IMAX CameraHST Servicing Mission 1. STS-60Discovery3FEB199411FEB19947 Spacehab, WSFExperiments conducted in Spacehab. STS-62Columbia4MAR199418MAR199414 Spacelab USMP-2U.S. Microgravity Payload-2. STS-59Endeavour9APR199420APR199411 SRL-1Shuttle Radar Laboratory-1 ...
Following the 13-day long STS-128 mission to the International Space Station, shuttle Discovery had to be redirected to land at Edwards Air Force Base, about an hour north of Los Angeles. Excited, I kept track of the shuttle’s progress as it re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere and made ...
28. Meanwhile, MISSE 7 launch is scheduled to be launched on STS 129 mission. MISSE-7 was launched on Space Shuttle mission STS-129 on Atlantis was launched on November 16, 2009. This paper will briefly review recent efforts on MISSE 6 and MISSE 7 missions at NASA Langley Research ...
Night Lights: Shuttle Endeavour's STS-126 Night Launch New Video - Stephen Colbert to NASA: 'No Chubby Astronauts' SPACE.comis providing complete coverage of Discovery's STS-128 mission to theInternational Space Station with Managing Editor Tariq Malik in New York. Click here for shuttle mission...
SPACE.comis providing complete coverage of Discovery's STS-128 mission to theInternational Space Station with Managing Editor Tariq Malik in Cape Canaveral,Fla., and Staff Writer Clara Moskowitz in New York. Click here for shuttle missionupdates and a link to NASA TV....
After the exposure, the samples were retrieved by an astro- naut and transferred to the cargo bay of the Space Shuttle Discovery (Mission STS 128). Samples were then transported from outer space to Edwards Airforce Base, California, on 12 September 2009, and sent to the Open University, ...
"STS-128 was the last time that we used the MDD with an orbiter," Grimshaw said. "Of course, we kept it maintained and ready to go up till the end of [the final shuttle mission] STS-135." The facility was comprised of two 100-foot (30.5 m) towers with stationary work platforms ...
11, 2009 with the STS-128 space shuttle crew that launched on shuttle Discovery from the Kennedy Space Center, USA, Aug. 28, 2009 (Ref 3 and supplementary references). The silk and collagen samples tested were 10 (2.54 cm) squares with tight tolerances (10, 20.0050) and the thickness ...
The space shuttle Discovery sits poised for an Aug. 25, 2009 launch atop Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to begin the STS-128 mission to the International Space Station.(Image credit: NASA/Troy Cryder) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The space shuttle Discovery is poised...
Now back onEarth, Endeavour will be serviced and prepared for its next flight, STS-130,scheduled for a return trip to the International Space Station early next year.NASA?s next shuttle mission, STS-128, is targeted for launch on Aug. 25 aboardorbiter Discovery pending a check of its fuel...