: A last look at a fully lit space shuttle. NASA shut down space shuttle Endeavour for the final time Friday (May 11) but not before giving collectSPACE the rare chance to photograph the retired spacecraft's flight deck powered on. Credit: collectSPACE.com May 11, 2012 –NASA pulled the ...
"They had to immediately shut down as much power as possible inside the spacecraft," she said; their fuel cells ran on the escaping oxygen and the astronauts needed them to survive."It became clear almost immediately that they were not going to land [on the moon]," said Dr Muir-Harmony...
Space shuttle technicians working inside Orbiter Processing Facility-2 (OPF-2) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Floridapowered down Endeavour, the youngest of the retired fleet's orbiters, at 9:58 a.m. EDT (1358 GMT) as they moved forward with preparations for the winged spacecraft's mus...
Bush announced that the space shuttle program would be shut down once the International Space Station was completed in 2010 (in fact, it took another year). In preparation NASA invited companies to help supply the station. By this point NASA's HL-20 was mostly forgotten and gathering dust ...
NASA put off Friday's launch scrub decision for the space shuttle Atlantis as long as possible to determine whether a fuel sensor issue warranted keeping the orbiter Earthbound for one more day, top shuttle officials said today.
Examines the causes of the March 22 shut down of space shuttle Columbia's three 375,000 lb. thrust main engines three seconds before launch. Verifying initial indications that check valve on No. 3 main engine's oxidizer preburner failed; Professional job of executing post-abort emergency ...
Malfunctioning gyroscopes will kill all of NASA’s space telescopes, given enough time. In Hubble’s case, those gyroscopes were replaced during a Space Shuttle mission in 2009. But with the shuttle program shut down, it’s impossible to replace them again. Three of Hubble’s six gyros have...
During the government shutdown, the main camera onboard the Hubble Space Telescope went out of operation due to a hardware problem, but its engineers are unlikely to fix the glitch until the end of the shutdown. NASA also announced the delay of SpaceX's first uncrewed launch of Dragon spa...
“Though the current EMU is incredible and has been an absolute workhorse for the Shuttle and Space Station Programs, NASA needs a new spacesuit for use on the space station. With a new spacesuit, we can address some of the current obsolescence issues with the EMU and take advantage of all...
publications, including the Flight Data File (FDF), Crew Training workbooks, Flight Procedure Handbooks (FPH), Flight Rules, CAUTION Shuttle Operational Data Book, and Shuttle Performance Assessment Data Book. The After an APU auto shutdown, the APU SCOM is not a replacement for any of these ...