The man held a protest sign which could be seen as an incitement to assassinate the President while wearing a holstered gun on his hip.

The warnings had been out since dawn. The beaches closed to bathers, coastal roads cleared, the warning sirens blared.

In the end, the Tsunami was less than the 2 meter wave expected. A wave of 1 meter at the top and one meter at the trough gently rolled into Hilo beach.

The wave was so gentle, it took reporters some time to determine that it actually was the tsunami.

The third wave in the video covers an inshore reef in about five minutes.

Civil authorities expect an all clear within an hour.  As we posted the all-clear was expected. Traffic was returning to the highways near the coast.

The lower parts of Honolulu and all coastal towns had cleared out. Hawaiians are used to tsunami warnings and alarms are are well prepared.

Video copyright CNN and KHON, Hawaii

According to KSL, a virus on their website was trying to get user credit card information. The virus came from an ad on the site.

A similar virus infected a newspaper in Minneapolis. Newspaper delivers virus to its readers.

In Salt Lake City, the TV station started getting calls from customers and IT managers on Wednesday and Thursday. Some State of Utah government sites blocked KSL.com when they discovered the virus.

The station is owned by Deseret Digital Media who assured users they had isolated the virus source. Apparently it was hidden in the 3rd party advertisement.

“First of all, we apologize,” Clark Gilbert station CEO said. “[Users] should know we’re taking every precaution we can to protect the site.”

If you were hit, you would have seen a pop-up ad for an antivirus software on your screen. Clicking on it asks you for your credit card number.

General Manager of KSL.com Brett Atkinson said, “It’s definitely something that’s coming through not our local advertisers, but some of the third parties that we work with that do send advertisers to us.”

“Unfortunately, it got through their filters and attacked us. We found the source of that and have been able to pause it, but it’s something we have to watch all the time just to be safe,” Gilbert said.

Question – what is the fire ahead of the tail?

Flames from the tail are normal. The APU which powers the hydraulics vents excess energy after landing. The hydraulics system is what helps the crew to land since they have no engine thrusters at that point. The flames are only visible during night landings. For more information on the APU, click through to NASA

NASA – Shuttle Launch Integration Manager Mike Moses said that space shuttle Endeavour’s landing capped off a flawless mission. “The crew did an outstanding job,” Moses said, referring to the complex task of installing Tranquility and its seven-windowed cupola to the International Space Station. “The landing today went as smooth as you can hope for — by the numbers.”

Moses wrapped up his remarks about the STS-130 mission by saying, “It was an outstanding mission — I can’t be happier with the success we had and look forward to repeating that on our next mission.”

Shuttle Launch Director Mike Leinbach was extremely pleased with Endeavour’s condition.”One of the most magical things we get to do here at Kennedy Space Center is walk around the orbiter after a mission from space. She looks really, really good,” Leinbach said.

Leinbach also congratulated Norm Knight and his team in the Mission Control Center at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston for a job well done.

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Flames from the tail are normal. The APU which powers the hydraulics vents excess energy after landing. The hydraulics system is what helps the crew to land since they have no engine thrusters at that point. The flames are only visible during night landings. For more information on the APU, click through to NASA

Shuttle Launch Integration Manager Mike Moses said that space shuttle Endeavour’s landing capped off a flawless mission. “The crew did an outstanding job,” Moses said, referring to the complex task of installing Tranquility and its seven-windowed cupola to the International Space Station. “The landing today went as smooth as you can hope for — by the numbers.”

Moses wrapped up his remarks about the STS-130 mission by saying, “It was an outstanding mission — I can’t be happier with the success we had and look forward to repeating that on our next mission.”

Shuttle Launch Director Mike Leinbach was extremely pleased with Endeavour’s condition.”One of the most magical things we get to do here at Kennedy Space Center is walk around the orbiter after a mission from space. She looks really, really good,” Leinbach said.

Leinbach also congratulated Norm Knight and his team in the Mission Control Center at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston for a job well done.

Video and text from NASA and public domain

The burn of 2 minutes slows down the Endeavour as a braking maneuver. This is the final move than means Endeavour will be landing shortly, about 1 hour from now.

After undocking from the ISS, Endeavour performed a orbit of the ISS and flyby that produced stunning images of space. I stayed up late Friday night to capture this live. This is definitely for space nuts.

The joint docked mission, STS 130, between the crews of the International Space Station and space shuttle Endeavour ended at 7:54 p.m. EST with the undocking of Endeavour. Shuttle undocks from ISS and heads home Video

After backing away from the ISS very slowly and carefully, Endeavour moved to about 450 feet from the ISS. The ISS crew do a video and visual inspection of the Shuttle.

Pilot Terry Virts is at the stick using jets to maneuver Endeavour.

Then the shuttle is moved to between 650 and 700 feet from the ISS and it orbits once.

The Canadarm2 is used by the shuttle crew to inspect the heat shield one more time. Endeavour changed its path to begin orbiting the Earth in preparation for landing Sunday at 10:16 PM EST

Sometimes the shuttle launches have seem esoteric. This one has been all business.

Endeavour has been almost 10 days in space, delivered the new Tranquility Module and its cupola and the water from urine recovery system.

The shuttle mission team seem keen to come home. How do the ISS crew handle being left behind?

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Earlier in the day, Endeavour crew said good bye to the ISS crew. There were smiles all around as the ISS crew thanked them for bringing Tranquility module and the cupola.

What has seemingly had been 11 effortless days in space is now getting complicated. It’s not like Star Wars where the space ships glide in to a docking and hanger door, taxi to a stop, a door opens and people get out.

Hatches between Endeavour and the International Space Station were closed at 2:08 a.m. CST. All communications between the Endeavour and ISS had to be disconnected.

After that it’s an endless routine of checking the space shuttle, checking lists, confirming everything with ground control in Houston. All Endeavour systems had to be fired up and checked to ensure a safe flight home.

We hear “Go for un-docking” the “Endeavour you are go for un-docking.” Then nothing happens and not a word is spoken for ten minutes.

In the video the ISS is above the Shuttle docking bay.

The un-docking is a slow motion ballet 207 miles above the Atlantic Ocean. It is meant to ensure safety and keep the shuttle from colliding with the ever expanding space station with its long solar array panels.

“At undocking, the Orbiter Docking System let go of the mating adapter and springs gently pushed the two vehicles apart. The ISS seems to drift upwards since the camera is on the space shuttle.

“Goodbye and a wave”

“Thanks for the hospitality.”

Pilot Terry Virts flew the shuttle manually about 450 feet in front of the ISS using steam jets. They are moving away at 1.3 feet per second.

All of the instructions and “copy” responses seem redundant until Virt misheard the Pitch setting from Houston who repeated it for him to correct.

The crew took some last pictures of the newly configured ISS and Tranquility module before Virts fired up the jets to move away from the ISS.

Next the shuttle circled around the ISS to check the underside heat shield one more time at about 600 to 700 feet from the ISS.

The Shuttle is scheduled to land at Cape Canaveral on Sunday.

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During the Day 10 space walk of astronauts Nicholas Patrick and Robert Behnken, mission crew inside were hard at work finishing the connections between the Tranquility module, the cupola and the International Space Station.

Mission Specialists Kathryn Hire works with Commander George Zamka connecting, checking and re-checking.

Despite the problems of the weekend, the Mission STS 130 was headed for success as everyone inside and outside spent the day doing their jobs.

This video gives you the inside view of the work.

Once the windows were opened, you can here the astronauts thrill to the new 360 degree view of the world. Everyone was in high spirits as jokes and good humor passed between the shuttle commander, his crew and ISS team and mission control.

It was an exciting moment that gives a view of space that was up to now reserved only for space walkers in their bulky suits.

The Italian built Tranquility module will be the new hideaway on the ISS. Zamka can be heard joking that when you can’t find someone on the ISS, check the cupola.

Hats off the the ISS crew, STS 130 crew, all the ground support team at NASA and their international partners like Italy for the Tranquility module and cupola. Hats off to Canada with the Canadarm2 which is an essential part of the shuttle and ISS programs.

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