STS-114 Mission Update Thread (Part 6)

[llivinglarge]

SG, was Discovery's loop around the station part of the mission plan or was James Kelly just having fun?

 

[shuttle_rtf]

If he was having fun, someone's going to be having him in his office next week <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /><br /><br />It's usually best not to have unplanned fun with multi-billion dollar spacecraft <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" />

 

[llivinglarge]

Friday, August 6, 2005 – 12:30 a.m. CDT<br />Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas<br /> 08.06.05<br />STATUS REPORT: STS-114-22<br /><br />STS-114 MCC Status Report #22<br /><br />After more than a week of working together in space, the Space Shuttle Discovery and International Space Station crews bid each other farewell tonight.<br /><br />Following a crew farewell ceremony at 11:36 p.m. CDT, hatches between the spacecraft were closed at 12:14 a.m. CDT, with Discovery's undocking planned for 2:24 a.m. CDT Saturday morning.<br /><br />"The Air Force Song" was the Shuttle crew wake-up song for the day, played at 9:09 p.m. CDT. The song was dedicated to Pilot Jim Kelly, a colonel in the U.S. Air Force, at the request of Commander Eileen Collins. Space Station Expedition 11 crewmates John Phillips and Sergei Krikalev woke 30 minutes later.<br /><br />After Discovery undocks from the Station, with Kelly at the controls, the Shuttle will fly around the Space Station about 400 feet away to allow the Shuttle crew to take photographs of the complex.<br /><br />The flyaround maneuver will begin at 2:54 a.m. CDT, and Discovery’s final separation from the Station begins with an engine firing at 4:09 a.m. CDT.<br /><br />The majority of the rest of the day will be free time for Discovery and the Station crew.<br /><br />Discovery’s crew, including Collins, Kelly and Mission Specialists Steve Robinson, Soichi Noguchi, Andy Thomas, Wendy Lawrence and Charlie Camarda, is scheduled for sleep at 11:39 a.m. CDT Saturday.<br /><br />The Station crew, which will soon begin working back toward its normal workday hours, is scheduled to sleep at 1:09 p.m. CDT.<br /><br />The next STS-114 mission status report will be issued Saturday evening, or earlier if events warrant.

 

[llivinglarge]

He didn't have a choice... He had to do a manual reentry.

 

[mikejz]

<b>The vehicle is not maneuvered for fun ! </b><br /><br />Wow you can really hear the German heritage of our space program in that line.

 

[georgeniebling]

MikeJZ commented on SG's thoughts on movign the Shuttle for "fun":<br /><br />"The vehicle is not maneuvered for fun ! <br /><br />Wow you can really hear the German heritage of our space program in that line. "<br /><br />Actually, when I read SG's comment ... I got a pic in my head of Werner Braun arguing with the Original 7 as to their roll in space flight operations ....<br /><br />SG - you are dead right .... it an't a toy ;-)

 

[tap_sa]

The pilot could always say it was an unexplained anomaly in the verniers that went away after 360 degrees pitch.

 

[emerrill]

"The pilot could always say it was an unexplained anomaly in the verniers that went away after 360 degrees pitch."<br /><br />That only works if its a one man crew, or everybody else on board is in on it AND mission control believes you (including after they look over the vehicle after landing.)<br /><br />-eric <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[SpaceKiwi]

<blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr /><p>I am being the opposite because I am usually wrong about such predictions !<p><hr /></p></p></blockquote><br />SG, this is one occasion when I hope your prediction will be proven wrong Sir! <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><em><font size="2" color="#ff0000">Who is this superhero?  Henry, the mild-mannered janitor ... could be!</font></em></p><p><em><font size="2">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></em></p><p><font size="5">Bring Back The Black!</font></p> </div>

 

[SpaceKiwi]

<blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr /><p>" i believe that my reason for the problem is simply freon. No question in my mind, i believe it is just that simple.....<p><hr /></p></p></blockquote><br /><br />Well, this has been one of my bug-bears from way back when too. I'm from 'tree-huggers-r-us' New Zealand, where we are looking at paying tax because the cows fart, but I think the decision to change the ET foam formulation continues to be a monumental blunder.<br /><br />I'm up for safe-guarding the environment as much as anyone, but I can't believe continuing to use the non-enviro-friendly foam on the ET's was going to result in the end of civilisation as we know it. <br /><br />I probably out-gassed more harmful stuff into the atmosphere with my insistance on breaking up my coffee cups into confetti at the Uni Cafe back in the day. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><em><font size="2" color="#ff0000">Who is this superhero?  Henry, the mild-mannered janitor ... could be!</font></em></p><p><em><font size="2">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></em></p><p><font size="5">Bring Back The Black!</font></p> </div>

 

[shuttle_rtf]

Yeah, this is interesting stuff. <br /><br />I'm obviously still green (no pun intended) to full STS history in depth, given I only started to follow the Shuttle post Challenger as a young teenager, but I think (with some research) this would make a good article, if I can get some people to speak for and against - most likely on condition of anonymity.

 

[shuttle_rtf]

Commander Collins is having some issues with switches on the flight deck during flight control checks.<br /><br />One switch took "10 seconds of pulling" to switch it to the off position.

 

[spacefire]

and I bet it costs more than my yearly salary. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p>http://asteroid-invasion.blogspot.com</p><p>http://www.solvengineer.com/asteroid-invasion.html </p><p> </p> </div>

 

[circleh]

fng... not sure where to ask<br />recently moved to citrus co, fl<br />does anybody know where discovery is going to cross the west coast of florida on monday morning ?<br />

 

[shuttle_rtf]

Never got another mention, so Mr Sticky Switch must have been something and nothing.<br /><br />Very happy to say that I believe I'm looking at one Mr Leroy Cain at JSC's Flight Director's desk on NASA TV.<br /><br />I really felt for that guy during Columbia's break up on the video that filmed him during those last moments. (I can't believe they kept filming when he had his head in his hands). One hell of a moving video to see people's reactions.<br /><br />I know it was his turn - by some role of fate - to return for this flight, but great to see him all the same. The man has some balls.

 

[earth_bound_misfit]

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[llivinglarge]

It is unfortunate that there is no video of Columbia's final 2 minutes.<br /><br />But there will be hundreds of video cameras trained on the sky during Discovery's reentry. Every second of footage counts in the event that something goes wrong.

 

[ltm_se]

What is the red/cyan blob and the long range landing tracks outside the east coast of US?<br /><br />http://www.nasa.gov/returntoflight/crew/landing.html

 

[alokmohan]

When are they expected back?

 

[tempel1]

Dear friends <br />Go here please:<br />http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/press-release-details.cfm?newsID=117 <br />” The spacecraft's VELOCITY RELATIVE TO THE SUN is at about 26 kilometers per second (about 59,250 miles per hour). Cassini is now more than 9 million kilometers (almost 6 million miles) from Earth”. <br /><br />Since our probe is launched from the earth, it has already a velocity of 65,000 miles per hour (earth's velocity). <br /><br />Why have NASA engineers steered Cassini on this trajectory? <br /> http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display.php?pic=h_cassini_trajectory_02.gif&cap=The <br /><br />Instead of increasing Cassini's velocity they have slowed down it at 59,250 miles per hour. <br /><br />NASA engineers think the earth is the center of our solar system and don't consider earth's velocity. <br /><br />In this wrong way Cassini has travelled for 2 200 000 000 miles to meet Saturn. <br /><br />Cassini would have been able to fly along a straight line travelling for less than 1 000 000 000 miles. <br /><br />65,000 miles per hour (earth velocity) + 36,000 miles per hour (spacecraft's velocity) = 101,000 miles per hour <br /><br />1 000 000 000 miles : 365 days : 24 hours : 101,000 miles per hour = 1.13 years <br /><br />If NASA engineers considered the earth's velocity, Cassini could meet Saturn in one year! <br />

 

[tap_sa]

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[SpaceKiwi]

Very interesting presser with Leroy Cain. He seems very reluctant to talk about this entry/landing in relation to Columbia. Hasn't mentioned Columbia by name at all, despite being pressed several times about it. I guess he carries the memory of the tragedy more than most, and undoubtedly a huge weight, but I'm surprised he seems unwillingly to address reporter's questions in relation to '107.<br /><br />Interesting. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><em><font size="2" color="#ff0000">Who is this superhero?  Henry, the mild-mannered janitor ... could be!</font></em></p><p><em><font size="2">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></em></p><p><font size="5">Bring Back The Black!</font></p> </div>

 

[tempel1]

Explain instead with your words if you can

 

[telfrow]

SDC members, please see Rhodan's post here:<br /><br />http://uplink.space.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=phenomena&Number=300665&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=0&fpart= <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <strong><font color="#3366ff">Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will to strive, to seek, to find and not to yeild.</font> - <font color="#3366ff"><em>Tennyson</em></font></strong> </div>

 

[tempel1]

Don't listen to him, he's a big idiot