Posted on 06/07/2007 6:37:21 PM PDT by KevinDavis
One of my earliest memories is the Apollo missions, I can just about remember the one that went wrong.1970, around easter, in Doncaster’s indoor market. My Mum was in the fishmongers and they had a telly on, some of the old ladies were near to tears. The village church held a service for them.
These astronauts should be on the news every night the terrible danger they put themselves in.
Tell the American public to appreciate them more, I wish we had limeys with that amount of Bottle.
Space Shuttle is about the biggest launch system in use. Saturn V was somewhat bigger.
spaceflightnow.com
1800 GMT (2:00 p.m. EDT)
The international space station’s new solar arrays have been successfully deployed. The wings stretch some 240 feet from tip to tip.
Bookmarking.
spaceflightnow.com
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 2007
1630 GMT (12:30 p.m. EDT)
Atlas has arrived at the launch pad for Thursday’s planned liftoff to deliver into orbit a clandestine satellite cargo for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office.
Making its 10th trip to space, the United Launch Alliance rocket is targeting an 11:18 a.m. EDT (1518 GMT) blastoff from Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral.
spaceflightnow.com
1842 GMT (2:42 p.m. EDT)
This is the 85th spacewalk devoted to station construction and maintenance since assembly began in 1998 and the second of four planned by the Atlantis astronauts. Going into today’s EVA, 47 NASA astronauts, 15 Russians, two Canadians and four fliers from Japan, Germany, France and Sweden had logged 515 hours and 20 minutes of spacewalk time building the international outpost.
The gyro problem was mentioned by Hoagland a couple days ago. It is all over the MSM news today. There should be a thread on this from yesterday, although I didn’t see it then.
spaceflightnow.com
2145 GMT (5:45 p.m. EDT)
In a possible breakthrough, space station commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and flight engineer Oleg Kotov used a jumper cable to bypass a suspect secondary power supply switch today and successfully activated four of six navigation and command computers that appeared to malfunction earlier this week, NASA officials said.
spaceflightnow.com
1629 GMT (12:29 p.m. EDT)
The shuttle is quickly departing the immediate vicinity of the space station following separation burn No. 2 at 12:28 p.m. The ship should be about 45 miles behind the outpost by later tonight.
The Atlantis crew will perform another series of heat shield inspections this afternoon, then pack up the cabin and test flight controls on Wednesday. The deorbit burn to begin reentry is scheduled for 12:52 p.m. EDT Thursday, with a mid-day touchdown on Kennedy Space Center’s three-mile concrete runway at 1:54 p.m. EDT to conclude STS-117.
A backup landing opportunity at KSC is available an orbit later, with a deorbit burn at 2:28 p.m. and touchdown at 3:29 p.m. EDT. Weather could be a problem for both opportunities of the day.
The backup landing sites at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., and White Sands Space Harbor, N.M., will not be considered on Thursday, NASA says.
The Friday landing times in Florida are 2:15 and 3:50 p.m. EDT. If weather forces the shuttle to Edwards, the landing opportunities for the Mojave Desert military base would be 5:20 and 6:55 p.m. EDT.
Y’all know the Shuttle is flying free from the ISS now and is due to land about this time tomorrow?
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