Nasa Tv

[snowbird]

NASA and contractors knew the possibility of any one of a thousand things going wrong. This shuttle was delayed for a couple of years while they supposedly worked these things out and played a game of "what if" with all the components that make up the shuttle. What have they been doing for the past two years and WHERE WAS THE QUALITY CONTROL?

We should all meditate and send them angel power for a safe trip back to earth. The whole NASA sloppiness really pi**es me off... and I don't think its the whole institution, but a few key people in charge, probably with big egos.

snowbird

[Sean]

SPACE CENTER, Houston - Discovery’s astronauts lowered a huge container filled with a 2½-year backlog of space station trash and old broken equipment into the shuttle Friday for return to Earth next week.

It was their biggest task of the day, coming just one day after NASA cleared Discovery to come home and one day before their departure from the international space station. The contents of the cargo container, which was slowly anchored into the shuttle’s payload bay by a robot arm, will either be junked once it’s back on Earth or returned to engineers for analysis.

Their other task Friday was to put away the inspection boom that they used to survey their spaceship.

Full Story, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8838838/

[Sean]

Yea i know what you mean about suspect QC snowbird. They had two and a half years and two billion dollars to fix the foam insulation problem among other things.
Well there should be a large number of people watching the landing early Mon. morning, and listening to Noory and Hoagland leading up to it late Sunday night.

[Sean]

SPACE CENTER, Houston - With the most anxiety-ridden part of their flight still to come, shuttle Discovery and its crew of seven set off for home Saturday after leaving the international space station.

Monday’s planned predawn re-entry will be the first by a space shuttle since Columbia’s catastrophic descent 2½ years ago.

The two space station residents wished the Discovery crew a safe landing.

Source, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8839605/

[Alger]

SPACE CENTER, Houston - With the most anxiety-ridden part of their flight still to come, shuttle Discovery and its crew of seven set off for home Saturday after leaving the international space station.

Monday’s planned predawn re-entry will be the first by a space shuttle since Columbia’s catastrophic descent 2½ years ago.

The two space station residents wished the Discovery crew a safe landing.

Source, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8839605/

As do we all. They've been doing it now for thirty years or so, no reason to believe they forgot how.

[Illyria]

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/image...ature_380.html


You might like these images as well Sean.

[Topper]

After days of analysis and one repair spacewalk, NASA
has decided that the shuttle is "safe to fly for
re-entry," a top mission manager said Thursday.
The final issue of concern — a torn thermal blanket just
below the cockpit window that might shed bits of debris
during the shuttle's descent — was cleared off the table
Thursday morning after a series of wind-tunnel tests,
said deputy shuttle program manager Wayne Hale, who
heads Discovery's mission management team.
The tests indicated that even if pieces of cloth debris
blew off and struck the aft section of the orbiter, it
would be "of negligible concern" and pose no threat to
Discovery's safe landing, he said. Under those
circumstances, sending spacewalkers out to snip away the
torn section would have violated the "first, do no harm"
rule, Hale said.

The Full story, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8826983/

I don't like that ... no wind tunnel test can duplicate re-entry
MOX NIX

[Topper]

Yesterday's video feed was awesome ... I enjoyed watching NASA utilize
all the NEW cameras when doing a 360 fly away from the Space Station.

It was so beautiful to watch

[Topper]

How I wish they could have played some mannheim Steamroller
Fresh Aire V during the undocking.
A Dream 1609 A.D. is a definition found printed on the insert to the above CD. Its well worth the read. The astronomy of the Moon
with a visual Crystal flying ship.

[Sean]

Yesterday's video feed was awesome ... I enjoyed watching NASA utilize
all the NEW cameras when doing a 360 fly away from the Space Station.

It was so beautiful to watch

Yes there were some great visuals. For a long time last night they ran a live color stream of the Earth as it went by. The cloud formations, the land masses. Nice stuff.

[Sean]

SPACE CENTER, Houston - Astronauts completed flight control checks aboard space shuttle Discovery and practiced landing on a computer simulator Sunday, as they made final preparations for their return to Earth Monday morning.

Flight director LeRoy Cain said the weather forecast looked good for Monday’s pre-dawn landing at Cape Canaveral, Fla.

Cain said he and everyone else on the entry team at Mission Control were both excited and anxious about Discovery’s return, and were not dwelling on Columbia’s catastrophic descent 2½ years ago. “We’re looking forward, we’re not looking back,” he said with less than 24 hours to go before touchdown.

Full story, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8839612/

[Alger]

Godspeed.

[Sean]

NASA will open up its backup landing sites at Edwards Air Force Base in California and at the White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico for Tuesday's opportunities. The potential landing times (all Eastern) are 5:07 a.m. and 6:43 a.m. at Kennedy, 8:12 a.m. and 9:47 a.m. at Edwards, and 6:39 a.m. and 8:13 a.m. at White Sands.

Cain said Tuesday's weather outlook for Kennedy Space Center was about the same as Monday's. He said the forecast was "very favorable" for Edwards, and somewhat less favorable for White Sands — which has been used only once for a shuttle landing, back in 1982.

If weather or other problems ruled out a Tuesday touchdown, the shuttle had enough supplies to wait until Wednesday.

Full Story, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8839616/