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Topic Started: Feb 6 2010, 09:01 PM (1,123 Views)
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Fueling Begins for STS-130 Mission
Sat, 06 Feb 2010 07:58:30 PM EST


At NASA Kennedy Space Center?s Launch Pad 39A, fueling of space shuttle Endeavour?s external fuel tank with more than 500,000 gallons of liquid propellants began at 7:47 p.m. EST. The three-hour process will provide the fuel and oxidizer Endeavour's three main engines require for the 8 1/2 minute trip to orbit.

There is an 80 percent chance of favorable weather for launch.

NASA Television is providing live commentary of external tank loading and launch commentary and the NASA Launch Blog will begin at 11:30 p.m
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Mission: STS-130
Orbiter: Endeavour
Primary Payload: Tranquility Node 3, cupola
Launch: Feb. 7, 2010
Launch Time: 4:39 a.m. EST
Launch Pad: 39A
Landing: Feb. 19 - 11:14 p.m. EST
Landing Site: Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
Mission Duration: 13 days
Inclination/Altitude: 51.6 degrees/122 nautical miles






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Thanks DMom,

I forgot about it!

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Low Clouds caused the launch to be scrubbed

Endeavour Launch Rescheduled
Sun, 07 Feb 2010 02:45:38 AM PST

Managers officially have scheduled space shuttle Endeavour's next launch attempt for Monday, Feb. 8 at 4:14 a.m. EST.

The Mission Management Team will meet at 6:15 p.m. Sunday to give the "go" to fill Endeavour's external fuel tank with propellants. Tank loading would begin at 6:45 p.m.

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Spectacular Launch Begins a Complex Mission
Mon, 08 Feb 2010 03:13:21 AM PST

"What a beautiful launch we had this morning... the orbiter performed extremely well," said Bill Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for Space Operations, during the STS-130 postlaunch news conference. "This is a great start to a very complicated mission."

Jean-Jacques Dordain, European Space Agency director general, thanked NASA, the crew and the ground teams for "a very beautiful launch." Dordain said, "It was an important event. Even more important for us because the shuttle was full of European hardware."

Mike Moses, shuttle launch integration manager, said the count went unbelievably smooth. He commented how the weather constraints influenced the launch of space shuttle Endeavour and how happy he was that it all came together today. Docking is set for flight day three with three spacewalks planned to install the Tranquility node and then cupola permanently to the International Space Station. "This will be a good example of international partnerships and cooperation between the station crew and shuttle crew," said Moses.

"This was one of the smoothest countdowns ever," said Mike Leinbach, shuttle launch director. "The team was very, very energized going into the count."
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Look at that blast of energy!
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Endeavour Crew Preparing for Landing
Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:29:14 AM PST


The crew of space shuttle Endeavour awoke at 2:14 p.m. EST to “The Marines' Hymn," played for Commander George Zamka (Col., USMC).

Weather permitting, Endeavour is scheduled to land at Kennedy Space Center's shuttle landing facility at 10:20 p.m. EST. The STS-130 entry team led by Flight Director Norm Knight will be on console in Mission Control at 3:30 p.m. to prepare for deorbit and landing.

The latest Kennedy forecast calls for a chance of showers within 30 nautical miles of the shuttle landing facility and a cloud ceiling at 6,000 feet, both violations of landing rules. The forecast for Edwards Air Force Base in California also contains violations for showers within 30 nautical miles of the runway and cloud ceilings at 3,000 and 6,000 feet. The National Weather Service Spaceflight Meteorology Group at Johnson Space Center will provide Knight and his team with continuous updated forecasts and real-time observations to aid in a "go-no go" decision for the deorbit burn.

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Weather might cause another day in space
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The cupola installed on the space station. One of the major accomplishments of this mission

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Go for de-orbit burn in 20 minutes!

You can watch on Nasa TV
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Thanks baldo.
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De-Orbit burn has occurred.

Landing is scheduled for a 10:20 p.m. EST Landing
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Entry Interface
Sun, 21 Feb 2010 06:51:22 PM PST


Endeavour is encountering the first layers of the denser atmosphere. The air heats up quickly around the shuttle and forms a plasma. The shuttle's heat shield protects the spacecraft from the intense heat during this phase. Endeavour is over the South Pacific Ocean, going Mach 25. It will quickly slow as it continues falling into thickening air. Endeavour’s three auxiliary power units are running now. They provide the power to move the shuttle’s elevons, rudder and speedbrake. Those are the mechanisms that steer the shuttle like an airplane inside the atmosphere. In space, the shuttle uses a network of small thrusters to maneuver.

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14 minutes to landing
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Historic early shots of Columbia.

http://www.airliners.net/photo/NASA-Government/North-American-Rockwell/1656090/L/

http://www.airliners.net/photo/NASA/Boeing-747-123(SCA)/1652749/L/
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http://www.airliners.net/photo/NASA/Rockwell-Space-Shuttle/1596276/L/
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