The astronauts aboard the linked shuttle-station complex are expecting a presidential phone call as they prepare to part company.President Barack Obama's schedule for Tuesday includes a call to the space shuttle at roughly 9:40 a.m. EDT.
The crew will spend the afternoon recuperating from Monday's third and final spacewalk of Discovery's mission.
The hatches between Discovery and the international space station will be sealed Wednesday, and the shuttle will undock and head home for a Saturday landing.
During Monday's spacewalk, the two educator-astronauts were unable to free a jammed equipment shelf outside the space station.
credited to AP
0 comments
Post a Comment