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| Shuttle Discovery in orbit chasing the space station Docking is Saturday at 2:16 pm. |
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| ATV 2 docked at space station. |
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Friday, February 25, 2011
Shuttle and ISS tonight
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Today in Space
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| courtesy of quest for stars/challenger center balloon flight at 12,000 feet the discovery shuttle's exhaust trail |
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| Space flight now at the main press site |
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Thursday, February 24, 2011
Pad 39 A MILA Tonight
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| All lite up but no shuttle on the pad..thursday night |
Wrap up photos
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| ISS crew watches the launch of Discovery dinner is Saturday on board the station. |
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| STS 133 Discovery launch from remote pad camera |
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| Solid Rocket Booster Separation the lower white dot is the shuttle |
Live video of launch
Not sure where this is..but it looks bout 9 miles or so away
http://rickfischer-bcau.posterous.com/sts-133-launch-video
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http://rickfischer-bcau.posterous.com/sts-133-launch-video
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Events for tonight
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More photos
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| From someones front lawn in Orlando about 35 miles from the launch site |
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Discovery post launch coming up at 6 est 2300 utc
Shuttle orbiter Discovery launched, its last. When 1st launched, Ghostbuters was in theaters and Reagan finishing 1st term.
See a great photo of the launch taken by one of the major space tweeps.
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See a great photo of the launch taken by one of the major space tweeps.
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More discovery
http://yfrog.com/31h2nz Live video of Discovery Launch
Once back on Earth, Discovery will be decommissioned while NASA launches two final flights by the shuttles Endeavour, in April, and Atlantis, in late June. Museums are competing to display all three orbiters, but no final decisions have been made.(From the NY Times not correct info..Discovery goes to the Air and Space here in DC)
On board Discovery are five men and one woman: strapped into seats on the shuttle’s upper flight deck are the commander, Steven W. Lindsey; Col. Eric A. Boe of the Air Force, the pilot; Capt. Benjamin Alvin Drew Jr. of the Air Force; and Nicole P. Stott, the flight engineer. Traveling on the ship’s lower deck are Michael R. Barratt, a physician-astronaut, and Capt. Stephen G. Bowen of the Navy.
Captain Bowen, a former submariner who was on the most recent shuttle flight, last May, is a late addition to Discovery’s crew. A veteran of five spacewalks, he was called in to replace the mission’s original lead spacewalker, Col. Timothy L. Kopra of the Army, who was injured in a bicycle mishap last month near his home in Houston.The late crew change was a relatively minor snag compared with the testing and analysis required to resolve questions about potentially dangerous cracks that were found in Discovery’s external tank after a launching scheduled for Nov. 5 was scrubbed.
The cracks developed in vertical riblike “stringers” making up the central intertank section that separates the tank’s liquid oxygen and hydrogen sections.
After exhaustive tests and analyses, engineers determined that the fractures most likely were a result of tight tolerances, manufacturing issues and the effects of super-cooled propellants on the aluminum-lithium alloy used in most of the intertank’s 108 stringers.
As it turned out, the alloy was more brittle than usual and more susceptible to stress-relief fractures when subjected to the liquid oxygen at minus 297 degrees Fahrenheit.
Engineers repaired the cracks and installed structural stiffeners on most of the other stringers to make them less susceptible to temperature-induced damage. There were no obvious signs of trouble Thursday.
Assuming an on-time docking on Saturday, Captain Drew and Captain Bowen plan two spacewalks, Monday and Wednesday. The new storage module will be attached to the station on Tuesday. The flight plan calls for Discovery to undock from the station on March 5 at 7:44 a.m. and land back at the Kennedy Space Center on March 7 at 12:44 p.m.
But United States and Russian flight controllers are expected to approve what amounts to an out-of-this-world photo opportunity: The idea is to add a day to Discovery’s mission so that three station crew members can venture out in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to photograph the completed station with a shuttle attached, along with European, Japanese and Russian spacecraft.
If the fly-around is approved, Discovery will undock March 6 and land in Florida around 11:35 a.m. on March 8.
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Once back on Earth, Discovery will be decommissioned while NASA launches two final flights by the shuttles Endeavour, in April, and Atlantis, in late June. Museums are competing to display all three orbiters, but no final decisions have been made.(From the NY Times not correct info..Discovery goes to the Air and Space here in DC)
On board Discovery are five men and one woman: strapped into seats on the shuttle’s upper flight deck are the commander, Steven W. Lindsey; Col. Eric A. Boe of the Air Force, the pilot; Capt. Benjamin Alvin Drew Jr. of the Air Force; and Nicole P. Stott, the flight engineer. Traveling on the ship’s lower deck are Michael R. Barratt, a physician-astronaut, and Capt. Stephen G. Bowen of the Navy.
Captain Bowen, a former submariner who was on the most recent shuttle flight, last May, is a late addition to Discovery’s crew. A veteran of five spacewalks, he was called in to replace the mission’s original lead spacewalker, Col. Timothy L. Kopra of the Army, who was injured in a bicycle mishap last month near his home in Houston.The late crew change was a relatively minor snag compared with the testing and analysis required to resolve questions about potentially dangerous cracks that were found in Discovery’s external tank after a launching scheduled for Nov. 5 was scrubbed.
The cracks developed in vertical riblike “stringers” making up the central intertank section that separates the tank’s liquid oxygen and hydrogen sections.
After exhaustive tests and analyses, engineers determined that the fractures most likely were a result of tight tolerances, manufacturing issues and the effects of super-cooled propellants on the aluminum-lithium alloy used in most of the intertank’s 108 stringers.
As it turned out, the alloy was more brittle than usual and more susceptible to stress-relief fractures when subjected to the liquid oxygen at minus 297 degrees Fahrenheit.
Engineers repaired the cracks and installed structural stiffeners on most of the other stringers to make them less susceptible to temperature-induced damage. There were no obvious signs of trouble Thursday.
Assuming an on-time docking on Saturday, Captain Drew and Captain Bowen plan two spacewalks, Monday and Wednesday. The new storage module will be attached to the station on Tuesday. The flight plan calls for Discovery to undock from the station on March 5 at 7:44 a.m. and land back at the Kennedy Space Center on March 7 at 12:44 p.m.
But United States and Russian flight controllers are expected to approve what amounts to an out-of-this-world photo opportunity: The idea is to add a day to Discovery’s mission so that three station crew members can venture out in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to photograph the completed station with a shuttle attached, along with European, Japanese and Russian spacecraft.
If the fly-around is approved, Discovery will undock March 6 and land in Florida around 11:35 a.m. on March 8.
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more info on the tile fall off
Did you see the debris at around 3:50 into the flight? It was past the critical debris transport time, so there shouldn't be damage
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Most streamed shuttle launch
Or we know what you were doing at the end of your day..
We had 273,000 streams of NASA TV running concurrently at launch for STS-133. Incredible! That #4 in our Top 10 live events!
You might actually see Discovery in the coming days as a small dot trailing ISS! Follow us or check http://bit.ly/haSX0F
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We had 273,000 streams of NASA TV running concurrently at launch for STS-133. Incredible! That #4 in our Top 10 live events!
You might actually see Discovery in the coming days as a small dot trailing ISS! Follow us or check http://bit.ly/haSX0F
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Now the shuttle plays catch up with ISS
Going to be some great evening viewing opportunities worldwide..Progress, the Japanese HTV, Europe's ATV 2 and two soyuz craft..all docked to the station...talk about a space station...wow
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Discovery launch with 1 second in the launch window
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| Lots of "bird watchers" today |
Go For STS 133 the 39th and last flight of discovery
Might have an issue with the weather but everything is go for launch at 450 est...2050 utc
425 if we have to go Friday
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425 if we have to go Friday
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Updated
T-20 and holding. This is the first of the two remaining built in holds before Discovery's 4:50 pmET launch
A nic on a black title near the shuttle hatch is an issue..around the hatch top left as you see it on cam. As they pulled the protective tape off they nick'd it...good
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A nic on a black title near the shuttle hatch is an issue..around the hatch top left as you see it on cam. As they pulled the protective tape off they nick'd it...good
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Live Now
Balloon payload webcam now streaming live http://qik.com/robonaut-1
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Update
A problem with a ground power bus has been in discussion among the launch team, but it will not impact today's launch.
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All aboard the final discovery flight
Al Drew, the final astronaut to board Discovery, heading to flight deck seat to be ascent flight engineer. http://tinyurl.com
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Another mission specialist is now on board mid deck
Astronaut Nicole Stott, a former Kennedy Space Center worker and space station crewmember, boarding now. http://tinyurl.com
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Possible issue
There's a problem with a LH2 power buss. Technicians are looking into it. Current plan is to proceed with the countdown until T-9 Minutes to get some time to evaluate the issue
1085 media were accredited for the #sts133 launch
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1085 media were accredited for the #sts133 launch
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Relive the first flight of Discovery
http://www.amazon.com/Riding-Rockets-Outrageous-Shuttle-Astronaut/dp/B000WMKK9W/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1298574030&sr=1-1-spell
Buy the paperback I have the hardcover in my space colletion
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Buy the paperback I have the hardcover in my space colletion
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Another crew member boards the shuttle
Steve Bowen, the substitute astronaut recently added to Discovery's crew, now taking his seat on mid-deck. http://tinyurl.com/sts133
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More crew members board
Pilot Eric Boe, an Air Force colonel with combat and flight test credentials, has ingressed Discovery. http://tinyurl.com/sts133
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If you are watching NASA TV...
Next to board Discovery is Mike Barratt, a medical doctor who spent 199 days aboard space station in 2009
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more shuttle
Commander Steve Lindsey, retired USAF colonel and veteran of 4 spaceflights, has climbed aboard Discovery. He was also chief astronaut for a few years.
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Six person crew leaves for the pad
The last crew of the space shuttle discovery on it's final and 39th flight is heading to the pad.
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Crew suited up ready to go
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Shuttle events upcoming
Crew is suiting up and almost ready to depart for the pad arriving at 1 pm est. T -3 hrs and holding.
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| Ice team inspects the pad |
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| NASA Space Tweeps next to the countdown clock at the press site. The water in the background in the turning basin where the Saturn 5's arrived before launch. |
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Wednesday, February 23, 2011
The being the last flight of Discovery here's some history
Robert Adamcik, who wrote "Voyages of Discovery," this is a book about the shuttle Discovery some history on the shuttle program plus challenger and columbia's untimely ends are also covered.
Rollback your mental countdown clock the the early 80's at Plant 42 in Palmdale Ca..
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Rollback your mental countdown clock the the early 80's at Plant 42 in Palmdale Ca..
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| RSS Rollback Discovery sits on LC 39 A Awaiting launch |
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The blogs of Fairbanks Broadband
This one which is manned space flight., shuttles, soyuz etc
Unmanned launches from Florida and from the west coast
Comet Missions
New Years Eve Streaming audio site
The incredible Magic Christian RIP
And the electronic Mama is here
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Unmanned launches from Florida and from the west coast
Comet Missions
New Years Eve Streaming audio site
The incredible Magic Christian RIP
And the electronic Mama is here
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Winner of the Mary Bubb Spirit Award
The late Mary Bubb reported for reuters on manned and unmanned space flight. For every manned mission she wore a custom made hat. She would have loved this:
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| Tampa area space tweep has that spirit. |
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Discovery launches tmw afternoon
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| What you see as you enter KSC along State Road 3 (SR3) Merritt Island Fla |
During space shuttle Discovery's final spaceflight, the STS-133 crew members will take important spare parts to the International Space Station along with the Express Logistics Carrier-4.
Steve Bowen replaced Tim Kopra as Mission Specialist 2 following a bicycle injury on Jan. 15 that prohibited Kopra from supporting the launch window. Bowen last flew on Atlantis in May 2010 as part of the STS-132 crew. Flying on the STS-133 mission will make Bowen the first astronaut ever to fly on consecutive missions.
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Monday, February 21, 2011
Pre launch week
And with it daily press updates from today you would have learned:
Space Shuttle Weather Officer Kathy Winters predicts an 80 % "go" forecast for Discovery's 4:50 p.m. Thursday launch..
At 3 pm EST 2000 UTC the countdown will start for a Thurday liftoff.
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Space Shuttle Weather Officer Kathy Winters predicts an 80 % "go" forecast for Discovery's 4:50 p.m. Thursday launch..
At 3 pm EST 2000 UTC the countdown will start for a Thurday liftoff.
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