our pilot, steve frick, was the navy pilot. it's the tool you used to make sure you back away in a straight line for 400 feet. once we actually separate and back away, we wait for sunrise and then we do a full fly around of the station taking pictures the whole way around to help document the outside of the station, which is then used to understand fully the configuration of the station for future engineering and training exercises. and again here's what we look like as we're leaving. you can see our pay load bay is empty now. and this is when we're halfway around. you can see at the time there was only one solar ray that was as far as we had gotten into the assembly. you can see the station arm hanging off there and sort of that rectangle in the center. that's the truss structure that we added to the space station. after we do a full day of checking out all of the systems on the space shuttle to make sure that they are ready for entry, we close the pay load bay doors and you can see the shuttle tail sort of sticking up there a