The seven Atlantis astronauts are awake for their first full day in space and getting ready for today's chief activity: inspecting their spaceship's heat shielding for any damage that might have been done during Thursday's launch from Kennedy Space Center.
Mission Control beamed up Peter Gabriel's Book of Love as this morning's wake-up music for the shuttle astronauts.
You can watch everything happening in space throughout the mission here on live NASA TV. If you want to know what's coming up each day, you can look at the latest version of the TV schedule here.
The crew will start checking out the shuttle robotic arm around 6:45 a.m. The test and preparation of the arm and its sensor-laden extension boom will take a couple hours, and the inspection is expected to begin around 9:10 a.m.
For this morning's newspaper story about Thursday's launch click here. We also had a story today from our interview with Mike Griffin yesterday morning, when he explained how job loss in the shuttle program would be at least partly offset by retirements as well as new job creation on the Constellation project. Click here to read that story.
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