back to article Endeavour sneaks up on space station for elevenses

Space shuttle Endeavour is currently sneaking up on the ISS prior to docking at around 10:15 GMT, with NASA providing live coverage of the space mating here. Endeavour, as seen from the ISS earlier today. Pic: NASA TV On board the veteran vehicle are commander Mark Kelly; pilot Gregory H Johnson; mission specialists Michael …

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  1. TeeCee Gold badge
    Happy

    Live coverage.

    Hmm, one of the lads in the control room just picked his nose.

    Exciting stuff this.

    1. Annihilator
      Happy

      Approaching... approaching...

      They're currently 80ft away and the commentator has just said they'll be docking in about 17 minutes. The tension is unbearable!

    2. Annihilator
      Coat

      Hang on

      A female CAPCOM - hello! It's just gotten interesting..

      The flasher one please

  2. Elmer Phud

    After this

    From now on they have to catch the bus

    1. Vladimir Plouzhnikov

      You mean

      Get a taxi?

      Because clearly, the Shuttle *was* the bus.

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  3. John Brown (no body) Silver badge
    Boffin

    We don' need no steenkin'...

    ...docking computers!

    Back in the day, I didn't waste hard earned money on docking computers.

    I could dock my Cobra MkIII at Lave station much faster than this Real Life(tm) stuff. And that bloody station was rotating too!

    Ok, ok, so I scraped a bit of paint off :-)

  4. Andus McCoatover
    Thumb Up

    Thanks for the heads-up, Lester

    That was fascinating to watch. Talk about precision flying!

  5. Mike Flugennock
    Pint

    "Elevenses"? Damn, that was about 0300ish here on the East Coast

    Still... it's all Americans, Russians and Italians aboard; I don't think they do "elevenses"

    (...but an interesting idea. Pint of ale because... well, "elevenses".)

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