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#580
by
msc
on 06 Jul, 2011 22:01
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Mikes Moses: Would be four hour short if they scrub Friday for the extension day, but that's still something they might be able to buy back.
Can you explain what that means? four hours short?
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#581
by
Gary NASA
on 06 Jul, 2011 22:05
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Consumables for the extra day on orbit.
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#582
by
Chris Bergin
on 06 Jul, 2011 22:05
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Mikes Moses: Would be four hour short if they scrub Friday for the extension day, but that's still something they might be able to buy back.
Can you explain what that means? four hours short?
Sure. The consumables would be - for example +20 hours over nominal mission - and they'd need to find a way to stretch it to 24. In reality it'll be about more than that, but they'd be four hours short of desirable.
Launching Friday would hold the most amount of PRSD, and thus would be easier to gain margin to allow for the extension day.
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#583
by
DDG40
on 06 Jul, 2011 22:27
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"Final space shuttle to feature 'nose art'"
http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-060611a.html
Looks like ET-138 gets a logo on the flight intertank access door, too.
FWIW:
http://www.collectspace.com/archive/archive-0711.html#0706111407
Sounds like that didn't work out.
Lol, figures....... Ouch
In defense of the Artist, the door used had a ink stamped part number from the vendor of the door applied in the wrong location. The ink stamp is used for the orientation of the part. They were unable to just flip the door because the lower hole pattern and upper hole pattern are .1 inch different.
We had to eat a lot of crow for not catching the ink stamp location error.
Our motto at MAF is "Finish Strong" of course our fans at KSC have changed it to "Finish Wrong" Our management was more frakked over this than I have seen in a long time.
There was 2 doors involved in this. The door with the art work is going to Marshall for display.
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#584
by
psloss
on 06 Jul, 2011 22:47
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"Final space shuttle to feature 'nose art'"
http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-060611a.html
Looks like ET-138 gets a logo on the flight intertank access door, too.
FWIW:
http://www.collectspace.com/archive/archive-0711.html#0706111407
Sounds like that didn't work out.
Lol, figures....... Ouch
In defense of the Artist, the door used had a ink stamped part number from the vendor of the door applied in the wrong location. The ink stamp is used for the orientation of the part. They were unable to just flip the door because the lower hole pattern and upper hole pattern are .1 inch different.
We had to eat a lot of crow for not catching the ink stamp location error.
Our motto at MAF is "Finish Strong" of course our fans at KSC have changed it to "Finish Wrong" Our management was more frakked over this than I have seen in a long time.
There was 2 doors involved in this. The door with the art work is going to Marshall for display.
Bummer, as I was looking forward to see that during tanking on Friday, which is one year to the day that ET-138 rolled out at MAF.
Thanks for the additional details.
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#585
by
Carl G
on 06 Jul, 2011 23:20
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#586
by
el_nino
on 06 Jul, 2011 23:31
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They're taking it down to just the concrete base.
EDIT: Oh I see the typo now.
I believe that's a typo. Chris prob meant 39B. As far as I know there are no plans currently to demo Pad A
Thanks guys. Yes, it makes much more sense now if they were talking about 39B.
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#587
by
Chris Bergin
on 07 Jul, 2011 00:10
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Sorry, typo when transcribing pressers happen. Yeah, 39A will remain as is. 39B is the clean pad.
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#588
by
padrat
on 07 Jul, 2011 06:02
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Fire alarm on the FSS 115' level. Sounds like someone pulled it.
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#589
by
padrat
on 07 Jul, 2011 06:12
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Fire Dept checking it out, sounds like a false alarm. Prob an accidental activation.
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#590
by
Chris Bergin
on 07 Jul, 2011 11:34
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Sounds like fun PR
T-11 hours. In a long BIH.
Per L2.. PRSD cryo load complete. Preps for ET load complete. Into COM activation is planned for 0730EDT this morning. RSS retract at 2pm Local. Four new IPRs, all cleared bar the root cause of one (chiller breakdown).
Chris G has a really good article via an updated L2 presentation on windows and such, for L-1 article. I'll run the launch day article early tomorrow based on the ET SSP FRR.
This is the last day for this thread. Launch Day Live update thread will start late tonight/early tomorrow, depending where you are.
Snapshot of where we are on the S0007 work, Critical Path element. Page 8 of S0007 if you're on L2.
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#591
by
DaveS
on 07 Jul, 2011 12:19
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Sounds like they're going to move up the RSS Rotation time to 12pm EDT(1600 UTC). Pre-RSS Rotation walkdown at 10:15am EDT(1415 UTC) with observers on station for RSS Rotation at 11:15am EDT(1515 UTC).
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#592
by
el_nino
on 07 Jul, 2011 12:48
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Sounds like they're going to move up the RSS Rotation time to 12pm EDT(1600 UTC). Pre-RSS Rotation walkdown at 10:15am EDT(1415 UTC) with observers on station for RSS Rotation at 11:15am EDT(1515 UTC).
Any reason given for this? I would think they would want keep the RSS around the orbiter as long as possible given the weather forecast.
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#593
by
Mapperuo
on 07 Jul, 2011 13:48
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Live HD shot of the pad before the Status Briefing.
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#594
by
robertross
on 07 Jul, 2011 13:54
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and a couple of other angles.
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#595
by
DaveS
on 07 Jul, 2011 14:01
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Hopefully we'll get an answer on the early RSS Rotation question in the Countdown Status Briefing.
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#596
by
el_nino
on 07 Jul, 2011 14:17
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anyone see Jay Barberee (sp?) just get frakked off and walk out of the briefing? What was that about?
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#597
by
DaveS
on 07 Jul, 2011 14:20
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anyone see Jay Barberee (sp?) just get frakked off and walk out of the briefing? What was that about?
I don't know but managed pick up the words "be late" shortly before he left.
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#598
by
jimmiemac
on 07 Jul, 2011 14:24
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anyone see Jay Barberee (sp?) just get frakked off and walk out of the briefing? What was that about?
He was upset (and apparently pressed for time) and didn't want to hear the payload presentation since the info is included in the press kit.
He's an old coot and just need to go away at this point. He's done some great work in the past but most of his questions nowadays are embarrassing.
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#599
by
ArielGold
on 07 Jul, 2011 14:24
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anyone see Jay Barberee (sp?) just get frakked off and walk out of the briefing? What was that about?
Yes, he was basically telling them that they were wasting time doing overview that is in the press kit, and not enough time for questions. When the moderator asked Jay to please not interrupt the speakers, Jay walked out. I have to say that shocked me. He's been present for every single US manned flight, and this being the last, I would figure he would want to be there for every second. I sure wish I was there, sadly, 'seeing a shuttle launch' is now removed from my "Things I want to do before I die.". I'm really shocked that Jay would walk out like that.
