Atlantis' July ISS mission

[Chris Bergin]

STS-115 sounds like July according to this:

http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050930/NEWS02/509300335/1007/NEWS01

[Flightstar]

STS-115 will be the 19th ISS flight (12A), P3/P4 arrays.

[JamesSpaceFlight]

Finally!

[Chris Bergin]

JamesSpaceFlight - 30/9/2005  7:51 PM

Finally!

We've got to get STS-121 through its paces first.

[Chris Bergin]

Mission: STS-115 - 19th ISS Flight (12A) - P3/P4 Solar Arrays
     Vehicle: Atlantis (OV-104)
     Location: Orbiter Processing Facility bay 1
     Launch Date: TBD
     Launch Pad: 39B
     Crew: Jett, Ferguson, Tanner, Burbank, MacLean and Stefanyshyn-Piper

    Atlantis is being processed for a mission to the International Space
Station.  Thermal barrier inspections of the landing gear doors are complete.
Forward reaction control system wire inspections are finished in preparation
for installing the system in about one month.  The microwave scanning beam
landing system inspections have been performed.

[FransonUK]

Ah right, so they took out the RCS after she was destacked cause of the launch date being put back to past the sell by date on the RCS and now they are about a month away from putting it back in?

[Space101]

Stefanyshyn-Piper

Sounds like another European?

[MKremer]

http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/stefanys.html

U.S. Born in Minnesota, actually.

[Flightstar]

FransonUK - 5/10/2005  9:50 AM

Ah right, so they took out the RCS after she was destacked cause of the launch date being put back to past the sell by date on the RCS and now they are about a month away from putting it back in?

That's not how I would have said it, but near enough.