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#500
by
johng
on 03 Jul, 2007 22:27
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I'm off to check demate progress personally on the way home... I'll send an e-mail if anything interesting is up.
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#501
by
psloss
on 03 Jul, 2007 22:29
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Trekkie07 - 3/7/2007 5:59 PM
I realize that all of this is weather dependant but, how long does it normally take to get the shuttle off the SCA once it arrives the MDD? Also, do we know when they're planning on towing Atlantis to her OPF?
Not sure there's enough public info to make a guess about "normal," but in the previous case you can get some idea from captions of pictures taken about that timeline. According to those, Discovery arrived back at KSC on the SCA (NASA 905) at about 10 am local on 21 August 2005:
http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/detail.cfm?mediaid=26863Demate occurred in the early morning hours the next day:
http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/detail.cfm?mediaid=26879And the orbiter gear had been lowered by daybreak:
http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/detail.cfm?mediaid=26887But it's hard to tell whether this is apples or oranges to oranges.
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#502
by
Lee Jay
on 03 Jul, 2007 22:34
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DaveS - 3/7/2007 4:06 PM
SpaceNutz SA - 3/7/2007 12:00 AM
Where is the SCA's homebase? KSC? If not when can we expect to see her fly again? And where to?
I would expect 905 to fly back out to Edwards pretty soon after Atlantis have been demated to support STS-118.
Will it take the tail cone with it (disassembled) or is that shipped separately?
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#503
by
mike robel
on 04 Jul, 2007 00:27
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Here are a couple photos from the flyby. I went to work late so I could watch. I mean someone had to live near the space center and make wargames for aliving. It may as well be me.
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#504
by
Andy USA
on 04 Jul, 2007 01:29
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Very nice images everyone. Sure wish I could have seen that in person.
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#505
by
Flightstar
on 04 Jul, 2007 01:30
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Will be interesting to hear any news from people still around KSC on Atlantis' status. When I left work she was still on the SCA, obviously having some problems being demated.
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#506
by
MySDCUserID
on 04 Jul, 2007 02:03
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Flightstar - 3/7/2007 9:30 PM
Will be interesting to hear any news from people still around KSC on Atlantis' status. When I left work she was still on the SCA, obviously having some problems being demated.
Do the difficulties have anything to do with the strike?
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#507
by
Flightstar
on 04 Jul, 2007 03:09
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MySDCUserID - 3/7/2007 9:03 PM
Flightstar - 3/7/2007 9:30 PM
Will be interesting to hear any news from people still around KSC on Atlantis' status. When I left work she was still on the SCA, obviously having some problems being demated.
Do the difficulties have anything to do with the strike?
Not my area, so I wouldn't like to guess. I'm sure Chris will get any details of any issues via the processing information in the morning on L2.
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#508
by
John44
on 04 Jul, 2007 06:22
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#509
by
Chris Bergin
on 04 Jul, 2007 10:11
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No news on Atlantis yet (but she could have been taken back to her OPF overnight). Checking.
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#510
by
mkirk
on 04 Jul, 2007 14:32
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Atlantis is supposed to roll over to the OPF sometime this morning.
Mark Kirkman
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#511
by
Lee Jay
on 04 Jul, 2007 15:10
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Is Atlantis down off the MDD? Were there any issues in getting her down last night?
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#512
by
Chris Bergin
on 04 Jul, 2007 15:39
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We're a bit blind today as everyone's on the July 4 vacation (apart from something like 50 workers with Atlantis).....so unless anyone fancies driving over to KSC and taking a sneak peek...
Someone will find out.
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#513
by
Chris Bergin
on 04 Jul, 2007 15:59
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This is a wild guess, but I was just about to close a browser that had the KSC webcams showing (used for Endeavour rollover) and I noticed that they just opened a small door to the transfer aisle to allow one of the access platform lifts to head back into the VAB.
Anyone know if this may have been used for demating ops (I remember seeing such a lift being used)? Wild guess, but given there's no processing info coming in today due to the holiday, this can be a fun quiz question as to what this platform is used for - and it's potential relevance to the demate ops, seen as processing info said there was only going to be 50 workers at KSC today (doing rollback to OPF and safing of Atlantis)
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#514
by
nathan.moeller
on 04 Jul, 2007 16:04
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Chris Bergin - 4/7/2007 10:39 AM
We're a bit blind today as everyone's on the July 4 vacation (apart from something like 50 workers with Atlantis).....so unless anyone fancies driving over to KSC and taking a sneak peek...
Someone will find out.
I'd go but I'm being paid time-and-a-half for work today
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#515
by
ItsyAndy
on 04 Jul, 2007 18:07
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Chris Bergin - 4/7/2007 5:59 PM
This is a wild guess, but I was just about to close a browser that had the KSC webcams showing (used for Endeavour rollover) and I noticed that they just opened a small door to the transfer aisle to allow one of the access platform lifts to head back into the VAB.
Where you get those webcam shots from? Is it some reserved feed?
Thanks.
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#516
by
norm103
on 04 Jul, 2007 18:08
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i think it for the lifting sling that ov 105 was using
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#517
by
Martin FL
on 04 Jul, 2007 18:15
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No, it wasn't used during that (we covered it on the 118 section).
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#518
by
gordo
on 04 Jul, 2007 18:31
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I hope Wayne buys the 50 boys and girls a beer. They are a dedicated team down there.
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#519
by
collectSPACE
on 04 Jul, 2007 18:31
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