Author Topic: LIVE: STS-134 Flight Day 16 - FCS C/Os, RCS Hot Fire, Media, Endeavour Tribute  (Read 65758 times)

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LIVE and interactive coverage of STS-134's Flight Day 16.

Main links of use:

Endeavour's forum section for other threads - including non FD specific coverage:
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?board=4.0


L2 Members:
STS-134 Special Section - Internal NASA (MER/OPO/DAT/MMT) Flight Day coverage (Documentation, notes, videos and photos since FD1, all unreleased anywhere else):

http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?board=48.0 or
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?action=tags&tags=STS-134


All STS-134 News Articles can be found on this link:
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/tag/sts-134/

Mission Articles:

Launch Day and APU Heater Overview Article:
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2011/05/live-sts-134-attempt-2-updates/

Mission Timeline Article - by Chris Gebhardt:
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2011/05/sts-134-endeavour-packed-mission-overview/

Docking Article:
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2011/05/endeavour-outstanding-shape-iss-for-docking/

Post-Docking/TPS damage Article:
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2011/05/sts-134-nasa-managers-reviewing-endeavours-tps-dings/

AMS Install/Ascent Review Article - by Chris Gebhardt:
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2011/05/exceptional-endeavour-us-assembly-complete-station/

EVA-1, Status and FI Latest Article:
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2011/05/sts-134-eva-1-focused-inspection-decision-tps-damage/  - by me and Chris Gebhardt

FD6 Focused Inspection/TPS Clear/Pope Call Article:
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2011/05/sts-134-obss-focused-inspection-pope-call-iss/

EVA-2 - TPS Article:
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2011/05/sts-134-eva-2-endeavour-tps-clearance-overview/

FD8 Article - a really great article by Pete Harding on today's historic event:
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2011/05/soyuz-tma-20-historic-photographic-event-landing/

EVA-3 Article:
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2011/05/sts-134-eva-3-debuts-isle-mmt-no-mission-extension/

DLI/Status Article:
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2011/05/sts-134-endeavour-docked-late-inspections/

EVA-4 Article - by Chris Gebhardt
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2011/05/the-final-space-shuttle-spacewalk-sts-134-eva-4/

Undocking Article 1 - STORRM:
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2011/05/sts-134-endeavour-storrm-final-farewell-to-iss/

Undocking Article 2 - DAT TPS Overview - by Chris Gebhardt
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2011/05/endeavour-completes-historic-final-undocking-tps-clearance-overview/

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FD16  EOM-1
– Cabin Stow
– FCS C/O, RCS Hot Fire, L-1 Comm Checks, WLES Deact,
– Ku-Band Stow

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Crew wake up near the top of the hour, and we already know what the song is (as much as it sounds like Charlie Bolden wrote it ;)):

"Dreams You Give" by Brian Plunkett - original song contest 2nd place.

Only one video on youtube, with 3,000 views (so how it got second place with 612,959 Votes is bizzare).



https://songcontest.nasa.gov/voteOrigResult.aspx - notably, unlike STS-133, this was for original songs, as opposed to well know bands.

The winning song is a foot tapper, thankfully :)
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Entry team heading into their shift.
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Yeah, the full sequence set of those and a whole bunch more are in L2 since this morning, amazing. There's even an animated set from the sequence which is even more amazing. L2 way ahead again and not selected, but the entire sequence the astronaut takes  8) 8) 8)
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"Dreams You Give" by Brian Plunkett - original song contest 2nd place.

Only one video on youtube, with 3,000 views (so how it got second place with 612,959 Votes is bizzare).

They are a homeschool family. We also homeschool and the fact that they had submitted an entry made the rounds on homeschool email lists and forums.  I'll let you fill the rest of the blanks in.

See for example - http://www.welltrainedmind.com/forums/showthread.php?p=2573631

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Getting video set up for the PAO event.
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First up ABC.
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The crew was just asked by a reporter whether the manned space program was in disarray.  Mark Kelly glanced over at his fellow crewmember (Chamitoff) and they talked a little bit before Mark responded.  Mark said they were always concerned about the future but thought that the program would succeed in the future (paraphrasing, I'm trying to remember exactly what he said). 
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I'll even excitedly look forward to "flags and footprints" and suborbital missions. Just fly...somewhere.

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PAO event over.

FCS checkout up next at 21:01 CDT (02:01 UTC).
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Out of contact with TDRS - back to contact in 2 min.
I'll even excitedly look forward to "flags and footprints" and suborbital missions. Just fly...somewhere.

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CAPCOM reading up some deltas to the FCS C/O procedure.

Will use APU-1 for the FCS checkout today.
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Into FCS check outs.
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Still in +ZLV -XVV:
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Moving a PLB camera to get a look at the starboard inboard and outboard elevons:
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