LIVE: STS-117 Flight Day 15 - EOM+1

• #120 by northanger on 22 Jun, 2007 18:18
• FatherRob:
  
  C-SPAN 3
  02:00 PM EDT
  0:30 (est.) LIVE
  Space Shuttle Atlantis Landing
  
  Godspeed STS-117 Atlantis.
• #121 by L2 Re-Entry Video on 22 Jun, 2007 18:20
• Go for the deorbit burn (will be moving to quotes used on 115 soon).

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• #122 by marktowler on 22 Jun, 2007 18:23
• If Atlantis lands at Edwards and takes around 7 days to ferry back to Florida will it be able to launch again in time for December or will it be delayed?
• #123 by Chris Bergin on 22 Jun, 2007 18:28
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  marktowler - 22/6/2007  7:23 PM
  
  If Atlantis lands at Edwards and takes around 7 days to ferry back to Florida will it be able to launch again in time for December or will it be delayed?

  
  There's no problem with the timeline for Atlantis' next launch from a ferry trip.
• #124 by DaveS on 22 Jun, 2007 18:28
• Satellite view of the EDW area:

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• #125 by Blade_Pride on 22 Jun, 2007 18:30
• Perhaps she landed at both, Runway 22 at Edwards (from Space) and 33 at Kennedy (ferry back, I guess technically not a landing).
  
  May be wrong but paved runways at Edwards are 04/22 and 06/24. 33 is unpaved, so if it was a paved runway she landed on, then it had to be 22.
  
  I do think it’s funny that the KSC Shuttle Launch Archive says 22 and the Nasa Mission Archive says 33.
  
  Edit:
  http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/STS/Small/EC91-0176-1.jpg
  
  Note the dirt the crew are standing on and the ruts the shuttle made in the dirt. So unless the shuttle went off the end of the runway to, it looks like a dirt runway(33).
  
• #126 by EirikV on 22 Jun, 2007 18:30
• 13 minutes to the burn
• #127 by Felix on 22 Jun, 2007 18:32
• 5 minutes away from single APU start
• #128 by psloss on 22 Jun, 2007 18:35
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  spaceamillion - 22/6/2007  2:33 PM
  
  The crew post landing film sys Runway 33 - for the first time
  

  Yeah; it's also in several other references, like this one:
  http://members.aol.com/WSNTWOYOU/STS39MR.HTM
  
  I don't have the tape with me, but I can probably post a screengrab of the video of that landing once it's digitized.
  
  Edit: also check out Danny Dot's accounts of that landing:
  http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=6156&start=331#M143930
  
• #129 by ApolloLee on 22 Jun, 2007 18:36
• Have a safe ride home, Atlantis
• #130 by L2 Re-Entry Video on 22 Jun, 2007 18:37
• "Houston, we're in work with page 3-14 single APU pre-start." Good point to sync (any second now)

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• #131 by Felix on 22 Jun, 2007 18:39
• Single APU (no 3) start underway
• #132 by Zachstar on 22 Jun, 2007 18:39
• Convoy on the move at Edwards!

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• #133 by Felix on 22 Jun, 2007 18:41

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• #134 by L2 Re-Entry Video on 22 Jun, 2007 18:41
• "You'll probably hear a little popping noise" (OMS Start two mins)

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• #135 by Zachstar on 22 Jun, 2007 18:42
• Awaiting start of Deorbit burn!

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• #136 by Felix on 22 Jun, 2007 18:43
• good config for deorbit burn
• #137 by L2 Re-Entry Video on 22 Jun, 2007 18:44
• "OMS good" burn started

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• #138 by Felix on 22 Jun, 2007 18:45
• Deorbit burn underway! Two good OMS engines
• #139 by L2 Re-Entry Video on 22 Jun, 2007 18:46
• "We're going somewhere!"

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