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
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?