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After Separation: Shortly after the shuttle separates from Mir, the astronauts will mount the KidSat camera in the window again. The camera will remain in the window, available for our use, for about the next forty hours (until the morning of landing day). During most of this period, the shuttle will again be in the right orientation for KidSat. For about the first half of that time, we will be able to send commands to the camera and receive images on the ground. Then the astronauts will turn off the Ku communications antenna. Once the antenna is stowed, we can no longer receive images. The camera should continue taking pictures; we just have to wait until after the shuttle lands to see them.

Landing day: Soon after the astronauts wake up on the day they are scheduled to land, they will take the KidSat camera out of the window, and store it in the middeck locker in preparation for landing. The orbiter is scheduled to land at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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