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STS-130 Endeavour 6/2/2010

  • 03-12-2009 1:35pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,576 ✭✭✭


    Right so,back on track with the next mission to the ISS. This mission will bring the Tranquility node to the ISS and will consist of 3 EVAs. I've put the launch date down for February 6th even though NASA still say February 4th. From what i can gather there's a range conflict which will bump STS-130 down a couple of days to the 6th.
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,576 ✭✭✭lord lucan


    Endeavour is due to rollover from the OPF to the VAB in the next couple of weeks to be mated with her ET&SRBs. She'll spend christmas in the VAB and will roll out to 39a early in the new year.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 3,645 Mod ✭✭✭✭Beeker


    lord lucan wrote: »
    Endeavour is due to rollover from the OPF to the VAB in the next couple of weeks to be mated with her ET&SRBs. She'll spend christmas in the VAB and will roll out to 39a early in the new year.
    Good man LL!!!! now we're off again at last:) Roll on STS-130!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,576 ✭✭✭lord lucan


    Launch looks like the 7th of February now. Rollover looks set for December 12th.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 3,645 Mod ✭✭✭✭Beeker


    By the way LL good to see your a member of L2 aswell. Its the only place to be!:)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,576 ✭✭✭lord lucan


    Beeker wrote: »
    By the way LL good to see your a member of L2 aswell. Its the only place to be!:)

    The 2hour re-entry video of STS-115 and STS-112 ascent was worth the subscription alone imo. :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,576 ✭✭✭lord lucan


    Rather than start a new thread i'll just throw this in here. NASA held an in-house competition to mark the end of the Shuttle programme. They asked NASA employees to design a patch to mark the end of the shuttle programme. It won't be a mission patch but the winning design will get flown on one of the 5 remaining flights. Obviously it's an internal competition but 2 designs have made their way online. Here they are:
    news-120409b.jpg
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    My favourite is the first one,5 shuttles marking the 5 orbiters that flew the programme and 14 stars representing the 14 astronauts who lost their lives on Challenger&Columbia. It also includes the 2 things the shuttle will be remembered for,Hubble and the ISS.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 3,645 Mod ✭✭✭✭Beeker


    lord lucan wrote: »
    Rather than start a new thread i'll just throw this in here. NASA held an in-house competition to mark the end of the Shuttle programme. They asked NASA employees to design a patch to mark the end of the shuttle programme. It won't be a mission patch but the winning design will get flown on one of the 5 remaining flights. Obviously it's an internal competition but 2 designs have made their way online. Here they are:
    news-120409b.jpg
    news-120409c.jpg

    My favourite is the first one,5 shuttles marking the 5 orbiters that flew the programme and 14 stars representing the 14 astronauts who lost their lives on Challenger&Columbia. It also includes the 2 things the shuttle will be remembered for,Hubble and the ISS.
    I agree the first one looks the best!

    By the way we may get one extra flight STS-135/Atlantis:) Fingers crossed.
    http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2009/12/nasa-evaluating-sts-135-addition-to-shuttle-manifest/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,680 ✭✭✭Stargate


    lord lucan wrote: »
    Rather than start a new thread i'll just throw this in here. NASA held an in-house competition to mark the end of the Shuttle programme. They asked NASA employees to design a patch to mark the end of the shuttle programme. It won't be a mission patch but the winning design will get flown on one of the 5 remaining flights. Obviously it's an internal competition but 2 designs have made their way online. Here they are:
    news-120409b.jpg
    news-120409c.jpg

    Dont know if its the colouring , layout etc LL but id go with the 2nd one ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,680 ✭✭✭Stargate


    Since its xmas time , just off topic , i thought id let you know of this fantastic link for anyone with kids , or even for the adults too ...........enjoy :P:pac:

    Get Santa to send the kids a personal video message from the north pole you can upload the childs foto and it shows up on the video lol

    http://portablenorthpole.tv/home/

    Sorry if its off topic guys , but thoughts some here would like it ! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,576 ✭✭✭lord lucan


    Beeker wrote: »
    By the way we may get one extra flight STS-135/Atlantis:) Fingers crossed.
    http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2009/12/nasa-evaluating-sts-135-addition-to-shuttle-manifest/

    My baby,erm.... Atlantis may get to see out the programme!!:D:D:D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,576 ✭✭✭lord lucan


    Nice close-up of the TPS around Endeavours cockpit:
    153212main_tiles-m.jpg


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 3,645 Mod ✭✭✭✭Beeker


    Stargate wrote: »
    Since its xmas time , just off topic , i thought id let you know of this fantastic link for anyone with kids , or even for the adults too ...........enjoy :P:pac:

    Get Santa to send the kids a personal video message from the north pole you can upload the childs foto and it shows up on the video lol

    http://portablenorthpole.tv/home/

    Sorry if its off topic guys , but thoughts some here would like it ! :D
    Mine too old for that now but try this also http://www.noradsanta.org/
    Great fun on christmas eve as you track Santa around the world. My little one used to love this a few years back.:)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,576 ✭✭✭lord lucan


    Beeker wrote: »
    Mine too old for that now but try this also http://www.noradsanta.org/
    Great fun on christmas eve as you track Santa around the world. My little one used to love this a few years back.:)

    Dublin Airport normally have Rudolph1 or something like that on the arrivals section online and aertel on xmas eve for midnight.:D:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,680 ✭✭✭Stargate


    lord lucan wrote: »
    My baby,erm.... Atlantis may get to see out the programme!!:D:D:D

    Leo , if she does , you will have to take a few of us with you :P
    Your not allowed to go over to the launch site alone , NEW forum rules Leo ;-)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,576 ✭✭✭lord lucan


    Looks like Endeavour will rollover to the VAB tomorrow evening. Launch date appears to be up in the air right now,we'll have to wait for the FRR in january to get an idea of when she'll go.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,576 ✭✭✭lord lucan


    Anyone else watching Endeavours rollover to the VAB?:p:p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,576 ✭✭✭lord lucan




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,576 ✭✭✭lord lucan


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,962 ✭✭✭jumpguy


    Endeavour looks quite old and slightly haggard now...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,576 ✭✭✭lord lucan


    The white tiles are unforgiving in terms of how they look. NASA say they're too expensive/time consuming to change just for cosmetic reasons.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,962 ✭✭✭jumpguy


    lord lucan wrote: »
    The white tiles are unforgiving in terms of how they look. NASA say they're too expensive/time consuming to change just for cosmetic reasons.
    That's fair enough. As long the tiles function as good as new, fresh looking tired that's grand. It's the amazing the heat of re-entry can have on the blackness of them! It's like they've been sandblasted (which probably the may well have been with the speed of the air hitting them)...

    But it's not only that...the nose engine nossels look old, areas around the rearengines look discoloured. The white is not sheen. They're scratchs. The shuttle fleet looks tired. It's looking at pics up close like this with revealing lighting you really realise why they're being retired.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,576 ✭✭✭lord lucan


    jumpguy wrote: »
    That's fair enough. As long the tiles function as good as new, fresh looking tired that's grand. It's the amazing the heat of re-entry can have on the blackness of them! It's like they've been sandblasted (which probably the may well have been with the speed of the air hitting them)...

    But it's not only that...the nose engine nossels look old, areas around the rearengines look discoloured. The white is not sheen. They're scratchs. The shuttle fleet looks tired. It's looking at pics up close like this with revealing lighting you really realise why they're being retired.

    There's lots of discolouration that you can only see up close. They do a full review and repair job on the orbiters when they return from a mission and only if something is broken/damaged and risks flight safety will they change it. Maybe if the shuttle was around for another 10 years they may pay more attention to it cosmetically but with the programme in wind down mode they'll have to soldier on as they are.

    The shuttles main engines will be re-used after the shuttle retires so they may need some reconditioning,they won't remain on the orbiters when they go to the museums.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,962 ✭✭✭jumpguy


    lord lucan wrote: »
    There's lots of discolouration that you can only see up close. They do a full review and repair job on the orbiters when they return from a mission and only if something is broken/damaged and risks flight safety will they change it. Maybe if the shuttle was around for another 10 years they may pay more attention to it cosmetically but with the programme in wind down mode they'll have to soldier on as they are.

    The shuttles main engines will be re-used after the shuttle retires so they may need some reconditioning,they won't remain on the orbiters when they go to the museums.
    What could the engines be reused for? Will all the orbiters go to museums (would be savage)?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,576 ✭✭✭lord lucan


    jumpguy wrote: »
    What could the engines be reused for? Will all the orbiters go to museums (would be savage)?

    NASA said they'd sell the orbiters to any interested museums provided they met certain criteria(how they'll be displayed/stored etc.). Iirc there was a figure of $42m per orbiter being mentioned. Last i heard the British science museum were interested in buying Endeavour.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 3,645 Mod ✭✭✭✭Beeker


    lord lucan wrote: »
    NASA said they'd sell the orbiters to any interested museums provided they met certain criteria(how they'll be displayed/stored etc.). Iirc there was a figure of $42m per orbiter being mentioned. Last i heard the British science museum were interested in buying Endeavour.
    I'm making room in my garage as we speak:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,576 ✭✭✭lord lucan


    Beeker wrote: »
    I'm making room in my garage as we speak:D

    I'm taking Atlantis for my back garden,i'll throw an STS party when she arrives!:p:p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,576 ✭✭✭lord lucan


    Continuing on from the post about commorative patches for the shuttle programme in the 1st page,here's a few more that have surfaced.
    sspcommpatch01.jpg
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    Space-Shuttle-Commemorative-30-years_concept-01_R1_400x311.jpg
    Space-Shuttle-Commemorative-30-years_concept-02a_R2d_400x311.jpg
    Space-Shuttle-Commemorative-30-years_concept-03_R2d_311x400.jpg
    Space-Shuttle-Commemorative-30-years_concept-04_R1c_320x366.jpg


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 3,645 Mod ✭✭✭✭Beeker


    lord lucan wrote: »
    Continuing on from the post about commorative patches for the shuttle programme in the 1st page,here's a few more that have surfaced.
    sspcommpatch01.jpg
    sspcommpatch01.jpg
    Space-Shuttle-Commemorative-30-years_concept-01_R1_400x311.jpg
    Space-Shuttle-Commemorative-30-years_concept-02a_R2d_400x311.jpg
    Space-Shuttle-Commemorative-30-years_concept-03_R2d_311x400.jpg
    Space-Shuttle-Commemorative-30-years_concept-04_R1c_320x366.jpg
    Some beauties there!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,680 ✭✭✭Stargate


    lord lucan wrote: »
    NASA said they'd sell the orbiters to any interested museums provided they met certain criteria(how they'll be displayed/stored etc.). Iirc there was a figure of $42m per orbiter being mentioned. Last i heard the British science museum were interested in buying Endeavour.

    They ( British science museum ) can afford that LL on ONE item ? They Must have a fairly large money vault in that building in South Kensington full to the brim :D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,680 ✭✭✭Stargate


    Beeker wrote: »
    I'm making room in my garage as we speak:D

    Beeker is a trillion zillionaire , " show me the money " :eek:


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 3,645 Mod ✭✭✭✭Beeker


    Stargate wrote: »
    Beeker is a trillion zillionaire , " show me the money " :eek:

    :DOh yeah I'm rolling in it alright:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,680 ✭✭✭Stargate


    lord lucan wrote: »
    Continuing on from the post about commorative patches for the shuttle programme in the 1st page,here's a few more that have surfaced.

    Tnx LL , some beautiful ones there :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,576 ✭✭✭lord lucan


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,680 ✭✭✭Stargate


    Wow LL just look at the tiny little men on ground level in the first 2 pictures :D

    Your Tee-shirt dry yet Leo ? :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,576 ✭✭✭lord lucan


    I love the 3rd picture,she looks likes she's flying!:)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,576 ✭✭✭lord lucan


    A change request has been made for STS-130,launch is now targeted for February 7th and the mission duration has been extended to 13+1 days.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,817 ✭✭✭ynotdu


    lord lucan wrote: »
    A change request has been made for STS-130,launch is now targeted for February 7th and the mission duration has been extended to 13+1 days.

    ALL the pics are spectaculor LL!

    May'be it will be 'bumped' to Feb 14th and We can All send it roses?
    Never forget one's first Love,give yar missus a mop on the 14th if the above should happen!;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,680 ✭✭✭Stargate


    lord lucan wrote: »
    A change request has been made for STS-130,launch is now targeted for February 7th and the mission duration has been extended to 13+1 days.

    I`d say even the the 7th will be changed LL . Whats the weather like there in Feb ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,680 ✭✭✭Stargate


    Nice to see , another part of the ISS !

    http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0912/17mrmarrival/

    The Mini-Research Module 1 arrived at the Shuttle Landing Facility at about 1 p.m. EST aboard an Antonov 124 cargo plane, completing a nearly 6,000-mile journey from Moscow. MRM 1 is named Rassvet, which means dawn in Russian. It was built by the Russian aerospace company Energia.

    Rassvet will launch aboard the shuttle Atlantis' STS-132 mission scheduled for liftoff May 14.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,576 ✭✭✭lord lucan


    Stargate wrote: »
    I`d say even the the 7th will be changed LL . Whats the weather like there in Feb ?

    Day time average is around 20 degrees celcius,low temp around 10 degrees. It can drop to freezing,look at the freezing temps that blighted Challenger in late january '86. This is an early morning launch,around 04.30 i think. As of this moment it's the last night launch of the shuttle manifest.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,680 ✭✭✭Stargate


    lord lucan wrote: »
    Day time average is around 20 degrees celcius,low temp around 10 degrees. It can drop to freezing,look at the freezing temps that blighted Challenger in late january '86. This is an early morning launch,around 04.30 i think. As of this moment it's the last night launch of the shuttle manifest.

    Whos going over for the launch this time ? You Or Beeker ? :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,576 ✭✭✭lord lucan


    Stargate wrote: »
    Whos going over for the launch this time ? You Or Beeker ? :P

    I've been dropping hints at my family about getting me Aer Lingus vouchers for xmas!!:D:D:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,680 ✭✭✭Stargate


    lord lucan wrote: »
    I've been dropping hints at my family about getting me Aer Lingus vouchers for xmas!!:D:D:D

    HaHa Leo , just wondering will you have your t-shirt ready by then eh? ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,576 ✭✭✭lord lucan


    Stargate wrote: »
    HaHa Leo , just wondering will you have your t-shirt ready by then eh? ;)

    Not sure,it's terrible weather for drying atm.:p:p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,680 ✭✭✭Stargate


    lord lucan wrote: »
    Not sure,it's terrible weather for drying atm.:p:p

    Good drying here in Cork ;) Damn cold too :eek:


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 3,645 Mod ✭✭✭✭Beeker


    Stargate wrote: »
    Whos going over for the launch this time ? You Or Beeker ? :P
    I'd go to them all but Mrs Beeker is having none of it:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,817 ✭✭✭ynotdu


    Beeker wrote: »
    I'd go to them all but Mrs Beeker is having none of it:D

    I will look after her Beeker while you are away and just like LL thought it was Mrs Lucan texting him updates from spaceflight now on 129, I will be actually be the one texting!!!!!!

    PS are your pillows softer than LL,s ?:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,576 ✭✭✭lord lucan


    ynotdu wrote: »
    I will look after her Beeker while you are away and just like LL thought it was Mrs Lucan texting him updates from spaceflight now on 129, I will be actually be the one texting!!!!!!

    PS are your pillows softer than LL,s ?:D

    Trust Ynotdu to lower the tone of the thread!:p:p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,680 ✭✭✭Stargate


    Beeker wrote: »
    I'd go to them all but Mrs Beeker is having none of it:D

    Well Beeker, play it clever , why not suggest a winter holiday break for 2 somewhere in the sun ;) ........... then come up with a once in a lifetime suggestion :eek: ...........oh i know where !!!! How about Florida :P:P in Feb 2010

    Problem solved BeeKer

    ( and no ynotdu a hoiliday break for 2 dosent mean you and Beeker :p )


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,817 ✭✭✭ynotdu


    lord lucan wrote: »
    Trust Ynotdu to lower the tone of the thread!:p:p

    Its my job!:D

    I am lost for questions etc as 127-8-9 threads answered just about ALL i did not know.

    Still no answer as to why pad 39A was always NASA.s preferred choice over B though:confused::confused::confused:


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