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NASA Shuttle Specific Sections => Atlantis (Post STS-135, T&R) => Topic started by: Chris Bergin on 11/25/2009 03:58 am
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LIVE and interactive coverage of STS-129's Flight Day 10:
Previous Article: http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2009/11/sts-129-atlantis-ready-to-bring-crew-hardware-home/
Undocking Article: http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2009/11/atlantis-undocks-late-inspections-dat-status/ - by Chris Gebhardt
FD10: Undock, Flyaround, Late Inspections
– Late Inspection with OBSS
– OBSS Berth, RMS Powerdown
Please note, this is interactive, but all posts need to be on topic. If you post images, no more than two per post.
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Crew as I am Awake!
Wake up song: Amazing Grace
Barry "Butch" Wilmore
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Amazing Grace from the movie "Braveheart" was played but I didn't get who the Astronaut it was for.
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Crew as I am Awake!
Wake up song: Amazing Grace
Barry "Butch" Wilmore
Thanks!
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And the wakeup music was performed by Eric Rigler on bagpipes.
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Hello Dexter and Atlantis! ;D
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Going into orbital night
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Diagram of where the two ELC's delivered this mission are located
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Crew wake up
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Briefings times
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Orbit 1 team coming on console.
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Sunrise!
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FD10 Execute Package is available:
http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/406541main_fd10_exec_pkg.pdf
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Atlantis' empty payload bay and Dexter in the foreground.
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Woman PAO calls Atlantis "she", as she should! :D
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Station camera zooming in on damaged radiator.
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Woman PAO calls Atlantis "she", as she should! :D
It always bugs me, that - I've no idea how anyone can justify referring to these beautiful machines as 'it'... Engineering's always female, dammit! :)
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Wake up from ISS... bugle call. Ready for the morning DPC.
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On board station in Node 2.
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On board Atlantis' flight deck this morning.
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Over southern Chile.
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New daddy Randy on aft flight deck.
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interesting machine... not sure what this is they were focusing on
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interesting machine... not sure what this is they were focusing on
Aft deck CCTV monitors.
Perhaps they are setting up the acetate masks for the flyaround.
I can't view NASA TV right now.
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interesting machine... not sure what this is they were focusing on
Aft deck CCTV monitors.
Perhaps they are setting up the acetate masks for the flyaround.
I can't view NASA TV right now.
thanks... probably right.. my eyes are a little blurry yet.. :)
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love the views - you can see the orientation of the complex is moving as the camera is fixed on the same location but the Earth has take up more of the picture
edit - wow.. no sooner to I type the above and then the PAO comes on talking about the orientation changing... (was he reading my post ;) lol )
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Ground talking with Scorch about doing a special burn tomorrow just before a PAO event. Couldn't they move the PAO event? No, optimal time for it. The burn would be just 5 minutes before the PAO event.
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Polling for "go no go" for undocking. "Go for undocking" for shuttle ground team. Polling station team now.
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Leland on aft flight deck.
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Passing over Libya and Egypt.
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nice land shots
edit - Thank you Seawolfe.. I was not sure where we were...
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Feed's not that great from Atlantis. Earlier Atlantis had asked if they were getting HD or Analog; Houston replied Analog.
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Feed's not that great from Atlantis. Earlier Atlantis had asked if they were getting HD or Analog; Houston replied Analog.
you are right ... keep getting this white line on the inside feed and it seems to be trying to focus from time to time.. a bit dark yet....
but then, I am more of an Outside person myself... prefer the h/w... :)
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Ah, Leland's hat says Centre College, I couldn't make that out before when I snagged his face. :D
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Ah, Leland's hat says Centre College, I couldn't make that out before when I snagged his face. :D
yes it does :)
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Now 20 minutes away from undocking.
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Solar arrays feathered ready for shuttle Atlantis' departure.
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Should be Near Australia when Undocking occurs
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Stan Love and Drew Foistal are the capcoms for both the shuttle and station ground teams for this undocking.
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And.... it looks like Dr. Satcher will be the videographer on the flight deck today. ;)
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And.... it looks like Dr. Satcher will be the videographer on the flight deck today. ;)
yep
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Station ready for undocking.
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Station is calling Atlantis: Station is ready for undocking.
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Station is calling Atlantis: Station is ready for undocking.
about 7 minutes to undocking...
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Nicole saying final farewells to station crew. I read that she'll be back on the very last mission, STS-133.
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PMA 2 is in processing of setting up hooks to release.
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and we have physical separation
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Nicole saying final farewells to station crew. I read that she'll be back on the very last mission, STS-133.
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Atlantis undocked at 3:53 AM.
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Four bells for departing Atlantis and Nicole Stott.
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15 feet away now.
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Station in attitude control.
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Pilot Barry Wilmore in control of Atlantis as it backs away from the station.
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Payload bay camera view:
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75 ft and opening
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I lost my feed on NASA Public channel but regained it on the Media channel on the NASA TV website.
Edit - Feed's back on public channel again. Sequential still camera going right now from Atlantis.
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lost my feed.. had to drop down to lower speed... :(
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at 150 ft
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ok... back again.. hope that doesn't happen again.. 6 minutes to sunrise...
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At 175 feet. Powering down shuttle docking system and station is powering down PMA 2.
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Atlantis now 200 feet away from the station.
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Getting hard to see... can't wait for sun up :)
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and we have sunrise at 250 ft separation
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Station says that Atlantis is looking good at sunrise.... too bad we can't see. ;)
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Atlantis confirms that the OBS has been powered down.
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at 400 ft, starting flyaround
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Newly installed ELCs now clearly visible:
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keep the screen shots coming cause my nasa tv feed is almost non existent right now. Thanks to those posting!
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Beautiful!
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Just need a Strauss waltz ;) :
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Atlantis just about at the 90 degree mark above the station.
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ok you guys take it from here... my feed is obviously a minute or so behind...
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ok you guys take it from here... my feed is obviously a minute or so behind...
Didn't mean to hog it. :(
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crossing the r-bar at this time
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ok you guys take it from here... my feed is obviously a minute or so behind...
Didn't mean to hog it. :(
no no.. not at all.. just don't want to be redundant with pictures.. yours are great and more timely due to the feeds.. please continue.
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So stunning to see two of the greatest machines that have ever been built sailing by each other. Incredible. I never get tired of this.
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Atlantis disappearing behind ISS:
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Atlantis now 625 feet away from station and moving towards the aft portion.
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The new (previously installed) Poisk segment - on the right:
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Atlantis almost directly behind Russian segment.
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crossing vbar
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Notice the new Russian segment on the right with the dark propulsion module that will soon be discarded.
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Coast of Africa.
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rbar crossing at this time
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Atlantis is directly below the station now.
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Over Italy:
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Western edge of Italy.
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Over Ukraine and Russia.
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Separation burn will be a little bit early as they are ahead of the timeline.
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Sun setting on Atlantis and ISS:
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Station asked Nicole if she was going to get a photograph of that plaque that she was looking for. ;D
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first sep burn coming up and sunset is 7 minutes away
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sep burn completed.
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Last few pictures of ISS before orbital night:
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Nineteen minutes until final sep burn.
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Super work with the screenshots Seawolf :)
Apparently the ground tracks are available on nasa.gov - but as per usual, they are no where obvious. Please post a link if anyone sees them.
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Super work with the screenshots Seawolf :)
Apparently the ground tracks are available on nasa.gov - but as per usual, they are no where obvious. Please post a link if anyone sees them.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts129/news/landing.html
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"Right at the top of the page" eh? ;)
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Atlantis is looking for some time to downlink about 24 minutes of HD from the fly around later on today.
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Super work with the screenshots Seawolf :)
Apparently the ground tracks are available on nasa.gov - but as per usual, they are no where obvious. Please post a link if anyone sees them.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts129/news/landing.html
There we go! I thought I had gone to that page, but can't of updated when I looked.
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Five minutes to final sep burn... a "posigrade" burn.
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ku back to comm mode from radar mode. video is back
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sep 2 burn underway. looks good.
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sep 2 burn underway. looks good.
Excellent. Just shows the lag between realtime and NTV's feed. We're not even there yet! ;D
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Final sep burn completed.
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sep 2 burn underway. looks good.
Excellent. Just shows the lag between realtime and NTV's feed. We're not even there yet! ;D
You need to switch on your NASA audio feed ;)
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Waste dump going on now?
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Back at the station again.
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still getting into attitude for the dump
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HD playback coming up soon.
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Few more cool ones:
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Nice:
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"Hey Houston we're making yellow snow" - "copy , don't eat any of it!"
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Checking the solar array repair:
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That was cool! Can't wait to see in HD!! ;D ;D
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Undocking Article: http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2009/11/atlantis-undocks-late-inspections-dat-status/ - by Chris Gebhardt
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Very good article! :D
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Moon-rise anyone?
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The roses have arrived. :)
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Waste water dump going on now. :o
Houston called up saying that they think that there's a blockage in the valve. Okay to store waste water.
Edit - not valve, but the line.
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More HD video
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Looks like they're filming cities at night.
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Seeing lightning storms from the rear payload bay camera. :)
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Atlantis' arm about to grapple the OBSS
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OBSS being lifted out of it's cradle.
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crossing the r-bar at this time
Crossing r
r-bar is a vector from station to earth. r is the vector extending out from station on the earth to station vector.
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OBSS Unberth has them pretty much on the timeline:
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STS-129 - ATLANTIS UNDOCKS FROM ISS
http://www.space-multimedia.nl.eu.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5551
STS-129 - ATLANTIS FLYAROUND OF ISS
http://www.space-multimedia.nl.eu.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5552
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And the regular fyi - we might see stuff on the OBSS views, but it doesn't actually mean anything abnormal. It's just the way the view comes down on the NTV feed. Many times we've seen what looks like entire tiles missing, but on the resulting DAT presentations it's all a-ok.
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I know this video was recorded in HD, but whay do you believe it was dowlinked in HD - seems like standard dedf to me?
More HD video
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I know this video was recorded in HD, but whay do you believe it was dowlinked in HD - seems like standard dedf to me?
More HD video
Because they said it was HD at the time they were playing it. ???
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I know this video was recorded in HD, but whay do you believe it was dowlinked in HD - seems like standard dedf to me?
He isn't "believing" anything, as he's not the one making the statement. PAO said it was HD, he's passing that on.
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Recorders stopped for a bit.
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I know this video was recorded in HD, but whay do you believe it was dowlinked in HD - seems like standard dedf to me?
More HD video
Because they said it was HD at the time they were playing it. ???
Oops- sorry, I missed the PAO statement.
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Recorders on again.
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*Big round of applause for seawolfe's coverage this morning*
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About one hour of Starboard RCC inspections to go if they are on the timeline (I reckon they are ahead).
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*Big round of applause for seawolfe's coverage this morning*
I'll second that! :D
I love viewing all the NASA TV screen grabs of the stuff I've missed while I've been out.
This forum is the only place on the web that archives them! :)
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Also worth noting there's been no WLEIDS triggers of much note via MMT, so adding that to the FD2 and FD3 inspections, they really are looking at one clean orbiter.
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Might be some ice blocking a waste dump nozzle. They want to have a look at it when they are in the vicinity with the OBSS package.
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Sorry about the quality of some of these images. It's pot luck as to when you grab per OBSS flashing.
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Just over an hour to the MSB I believe.
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*Big round of applause for seawolfe's coverage this morning*
I will second or third it. Really great coverage for those of us that were sleeping. Much appreciated.
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Looks like they are done with the Starboard wing.
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Ever seen those nature documentaries where they film whales in the deep ocean?.......
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About to start the nose cap survey.
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Nose cap survey - recorders on.
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Ever seen those nature documentaries where they film whales in the deep ocean?.......
Chris, don't you know it's fatal to call a woman a whale?
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Absolutely! Many thanks to Seawolfe.
*Big round of applause for seawolfe's coverage this morning*
I will second or third it. Really great coverage for those of us that were sleeping. Much appreciated.
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Handover from Orbit 1 to Orbit 2 at MCC-H FCR.
Entry team take over from Orbit 1 as of tomorrow.
Nose car survey, then they'll have a look at the waste dump nozzle.
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Ever seen those nature documentaries where they film whales in the deep ocean?.......
Chris, don't you know it's fatal to call a woman a whale?
On to their faces ;)
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Orbit 1 saying farewell for the mission.
Mike S sending up thanks to the crew for an outstanding job, and a happy thanksgiving.
Thanks returned.
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These arms really are superb.
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I wonder if that's the nozzle in question....I don't think so personally.
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Stop recorders.
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And recording again for the next part of the nose cap survey.
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MSB on next:
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Mike -
Atlantis is now a seven person crew, and the ISS is a five person crew. Now moving away from ISS at four miles per orbit.
Ran into a problem during the waste dump. 165lbs to 85lbs of waste level. Believe there's a blockage in the line. Confident the team will come up with a back up plan.
12 to 24 hours for DAT to conclude the Late Inspection results.
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I wonder if that's the nozzle in question....I don't think so personally.
Look like the AFT wall of the PLB. That 'knob' looks to be one of the locking pins (whatever the correct term is).
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These arms really are superb.
Canada is really proud of her space arms :)
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Gina on seeing the ISS in the latest assembly point:
Mike - worked really hard with the teams for flight did a tremendous amount of work. It was a good feeling to see it installed on Station.
On the waste water nozzle:
Mike - We have some margin in the waste tank. We can make it through landing day, only if we have to extend we have to take additional measures. Looking to see if we can unclog the tank, and empty it tomorrow. Having a look during the survey. Don't think there's icing, but need to rule it out.
Robert - if they were to find ice, could there be action to take?
Mike - Nozzle has heaters embedded, and could put them on in cycles to free the ice like a deicer. We don't think it's icing.
On thanksgiving - able to interacte with family.
Mike - don't have time in the timeline for family conferences. Don't have access to the IP phone on the ISS. They have opportunity to send e-mail. Sure they will be sending greetings.
Marcia on the nozzle for past Friday - what measures?
Mike - might break out some tools to unclog the line, or manage the waste. It contains urine and condensation (but have alt set up for that into bags). Only urine goes into the waste tank.
Marcia really want to know if they'll be weeing into bags.
Mike - too early, still trying to work the problem. Confident the weather will be good to come home on Friday.
MSB over.
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Here's our waste nozzle.
No obvious ice - PAO.
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Got what they need on the nozzle. See some frost, but that's expected.
Clog upstream in the line seems to be favorite now.
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And ready to close out Late Inspections with the Port Wing.
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All the way through to the SSME nozzles on that run.
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RCC fun:
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There's spots and marks as seen on these two latest images that almost all the time turn out to be nothing, shadowing, OBBS view coming across strange on NTV.
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I reckon this might be the final sweep of the port wing.
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By the way, if you put headphones on and turn the volume up to full, you can hear the "other" loop.....only just. can't make out if it's just the ISS loop or the FD loop.
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Nice attitude for the crew to look out of the front windows - providing they aren't covered in checklists :)
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Looks like they are having a quick look at the radiators.
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Super smooth RCC in this view:
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More Late Inspection footage
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By the way, if you put headphones on and turn the volume up to full, you can hear the "other" loop.....only just. can't make out if it's just the ISS loop or the FD loop.
It's space to ground 2 on that faint background noise.
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More Clean Scans
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End of this RCC sweep
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STS-129 - MISSION STATUS BRIEFING FD 10
http://www.space-multimedia.nl.eu.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5553
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Asking Houston if they like this view... What is it?
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Another View for Houston.. Recording Stop
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Still Frame.. Not scanning.
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Radiator?
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More radiator footage?
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Transit
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Out of Ku
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Looks like they're getting ready to stow OBSS.
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Changed some views.
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MCC - Some comm about payload.. need clarification on location.
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Could well be a MMOD strike to the radiator - but obviously not impacting on a freon loop line or they'd be getting ready to come home sharpish.
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Megan on Comm..
Looks like Ku is back.
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And OBSS Late Inspections are coming to a conclusions.
Berthing the OBSS.
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Looks like OBSS being lowered into place
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Beautiful shots.
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OBSS Pre-Dock
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View change..
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Looks like it was going in first time. They've had some berthing issues in the past.
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Berthed.
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OBSS almost docked.
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Berthed
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Moving away from ISS at 4 Nautical Miles per orbit
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Replay of OBSS sweep
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More footage.
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Ku Drop.. Megan asking them to rewind
OBSS released.
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NTV going to video file shortly.
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Shot of Columbus.
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Another nice view of ISS truss and Array
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Atlantis currently 25 Nautical Miles from ISS.. crossing Pacific.
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Sounds like Footage from earlier OBSS scans.. being played back on Shuttle Ku.
Unfortunately we're still seeing Station Ku feed on NASA TV.
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Missed beginning of this..
Shuttle: Is it me?
Megan: No it's me.
Shuttle: It's never you Megan...
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Missed beginning of this..
Shuttle: Is it me?
Megan: No it's me.
Shuttle: It's never you Megan...
Charlie giving Megan some grief again ;D Megan is great with the slapdowns though - she comes across as someone with a very dry sense of humor (any of the MOD folk know her personally?). She'd be welcomed as one of our own if she had a vacation in England ;)
Coming up to bed time for the crew. Another good day.
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Shuttle SBSS Playback complete.. Looks like we missed all of it.
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Everything tied down..
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PMC coming up...
Want 5 minutes coming up... something for Thanksgiving
More Megan.. ;D
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Leroy Cain.. Coming to end of Extraordinary mission.
Busy with mission -2 day activities.
Get ready for mission re-entry work tomorrow.
Reviewing Late inspection data over next 10-12 hours. Should have results by morning.
Problem with Waste dump. Think it's a blockage. Not issue for Friday EOM.. working options beyond that.
Everything looks good for EOM opportunities on Friday morning. Targeting KSC only for Friday and Saturday.
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Summary:
Preparing for Deorbit and landing.. Entry Flight director will be at briefing tomorrow.
Crew working on stowage to configure for landing.
ABC news question: Easy mission.. does that present problems for MMT? (seriously?)
Leroy: "Not sure if I've been associated with a mission that's been this clean."
"welcomed thing when we don't have issues to talk about in MMT"
"will come out of this mission with short list of things to look at"
"We still have a couple big Milestones remaining"
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Robert Pearlmen(Collectspace): What do you attribute this missions success?
Leroy: "We learn and improve from each mission".. "Having this clean of mission is tribute to the teams that work on these missions.. not just at KSC, but also work on External Tank and Boosters. QA work along the way" "Matter of flying mission profile that gives you opportunity to be successful".. "Don't overplan"
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Question: Shuttle being retired in it's prime?
Leroy: "Shuttle is still a very capable vehicle" "Legacy is ISS" "We're very proud of the Space Station".
"Our plan all along is that the last mission we fly will be the safest"..
"I'm confident we could continue to fly Space Shuttle and do so safely"
"Not our decision.. Decision for the country and Leadership of the country"
"The shuttle system has more safe flights left in it than what we have on the Manifest"
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End of Briefing
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Crew getting ready for bed..
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PAO talking about tomorrow's activities..
That's it for me..
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Whoops! Didn't see a MMT briefing coming (my mistake). Great coverage of that and the OBSS, Art.
Lots of very good coverage teamwork this mission - it's appreciated as we'd never get news articles out otherwise.
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Great coverage seawolfe, Chris and Trueblue. Great day's catchup here.
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No waste-dump will be made tomorrow. A waste-dump is not required if a landing tomorrow will occur. If a landing tomorrow isn't possible they will need to make a waste-dump om Saturday.
The Shuttle got the option to make some repair work on the waste-dump nosle tomorrow but since it's a busy day already Scorch decided to skip that tomorrow.
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Lot's of talk about Waste water dump Issues.
May sit as is if Land Friday. Or just dump condensate bag tomorrow.
Waste tank was dumped to 49% so there's room enough room between now and Friday.
EOM Saturday or later require manual routing of waste water dump by removing a panel and possibly routing using another hose.
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One last picture.. Group Shot on Shuttle.. Happy Thanksgiving!
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Shuttle sending a short video message wishing everybody a happy thanks-giving.
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No waste-dump will be made tomorrow. A waste-dump is not required if a landing tomorrow will occur. If a landing tomorrow isn't possible they will need to make a waste-dump om Saturday.
Almost... Waste-dump is not required for a Friday landing. There are no plans for a Thursday landing.
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STS-129 - POST MMT BRIEFING FD 10
http://www.space-multimedia.nl.eu.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5554
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Hmm by the way, waste dump just means they are not taking that mass to Earth, yes? Or is it matter of keepin right weight balance? Wanna just know what is technical "need" of dumping waste on orbit.
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Hmm by the way, waste dump just means they are not taking that mass to Earth, yes? Or is it matter of keepin right weight balance? Wanna just know what is technical "need" of dumping waste on orbit.
The tanks only hold so much waste.
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couple of nice shots of where we started today..
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STS-129 - FLIGHT DAY 10 HIGHLIGHTS
http://www.space-multimedia.nl.eu.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5555
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I see that NASA have released a smattering of ISS fly around images, but as usual from a distance. Very nice, but don't they take good closeups of the newly installed equipment any more? Or do we just never see them?
They would certainly help my research for keeping this model up-to-date (and accurate)
Keith