Astronauts aboard space shuttle Discovery approached the international space base which they hope to mate on Sunday.
Meanwhile, in a comprehensive review that was done to the shuttle were not detected signs of damage during liftoff.
Routine screening began on Saturday afternoon and lasted into the early hours of Sunday.
NASA officials said they were not detected objects emerging from the fuel tank and would have beaten the shuttle during launch of the spacecraft on Friday night.
However, the most vulnerable areas of the ship's wings and nose still must be inspected with lasers and cameras mounted on a rod attached to the robotic arm. The images were obtained were sent for analysis to the Control Center.
Some of the images were retained due to a problem in the feeding of digital television images, but early indications showed that the results of the first images appeared to be positive.
"Nothing stood out from what I saw," said flight director Tony Ceccacci.
In addition, the bottom of the shuttle will be photographed in detail by the inhabitants of the international space base on Sunday night, just before the two ships were assemble.
A hole in a wing caused the destruction of Columbia six years ago. Since then, NASA has maintained surveillance and revised their ships for damage suffered serious at takeoff.
The shuttle mission in two astronauts traveling Hispanic. carrying several tons of equipment and supplies to the international base, which now houses six astronauts and with the arrival of the seven who ride the shuttle, added 13, a record.
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