ISS Fan Club - Space Shuttle

Owen Garriott, W5LFL and mission STS-9

PY4MAB — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 01:27:05 +0000

Owen Garriott, W5LFL and mission STS-9

An old video of astronaut Owen Garriott, W5LFL and mission STS-9 made by the ARRL, has been released on the MrQRZDx channel on youtube, telling the story of Owen Garriott, W5LFL when he was on board the space shuttle mission STS-9 in 1983.

Space Shuttle Discovery to Fly Over Washington Metro Area April 17

PY4MAB — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 00:58:52 +0000

WASHINGTON -- NASA's 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) with space shuttle Discovery mounted atop will fly approximately 1,500 feet above various parts of the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area on Tuesday, April 17.

Atlantis Completes Final Space Shuttle Program Landing at 5:57 a.m. EDT

N5VHO — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 11:54:45 +0000

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 05:18:04 AM CDT

At 5:57 a.m. EDT, space shuttle Atlantis landed for the final time at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center after 200 orbits around Earth and a journey of 5,284,862 miles on STS-135.

It was the 25th night landing, the 78th landing at Kennedy and the133rd landing in shuttle history.

Atlantis’ main gear touched down at 5:57:00 a.m. followed by the nose gear at 5:57:20 and wheels stop at 5:57:54 a.m. At wheels stop, the mission elapsed time was 12 days, 18 hours, 28 minutes and 50 seconds.

Astronauts Wrapping Up Preparations for Landing Early Thursday

N5VHO — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 18:20:04 +0000

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 16:08:07 GMT

Space shuttle Atlantis’ crew is wrapping up final preparations for its planned landing at 5:56:58 a.m. EDT Thursday at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The crew stowed the Ku-Band antenna, used for high-data rate communications and television from space, at 11:34 a.m. and will go to sleep at 1:29 p.m.

Mission managers have cleared Atlantis’ heat shield for entry after reviewing results of the “late inspection” survey of the shuttle’s reinforced carbon carbon.

Crew Prepares for Landing

N5VHO — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:26:47 +0000

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 07:36:26 AM CDT

The STS-135 crew members spent Wednesday getting themselves and space shuttle Atlantis ready for the return home. They practiced landings on a laptop application, performed the flight control system checkout and checked out the reaction control system thrusters. All checked out well.

Houston Welcomes Home Final Space Shuttle Crew

PY4MAB — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:34:07 +0000

HOUSTON -- After space shuttle Atlantis' scheduled landing Thursday, July 21, a welcome home ceremony for the STS-135 astronauts is planned for Friday, July 22. Journalists and the public are invited to attend the 4 p.m. CDT event at Ellington Field's NASA Hangar 990. Gates to Ellington Field will open at 3:30 p.m.

Prebreathe Protocol Before Spacewalkers Exit Station

N5VHO — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 12:23:40 +0000

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 04:41:08 AM CDT

Expedition 28 spacewalkers Mike Fossum and Ron Garan are using the new In Suit Light Exercise (ISLE) protocol to prepare for today’s excursion, a technique first used on shuttle mission STS-134. Rather than “camping out” in the Quest Airlock at low air pressure last night, the pair waited until this morning to breathe pure oxygen through air masks for an hour as the air pressure inside Quest is lowered to 10.2 pounds per square inch.

Atlantis launch ends thirty year space shuttle program

EdenG — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 05:00:54 +0000

After many delays due to weather, the Space Ship Atlantis launched Friday morning. It's going to be the final flight in the space shuttle program. The moment was a difficult one for many linked to the program, but concluding this section will open new ones in NASA's exploration of the cosmos. Source for this article - Space Shuttle Atlantis lifts off on its final mission by Newsytype.com.

A lot of delays

Raffaello Installed on Harmony

N5VHO — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 14:12:33 +0000

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 05:51:41 AM CDT

Piloting the Canadarm2 from the robotic workstation in the International Space Station’s cupola, astronauts Doug Hurley and Sandy Magnus grabbed the Raffaello multi-purpose logistics module at 5:16 a.m. EDT. They lifted it out of shuttle Atlantis’ cargo bay at 5:47 a.m. and installed it on the Earth-facing port of the station’s Harmony node at 6:46 a.m.

NASA Schedules News Conference About Final Space Shuttle Launch

PY4MAB — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 00:17:57 +0000

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA managers will hold a news conference on Tuesday, June 28, at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to discuss the status of the final space shuttle launch.