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Space Shuttle Launch

February 24, 2011 by · Comments Off on Space Shuttle Launch 

Space Shuttle Launch, The launch will cast live on NASA TV and the coverage has scheduled to begin at 03:30 EST. This Whole mission has called as the Glory mission, it held to collect date to enable scientists to know that how particles of sun and others called aerosols on Earth’s typical weather. A precise measurement of these impacts is important for them so they can understand what the changes will be made on the Earth’s climate. The launch of the space shuttle is now said to be no before the February at 5:09 ET. NASA and Orbital Sciences Corp. engineers have to resolve a question that was until Wednesday when they tried to launch. When it comes to space travel that you want to make sure you have everything together. The launch of Space Shuttle is one of the most impressive sights to see, but can be terrifying that all that needs to go in deep.

The first reusable shuttle was launched April 12, just because it has been for so many years since the first time does not mean the exhilaration has died down. Almost every boy wants to be an astronaut at a number of points in their childhood. What is the launch of the Space Shuttle will happen if?
Discovery Space Shuttle at oldest and went about to launch Thursday on his last mission to the International Space Station, wrapping a legacy of nearly three decades of orbital travel. When the spaceship takes off stage at 16:50 (2150 GMT), it will mark the start of the end of the program of the U.S. space shuttle Discovery with the first of the three other shuttles head to retire this year. The conclusiveness of the shuttle line up will leave a huge hole in the American space mission, forcing the astronauts to rely on the Russian space capsule Soyuz for transport to the ISS in orbit. Although concerns for the coming have been set aside as the exhilaration mount for the Discovery mission, with specialized inspections going by the side of well and not the lesser of evils fuel tank that had postponed the launch of November.

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Space Shuttle Launch

November 1, 2010 by · Comments Off on Space Shuttle Launch 

Space Shuttle Launch, U.S. space agency NASA has begun the countdown for the launch of space shuttle Discovery on Wednesday, after two postponements to cope with losses of nitrogen and helium.

The launch is scheduled for Wednesday afternoon from the Kennedy Space Center in the southeastern U.S. the state of Florida.

The shuttle mission will take 11 days to six U.S. astronauts to the International Space Station. Also be given a final module of the U.S. portion orbital laboratory and a human-like robot, known as Robonaut 2, which will be a permanent residence in the space station.

This is the last flight of Discovery, who retired along with shuttles Atlantis and Endeavour after a recent mission by Endeavour in February. The largest of the three orbiters, Discovery has completed 38 missions in 26 years.

After NASA retires its shuttle fleet, the space station partners and private use Russian rockets to send astronauts and supplies to the orbiting laboratory.

Some information for this report was provided by AP and AFP.

Kennedy Space Center

April 22, 2010 by · Comments Off on Kennedy Space Center 

Kennedy Space CenterKennedy Space Center:Discovery makes successful landing at the Kennedy Space Center: CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Space shuttle Discovery glided to a landing at 9:08 am at Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday, ending its mission to supply the International Space Station.

The crew returned to Earth on a track that led to the shuttle in much of central United States for only the second time since the Columbia disaster in 2003.

“Stop Wheels, Discovery, Rick Sturckow in Mission Control by radio from Houston. “Welcome home, Dex. Congratulations to you and the crew on a mission exceptional.”

“It was a great mission,” said Discovery commander, Alan Poindexter. “We are pleased that the International Space Station is replenished.”

Discovery also brought home two tons of scientific equipment and consumables used in the supply module Leonardo.

Fort clouds blocked Discovery’s planned return Monday and forced a wave-off of its first landing attempt Tuesday. But the clouds parted and the discovery on Tuesday gave the green light to start over one hour that broke the speed of 17.500 mph to 225 mph at the time of landing at KSC runway 33.

Yesterday morning the shuttle was landing more than Vancouver, northeastern Washington, across northeast Kansas Tulsa, Oklahoma, and finally, along the Florida east of Gainesville and west of Jacksonville.

The crew that included Jim Dutton pilot and mission specialists Rick Mastracchio, Clay Anderson, Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger, Stephanie Wilson and Naoko Yamazaki.

There are only three remaining shuttle flights before the planned retirement of the fleet later this year. Kennedy Space Center, workers are planning to launch the space shuttle Atlantis to the launch pad later in the day before their planned mission of 14 May.
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Space Shuttle Launch

April 5, 2010 by · Comments Off on Space Shuttle Launch 

Space Shuttle LaunchSpace Shuttle Launch:U.S. Space Shuttle Discovery took off at dawn on Monday to the International Space Station for a mission that will orbit more women than ever before.

Discovery blasted off from launch pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida at 6:21 am (1021 GMT) when two rocket boosters scheduled.The, representing 80 percent of the shuttle, lift the administrative officers during the off, peel as planned 120 seconds after launch. They fell into the Atlantic Ocean, where they will be recovered and reused later.

The shuttle arrived at the Earth’s orbit eight minutes administrative officers and a half after launch, moving at five times the speed of sound to reach 16,155 miles (26,000 kilometers) per hour.Once it enters orbit 140 miles (225 kilometers) above Earth, Discovery will begin its run to the ISS, is 213 miles (343 kilometers) above Earth.

Discovery, the AM due to arrive to the International Space Station is tentatively scheduled for Wednesday and will be a final mission for the shuttle program, which will be closed later this year.
It is the first shuttle mission with three female crew members and also mark the first time in space, with four women in orbit.Only three space shuttle flights planned before the three remaining U.S. manned orbiters are retired in late 2010, ending 30 years of service. The shuttle flew in April 1981.

During the 13-day mission, Discovery and its crew delivered about eight tons of cargo, including spare beds for the occupants of the space station, a large tank of ammonia coolant and seven racks full of science experiments Tracy Caldwell. Dyson came to the American space station on Sunday aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft with two Dyson cosmonauts.Joining be Dottie Metcalf Discovery mission specialists-Lindenburger, 34, a former science teacher in school, Stephanie Wilson , 43, a veteran of two shuttle missions, and Naoko Yamazaki, 39, an astronaut of the Japanese space agency since 1996.

Rounding out the crew of the Discovery mission commander, Alan Poindexter, 48, co-pilot Jim Dutton, 41, mission specialist and astronaut Rick Mastracchio, 50, and fellow astronaut Clay Anderson, 51. Among the arts of being carried into space is a freezer to preserve blood samples, urine, saliva, plants or microorganisms used in microgravity experiments and then analyzed later on Earth.

Discovery is also carrying an exercise machine designed to study the effects of microgravity on the body, AOS musculoskeletal system. Muscles can atrophy during long stays in space for astronauts must be careful to exercise regularly.

Supplies, racks and other equipment are placed in a pressurized module built Italian named Leonardo, made in the shuttle, the construction of administrative officers bay.Until completing the space station, NASA has to carry spare parts and equipment to maintain the space station and service of scientific experiments on board.

Two Discovery astronauts made three spacewalks lasting six hours each day five, seven and nine of the mission.One of its largest and most complex tasks will be to replace an empty ammonia tank attached to the rear station with one that is full. Ammonia is used in the station cooling AOs system.he ISS, a project of one hundred billion dollars started in 1998 with the participation of 16 countries, is primarily funded by the United States.

Space Shuttle Launch

In presenting his budget proposal in February 2011, President Barack Obama announced that the space station will continue at least until 2020.

Once the shuttle program ends, the United States depend on the Russian Soyuz spacecraft to transport astronauts to the ISS until a new U.S. launch vehicle is ready to take over around 2015.

Space Shuttle

April 5, 2010 by · Comments Off on Space Shuttle 

Space ShuttleSpace Shuttle:Lighting the sky before dawn, the shuttle Discovery left the darkness into the light of the rising sun early Monday, put on a spectacular show sky like distant thunder on a space mission to resupply the station.

Carrying a crew of seven and 10 tons of supplies and equipment, the Discovery lifted off from pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center at 6:21 am EDT after a smooth countdown.

Riding on a column of fire by land twin propellers of the ship of solid fuel, fuel loaded ship 4.5 million pounds accelerated through 100 km / h – with a straight back – in just seven seconds, majestic roll about to line up in a northeast trajectory parallel to the East Coast.

The launch was scheduled for the moment Earth’s rotation moved the pad in line with the orbit of the space station’s Destiny. The laboratory complex striped over Florida spaceport 15 minutes before liftoff of Discovery, a bright white moving through space at 5 miles per second.

Discovery’s climb to orbit without incident showed no obvious signs of problems. A camera mounted on the side of the ship’s external tank showed a few pieces of insulating foam falling alleged midway through the ascent, but it was long after the period in which the waste poses a serious threat in the thermal shield ferry.

The crew will conduct a detailed inspection of the shuttle‘s nose cap and wing panel edge early Tuesday. If all goes well, commander Alan G. Poindexter, a Navy captain and pilot James P. Dutton an Air Force colonel, will guide the spacecraft to a docking with the space station about 3:44 a.m. Wednesday.

Waiting to welcome seven shuttle fliers, the station is five men, one woman, the Expedition 23 crew, including two Russian cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut who arrived at the lab early Sunday aboard Russian spacecraft Soyuz. The six watched Discovery’s launch on video beamed up from mission control.

“We are absolutely delighted to have our friends and colleagues to join us here in a couple of days,” said Army Col. Timothy J. Creamer through the radio station.

“Be prepared for a knock on the door,” said a flight controller.

Discovery’s mission is one of the end of the four flights carrying NASA as the space agency races to complete the international laboratory before retiring the orbiter later this year.

The station is almost complete, but NASA is trying to save the laboratory with spare parts and equipment as a hedge against possible problems after moving to land and the station becomes dependent on smaller, less capable of Russia, cargo ships from Japan and Europe.

Discovery’s crew is to deliver 10 tons of scientific instruments, parts and supplies, including ammonia coolant, hardware experiment station astronauts sleep, a freezer and an enclosure experiment shows the camera-to darkroom Destiny module’s Earth-facing window.

Three spacewalks are planned by Richard A. Mastracchio, a veteran of the shuttle, and Clayton C. Anderson, who spent six months on the station in 2007. The men will replace one of the two cooling tanks 1700 pounds of ammonia. They also plan to develop a set of aging batteries solar array to be replaced at a future flight. Capt. Poindexter, Colonel Dutton, flight engineer Dottie Metcalf M. Lindenburger, Stephanie D. Wilson, Mr. Anderson, Mr. Mastracchio and Japanese astronaut Naoko Yamazaki plan to undock from the space station on April 16 and land back at Kennedy Space Center two days later.

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