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RE: LIVE: STS-117 Flight Day 13 - Pre-entry check-outs
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Zachstar
on 21 Jun, 2007 08:57
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Hello everyone!
Looking forward to a NICE day of landing operations! Good Luck Atlantis!
Lets get er in! And prepped for STS-122! Where she will deliver a brand new lab module! Columbus!
Some images.
The weather from NASA TV
Schedule from PAO for today.
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#1
by
Chris Bergin
on 21 Jun, 2007 08:47
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#2
by
Zachstar
on 21 Jun, 2007 08:58
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Clay is talking to Thomas Reiter on NASA TV right now.
A very light conversation (Clay starting right off the back noting that he is wearing some of Reiter's clothes!
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#3
by
Analyst
on 21 Jun, 2007 09:01
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Would an Edwards landing really be a turnarround issue? Its a long time until December. Discovery landed in July 2006 (STS-121) and flew agian in December (STS-116).
Analyst
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#4
by
Zachstar
on 21 Jun, 2007 09:27
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#5
by
Zachstar
on 21 Jun, 2007 09:34
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ISS is back on regular sleep cycle. Today will be a light work day as they get settled in and ready to resume day to day activities. Some computer work will happen later.
Clay is slowly getting used to things! :cool:
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#6
by
Chris Bergin
on 21 Jun, 2007 09:39
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Another Country song for wake up...for JR and CJ.
The song was recorded by a personal friend. "Making good time coming home."
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#7
by
psloss
on 21 Jun, 2007 10:06
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Analyst - 21/6/2007 5:01 AM
Would an Edwards landing really be a turnarround issue? Its a long time until December. Discovery landed in July 2006 (STS-121) and flew agian in December (STS-116).
Not sure that case can be extrapolated to any processing flow.
To some extent, it depends on how much contingency time they have in the schedule. If it's baselined for five days/week and two shifts/day, then perhaps they could go to essentially all-day, every day (which is what they did for the cited flow).
Aside from existing contingency time, "overtime capacity," and the uncertainty in how long it would take to get the orbiter back to KSC, a couple of other things stick out to me right now:
1. Last I saw on L2, most of December is in a beta angle cutout -- from around December 11th to December 30th. If that's still the case, that's a small window to work with on the current schedule before they'd have to stand down until after New Year's.
2. There will shortly be three orbiters in flight processing once Atlantis gets back to the OPF. It would seem to be harder to absorb schedule hits on downstream flights when (in this example) there's work to do on Discovery for STS-120 and then Endeavour for STS-123 when it gets back from STS-118. In the case of Discovery last year, I believe work on Endeavour was strung out to accommodate processing Discovery and Atlantis.
(And on top of that, hurricane season is just starting.)
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#8
by
MKremer
on 21 Jun, 2007 10:26
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Can't tell what movie they're watching in the ISS. Lots of fire and explosions, though.
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#9
by
Zachstar
on 21 Jun, 2007 10:26
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What a wonderful workout movie!
Or not
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#10
by
Chris Bergin
on 21 Jun, 2007 10:28
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MKremer - 21/6/2007 11:26 AM
Can't tell what movie they're watching in the ISS. Lots of fire and explosions, though.
Armageddon. "Do not be touching my uncle, he is the genius of the family."
Edit: I think it's "Towering Inferno".
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#11
by
Zachstar
on 21 Jun, 2007 10:35
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For all you orbitersim users out there.
Orbit MFD just in analog
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#12
by
USFJoseph
on 21 Jun, 2007 10:44
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I'm hoping for the second landing opportunity today. The ground track goes right over my house so I'm hoping for either a good view (depending on weather) or at least a really good sonic boom :-D
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#13
by
DaveS
on 21 Jun, 2007 11:06
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Analyst - 21/6/2007 11:01 AM
Would an Edwards landing really be a turnarround issue? Its a long time until December. Discovery landed in July 2006 (STS-121) and flew agian in December (STS-116).
Analyst
Yes, but then Discovery landed at KSC! Last Edwards landing was STS-114 in August 2005.
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#14
by
Zachstar
on 21 Jun, 2007 11:06
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Anyone knows who makes the music for NASA TV? They had some VERY nice music for this Landing Opportunity bit where they showed both chances for today.
Wonder if I could get a CD :cool:
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#15
by
DaveS
on 21 Jun, 2007 11:07
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Radiator cold soaking procedure started, where they try to trapp as much cold freon as possible since the radiators will not be available later.
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#16
by
DaveS
on 21 Jun, 2007 11:49
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Next on NASA TV, the video file. Another chance to see the ET-117/SRB mating and the demolition of the LC-36 MSTs:
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#17
by
DaveS
on 21 Jun, 2007 11:53
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#18
by
DaveS
on 21 Jun, 2007 11:54
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#19
by
DaveS
on 21 Jun, 2007 11:54
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