Author Topic: LIVE: STS-116 - Flight Day 11 - Undocking (Read 42335 times)

brodo · « **Reply #40 on:** 12/19/2006 07:37 pm »

DarthVader: look for Item 811.1

DarthVader · « **Reply #41 on:** 12/19/2006 07:43 pm »

muahaha

jmjawors · « **Reply #42 on:** 12/19/2006 07:45 pm »

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brodo - 19/12/2006 2:20 PM

DarthVader: look for Item 811.1

Haha... excellent.

joncz · « **Reply #43 on:** 12/19/2006 07:46 pm »

Pilot Zamboni!

Gary · « **Reply #44 on:** 12/19/2006 07:50 pm »

"Ensure FE-2 is returned with his cozy socks" Thanks for pointing out those items.

Spiff · « **Reply #45 on:** 12/19/2006 08:06 pm »

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jmjawors - 19/12/2006 9:28 PM

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brodo - 19/12/2006 2:20 PM

DarthVader: look for Item 811.1

Haha... excellent.

Awww. Poor Suni.
Although, I gotta say, she's gonna be sorry with that still up there.

DarthVader · « **Reply #46 on:** 12/19/2006 08:08 pm »

in any case she seems to have forgot to pack some socks :-)

JimO · « **Reply #47 on:** 12/19/2006 08:38 pm »

The Weather Channel is now teasing a story that weather is threatening
two landing sites for Friday. Are they just hyping their own subject matter?

collectSPACE · « **Reply #48 on:** 12/19/2006 08:39 pm »

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brodo - 19/12/2006 2:20 PM

look for Item 811.1

For the story behind 811.1, see:
http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-121906a.html

Jorge · « **Reply #49 on:** 12/19/2006 08:39 pm »

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JimO - 19/12/2006 1:34 PM

For the East Coast flyover one hour after sep, do we know which will be in front? They will only be completing their fly-around.
Undock is CST 4:09, Sep 1 burn 4:38, and sep-2 at 5:06 CST -- so the plume might even be visible to ground observers.

Hi Jim,
4:38 CST is now the flyaround start time and SEP-1 is around 5:01 CST. SEP-1 is a 1.5 fps orbiter +X burn on the -Vbar (i.e. radial down) that will take the orbiter below and in front of ISS at SEP-2. Of course, those times are entirely dependent on how fast BillyO flies the Vbar sep. If SEP-1 occurs at the planned time, at undock+1 hour the orbiter will be right around the +Rbar crossing at a range of around 1400 ft. That's an angular separation of less than 4 arcminutes at 190 nmi, if I did the math right. A ground observer might not be able to separate them if directly below the groundtrack, but an observer off to the side might be able to, with sufficiently powerful optics.
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JRF

jmjawors · « **Reply #50 on:** 12/19/2006 08:50 pm »

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collectspace - 19/12/2006 3:22 PM

For the story behind 811.1, see:
http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-121906a.html

Well check that out. That's really cool. And I thought it was just a joke item in the manifest.

lsullivan411 · « **Reply #51 on:** 12/19/2006 08:55 pm »

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JimO - 19/12/2006 4:21 PM The Weather Channel is now teasing a story that weather is threatening two landing sites for Friday. Are they just hyping their own subject matter?

Weather Channel is like any other TV news and will dress up a story to make it "interesting." Follow the weather facts here - they will tell the whole story!!!

DarthVader · « **Reply #52 on:** 12/19/2006 08:55 pm »

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jmjawors - 19/12/2006 1:33 PM
Well check that out. That's really cool. And I thought it was just a joke item in the manifest.

Yes me too. Thanks Robert for pointing that out.

Spiff · « **Reply #53 on:** 12/19/2006 09:02 pm »

And me.

Anyway, I think Suni donated (besides her hair) her socks to Thomas (also per the flight manifest.)

psloss · « **Reply #54 on:** 12/19/2006 09:03 pm »

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JimO - 19/12/2006 4:21 PM

The Weather Channel is now teasing a story that weather is threatening
two landing sites for Friday. Are they just hyping their own subject matter?

A little from column A and a little from column B

Rob started a weather thread:
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=5769

The latest SMG forecast I saw for Friday carries concerns for ceiling and showers at KSC and also concerns for crosswinds at Edwards.

Stardust9906 · « **Reply #55 on:** 12/19/2006 09:20 pm »

10 Minutes to undocking.

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #56 on:** 12/19/2006 09:25 pm »

Feel free to go crazy with the images on the partial flyaround.

GioFX · « **Reply #57 on:** 12/19/2006 09:27 pm »

Free drift of Discovery...

GioFX · « **Reply #58 on:** 12/19/2006 09:28 pm »

2 mins from undocking

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #59 on:** 12/19/2006 09:29 pm »

Discovery undocks from the station.