Post STS-117: Atlantis Post Flight Processing at Edwards - SCA Ferry to KSC Latest

• Post STS-117: Atlantis Post Flight Processing at Edwards - SCA Ferry to KSC Latest by Chris Bergin on 23 Jun, 2007 16:06
• We'll start this thread now, although there's not a lot of information at this time (working on it).
• #1 by DaveS on 23 Jun, 2007 16:09
• Any possibility of getting images like this but of Atlantis: http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=314&posts=49&start=1 ?
  Just wondering since we didn't get see the tow live on NASA TV(or anywhere else for that matter!).
• #2 by DaveS on 23 Jun, 2007 16:21
• Also, here's a good QuickTime movie of what will happen with Atlantis while she's at DFRC: http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Movie/STS/HTML/EM-0084-17.html
• #3 by Chris Bergin on 23 Jun, 2007 16:42
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  DaveS - 23/6/2007  5:09 PM
  
  Any possibility of getting images like this but of Atlantis: http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=314&posts=49&start=1 ?
  Just wondering since we didn't get see the tow live on NASA TV(or anywhere else for that matter!).

  
  Will do what we can.
  
  Nice movie on the next post too.
• #4 by psloss on 23 Jun, 2007 20:59
• Dryden now has up a set of pix -- this will probably be one place to keep up with stills from the ferry preps:
  http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/STS-117/index.html
  

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• #5 by Pete at Edwards on 25 Jun, 2007 03:20
• Atlantis is on ground power and aligned with platforms on the MDD. Everything is going well and she might be heading home at the end of the week, over the weekend and back in Florida next Sunday/Monday.
• #6 by nathan.moeller on 25 Jun, 2007 18:26
• Do we have a list of bases she'll be stopping at along the way?  I remember Discovery stopping off in Oklahoma and Louisiana before making the final hop to Florida.
• #7 by psloss on 25 Jun, 2007 18:35
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  nathan.moeller - 25/6/2007  2:26 PM
  
  Do we have a list of bases she'll be stopping at along the way?  I remember Discovery stopping off in Oklahoma and Louisiana before making the final hop to Florida.

  Seems like it would be weather-dependent...or at least weather forecast dependent.
  
• #8 by nathan.moeller on 25 Jun, 2007 18:39
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  psloss - 25/6/2007  1:35 PM
  
  

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  nathan.moeller - 25/6/2007  2:26 PM
  
  Do we have a list of bases she'll be stopping at along the way?  I remember Discovery stopping off in Oklahoma and Louisiana before making the final hop to Florida.

  Seems like it would be weather-dependent...or at least weather forecast dependent.
  

  
  Okay.  Well, I'm only 90 minutes from Dyess AFB in Abilene, TX.  Columbia paid the base a visit on top of the STA back in 2001 when they shipped her back to KSC from Palmdale after her final OMDP.  If Atlantis stops there next week and I can get off work, I'm going to go up there and try to get some pictures/video for you guys.
• #9 by psloss on 25 Jun, 2007 18:43
• This site is probably a good place to find out what the plans are when they are ready to ferry.
• #10 by nathan.moeller on 25 Jun, 2007 18:45
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  psloss - 25/6/2007  1:43 PM
  
  This site is probably a good place to find out what the plans are when they are ready to ferry.

  
  As I planned Keep me posted and I'll see if this little roadtrip will happen.
• #11 by ShuttleDiscovery on 25 Jun, 2007 19:06
• Picture on DFRC site of Atlantis making her way to the MDD (taken July 22)

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• #12 by Rocket Guy on 25 Jun, 2007 19:07
• Several photos here from Friday:
  
  http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/STS-117/Small/index.html
• #13 by ShuttleDiscovery on 25 Jun, 2007 19:37
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  Ben - 25/6/2007  8:07 PM
  
  Several photos here from Friday:
  
  http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/STS-117/Small/index.html

  
  
  
  The link has already been posted above for these photos..
• #14 by Chris Bergin on 26 Jun, 2007 05:01
• Heading home Friday:
  http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/content/?cid=5147
• #15 by mkirk on 26 Jun, 2007 20:50
• Just FYI-
  
  Current plan and schedule is to mate to SCA on Friday (i.e. be ready to leave late Friday).  SCA will leave Dryden on Saturday morning.
  
  Doesn't mean it will happen that way...
  
  Mark Kirkman
• #16 by psloss on 26 Jun, 2007 20:54
• Thanks for the bump, Mark -- couple new pictures on Dryden's site on processing:
  http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/STS-117/index.html
  
  (Note that the attachments are the small versions of the pix -- if you want desktop sized ones, go to the website!)
  

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• #17 by Chris Bergin on 26 Jun, 2007 22:02
• From USA:
  
  For the landing ops at Dryden in California, USA KSC personnel were deployed as follows:
  
  65 USA employees were deployed to Dryden prior to landing, and were at the landing strip when Atlantis landed.  
  
  20 USA employees were sent on Friday evening after landing.
  
  120 USA employees were sent to Dryden on Saturday.
  
  Out of that total of 205 employees, about a dozen are IAM slots, and about half of those were IAM employees who crossed the picket line, the rest
  were replacements.  These folks are logistics personnel who handle storekeeping, packing and crating.
  
  In addition, the following KSC personnel were deployed to Dryden:
  50 NASA
  11 Boeing
  7 Rocketdyne
  It is possible some NASA/contractor employees from JSC and Huntingdon Beach also flew to Dryden.  I don't have info on that.
  
  Here are the USA numbers for the Atlantis Demate Operation at the SLF MDD at KSC:
  103 total USA employees
  Of that total 19 are IAM slots (11 Crane Crew, 7 heavy Equipment and 1 Quality Control)
  For this mission, those IAM positions will be filled by other, qualified personnel, including many people from the orbiter operations crew that
  executed the mate operation in California.
  
• #18 by Pete at Edwards on 27 Jun, 2007 02:44
• Latest I heard was deservcing was going well and that blanket will be rebonded by tomorrow.
• #19 by DesertCop on 27 Jun, 2007 03:34
• Why must everyone refer to Dryden Flight Research Center as just "Edwards"?  We have an identity.  The Air Force is not doing the post flight processing, NASA IS.  We are proud of our support of the Shuttle Program with over 50 landings at Dryden.  Recognize us for who we are.