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Re: STS-124: Rollout and Pad Flow Latest
« Reply #300 on: 05/31/2008 01:01 am »
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Re: STS-124: Rollout and Pad Flow Latest
« Reply #301 on: 05/31/2008 01:01 am »
071 is punched up, as requested.   ;D
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Re: STS-124: Rollout and Pad Flow Latest
« Reply #302 on: 05/31/2008 01:02 am »
Nice switch, PAO.  Looks like we've still got a bit of the way to get to the PARK position.

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Re: STS-124: Rollout and Pad Flow Latest
« Reply #303 on: 05/31/2008 01:03 am »
Okay, coming up on the official PARK position.  Movement has slowed now.

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Re: STS-124: Rollout and Pad Flow Latest
« Reply #304 on: 05/31/2008 01:06 am »
I think we've reached the PARK position!

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Re: STS-124: Rollout and Pad Flow Latest
« Reply #305 on: 05/31/2008 01:16 am »
The RSS has been retracted to the PARK position.  A short video (about 2 minutes) will be uploaded soon of the retraction.  Will be about an hour or so, though, but it will be uploaded tonight.
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Re: STS-124: Rollout and Pad Flow Latest
« Reply #306 on: 05/31/2008 01:20 am »
Coming up for the first half of saturday:

Launch Day (Saturday, May 31)

- Resume countdown at T-11 hours (12:37 a.m.)
- Activate the orbiter's fuel cells (1:47 a.m.)
- Clear the blast danger area of all nonessential personnel
- Switch Discovery’s’ purge air to gaseous nitrogen (2:37 a.m.)
- Enter planned 2-hour built-in hold at the T-6 hour mark (5:37 a.m.)
- Launch team verifies no violations of launch commit criteria prior to cryogenic
  loading of the external tank
- Clear pad of all personnel
- Resume countdown (7:37 a.m.)
- Chill down propellant transfer lines (7:37 a.m.)
- Begin loading the external fuel tank with about 500,000 gallons of cryogenic
   propellants (about 7:47 a.m.)
- Complete filling the external tank with its flight load of liquid hydrogen and liquid
   oxygen propellants (about 10:37 a.m.)
- Final Inspection Team proceeds to launch pad
- Enter planned 2-hour, 30-minute built-in hold at T-3 hours (10:37 a.m.)
- Perform inertial measurement unit preflight calibration
- Align Merritt Island Launch Area tracking antennas
- Perform open loop test with Eastern Range
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Re: STS-124: Rollout and Pad Flow Latest
« Reply #307 on: 05/31/2008 01:34 am »
The RSS has been retracted to the PARK position.  A short video (about 2 minutes) will be uploaded soon of the retraction.  Will be about an hour or so, though, but it will be uploaded tonight.

Nice work sir :)

Ok, plan is to keep this thread going over the coming hours. I'm going to write up the launch day article and we'll start the new thread with that.

No sleep till MECO!  ;D
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Re: STS-124: Rollout and Pad Flow Latest
« Reply #308 on: 05/31/2008 01:46 am »
.No sleep till MECO!  ;D

Nice idea, but for me it's 3:45am at the moment and meco's still "a couple of hours" away.... ;) So, good night...I'll be back right in time for tanking operations :D
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Re: STS-124: Rollout and Pad Flow Latest
« Reply #309 on: 05/31/2008 01:57 am »
Nice work sir :)

Ok, plan is to keep this thread going over the coming hours. I'm going to write up the launch day article and we'll start the new thread with that.

No sleep till MECO!  ;D

You changed!  Thought it was 'No Sleep 'till Wheel Stop'!   :P


RSS Retraction is uploaded in this post!
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Re: STS-124: Rollout and Pad Flow Latest
« Reply #310 on: 05/31/2008 02:07 am »
And it looks like some of the Xenon lights have been turned on (if not all of them).

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Re: STS-124: Rollout and Pad Flow Latest
« Reply #311 on: 05/31/2008 03:18 am »
Envy me, I'm watching all of this in HD.  They've stayed with pad shots all day, except for when KSC briefings were happening.

NASA HDTV thread:
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=11551.new#new
(read the thread before asking "what's the URL?" or "what channel?", it's not that simple)

Hang in there, my fingers are crossed that an official launch of NASA HD can't be too far off now.  Note the Discovery HD agreement that produced the Sunday series starting June 8th ...
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Re: STS-124: Rollout and Pad Flow Latest
« Reply #312 on: 05/31/2008 04:16 am »
You changed!  Thought it was 'No Sleep 'till Wheel Stop'!   :P


RSS Retraction is uploaded in this post!

That would take one large coffee pot...   ;D

Thanks for the video!
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Re: STS-124: Rollout and Pad Flow Latest
« Reply #313 on: 05/31/2008 04:19 am »
I'm gonna fill up on it!

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Re: STS-124: Rollout and Pad Flow Latest
« Reply #314 on: 05/31/2008 04:19 am »
Envy me, I'm watching all of this in HD.  They've stayed with pad shots all day, except for when KSC briefings were happening.

Okay, consider yourself officially envied.  ;D  Seriously, I DO envy you!!
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Re: STS-124: Rollout and Pad Flow Latest
« Reply #315 on: 05/31/2008 05:26 am »
Ok, I went a bit "long" with the launch day article and turned it into part two of our FRR review ;D So publishing it in about 30 mins and at that time we'll move on to the Launch Day live event thread.
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Re: STS-124: Rollout and Pad Flow Latest
« Reply #316 on: 05/31/2008 06:19 am »
These were taken at 11:30pm... i am excited!!!  ;D



I've seen the following launches on site...
STS-112
STS-113
STS-121
STS-122
STS-124 (from the roof of the VAB)
STS-126
STS-119
STS-125
STS-127
STS-128
STS-129
STS-130
STS-131
STS-132

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