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#320 by nathan.moeller on 03 Oct, 2007 03:54
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Great to see the stacking is coming along nicely. Seems like it's going pretty quickly, but time's been flying over the past month and a half. OT, but someone mentioned the STS-120 landing and STS-122 rollover possibly coinciding. Have a rollover/rollout and a landing ever coincided before and, if so, did anyone get a picture?
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#321 by shuttlefan on 03 Oct, 2007 13:33
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nathan.moeller - 2/10/2007 10:54 PM
Great to see the stacking is coming along nicely. Seems like it's going pretty quickly, but time's been flying over the past month and a half. OT, but someone mentioned the STS-120 landing and STS-122 rollover possibly coinciding. Have a rollover/rollout and a landing ever coincided before and, if so, did anyone get a picture?
STS-110/Atlantis rolled out to the pad the same day STS-109 landed at the SLF in March'02.
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#322 by nathan.moeller on 03 Oct, 2007 17:44
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Quotenathan.moeller - 2/10/2007 10:54 PM
Great to see the stacking is coming along nicely. Seems like it's going pretty quickly, but time's been flying over the past month and a half. OT, but someone mentioned the STS-120 landing and STS-122 rollover possibly coinciding. Have a rollover/rollout and a landing ever coincided before and, if so, did anyone get a picture?
STS-110/Atlantis rolled out to the pad the same day STS-109 landed at the SLF in March'02.
Yeah, but I'm wanting to know if a shuttle ever landed while another was outside the VAB during rollover or out on the crawlerway during rollout. Would have made for a good photo opportunity! -
#323 by shuttlefan on 03 Oct, 2007 18:05
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Great to see the stacking is coming along nicely. Seems like it's going pretty quickly, but time's been flying over the past month and a half. OT, but someone mentioned the STS-120 landing and STS-122 rollover possibly coinciding. Have a rollover/rollout and a landing ever coincided before and, if so, did anyone get a picture?
STS-110/Atlantis rolled out to the pad the same day STS-109 landed at the SLF in March'02.
Yeah, but I'm wanting to know if a shuttle ever landed while another was outside the VAB during rollover or out on the crawlerway during rollout. Would have made for a good photo opportunity!
I know what you were asking, Nathan, but did you ever hear that STS-57 landed at the SLF when the STS-51 crew was aboard Discovery for their TCDT and the two crews actually talked to each other in one of the first orbiter-to-orbiter crew conversations? Also, I THINK I remember hearing that in the pre-Challenger era, a crew doing their TCDT tried to or actually succeeded in talking to an on-orbit crew...... -
#324 by jacqmans on 03 Oct, 2007 18:53
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#325 by psloss on 03 Oct, 2007 20:20
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It was the 51-D crew on-orbit with 51-B's during the latter's TCDT.
that in the pre-Challenger era, a crew doing their TCDT tried to or actually succeeded in talking to an on-orbit crew......
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#326 by Chris Bergin on 04 Oct, 2007 17:23
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Part screenshot of the latest ATK Quick Look on L2 for the booster stacking fans on here
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#327 by psloss on 04 Oct, 2007 17:37
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Don't forget the transfer aisle
Part screenshot of the latest ATK Quick Look on L2 for the booster stacking fans on here -- you can kind of see at the bottom the right forward center segment is there for lifting.
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#328 by Chris Bergin on 04 Oct, 2007 22:22
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QuoteChris Bergin - 4/10/2007 1:23 PM
Don't forget the transfer aisle
Part screenshot of the latest ATK Quick Look on L2 for the booster stacking fans on here -- you can kind of see at the bottom the right forward center segment is there for lifting.
They'll get the idea
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#329 by jacqmans on 05 Oct, 2007 20:09
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Mission: STS-122 - 24th International Space Station Flight - Columbus
Module
Vehicle: Atlantis (OV-104)
Location: Orbiter Processing Facility Bay 1
Launch Date: Targeted for Dec. 6, 2007
Launch Pad: 39A
Crew: Frick, Poindexter, Schlegel, Eyharts, Love, Melvin and Walheim
Inclination/Orbit Altitude: 51.6 degrees/122 nautical miles
In Orbiter Processing Facility Bay No. 1, workers are installing the
main engine heat shields. Engine integrated testing and mate
operations are complete. Technicians have also completed checkout of
the water spray boiler system. Functional checkout of the external
tank doors is finished. Midbody closeout and inspection work
continues, with final payload bay door closure scheduled for next
week.
In the Vehicle Assembly Building, processing continues on ET-125, the
external fuel tank for the STS-122 mission, including repairs to the
liquid oxygen feedline support bracket foam. In high bay No. 3,
stacking of the solid rocket boosters is under way. The right forward
center booster segment was lifted into the high bay Thursday, and the
left forward center segment will be transferred to the assembly
building and lifted to the stack today and Saturday.
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#330 by Ford Mustang on 05 Oct, 2007 21:34
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Pictures in KSC Hot Pics Gallery of SRB stacking and TPS preparation.
http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/search.cfm?cat=4
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#331 by ShuttleDiscovery on 05 Oct, 2007 21:59
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Thanks! Some great images.
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#332 by shuttlefan on 08 Oct, 2007 16:58
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How is SRB stacking going after the weekend? They must be almost stacked.....
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#333 by Felix on 08 Oct, 2007 23:48
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shuttlefan - 8/10/2007 6:58 PM How is SRB stacking going after the weekend? They must be almost stacked.....
From L2:
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#334 by shuttlefan on 09 Oct, 2007 00:28
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Thank you very-kindly Felix!! -
#335 by shuttlefan on 10 Oct, 2007 00:47
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How far has SRB stacking advanced over the past 24hrs.?
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#336 by psloss on 10 Oct, 2007 01:18
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As you can see in the bit that Felix posted, the left forward center (LFC) segment had been lifted into position in the integration cell from the transfer aisle, but still hadn't been mated yet, so that was what was next.
How far has SRB stacking advanced over the past 24hrs.?
IIRC from the docs on L2, the schedule has stacking completed by the end of the week (left forward segment, and then the forward assemblies).
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#337 by jacqmans on 10 Oct, 2007 18:50
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Preparing the European Columbus laboratory - new images
10 October 2007
The European Columbus laboratory is in the final stages of preparation for launch to the International Space Station at the Space Station Processing Facility (SSPF) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
Columbus is scheduled for launch on board Space Shuttle Atlantis on flight STS-122 in December. Members of the STS-122 crew, including ESA astronauts Hans Schlegel and Leopold Eyharts, recently visited the SSPF to inspect the European Columbus laboratory.
These new images have been released on the occasion of the Columbus Media Day at Kennedy Space Center - click on an image to access the long caption and hi-res version.
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMC7BV7D7F_index_0.html
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#338 by psloss on 11 Oct, 2007 22:43
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Couple of pictures in the KSC Media Gallery of getting the left forward assembly ready for lifting later on...they've also created a category for STS-122 now -- also makes it a little easier to see the CEIT pictures taken a couple of weeks ago:
http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/search.cfm?cat=170
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#339 by Real Madrid on 12 Oct, 2007 09:37
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what is the LON Orbiter for STS-122?
