NASA - Earth from Space

[richelieu]

Informazioni sulla missione STS-132 (dal sito della NASA) .....

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shutt ... index.html



Informazioni sui "predecessori" .....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ham_the_Chimp

http://space.about.com/od/spaceexplorat ... chimps.htm

[richelieu]

Ultima missione ..... si slitta a Febbraio 2011 .....

..... ma sarà proprio l'ultima? .....

DATE: 01/07/10
SOURCE: Flight International

NASA pushes back final shuttle launches

By Gayle Putrich

NASA's shuttle program will extend into 2011, the US space agency announced Thursday.

After several weeks of hinting there might be changes to the schedule, official word came that the penultimate flight originally scheduled for September has been moved to Nov. 1.

With Discovery taking over what was to be the last launch date, the final mission was moved to the next available slot. Endeavour's instrumentation delivery to the International Space Station, is now scheduled for Feb 26, 2011.

More time is needed to prepare Discovery's payload for delivery to the space station, NASA said.

As for the possibility of an extra shuttle mission, NASA says no decision on adding a mission for Atlantis to round out the final schedule is expected before August.

[massimo69]

Hanno tolto il video, porca di quella miseria....

(scusate ma lo avevo salvato nei preferiti...era stupendo)

Non è che lo si può trovare da un'altra parte....?

[richelieu]

Nuovo calendario ..... ulteriori dettagli .....

Fonte: AviationWeek.com

NASA Delays Final Two Shuttle Flights

By Irene Klotz (July 6, 2010)


CAPE CANAVERAL—NASA managers July 1 decided to delay the last two missions of the space shuttle program to allow more time to prepare a final load of spare parts for the International Space Station.

To cover shuttle operating expenses beyond Sept. 30, NASA will dip into an expected $600-million cushion promised by legislators and tap savings that managers have been accruing from the program’s roughly $200 million monthly allotments.

If schedules hold, Discovery will lift off at 4:33 p.m. EDT on Nov. 1 with a load of station space parts and other equipment inside the Leonardo Multi-Purpose Logistics Module, which is being modified to remain permanently attached to the space station as a storage pod.

A previously requested launch date of Oct. 29 posed scheduling conflicts with station operations as well as for the 45th Space Wing at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, which provides tracking and range safety services for shuttle launches.

“There’s so much traffic around the station it ultimately made the most sense to pick Nov. 1,” said NASA spokesman Kyle Herring.

The Kennedy Space Center launch team expects to have four launch attempts over seven days before a Sun angle heating issue during what would be the docked phase of the mission would prohibit launching from Nov. 8 until late in the month. After that, station operations would complicate shuttle launch plans, with Europe’s second Automated Transfer Vehicle cargo ship slated to dock around Dec. 17 and Japan’s second H-II Transfer Vehicle arriving in January. There is another long period in January when solar heating concerns again would prohibit launch.

Those issues also drove NASA to pick Feb. 26 as the target launch date for STS-134, currently the program’s finale. That mission, onboard shuttle Endeavour, will be devoted to delivering and installing the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer particle detector to the station. It was initially expected to fly in November, but was bumped when managers decided to delay Discovery’s STS-133 mission to allow more time to prepare payloads, including a prototype service robot known as “Robonaut,” a pump package and a heat exchanger.

A decision on an additional station cargo mission next summer on shuttle Atlantis, which will be prepared as an emergency rescue vehicle for the Endeavour crew, is pending.

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[87Nemesis87]

NASA Delays Final Two Shuttle Flights

[richelieu]

NASA Delays Final Two Shuttle Flights

Non è ancora detto .....

[87Nemesis87]

a proposito dei voli dello shuttle...riapro questro tread



.....

..si sente pure il bang sonico!!

[87Nemesis87]

riapro questo thread per una interessante notizia:
Lo space Shuttle sarà anche morto, ma il suo bambino è vivo e si sta sviluppando.

[Fabio Airbus]

Scusate, cosa è successo al sito della NASA? E' da qualche giorno che mi dice che non è disponibile.

Ciao
Fabio

[Zapotec]

Scusate, cosa è successo al sito della NASA? E' da qualche giorno che mi dice che non è disponibile.

Ciao
Fabio

Non siamo gli unici (Italiani) ad aver finito i soldi

[Maxx]

Shutdown.