Author Topic: LIVE: STS-116 - Flight Day 12 - Late Inspections (Read 39631 times)

hyper_snyper · « **Reply #60 on:** 12/20/2006 10:07 pm »

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vt_hokie - 20/12/2006 5:46 PM

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nathan.moeller - 20/12/2006 4:53 PM

Plus, they have dozens of emergency sites around the world they can use in case of emergency and the three sites in the states are out of action due to weather, technical issues and the like.

I hear Groom Lake has a nice long runway!

Isn't the longest in the world or something?

Boy, would that bring unwanted attention.

northanger · « **Reply #61 on:** 12/20/2006 10:12 pm »

When does Late Inspection results get the A-OK?

northanger · « **Reply #62 on:** 12/20/2006 10:14 pm »

LOL, ask & NTV answers.

nathan.moeller · « **Reply #63 on:** 12/20/2006 10:16 pm »

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hyper_snyper - 20/12/2006 4:50 PM

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vt_hokie - 20/12/2006 5:46 PM

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nathan.moeller - 20/12/2006 4:53 PM

Plus, they have dozens of emergency sites around the world they can use in case of emergency and the three sites in the states are out of action due to weather, technical issues and the like.

I hear Groom Lake has a nice long runway!

Isn't the longest in the world or something?

Boy, would that bring unwanted attention.

Haha Area 51. But no it's not the longest. I read that it's just shy of 12,000 ft. Shuttle runways in FL and CA are 15,000 ft. each. Replays of nose-cap inspections from OBSS on NTV. Kind of a slow thread day but hey...sometimes no news is good news.

nathan.moeller · « **Reply #64 on:** 12/20/2006 10:18 pm »

We should get Rob Pearlman to ask about Groom Lake at the next briefing just for grins. A little humor in an article never hurts.

Joffan · « **Reply #65 on:** 12/20/2006 10:20 pm »

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northanger - 20/12/2006 3:57 PM

LOL, ask & NTV answers.

For the benefit of those not able to watch NTV... the answer was...?

vt_hokie · « **Reply #66 on:** 12/20/2006 10:20 pm »

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nathan.moeller - 20/12/2006 5:59 PM

Haha Area 51. But no it's not the longest. I read that it's just shy of 12,000 ft.

I think the longer one was around 6 miles long! But I remember seeing an aerial or satellite photo showing that the longer runway is closed and in disrepair. Might've found it on Google Earth, actually...

northanger · « **Reply #67 on:** 12/20/2006 10:25 pm »

Um, (rephrase) ground (Megan) requested playing back 1847? "One final look" for the ground control team & "final clearance for the vehicle". 25 minutes good KU? "pause for a quick KU transfer" Nick: 1847 will be cued (KUed, haha).

hope that captures that.

jmjawors · « **Reply #68 on:** 12/20/2006 10:28 pm »

Final clearance for the vehicle? Don't think that'll happen until tomorrow. Maybe they were talking about the final downlinked video to complete the survey for the guys on the ground.

DarthVader · « **Reply #69 on:** 12/20/2006 10:29 pm »

There was some Outlook issue a few minutes ago ... a computer had to be rebooted ... the press is going to have a field trip with that incident ...

northanger · « **Reply #70 on:** 12/20/2006 10:30 pm »

Thanks, jmjawors. That's what I wanted to know.

What's a doug's machine? They were just talking about something being open?

northanger · « **Reply #71 on:** 12/20/2006 10:32 pm »

"a computer had to be rebooted".

Nick said, "no application open". What was that?

LOL, well, I may have to reboot my computer soon. It's six years old & can't handle NTV & constant browser refreshing. Poor thing.

jmjawors · « **Reply #72 on:** 12/20/2006 10:35 pm »

I don't know what the name means (I'm sure someone here does, though). Sounds like a Windows machine though, and it sounds like they didn't click the "processes" tab in the task manager to quit that program before rebooting.

Essentially, the problem was that some program was freezing up.

JimO · « **Reply #73 on:** 12/20/2006 10:35 pm »

I'm gonna go google-earth WSSH to see what's new -- may not be able to finish and report, so here's the lat/long if you wanna try it yourself:

N 32.94, W 106.42

northanger · « **Reply #74 on:** 12/20/2006 10:40 pm »

WSSH? Where is this location: N 32.94, W 106.42.

gordo · « **Reply #75 on:** 12/20/2006 10:42 pm »

3 out of the 4 TAL sites are around 12,000ft, in the Uk, Fairford is an emergency site and is 10,000ft

JJ.. · « **Reply #76 on:** 12/20/2006 10:47 pm »

thanks for the reminder about the 2 small deploys coming up,
id seen "mepsi" but totaly overlooked "raft" !
also "ande" deploy tomorow is that a small sat too ?

and will ku be available for the deploy tonight ?

JJ..

northanger · « **Reply #77 on:** 12/20/2006 10:49 pm »

Who's on the ground team evaluating final inspection data? Are they working all night on this?

psloss · « **Reply #78 on:** 12/20/2006 10:51 pm »

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northanger - 20/12/2006 6:23 PM

WSSH? Where is this location: N 32.94, W 106.42.

White Sands Space Harbor; look at the landing ground tracks and you'll see the lines of lat/long:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts116/news/landing.html

nathan.moeller · « **Reply #79 on:** 12/20/2006 10:54 pm »

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northanger - 20/12/2006 5:23 PM

WSSH? Where is this location: N 32.94, W 106.42.

White Sands, NM. Shows the location of the Northrup Strip.