RedOrbit, TX The space shuttle Discovery's crew is expected to complete its mission to the International Space Station with a landing at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 1:43 pm EDT on Saturday, March 28. The return to Earth will conclude a 13-day flight. ...
Space Ref (press release) Constructed in 1964, Mobile Launcher-1, or ML-1, originally was used for transporting and launching the Saturn V rocket for Apollo lunar landing missions. For Skylab and Apollo-Soyuz, ML-1 was modified with a "milkstool" pedestal that allowed the ...
RedOrbit, TX Flight controllers reported to the space shuttle crew that weather conditions are forecast to be acceptable for their return home and that they could begin deorbit preparations at 7:33 am Discovery will fire its engines at 11:33 am to begin the descent ...
The Write Stuff, FL Mission Control is going over changes in the landing plan with Discovery Commander Lee Armchambault â€" but NASA has not made a decision on today’s next landing opportunity at 3:14 pm ET. If the shuttle is coming home, it would have to fire its ...
Geo TV, Pakistan CAPE CANAVERAL: The shuttle Discovery's astronauts packed their gear and tested the spaceship's landing systems on Friday, aiming for a Saturday touchdown in Florida at the end of a scheduled 13-day flight. The shuttle delivered the last set of solar ...
FOXBusiness They first arrived during mission STS-26 in 1988, the flight that returned the shuttle to space following the 1986 Challenger tragedy. Welcomed by the busy team of flight controllers, their origin was a mystery. "When I first walked into the control ...
Spaceflight Now, FL Touchdown at the shuttle landing strip is targeted for 1:38 pm The shuttle crew plans to unlimber the ship's robot arm later this morning for a post-undocking inspection of the ship's reinforced carbon carbon nose cap and wing leading edge panels. ...
Monsters and Critics.com By James Wray Mar 10, 2009, 16:54 GMT NASA prepares for the launch of Space Shuttle Discovery from Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Shuttle Landing Facility, Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA, 09 March 2009. The seven man crew that will fly on shuttle Discovery ... shuttle landing
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