STS-117 Atlantis | Mission Status
POSTED BY: cljohnston108
UPDATED: Friday, June 29, 2007 13:58
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Don't forget! You can get up-to-the-minute (more or less) updates here:
Spaceflight Now | STS-117 Shuttle Report | Mission Status Center
http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts117/status.html
And it took them a few days, but they eventually updated the NASA Human Spaceflight Photo & Video Galleries:
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-117/ndxpage1.ht
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http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/video/shuttle/sts-117/html/fd1.htm
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Sounded a bit better in TV reports tonight --
I relaxed a bit until I remembered how many
times the TV has been completely off-base.
Fingers crossed, still.
bun
Frisky Browncoat
~etc.~
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thanks for the support everyone. I think we found our replacement catalyzer for the port compressor coil :)
the russians have found a way to by the blown power supplies and restored functionality. questions still remain how stable this system is, how long the shuttle still needs to stay and a bunch of other stuff. I'm not saying we are out of the woods yet, cause the tiger teams are still running full speed and the root cause is still a mystery (we'd hate to leave and the problem comes right back). so keep good thoughts and we will make sure we keep both birds in the air, cause only one of them is rated for a return trip through atmo.
by the way the OMS Pod repair went really well yesterday so the shuttle is in a great config to come home when ever they decide they are comfortable with the ISS. today is a pretty light day for the shuttle crew, tomorrow is EVA 4 which is a lot of station get a head tasks since the solar array was stowed last night.
I will try to upload some photos from the spacewalk later today.
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Maiii,
Thank you so much and I and my family will "keep good thoughts" and we've been following right along with all the news with our hearts in our throats at times and whoops and hollers when all is well.
The pictures are marvelous and I'm so proud of you all!
To join us go here:
http://www.serenitymovie.org/browncoats/forums/index.php?showtopic=154
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The photos you have shown us so far have been breathtaking. Thanks!
http://www.newsoftheverse.net/ We search the 'Verse so you don't have to.
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Bumpity-bump!
Media are making the attitude problem sound
solved -- how are we really doing?
bun
Frisky Browncoat
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bumpity space bump
We are SOOOO lucky to have MAIII and CJ filling us in on the browncoats in space... hell, I feel like I have a rough baby monitor in my computer!!
Bumping so that you can send MORE Browncoat wishes to the gallent crew of ISS and Atlantis. AND a big thanks for sharing with us.
AND A BIG WAVE to FollowMal!! Nice to catch you...
And MAIII make sure our astronaut sees the doctored pictures in the best shuttle launch picture thread when he is back safe on terra firma.. I think he will get a kick out of them.
Chindi
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we are about to handover control to the mated stack to the russian computers. this will be the make or break test. if all goes well them controling for an hour then I think we are in a good config for undocking tomorrow. if the computers have problems then we could delay undocking until wednesday. the russians believe the jumper has solved the problem, but there are still open questions about what protection and redundancy we have given up by putting the computers in this config. the shuttle crew is off duty for the first half of day and will say farewell to the station tonight. the hatches will be closed tonight and first thing in the morning is undocking and flyaround, later tomorrow is Late Inspection where the shuttle crew will scan the RCC (reinforced carbon carbon) wing leading edge panels for damage due to MMOD (micro meteoroid orbital debris). If things look good landing is Thursday around 2 pm.
I updated the photo link with more spacewalk pictures.
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Quote:
Originally posted by Chindi:
We are SOOOO lucky to have MAIII and CJ filling us in on the browncoats in space... hell, I feel like I have a rough baby monitor in my computer!!
You're welcome!
Hehe, yeah, I want one o' them baby monitors, too!
Quote:
Originally posted by Chindi:
And MAIII make sure our astronaut sees the doctored pictures in the best shuttle launch picture thread when he is back safe on terra firma.. I think he will get a kick out of them.
Took a couple of tries to get mine to look right...
http://fireflyfans.net/sunroomitem.asp?i=16911
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