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RE: LIVE: STS-120 Flight Day 3 - RPM and Docking
« Reply #80 on: 10/25/2007 11:40 am »
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RE: LIVE: STS-120 Flight Day 3 - RPM and Docking
« Reply #81 on: 10/25/2007 11:40 am »
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RE: LIVE: STS-120 Flight Day 3 - RPM and Docking
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RE: LIVE: STS-120 Flight Day 3 - RPM and Docking
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RE: LIVE: STS-120 Flight Day 3 - RPM and Docking
« Reply #84 on: 10/25/2007 11:42 am »
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RE: LIVE: STS-120 Flight Day 3 - RPM and Docking
« Reply #85 on: 10/25/2007 11:42 am »
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RE: LIVE: STS-120 Flight Day 3 - RPM and Docking
« Reply #86 on: 10/25/2007 11:43 am »
And thats that!

Hope yall enjoy that posting spree! It was chaos!

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Re: LIVE: STS-120 Flight Day 3 - RPM and Docking
« Reply #87 on: 10/25/2007 11:45 am »
Whoa, that KU Band Antenna really rotates

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RE: LIVE: STS-120 Flight Day 3 - RPM and Docking
« Reply #88 on: 10/25/2007 11:48 am »
Nice View!

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Re: LIVE: STS-120 Flight Day 3 - RPM and Docking
« Reply #89 on: 10/25/2007 11:49 am »
Anyone notice the KU swirling around and around before they gave it to com?  I have seen it move before but never watched it go in circle after circle.  Was it "searching" for the orbiter in radar mode?

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RE: LIVE: STS-120 Flight Day 3 - RPM and Docking
« Reply #90 on: 10/25/2007 11:51 am »
View of the ISS from 500 ft.

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RE: LIVE: STS-120 Flight Day 3 - RPM and Docking
« Reply #91 on: 10/25/2007 11:51 am »
YAY got an invite to come onboard! Perhaps we will see docking from inside the craft like we had on 114!

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RE: LIVE: STS-120 Flight Day 3 - RPM and Docking
« Reply #92 on: 10/25/2007 11:53 am »
View from the Flight Deck!!!

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Re: LIVE: STS-120 Flight Day 3 - RPM and Docking
« Reply #93 on: 10/25/2007 11:54 am »
you can clearly see the folded solar arrays on zarya !

beautifull images ..

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RE: LIVE: STS-120 Flight Day 3 - RPM and Docking
« Reply #94 on: 10/25/2007 11:56 am »
Computer view of the positions of the craft.

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Re: LIVE: STS-120 Flight Day 3 - RPM and Docking
« Reply #95 on: 10/25/2007 11:56 am »
Those folded Zarya arrays make for a nice image. Thanks for the morning coverage, Zach!
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Re: LIVE: STS-120 Flight Day 3 - RPM and Docking
« Reply #96 on: 10/25/2007 11:58 am »
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eeergo - 25/10/2007  6:56 AM

Those folded Zarya arrays make for a nice image. Thanks for the morning coverage, Zach!

Glad to do so! Looking forward to some HIGHLY detailed EVA coverage!

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RE: LIVE: STS-120 Flight Day 3 - RPM and Docking
« Reply #97 on: 10/25/2007 11:59 am »
More from the Flight Deck. I sure hope KU holds so we can watch the docking from inside!

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RE: LIVE: STS-120 Flight Day 3 - RPM and Docking
« Reply #98 on: 10/25/2007 12:00 pm »
GO FOR DOCKING!

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RE: LIVE: STS-120 Flight Day 3 - RPM and Docking
« Reply #99 on: 10/25/2007 12:04 pm »
Sunset!

And now the shuttle with the lights off looks like the NX-01 Enterprise Bridge!

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