Well, before this becomes irrelevant, congratulations Atlantis on another successful mission, and the same to the crew. This mission has been a real fun one to cover (even for the limited time I did, due to the weird sleep schedule). Had fun making the archives better, each mission is more fun, and each with its own special touch. For all who have said good words to me, I really do appreciate it. I honestly do. I do this for NASASpaceFlight, as it does so much for us, whether it's L2 or the free section.
Seeing as how STS-123 will be launching in the very early morning (2 AM or so), I'll be on limited coverage with that one, too, weird schedule. I'll definitely be here for Launch and Landing, and other key events depending on times.
I send out a thank you to all sources, Chris, Skinny, everyone who helps run the site, and everyone who posts updates. NASASpaceFlight will only grow in the coming years, and I'm hoping we can all make this as good as it can be.
psloss - 20/2/2008 6:32 PM
No, he said that he's working about 40% of the time on Constellation. He said that Ed Mango will be working the next few launches as assistant launch director to get experience prior to Ares I-X and then he and Doug Lyons would work the rest of the shuttle launches.
Mike did state that Ed Mango will be the launch director for the Hubble Mission.
Too bad this photo wasn't taken a little further down the runway when pad 39A would have been in the background instead of 39B great photo anyway
Ford Mustang - 21/2/2008 3:59 PM
Seeing as how STS-123 will be launching in the very early morning (2 AM or so),
Ah great, a launch at a civilised hour, looking forward to that.
Ok, here's the plan folks.
The PRCB are meeting at the moment on the post flight IFA review (which is super fast turnaround!) Likely will be a whole bunch of presentations, which we'll get for L2.
I'll do an article on highlights, then we'll close off 122 via that.
In the meantime, I'm writing up an all-singing/all dancing processing preview for STS-125, which will kick off the processing thread for that mission. That'll be in a few hours.
Shuttle Surge in full effect - fighting the insurgency of launch delays. :cool:
hobson911 - 20/2/2008 11:23 PM
Too bad this photo wasn't taken a little further down the runway when pad 39A would have been in the background instead of 39B great photo anyway
Though I spy on Pad B what looks like one of the Ares lightning towers nearly finishes, and it's huge! Dwarfs the shuttle pad.
hobson911 - 21/2/2008 2:23 AM
Too bad this photo wasn't taken a little further down the runway when pad 39A would have been in the background instead of 39B great photo anyway
Think of it this way, she was photographed with the MLP that held her for months.
And to the post right above, I don't think that's one of the lightening towers.
Trekkie07 - 21/2/2008 8:31 AM
And to the post right above, I don't think that's one of the lightening towers.
Might be right... Might just be that radio tower near the runway.....
But I like your silver lining comment about the MLP...
Would Jim and the other KSCers care to chime in?
(Expect a terse "yes" or "no" from Jim) :bleh:
