Space station cooling system shuts down
August 1, 2010 by Trend PK
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CAPE CANAVERAL: Half of the International Space Station’s cooling system suddenly shut down during the weekend, forcing the astronauts to power down equipment and flight controllers to consider urgent spacewalking repairs.
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May 26, 2010 by Trend PK
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Shuttle Atlantis Prepares for Landing
Space shuttle Atlantis closed in on the 120 million-mile mark as its final voyage neared an end and astronauts inspected their ship in advance of Wednesday’s landing.
The laborious survey was carried out Monday using a newly repaired instrument that scanned Atlantis’ wings and nose for damage. NASA saved the inspection until the shuttle was flying free of the International Space Station.
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Shuttle closing
May 16, 2010 by Trend PK
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Space shuttle Atlantis drew closer to the International Space Station for a Sunday morning linkup, as the astronauts — all 12 of them — excitedly awaited the 215-mile-high reunion.
“We’re chasing you down,” shuttle commander Kenneth Ham radioed from several miles out.
“Yee-haw!” replied the space station’s Soichi Noguchi. “Can’t wait to see you guys,” Tracy Caldwell Dyson added from the station.
Ham told the six space station residents that their home was “brilliantly glowing.”
“It’s an absolutely stunning view,” he noted.
Docking was to take place at 10:27 a.m. EDT over the South Pacific.
Atlantis and its crew of six will spend a week at the orbiting science complex, installing a new Russian compartment and fresh batteries. They also will try to free a snagged cable during one of three planned spacewalks, which get under way Monday.
A cable on the shuttle’s 100-foot inspection boom is caught in a camera. The problem prevented the astronauts from doing a proper survey of their ship Saturday to check for launch damage.
NASA managers said the astronauts can finish the inspection after they arrive at the space station.
Flight controllers, meanwhile, said there was no threat from a piece of space junk that they’ve been monitoring for the past few days.
The unidentified debris is in an extreme egg-shaped orbit that takes it thousands of miles above the space station to just below it. The closest approach was to occur about an hour after docking, bringing the junk within an estimated six miles of the two spacecraft. Experts determined Saturday night there was no need for the station to move out of the way.
During Atlantis’ final approach, the space station crew was going to snap hundreds of pictures of the somersaulting shuttle, then ship the images to Mission Control so engineers could hunt for signs of launch damage. The photos are especially valuable this time, given Saturday’s condensed survey of the ship’s heat shield.
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NASA’s Space Shuttle Discovery Landed At Air Bas California
September 12, 2009 by Trend PK
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NASA’s Space Shuttle Discovery Landed At Air Bas California, NASA’s space shuttle Discovery landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California at 5:53 pm local time (0053 GMT) on Friday.
The shuttle successfully made the steep descent — at an angle seven times more acute than a commercial jet — through thin cloud to runway 22 at the desert base.
Shortly after touchdown, NASA deployed teams of white-suited inspectors to scour the outside of the space craft to make sure it was undamaged and the astronauts could disembark safely.
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