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Some one who is really recovering. that is going to go a long way towards her recovery in the future. >> reporter: but why did she have this surgery now, while her husband mark is so far away? >> the expectation is that she is going to do beautifully. i think the timing was right. i think she is ready for this procedure. >> reporter: according to the doctors who replaced my skull, this almost always speeds up our healing. >> we have seen improvements psychologically in patients but also document...

>> reporter: nasa commander, mark kelly, docked the space shuttle "endeavour" at the international space station while wife congresswoman gabby giffords was at the hospital in houston for what could be her final surgery. after being shot in the head four month as go, gabbys brain began to swell dangerously pressing against the bone. for relief, surgeons removed a section of her skull to let her brain expanded more freely. doctors performed a procedure, cranioplasty, covering the hole with a plas...