Author Topic: LIVE: STS-116 - Flight Day 11 - Undocking (Read 42332 times)

Chris Bergin · « **on:** 12/19/2006 01:23 pm »

Hopefully there will be a good timeline coming with the exec package.

jmjawors · « **Reply #1 on:** 12/19/2006 01:32 pm »

Looks like we missed the crew wake-up. Anybody catch what they played?

(Because, you know, that IS the most important part of each flight day

)

brodo · « **Reply #2 on:** 12/19/2006 01:38 pm »

Some song about driving a zamboni, played for William Oefelein.

northanger · « **Reply #3 on:** 12/19/2006 01:44 pm »

can't believe i woke up at 5:38am. the alarm was set for 9.

The Zamboni Song - The Gear Daddies
(yawn)

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #4 on:** 12/19/2006 01:56 pm »

Short late inspection and landing on Thursday is still being considered. It goes to the 1pm Central MMT.

Jonesy STS · « **Reply #5 on:** 12/19/2006 02:17 pm »

What time is undocking?

Gary · « **Reply #6 on:** 12/19/2006 02:19 pm »

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Jonesy STS - 19/12/2006 3:00 PM

What time is undocking?

5:09pm EST (22:09 UTC)

rdale · « **Reply #7 on:** 12/19/2006 02:26 pm »

Landing ground tracks for all three sites now available at http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts116/news/landing.html

Basic timeline questions are usually answered in the TV schedule: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/mission_schedule.html

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #8 on:** 12/19/2006 03:49 pm »

MMT set a pre-meeting schedule that notes Friday landing:

New Plan for Remainder of Mission:

- Tue 12/19 FD 11 Undock

- Wed 12/20 FD 12 Late Insp

- Thu 12/21 FD13 FCS C/O, RCS Hotfire

- Fri 12/22 FD 14 Nom EOM

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #9 on:** 12/19/2006 03:50 pm »

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #10 on:** 12/19/2006 03:53 pm »

NASA TV playing cool images!

dutch courage · « **Reply #11 on:** 12/19/2006 03:56 pm »

Expedition 13 Crew Presentation by Jeff Williams (and again at 1:00 p.m. EST)

EDIT: very nice presentation by Jeff. If Dwane hadn't stopped him Jeff would be able to go on and on...

EDIT2: Start time advanced to 12:30 p.m. EST.

Speedracer · « **Reply #12 on:** 12/19/2006 05:21 pm »

5:09 ET is the undocking. I have the shuttle and station passing over North America at around 5:52 Eastern, so we might be able to see the two spacecraft separating over most of the US East of the Mississippi (From Knoxville, TN where I'm at, pass starts at 5:56 and goes to 6:05).

Can someone confirm this?

joncz · « **Reply #13 on:** 12/19/2006 05:23 pm »

They'll only be 600 feet apart, so it will be iffy. They do their separation burn at 6:06EST, which is four minutes after they pass into shadow from the vantage point of here in Atlanta.

nathan.moeller · « **Reply #14 on:** 12/19/2006 05:24 pm »

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rdale - 19/12/2006 9:09 AM

Landing ground tracks for all three sites now available at http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts116/news/landing.html

Basic timeline questions are usually answered in the TV schedule: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/mission_schedule.html

Thanks Rob. Hopefully some of the folks in Houston can snap some photos of Discovery for us as she flies over (if indeed she comes down on Orbit 203). Looks like they'll be too far to the South for me to see anything.

marsguy · « **Reply #15 on:** 12/19/2006 05:27 pm »

Anybody know what this red dot/arrow thing is?

nathan.moeller · « **Reply #16 on:** 12/19/2006 05:29 pm »

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Speedracer - 19/12/2006 12:04 PM

5:09 ET is the undocking. I have the shuttle and station passing over North America at around 5:52 Eastern, so we might be able to see the two spacecraft separating over most of the US East of the Mississippi (From Knoxville, TN where I'm at, pass starts at 5:56 and goes to 6:05).

Can someone confirm this?

They'll overfly my city at 7:31 EST, 6:31 my time, which is above 90 minutes after they've separated. It's completely overcast here right now but if it clears up I'll run out and try to snap some photos for you guys. I'm not gonna get my hopes up but I'll put it out there for you. Jeff showing some amazing pictures on NTV right now.

JimO · « **Reply #17 on:** 12/19/2006 05:44 pm »

"They'll only be 600 feet apart, so it will be iffy. "

I observed STS-7 and SPAS-01 at a range of 1000 ft,
and the chief visibility problem was grossly different
brightness levels. Of course, I was also using a pair
of binoculars -- but the angular separation was about
a tenth the Moon's angular size, quite resolvable with
objects of comparable brightness.

nathan.moeller · « **Reply #18 on:** 12/19/2006 05:56 pm »

Shift change taking place in station FCR to hand over lead flight control team under John Curry for the duration of the afternoon.

Speedracer · « **Reply #19 on:** 12/19/2006 05:57 pm »

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marsguy - 19/12/2006 1:10 PM

Anybody know what this red dot/arrow thing is?

The ISS?