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live from america s news headquarters, i m patty ann brown. president obama scheduled a news conference for tomorrow morning. that word coming after a sunday night showdown at the white house. president obama and congressional leaders failed to come up with a plan to reduce the debt. republicans say the tax increases in the president s plan are unacceptable. they will talk again tomorrow. fox news will carry the president s news conference live, beginning another 11:00 a.m. eastern. n.a.s.a. is watching a piece of space junk that could come dangerously close to the international spacestation. that news coming closely after the space shuttle lsu docked at the station today for the last time. the shuttle s thrusters can move ....
Examined in order to determine how the heat shields are to the so the space shuttle can come back safely into the earth s atmosphere. you are looking and we just saw pictures of nasa. we are looking now at pictures in space obviously where we are waiting on the actual docking to take place. there is a crew of 7 members on the discovery. and they are joining they are about to join the expedition 23 crew on board the international spacestation as they work toward an early morning wednesday docking with the out post. we will continue to keep you posted. we are taking this live hoping at any second it will happen so you can see it. this today is docking day. the shuttle discuff reis going to discovery is going to dock today, and the 7-member crew will rendezvous, so to speak, with the folks that are part of the expedition 33 crew. now i am being told they have ....
As the rendezvous pitch maneuver took place an hour ago. and the final link up is what we are waiting for. it was supposed to happen at 3 on. 42 this morning eastern 3:42 eastern time. actually it was supposed to be 3:44 a.m. and it is now 10, 12 seconds after that time. we are waiting on that actual link up to happen. about an hour ago we were watching some video. it was pretty fascinating to see because we were looking at the discovery. and the commander on the discovery actually rotates the shuttle so that the under side faces the spacestation. that way thend commaer inside the spacestation, can take photos of the belly which exposed the heat shield tiles. they take about 300 pictures and then the flight engineer actually takes video of the heat shields and all of the pictures and video are ....
Sees the heat during the re-entry process. and nasa officials expect it to be a, quote, nonissue at this point. once discovery has docked with the spacestation, a number of tests will have to be conducted before the hatches connecting the two orbiters can be opened. that s expected to take about an hour. the crew is on a 13-day mission with the first of three planned spacewalks set for this friday. during that time they will replace an old ammonia tank on the out post. construction on the international spacestation is almost complete and just in time after this mission there are only three more missions left. what we are waiting for is for the actual docking process. today is the docking day. it is considered the docking day because we closed the gap to the international spacestation, or the discovery does. and a series of rocket firings will take place to dock, and the rbar pitch maneuver known ....
Docked. our producer is in our ear telling us they have docked. you are looking at a successful docking linking with the spacestation. and just to recap, today is docking day. the space shuttle discovery that entered into space on monday is now docked with the international spacestation. they have taken photos of the heat shields and i m sure we will get more information as to what the nasa crews is discovering based on the pictures, if it is safe for the space shuttle to re-enter the earth s atmosphere at the end of the week. thank you so much for watching and we will continue to keep you posted. we now return to red eye which is already in progress. we are all southern rock gods, but we are trying to do something that is just not the same old thing. you have to come back and have some more fun here. what we will do is keep you on the set. you can just come we ll come up with lyrics for songs ....