How many Shuttle flights planned?

Anybody know how many shuttle flights are planned
if everything goes OK with the safety upgrades?

I have heard they will all be for the ISS just curious if
any other missions are planned.

Are they still looking at 2010 for end of flights?

Captain DILLIGAF wrote:
Anybody know how many shuttle flights are planned
if everything goes OK with the safety upgrades?

I have heard they will all be for the ISS just curious if
any other missions are planned.

Are they still looking at 2010 for end of flights?


There are 15 additional shuttle flights planned, with all but one
destined for the ISS (the other being a possible flight to repair and
upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope). The majority of the focus for the
remainder of the shuttle program is to complete the International Space
Station...a job for which only the shuttle is suited to do.

The next several flights will focus on building up the power generating
capabilities of Station, by adding additional solar panels and
connecting truss segments. Then the focus will shift to adding the
modules from all of the international partners, such as the European
and Japanese space agencies.

On Sat, 08 Jul 2006 15:03:37 -0700, Craig Cocca wrote:

Captain DILLIGAF wrote:
Anybody know how many shuttle flights are planned
if everything goes OK with the safety upgrades?

I have heard they will all be for the ISS just curious if
any other missions are planned.

Are they still looking at 2010 for end of flights?


There are 15 additional shuttle flights planned, with all but one
destined for the ISS (the other being a possible flight to repair and
upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope).

They should add one more, to pick up the Hubble Space Telescope and bring
it the the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.

http://www.nasm.si.edu/

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Captain DILLIGAF wrote in
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Anybody know how many shuttle flights are planned
if everything goes OK with the safety upgrades?

I have heard they will all be for the ISS just curious if
any other missions are planned.

There are 19 flights on the current shuttle manifest. One of those is STS-
121, which has already launched, which leaves 18.

Out of those 18, two are "contingency" logistics flights to ISS, which are
expected to be deleted at some point, leaving 16.

One of the remaining 16 flights is a placeholder for an HST servicing
mission, the only non-ISS flight on the manifest. That too will be deleted
if not deemed safe. However, given the good results of today's EVA, I am
confident that NASA will give the go-ahead for the mission.

Are they still looking at 2010 for end of flights?

Yes.

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"Craig Fink" wrote in message
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On Sat, 08 Jul 2006 15:03:37 -0700, Craig Cocca wrote:

Captain DILLIGAF wrote:
Anybody know how many shuttle flights are planned
if everything goes OK with the safety upgrades?

I have heard they will all be for the ISS just curious if
any other missions are planned.

Are they still looking at 2010 for end of flights?


There are 15 additional shuttle flights planned, with all but one
destined for the ISS (the other being a possible flight to repair and
upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope).

They should add one more, to pick up the Hubble Space Telescope and bring
it the the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.

http://www.nasm.si.edu/

--
Craig Fink
Courtesy E-Mail Welcome @

Or even better, pick it up and attach it to the space station. I know this
isn't possible, but it would be nice if they could add a significant
astronomical capability to the ISS.

George

On Sun, 09 Jul 2006 07:57:41 -0400, George wrote:


"Craig Fink" wrote in message
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On Sat, 08 Jul 2006 15:03:37 -0700, Craig Cocca wrote:

Captain DILLIGAF wrote:
Anybody know how many shuttle flights are planned
if everything goes OK with the safety upgrades?

I have heard they will all be for the ISS just curious if
any other missions are planned.

Are they still looking at 2010 for end of flights?


There are 15 additional shuttle flights planned, with all but one
destined for the ISS (the other being a possible flight to repair and
upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope).

They should add one more, to pick up the Hubble Space Telescope and bring
it the the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.

http://www.nasm.si.edu/

--
Craig Fink
Courtesy E-Mail Welcome @

Or even better, pick it up and attach it to the space station. I know this
isn't possible, but it would be nice if they could add a significant
astronomical capability to the ISS.


Yeah, two different orbits. Or, boost it into a 100 year orbit when it's
usefulness comes to an end. Pick it up later and put it in the Smithsonian.

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Craig Fink
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On Sat, 08 Jul 2006 22:54:25 -0500, Jorge R. Frank wrote:


There are 19 flights on the current shuttle manifest. One of those is STS-
121, which has already launched, which leaves 18.

Out of those 18, two are "contingency" logistics flights to ISS, which are
expected to be deleted at some point, leaving 16.

One of the remaining 16 flights is a placeholder for an HST servicing
mission, the only non-ISS flight on the manifest. That too will be deleted
if not deemed safe. However, given the good results of today's EVA, I am
confident that NASA will give the go-ahead for the mission.


Not too supprising, as the sum of all the forces applied by an astronaut
at the end of the boom is always zero. The interesting thing was how
little force it took to move the boom when the force was applied to
something else.

Four flights per year, not a spectacular rate.

--
Craig Fink
Courtesy E-Mail Welcome @

On Sun, 09 Jul 2006 12:49:37 GMT, Craig Fink
wrote:

On Sun, 09 Jul 2006 07:57:41 -0400, George wrote:

Or even better, pick it up and attach it to the space station. I know this
isn't possible, but it would be nice if they could add a significant
astronomical capability to the ISS.

Yeah, two different orbits. Or, boost it into a 100 year orbit when it's
usefulness comes to an end. Pick it up later and put it in the Smithsonian.

Well, *anything* is possible, given enough delta-v...

Mike
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I am the history within'

Hubble was DESIGNED to be returned by shuttle...

Astronauts said they are willing to risk life for service flight but no
return it flight.

YES hubble should be boosted to high storage orbit for the day it can
be recovered and displayed or displayed in orbit as part of a tourist
flight.

here we have hubble boosted into this orbit at its end of life, later
we will see a saturn 5 second stage recovered from heliospheric orbit,
nearby is snoopy the apollo LM ascent stage also recovered from
heliospheric orbit. the museum flight is one of our most popular.

then we will be leaving for the moon flyby portion, we get within 80
miles of the lunart surface. sadlyt we dont land but over half of all
tourists that do the flyby later return for the moon landing flight
andwe now have the new moon hotel with swimming pool.

those of you who opt for a landing flight later are in for a real treat

Hubble was DESIGNED to be returned by shuttle...

Astronauts said they are willing to risk life for service flight but no
return it flight.

YES hubble should be boosted to high storage orbit for the day it can
be recovered and displayed or displayed in orbit as part of a tourist
flight.

here we have hubble boosted into this orbit at its end of life, later
we will see a saturn 5 second stage recovered from heliospheric orbit,
nearby is snoopy the apollo LM ascent stage also recovered from
heliospheric orbit. the museum flight is one of our most popular.

then we will be leaving for the moon flyby portion, we get within 80
miles of the lunart surface. sadlyt we dont land but over half of all
tourists that do the flyby later return for the moon landing flight
andwe now have the new moon hotel with swimming pool.

those of you who opt for a landing flight later are in for a real treat