Author Topic: LIVE: STS-133 Flight Day 3 - RNDZ, RPM, ISS Docking, ELC-4 Robotics  (Read 187345 times)

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LIVE and interactive coverage of STS-133's Flight Day 3:

Main links of use:

Discovery's STS-133 forum section for other threads - including non FD specific coverage:
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?board=2.0


L2 STS-133 Special Section - into Flight Day coverage (already has lots!):
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?board=35.0 or
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?action=tags&tags=STS-133


Coverage will be centralized on this site, via these live threads and news articles, but I will ''tweet" important updates via http://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight


STS-133 Mission Outlines/Pre-Launch News Articles:
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/tag/sts-133/ (Over 110 articles for STS-133)

Previous L-1 and Launch Day articles:
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2011/02/sts-133-discovery-launch-day-mec-investigation-review/ - By me.

http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2011/02/live-discovery-into-tanking-operations-for-sts-133-launch-attempt/ - Myself and Chris Gebhardt.

FD2 article:

http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2011/02/sts-133-healthy-discovery-fd2-inspections-rcc-panels/ - me again.

FD3 Article:
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2011/02/discovery-visually-spectacular-docking-space-station/ - by Chris Gebhardt

FD3: Docking.
– Rendezvous
- RPM
- Docking: – Downlink of RPM photos via ISS assets.
- Hatch Opening
- ELC-4 Unberth and Install Robotics.
See Flight Plan below.

Please note, this is interactive, but all posts need to be on topic. If you post images, no more than two per post.

Flight Plan. Click to enlarge:
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FD3 NTV Schedule:

Still on Rev B:
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summary of yesterday's activities


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Oooh, I totally forgot we had the ELC-4 install today (actually tomorrow GMT). Woot! :)

Trivia: The full name for ELC is ExPrESS (Expedite the Processing of Experiments to Space Station) Logistics Carrier - quite a mouthful for such a short acronym!
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5 min to wake up

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Wake-up
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Woody's Roundup performed by Riders in the Sky for Drew

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Today's Executive Package humor:

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I also like this one:

 "Good Morning Discovery! The ISS crew assures us that they are ready to welcome 6 new guests today, your reservation has been confirmed."

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in attitude for simo dump

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I didn't see it in the timeline but the crew will preform a Water Dump before docking as usual.

the RFTA R&R that need to be done before shuttle can use WHC will be preformed by Scott before docking.
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Supply water dump is underway

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Waste water dump initiated now as well. (making it a simo dump)

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supply dump terminated

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RFTA R&R complete (on ISS)
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waste dump terminated

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Orbiter will remain in +Y attitude (that was used for the dump) until the the NH burn in just over an hour

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Today's Executive Package humor:

I have long held the theory that this is one way shuttle crews are selected.  They were never going to have Heidi Stephanyshyn-Piper and Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger on the same mission - unless their names were mitigated by the presence of Ken Ham and Eric Boe, maybe  :D

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Today's Executive Package humor:

I have long held the theory that this is one way shuttle crews are selected.  They were never going to have Heidi Stephanyshyn-Piper and Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger on the same mission - unless their names were mitigated by the presence of Ken Ham and Eric Boe, maybe  :D

In such a situation, Ed Lu might have been called out of retirement! ;D
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