Jacques van Oene
August 23rd 05, 11:42 AM
Space Shuttle Update
Monday, August 22, 2005
The Space Shuttle orbiter Discovery arrived back at the Kennedy Space Center
Sunday morning after a three-day cross-country ferry flight from Edwards Air
Force Base.
NASA's modified Boeing 747 Space Shuttle Carrier Aircraft #905 that carried
Discovery atop its fuselage touched down at Kennedy's Shuttle Landing
Facility runway shortly before 10 a.m. Eastern time, 7 a.m. Pacific time
Sunday after a two-hour flight from Barksdale Air Force Base near
Shreveport, Louisiana. The flight was the third and final leg for the ferry
flight that had begun Friday morning at Edwards.
The piggyback pair had flown from Edwards to Altus Air Force Base in
Oklahoma for refueling and then on to Barksdale for an overnight stop on
Friday. However, unacceptable weather conditions in central Florida led
mission managers to postpone the final segment of the flight to Kennedy from
Saturday until Sunday.
Discovery had landed at Edwards on August 9th after completing the two-week
Return-to-Flight mission STS-114. Deservicing and ferry flight preparations
at NASA Dryden were also slowed a couple of days due to thunderstorms over
the desert early last week.
After demating from the SCA late Sunday, Discovery was towed to the Orbiter
Processing Facility today for removal of the Multi-Purpose Logistics Module
containing no longer needed equipment and trash from the International Space
Station and other payloads. After that is completed, Discovery will then be
prepared for the second Return-to-Flight test mission, STS-121, which is now
scheduled to occur no earlier than March 2006.
Dryden employees seeking additional information about the current status of
the Shuttle program and specifically the Return to Flight missions 114 and
121 may log on to www.nasa.gov/returntoflight on the Internet. For more
photos on the Space Shuttle's landing and processing, visit:
www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/STS-114/index.html.
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Jacques :-)
www.spacepatches.info
Monday, August 22, 2005
The Space Shuttle orbiter Discovery arrived back at the Kennedy Space Center
Sunday morning after a three-day cross-country ferry flight from Edwards Air
Force Base.
NASA's modified Boeing 747 Space Shuttle Carrier Aircraft #905 that carried
Discovery atop its fuselage touched down at Kennedy's Shuttle Landing
Facility runway shortly before 10 a.m. Eastern time, 7 a.m. Pacific time
Sunday after a two-hour flight from Barksdale Air Force Base near
Shreveport, Louisiana. The flight was the third and final leg for the ferry
flight that had begun Friday morning at Edwards.
The piggyback pair had flown from Edwards to Altus Air Force Base in
Oklahoma for refueling and then on to Barksdale for an overnight stop on
Friday. However, unacceptable weather conditions in central Florida led
mission managers to postpone the final segment of the flight to Kennedy from
Saturday until Sunday.
Discovery had landed at Edwards on August 9th after completing the two-week
Return-to-Flight mission STS-114. Deservicing and ferry flight preparations
at NASA Dryden were also slowed a couple of days due to thunderstorms over
the desert early last week.
After demating from the SCA late Sunday, Discovery was towed to the Orbiter
Processing Facility today for removal of the Multi-Purpose Logistics Module
containing no longer needed equipment and trash from the International Space
Station and other payloads. After that is completed, Discovery will then be
prepared for the second Return-to-Flight test mission, STS-121, which is now
scheduled to occur no earlier than March 2006.
Dryden employees seeking additional information about the current status of
the Shuttle program and specifically the Return to Flight missions 114 and
121 may log on to www.nasa.gov/returntoflight on the Internet. For more
photos on the Space Shuttle's landing and processing, visit:
www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/STS-114/index.html.
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Jacques :-)
www.spacepatches.info