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The shuttle separated from the Station beginning 8:52 a.m. EDT, flew around it at a distance of 660 ft, then did a retrograde burst to spread itself apart from the Station.
The heat shield has been found in good shape for landing.
Depending upon the weather, it could touch down at KSC as early as 8:51 a.m. EDT Monday.
Follow the mission status at SpaceFlightNow.com
If it lands at the earliest opportunity, it will fly over the US from British Columbia:
You can see some awesome video of the space shuttle (Discovery STS-131) circling the International Space Station from 660 feet away (with the Southern Ocean in the background, about 224 miles away) as this is typed (10am, Saturday, 4/17/2010) at SpaceFlightNow.com
There will not be many more Shuttle mission, so you will not get many more opportunities to see this.
It's about to enter the darkness, and we might see a sunrise later.
Since we should be familiar with the neighborhood in which we live, there will be a test on this in three hours.
Click on the continuation to see the words on the left side, if you can't read them above.
If this is of interest to you, you'll also be interested in the Metro Atlanta Solar System, which helps those familiar with the metro Atlanta area understand the relative distances between the Sun and the planets.
