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#420
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Ford Mustang
on 24 May, 2009 16:27
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Irene: When does Pad-B get formally turned over to Constellation?
Leinbach: Essentially once we roll off, but there should be a ceremony. Not sure when scheduled.
Irene: Any word on checkout of the Hubble?
Weiler: Checking out the systems, see no issues so far. Everything going far. I see no impact to getting you guys data.
Irene: What about having Charlie Bolden nominated for NASA admin?
Weiler: I think that's great. Not only because he was on our Shuttle mission to launch the Hubble, but he also has ties to the Shuttle and science. Senate has to confirm him, and a ways to go.
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#421
by
stockman
on 24 May, 2009 16:28
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#422
by
Ford Mustang
on 24 May, 2009 16:30
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Todd Halverson: What types of scientifications investigations will you get 'first dibs' Hubble?
Weiler: People have been waiting for years, literately, for first usage of the WFC/3, and our new spacecraft. Can look at anything, really, besides Venus, Mercury, and Sun.
Halverson: Thought rollaround was Saturday? Should be done with Hypers by Tuesday, so you can roll earlier?
Leinbach: Thinking like an ops manager now, Todd, aren't you? Glad to see you came around! Nah, rolling at "triple balls 1 (0001 local)", as we call it, on Friday.
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#423
by
Ford Mustang
on 24 May, 2009 16:33
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Questions from the Johnson space center -
Houston Chronicle up first: Seems like the current task now is to finish the ISS, since Hubble is in your rear view mirror. Can you complete the ISS within the remaining manifested missions?
Moses: Not really any new revelation on the ISS, HSM has been trouble to put into the manifest, need both pads, etc.. but the remaining manifest is the same. Have Ares I-X to fly, and a few others. I don't look too far down the manifest, usually flight by flight.
Leinbach: Last major piece of the ISS arrived here 2 days ago, Node 3. That'll start their processing in the SSPF.
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#424
by
psloss
on 24 May, 2009 16:35
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Leinbach: Thinking like an ops manager now, Todd, aren't you? Glad to see you came around! Nah, rolling at "triple balls 1 (0001 local)", as we call it, on Friday.
To clarify, that's 0001L on Saturday, which is Friday night into Saturday morning.
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#425
by
Ford Mustang
on 24 May, 2009 16:35
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Robert Pearlman: This is the last HSM, wasn't even expected to come back since it was canceled, but it's completed successfully. Part of it was the grass roots that supported the flight. How do you manage that and them wanting NASA to go back?
Weiler: We've got bigger and better telescopes to go up, the JWST for example. Can not change the mirror size in Hubble, it's limited to 2.4 meters, whereas JWST will be 6.4 meters. Hubble can't see so far back to see when stars became stars, or when galaxies became galaxies. Have to go infrared for that, which the JWST will do. We were told to get one more mission to HST, and get to 2010 with Hubble. We'll get well beyond 2010 with HST, maybe 2015.
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#426
by
Ford Mustang
on 24 May, 2009 16:36
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James Dean: Can you outline the timeline on the ferry flight?
Leinbach: Ferry flight timed for day 7, today can either be day 1 or day 0, we usually like to confuse things. Probably a 2 day ferry.
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#427
by
Ford Mustang
on 24 May, 2009 16:41
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Tariq: Last time we spoke with you, Shuttle didn't leave Hubble yet. What were your thoughts on the Shuttle flying away from the spacecraft?
Weiler: Was watching with a few others.. and I can say this. We all had.. wouldn't say wet eyes, but it was emotional for sure. Trying to get people off of the negative with this, I mean jeez! We've got a brand new HST! This is truly the best of times, not the worst! Please!
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#428
by
Ford Mustang
on 24 May, 2009 16:41
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Conference over, heading back to MCC-H and waiting for the crew to egress.
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#429
by
stockman
on 24 May, 2009 16:42
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Tariq: Last time we spoke with you, Shuttle didn't leave Hubble yet. What were your thoughts on the Shuttle flying away from the spacecraft?
Weiler: Was watching with a few others.. and I can say this. We all had.. wouldn't say wet eyes, but it was emotional for sure. Trying to get people off of the negative with this, I mean jeez! We've got a brand new HST! This is truly the best of times, not the worst! Please!
That was a GREAT answer by Weiler.....
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#430
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Paul Howard
on 24 May, 2009 16:43
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Ha, the space.com wrter, who always uses the word "curious" in every question he asks gets beaten up by the Hubble guy for being negative. That was funny.
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#431
by
robertross
on 24 May, 2009 16:43
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Tariq: Last time we spoke with you, Shuttle didn't leave Hubble yet. What were your thoughts on the Shuttle flying away from the spacecraft?
Weiler: Was watching with a few others.. and I can say this. We all had.. wouldn't say wet eyes, but it was emotional for sure. Trying to get people off of the negative with this, I mean jeez! We've got a brand new HST! This is truly the best of times, not the worst! Please!
That was a great and poignant response from him. "we got a new telescope".
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#432
by
Ford Mustang
on 24 May, 2009 16:43
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All crew are off the vehicle, with Scott Altman (tradition!) leaving last at 12:37 PM EDT.
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#433
by
Alpha Control
on 24 May, 2009 16:47
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Tariq: Last time we spoke with you, Shuttle didn't leave Hubble yet. What were your thoughts on the Shuttle flying away from the spacecraft?
Weiler: Was watching with a few others.. and I can say this. We all had.. wouldn't say wet eyes, but it was emotional for sure. Trying to get people off of the negative with this, I mean jeez! We've got a brand new HST! This is truly the best of times, not the worst! Please!
That was a great and poignant response from him. "we got a new telescope".
Yes, that was great. Ed Weiler is an excellent speaker, and I've always admired him as "Dr. Hubble" over the years. Did you notice the press room breaking into applause right as the conference ended?
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#434
by
robertross
on 24 May, 2009 16:53
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Tariq: Last time we spoke with you, Shuttle didn't leave Hubble yet. What were your thoughts on the Shuttle flying away from the spacecraft?
Weiler: Was watching with a few others.. and I can say this. We all had.. wouldn't say wet eyes, but it was emotional for sure. Trying to get people off of the negative with this, I mean jeez! We've got a brand new HST! This is truly the best of times, not the worst! Please!
That was a great and poignant response from him. "we got a new telescope".
Yes, that was great. Ed Weiler is an excellent speaker, and I've always admired him as "Dr. Hubble" over the years. Did you notice the press room breaking into applause right as the conference ended?
Yes, it was a great feeling. That kind of emotion is what is required to put some focus back on spaceflight. So often these pressers can be dry, but the emotion and drive that Mr. Weiler showed was exemplary. He would be a great motivational speaker for classrooms.
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#435
by
Ford Mustang
on 24 May, 2009 16:56
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Confirmation of good ground cooling on Atlantis. All post-landing safing is complete. MCC-H has completed their job of bringing Atlantis home safely after 13 days in space.
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#436
by
Chris Bergin
on 24 May, 2009 17:00
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Great coverage everyone, and of course it doesn't stop, not just because we're really big on processing, but because we've got a SCA ferry flight to cover, along with Endeavour's pad rollaround for a launch in three weeks time!
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#437
by
John44
on 24 May, 2009 17:02
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#438
by
Ford Mustang
on 24 May, 2009 17:05
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Looks like medical helicopters are being released:
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#439
by
DaveJSC
on 24 May, 2009 17:08
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Best coverage on the net, said it before, but has to be said again. Really don't know how the public coped before this site, but that's a sign of how great this place is. And that goes for those of us who work with the missions too, we love being here too, very motivating to see so much interest and respect.
