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Tag Archives: Space Shuttle Discovery
NASA Space Shuttle Update 11/6/10
NASA Space Shuttle Update / Saturday November 6, 2010:
Launch of space shuttle Discovery has been delayed due to a leak in the ground umbilical carrier plate (GUCP) at Launch Pad 39A, which prompted a scrub of Friday’s launch attempt.
STS-133 mission managers also will look at a crack in the external tank foam that developed as supercold liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen were being drained from the tank, although the crack didn’t develop until after the launch attempt was called off.
Discovery’s six astronauts have left the Kennedy Space Center in their T-38 jets to return home to NASA’s Johnson Space [...]
NASA Space Shuttle Update 11-5-10
NASA Space Shuttle Update / Friday November 5, 2010:
The shuttle weather team is carefully watching a cold front moving through Florida, that could impact the final launch of space shuttle Discovery. There’s about a 50 percent chance the shuttle will lift off from Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday, November 5th.
Friday’s tentative launch time is 3:04 p.m. EDT. The shuttle team meets at 5:00 am Friday morning to make a final assessment of the weather conditions at the cape, before giving a “go” or “no-go” decision to fill Discovery’s external fuel [...]
Robonaut 2 @ NASA Tweetup
Robonaut 2 showed off for social media participants at NASA’s Tweetup for the STS-133 mission, the last flight for space shuttle Discovery.
A twin Robonaut is packed inside space shuttle Discovery to be taken to the International Space Station. The humanoid robot is the first to go into space, and will act as an assistant to the crew on the orbiting laboratory.
Photo credit: NASA/Frank Michaux
More space shuttle news and information at nasa.gov/
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Tagged International Space Station, Robonaut 2, Space Shuttle Discovery
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Space Shuttle Discovery Comes Home
Space shuttle Discovery has landed at the Kennedy Space Center after transporting it’s seven astronauts more than six million miles. The crew claimed a successful mission during a post flight press conference, even after facing the challenge of a stuck pressure valve on a replacement tank.
Discovery returned from mission STS-131 to the International Space Station, where the crew delivered more than seven tons of equipment and supplies. During the ten day mission, astronauts Rick Mastracchio and Clayton Anderson executed three spacewalks, installed a 1,700-pound ammonia tank assembly on the station’s exterior, replaced a rate gyro assembly, and retrieved [...]
STS-131 Mission Update from the ISS
Space Shuttle Discovery is docked at the International Space Station, with astronauts Rick Mastracchio and Clay Anderson spending their fifth day in space working outside the ISS.
They’ve retrieved a science experiment on the Japanese Kibo Laboratory, replaced a rate gyro assembly on the center segment of the station’s truss, and removed an ammonia tank used to help cool the station.
The accuracy and co-ordination between the astronauts while working in space is amazing. Imagine floating weightless in space for six-and-a-half-hours, while orbiting the earth at 17,000 miles an hour. Often they have to use the grappling robotic arm from [...]
Space Shuttle Discovery STS-131 Mission Update
Space Shuttle Discovery began mission STS-131 with it’s seven-member crew, as they headed to the International Space Station. There’s only a few shuttle flights left, before the fleet is grounded for good.
Liftoff from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center took place at 6:21 a.m. EDT on Monday, April 5th.
Here is the video of the lift-off on NASA TV’s YouTube Channel.
Mission STS-131 Press Kit
Space Shuttle Discovery STS-131
Space Shuttle Discovery is set to lift-off tomorrow morning at 6:21 AM EDT on mission STS-131.
Follow NASA’s Launch Blog beginning at 1:15 AM.
Commander Alan Poindexter, Pilot Jim Dutton, Mission Specialists Rick Mastracchio, Clay Anderson, Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger, Stephanie Wilson and Naoko Yamazaki will execute the 33rd shuttle mission to the International Space Station.
Discovery will carry a multi-purpose logistics module filled with science racks for the laboratories aboard the ISS. The mission has three planned spacewalks, with work to include replacing an ammonia tank assembly, retrieving a Japanese experiment from the station’s exterior, and switching out a rate gyro assembly [...]
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Tagged Discovery, International Space Station, ISS, Launch Blog, NASA TV, Space Shuttle, Space Shuttle Discovery, Spacewalk, STS-131
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Space Shuttle Endeavour STS-130
Space Shuttle Endeavour has completed it’s latest mission, STS-130, and has safely landed at the Kennedy Space Center. It’s one of the few remaining shuttle flights left in NASA’s aging fleet of space vehicles.
The International Space Station is 98 percent complete, following NASA’s last big construction project, known as the Tranquility connecting node and cupola. The project added a new room and observation deck to the space station, giving the ISS crew a 360 degree view of earth through it’s seven windows.
Astronauts Bob Behnken and Nicholas Patrick conducted three spacewalks for a total of eighteen hours [...]