farewell ceremony
08:25 AM...08...18...05...00...Hatches closed
08:55 AM...08...18...35...00...Orbiter docking system leak checks
08:55 AM...08...18...35...00...Centerline camera install
09:50 AM...08...19...30...00...Group B computer powerup
09:54 AM...08...19...34...00...ISS in prox ops mode
10:05 AM...08...19...45...00...Start maneuver to undock attitude
10:10 AM...08...19...50...28...Sunrise
10:34 AM...08...20...14...00...Orbiter/ISS in undock attitude
10:38 AM...08...20...18...39...Noon
11:05 AM...08...20...45...00...Russian arrays feathered
11:06 AM...08...20...46...50...Sunset

11:22 AM...08...21...02...00...UNDOCKING

11:22 AM...08...21...02...05...Maintain corridor
11:23 AM...08...21...03...00...Initial separation
11:23 AM...08...21...03...40...ISS holds current attitude
11:27 AM...08...21...07...00...Range = 50 ft: reselect -x jets
11:29 AM...08...21...09...00...Range = 75 ft: lowz
11:42 AM...08...21...21...57...Sunrise
11:51 AM...08...21...31...00...Start flyaround at 400 ft
11:52 AM...08...21...32...00...Russian arrays resume tracking
12:00 PM...08...21...40...30...Range = 600 feet
12:02 PM...08...21...42...30...Shuttle directly above ISS
12:10 PM...08...21...50...08...Noon
12:14 PM...08...21...54...00...Shuttle directly behind ISS
12:24 PM...08...22...04...33...Start - sun in window (1)
12:25 PM...08...22...05...30...Shuttle directly below ISS
12:36 PM...08...22...16...45...Start - sun in window (2)
12:37 PM...08...22...17...00...Shuttle directly ahead of ISS
12:37 PM...08...22...17...00...Separation burn 1 (1.5 fps radial burn)
12:38 PM...08...22...18...20...Sunset
12:50 PM...08...22...30...00...Range > 2000 ft
12:54 PM...08...22...34...00...Range > 3000 ft
01:05 PM...08...22...45...00...Separation burn 2 (1.5 fps posigrade burn)
01:05 PM...08...22...45...00...Group B computer powerdown
01:05 PM...08...22...45...00...Laptop computer reconfig
01:30 PM...08...23...10...00...Video playback
02:05 PM...08...23...45...00...US arrays resume tracking
04:00 PM...09...01...40...00...Mission status briefing on NTV
04:50 PM...09...02...30...00...ISS crew sleep begins
04:50 PM...09...02...30...00...STS crew sleep begins
05:00 PM...09...02...40...00...Daily highlights
07:00 PM...09...03...40...00...HD crew highlights

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