[2Jedismom]

Bookmarking.

[RightWhale]

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.

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Not really the 10th for this rocket, but we know what they mean.

[RightWhale]

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.

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The Chinese EVA scheduled for next year has been delayed. This is not easy and the 500 hours of EVA work is a huge mass of learning.

[RightWhale]

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.

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What good are switches anyway. Bad fuse? that’s what copper pennies are for.