Firefly Breaking Atmo on STS-117?

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UPDATED: Friday, June 29, 2007 08:55
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MAIII

Friday, June 8, 2007 2:30 PM

Launch countdown is looking good. they are filling the external tank now. weather is looking real good for tonight.

I uploaded some photos from last night after they retracted the Remote Servicing Structure (RSS). everything is still looking good for launch.
http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=ekhorlf.24ok35ob&x=0&y=-bjbomd

CLJOHNSTON108

Friday, June 8, 2007 8:35 PM

Love your new version of the patch, Captain!
I fixed the U in Sturckow, if you want me to email it to you.

SIGMANUNKI

Friday, June 8, 2007 11:56 PM

Well, she's up

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I am on The List. We are The Forsaken and we aim to burn!
"We don't fear the reaper"

MAIII

Saturday, June 9, 2007 12:52 AM

I uplinked some ascent photos including a picture of our intrepid Browncoat (Steve "Swanny" Swanson).

MISSBEHAVE

Saturday, June 9, 2007 1:59 AM

For some reason, the thought of FF and BDM actually being in the black gets me all emotional and a teeny bit misty-eyed.
If they do manage to play the Ballad of Serenity on the mission as a morning wake up call, I'll probably just go ahead and cry. :)

"I aim to MISSBEHAVE."

CLJOHNSTON108

Saturday, June 9, 2007 12:55 PM

CAPTAINCOUPI

Saturday, June 9, 2007 1:52 PM

Hey, we got a mention on Space.com. Few stories down.

http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/sts117_specialreport_archive.html

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Serenity goes where no SciFi movie has gone before at www.breakingatmo.com
Say Thanks to Universal for the BDM at www.bigdamnthankyou.com

CLJOHNSTON108

Saturday, June 9, 2007 2:18 PM

Awwww, don't be modest, Cap!

http://www.livescience.com/blogs/2007/06/07/board-game-sci-fi-to-ride-
shuttle-atlantis-to-iss/

Quote:
Board Game, Sci-Fi to Ride Shuttle Atlantis to ISS
Author Tariq Malik

Seven U.S. astronauts and new girders and solar arrays are not the only riders for NASA’s space shuttle Atlantis set to launch late Friday.

Tokens for the family board game Monopoly and the science fiction film Serenity (not to mention its television show root Firefly) will catch a ride to the ISS aboard Atlantis during NASA’s STS-117 mission when it rockets spaceward at 7:38 p.m. EDT tomorrow night.

The Monopoly tokens are the little mover pieces for the Hasbro game’s Here & Now edition, which just happens to have NASA’s Johnson Space Center — the Houston training site for U.S. astronauts — as an available, according to the folks at Hasbro. Tucked away inside the 100-ton Atlantis are tiny versions of the Toyota Prius, New Balance Shoe, Labradoodle, Motorola Razr cell phone, Laptop Computer, McDonald’s French Fries and an airplane that serve as player pieces for the game, they added.

Whedon’s Serenity and Firefly, certainly a favorite for this space reporter, are apparently being carried in DVD form to take a permanent place on the ISS by an Atlantis crewmember.

For those of you under a sci-fi rock, Serenity is the name of the beloved Firefly spaceship helmed by Capt. Malcolm Reynolds.

Fans (called Browncoats) apparently gave the DVDs to the STS-117 astronaut in question and are tracking the sci-fi film/series’ launch at: http://www.breakingatmo.com/, where you’ll find an oh-so-cool image of Serenity flying past the ISS. Shiny!

Thanks to CaptainCoupi, whoever you are, out there for sending this bit along.

If Monopoly and Serenity aren’t enough for you, don’t worry. The space memorabilia experts over at collectSPACE.com will have a full workup on the personal effects to be carried spaceward by the STS-117 during their 11-day mission.

NASA’s STS-117 crew will deliver new trusses and solar arrays to the space station, as well a new crewmember. You can follow SPACE.com’s mission coverage here.

CAPTAINCOUPI

Saturday, June 9, 2007 4:24 PM

O....K....

I didn't get that far down the story I was so in a hurry to get it posted that we got a mention.

I have a strange proud but nauseous feeling.

I suppose the best thing I can say is, Shiny!

Edit: Made sure I've sent a Big Damn Thank You to Tariq at Space.com who wrote that for us.

Edit2: .... and e-mailed the link to Tariq's page to a few places.

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Serenity goes where no SciFi movie has gone before at www.breakingatmo.com
Say Thanks to Universal for the BDM at www.bigdamnthankyou.com

MAIII

Monday, June 11, 2007 2:48 PM

Good morning space fans,
Swanny has been busy this first two days so I havent gotten an emails yet. they do have a 2 hour crew off time tomorrow, so who knows maybe they will watch an episode or two :)

Yesterday saw a beautiful docking with the Space Station ( I am still pulling photos from the database). Today is the First of 4 Spacewalks. They will install the S3/S4 Truss segement today which is the big solar array on the starboard side of the ISS. They wont deploy the solar array wings until tomorrow.

The Mission Management team and the rest of Mission Control is still thinking about what to do with the bent blanket on the Left OMS (Orbital Manuvering System) Pod. The thermal blanket was torn loose and bent upwards due to aerodynamic loads during launch. The concern with this blanket is what amount of increased heating it will cause in the area during entry heating. If the blanket rips off during the lower portion under aero loads it is not a debris concern. The team is working options for tucking the blanket back down since it does have some memory for staying flat. If it is flat during entry heating it should not be an issue, but if it is bent up the disturbance to the plasma flow could cause damage to the underlying OMS Pod structure by causing a stagnation point and a hole that heat can get into, but not out of. In the past we have seen lost blankets and tiles that did cause survivable damage to the OMS pod. So the question the team is working is the extent of localized damage and if there is a concern for entry.

The team is also continuing to review ascent data (RADAR, WBS Tracking Planes, SRB Video, Ground Cameras) as well as the flight day 2 inspection data and so far there is no indication of areas for concern.

http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=ekhorlf.24ok35ob&x=0&y=-bjbomd

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