LIVE: STS-120 Flight Day 14 - Undocking - Flyaround - Late Inspections

[Ford Mustang]

Guess that did not work as they have unberthed again.

[Ford Mustang]

[Ford Mustang]

Going to back the OBSS out just above the MPM.  They believe there is a roll error.  PDRS says more pitch down.

[psloss]

Chris Bergin - 5/11/2007  1:28 PM

Speedracer - 5/11/2007  6:25 PM

I never knew that Noctilucent clouds were the reason they didn't do desending node landing.  I always thought it was 1) Sonic Boom noise, and 2) if a breakup like Columbia occurred, it wouldn't be on a trajectory where a majority of population would be.

Me neither.

The public safety risk of re-entring over the heartland of the US is not a problem for an undamaged orbiter, he noted.

Aw, cmon!  You're not reading enough of Jorge's posts. :bleh:

I posted a bunch of links last night:
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=10607&start=181#M208353

[Chris Bergin]

Chris Bergin - 5/11/2007  1:28 PM

Speedracer - 5/11/2007  6:25 PM

I never knew that Noctilucent clouds were the reason they didn't do desending node landing.  I always thought it was 1) Sonic Boom noise, and 2) if a breakup like Columbia occurred, it wouldn't be on a trajectory where a majority of population would be.

Me neither.

The public safety risk of re-entring over the heartland of the US is not a problem for an undamaged orbiter, he noted.

Aw, cmon!  You're not reading enough of Jorge's posts. :bleh:

[/QUOTE]

Stupid me didn't even realize that that we've got a presentation on this on L2: STS-120: OPO: Descending Approach Entry GN&C Assessment - Nov 4.

[psloss]

Chris Bergin - 5/11/2007  3:11 PM

Stupid me didn't even realize that that we've got a presentation on this on L2: STS-120: OPO: Descending Approach Entry GN&C Assessment - Nov 4.

I'm still looking forward to seeing the status briefing after work...I think Wayne probably worked a few of those entries as Flight.

[Becker67]

OBSS Berthed

[collectSPACE]

Landing ground tracks:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts120/news/landing.html

[psloss]

collectSPACE - 5/11/2007  3:28 PM

Landing ground tracks:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts120/news/landing.html

Thanks, Robert.

[sts1canada]

Yes, these ground tracks match my predictions that I calculated yesterday evening perfectly. Pretty good guess on my part with help from a satellite tracking program See my post here from last evening discussing Discovery's ground track and compare it to the official NASA ones linked above:

http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=10607&start=166

Richard

[Speedracer]

Thunderstorms.

[Ronsmytheiii]

What is this flash?

Never mind

[JimO]

makims - 5/11/2007  12:31 PM

el_nino - 5/11/2007  12:28 PM

that was a fantastic explanation from Wayne Hale there.

Yeah.Wayne Hale You're the man! :cool:

Photo of Wayne and his MCC team, STS-1, 1981,
taken by me (on a different shift, with Gerstenmaier)
http://www.jamesoberg.com/gallery4.html

Wayne's boss, Gary Coen, also became a Flight Director,
as well as Wayne's understudy, Tony Ceccacci -- the three
guysd in the middle of the back row.

[Lee Jay]

JimO - 5/11/2007  2:32 PM

makims - 5/11/2007  12:31 PM

el_nino - 5/11/2007  12:28 PM

that was a fantastic explanation from Wayne Hale there.

Yeah.Wayne Hale You're the man! :cool:

Photo of Wayne and his MCC team, STS-1, 1981,
taken by me (on a different shift, with Gerstenmaier)
http://www.jamesoberg.com/gallery4.html

Wayne seems to have suffered a few FDEs* since then.





* Follicle Degradation Episode

[Speedracer]

JimO - 5/11/2007  4:32 PM

makims - 5/11/2007  12:31 PM

el_nino - 5/11/2007  12:28 PM

that was a fantastic explanation from Wayne Hale there.

Yeah.Wayne Hale You're the man! :cool:

Photo of Wayne and his MCC team, STS-1, 1981,
taken by me (on a different shift, with Gerstenmaier)
http://www.jamesoberg.com/gallery4.html

Wayne's boss, Gary Coen, also became a Flight Director,
as well as Wayne's understudy, Tony Ceccacci -- the three
guysd in the middle of the back row.

You mean he had hair?!?!?!?

[Andy USA]

JimO - 5/11/2007  3:32 PM

makims - 5/11/2007  12:31 PM

el_nino - 5/11/2007  12:28 PM

that was a fantastic explanation from Wayne Hale there.

Yeah.Wayne Hale You're the man! :cool:

Photo of Wayne and his MCC team, STS-1, 1981,
taken by me (on a different shift, with Gerstenmaier)
http://www.jamesoberg.com/gallery4.html

Wayne's boss, Gary Coen, also became a Flight Director,
as well as Wayne's understudy, Tony Ceccacci -- the three
guysd in the middle of the back row.

Wow, awesome. What was he like to work with Mr Oberg? He comes across as a totally brilliant mind at the briefings.

Sorry if this is off topic.

[MKremer]

Lee Jay - 5/11/2007  3:46 PM

Wayne seems to have suffered a few FDEs* since then.

* Follicle Degradation Episode

Another checkmark in his favor - hairstyles aren't important, just live with it. Could you imagine what he'd look like trying to maintain a 'comb-over' after all this time?  :laugh:

[makims]

Andy USA - 5/11/2007  3:58 PM

JimO - 5/11/2007  3:32 PM

makims - 5/11/2007  12:31 PM

el_nino - 5/11/2007  12:28 PM

that was a fantastic explanation from Wayne Hale there.

Yeah.Wayne Hale You're the man! :cool:

Photo of Wayne and his MCC team, STS-1, 1981,
taken by me (on a different shift, with Gerstenmaier)
http://www.jamesoberg.com/gallery4.html

Wayne's boss, Gary Coen, also became a Flight Director,
as well as Wayne's understudy, Tony Ceccacci -- the three
guysd in the middle of the back row.

Wow, awesome. What was he like to work with Mr Oberg? He comes across as a totally brilliant mind at the briefings.

Right. Some of this journalists always digging for something bad,particularly Marcia,and he always answered her extremely brillant.I love when he say safe to fly with special accent
Today he said this pharse during answer :cool:

[Speedracer]

Wayne's definitely more articulate and diplomatic than Griffin.

[Kel]

Hi res shots from the fly around are up in the gallery

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-120/ndxpage42.html

I missed it this morning as it happened....does anyone know where they were over the earth during the fly around? Pretty rugged terrain on the earth below.