Live in Orbit: Discovery Flip Complete; Orbiter "Clean"

Discovery has completed its backflip maneuver and is "go" for docking with the International Space Station.
Check out the amazing sequence of photos showing the nine-minute backflip, or Rendezvous Pitch Maneuver, just 600 feet below the station.
Despite communication problems, station astronauts Mike Fincke and Sandra Magnus shot up to 300 pictures of the orbiter's heat shields, using digital cameras with 400 millimeter and 800 millimeter lenses.

Fincke said the shuttle "looked clean, very nice," from his vantage point in the Russian Zvezda service module.

Discovery is now beginning a quarter turn that will place it about 400 feet in front of the station, the point from which it will back into the station for docking around 5:15 p.m. EDT.
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