Tag: STS-132
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All three orbiters enjoying busy flows – Atlantis has her nose cap repaired
With Endeavour undergoing pad validation work – as engineers make the hundreds of connections to prepare her for launch in a month’s time – processing of her older sisters, Atlantis and Discovery, is pushing ahead. While STS-131’s boosters are being stacked inside the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB), work has been completed on repairs to Atlantis’…
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Russian module launches via Soyuz for Thursday ISS docking
The 3,670kg module Mini Research Module-2 (MRM-2) has launched at 9:22 am Eastern on Tuesday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on top of a Russian Soyuz-U launch vehicle. The module will become the latest addition to the Station – providing an additional docking port for Russian vehicles, an airlock for Russian-based spacewalks and a platform for external…
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STS-132: NASA refines processing targets for Atlantis’ Final Flight
The first of what is scheduled to be the final three Launch Site Requirements Reviews (LSRRs) for the Space Shuttle Program (SSP) has been completed by managers at the Program Requirements Control Board (PRCB) for the STS-132 mission – the 32nd and final “scheduled” flight of orbiter Atlantis, due to launch in May 2010. Flight Specifications: In all, STS-132…
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Atlantis ready for STS-125 countdown – STS-132 crew assigned
Engineers are pressing through the remaining minor issues – the latest being an obstructive Teflon tube in the Payload Bay – ahead of the start of STS-125’s three day countdown that opens on Friday. Meanwhile, a veteran six person crew has been assigned by NASA for the STS-132 mission to the International Space Station (ISS).…
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Downstream processing and planning – preparing the fleet through to STS-135
Even though shuttle managers are preparing for two missions in the space of a month, efforts on the downstream flights are at various stages of processing and planning, all the way through to STS-135 – which is currently the LON (Launch On Need) placeholder for what is currently the last shuttle mission – STS-134 –…
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STS-132: PRCB baselines Atlantis’ mission to deliver Russia’s MRM-1
With Discovery safely back from STS-119, Atlantis undergoing pad processing for STS-125, and Endeavour ready to roll to the VAB on Friday ahead of STS-400/127, NASA is hard at work preparing for a busy summer launch schedule while planning continues for future flights. Of these future flights, the Program Requirements Control Board (PRCB) has officially…
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NASA realign five 2009 missions – Ares I-X likely heading to Oct, 09
The Space Shuttle Program (SSP) have concluded their manifest meeting by realigning the 2009 shuttle schedule. The preliminary schedule changes – which calls for five shuttle missions – were called for after the delay to STS-125’s mission to Hubble. As a result of the meeting, Ares I-X is likely to be delayed until October, 09.…