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14 July 2010
External Tank for Final Scheduled Shuttle Mission Arrives at KSC (Gallery)
Universe Today photographer Alan Walters was on hand at Kennedy Space Center today to see the arrival of ET-138, the external tank for the final scheduled space shuttle mission, STS-134. Enjoy this gallery of images, (because it is something that might only happen one more time…). There was also a surprise drive-by of some segments [...]
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09 July 2010
Tanks for the Memories
Almost the end of an era: the last external tank scheduled to fly on a shuttle mission was rolled out of the Michoud Assembly Facility on Thursday. The tank, ET-138, traveled on a wheeled transporter one mile to the Michoud barge dock, accompanied by a brass band and hundreds of the workers who built tanks [...]
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01 July 2010
New Dates for Final Shuttle Launches
If you are tentatively planning to attend one of the final shuttle launches, the uncertainty on launch dates just got a bit more certain. NASA announced new target dates for the final two (and maybe three) shuttle missions. STS-133 is now aiming for November 1, 2010 at approximately 4:33 p.m. EDT for the final flight [...]
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09 June 2010
Delays Likely for Final Two Shuttle Missions
The final scheduled space shuttle flight of Endeavour that has been targeted for late November 2010 is now likely to move to January or even February of 2011 because the primary payload, the $1.5 billion Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, won't be delivered to KSC in time to support the earlier date. Additionally, the penultimate scheduled [...]
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08 June 2010
NASA Releases First Ever Video of Inside of Space Shuttle After Landing
NASA has released the first-ever up close video available for the public, taken from inside a space shuttle after landing, showing the checkout procedures and the "towback" to the Orbiter Processing Facility. It was taken on May 26, 2010 following shuttle Atlantis' landing following the STS-132 mission. (...)Read the rest of NASA Releases First Ever Video [...]
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08 June 2010
Attention Teachers and Students: Fly An Experiment on Final Shuttle Mission
We just received an exciting note from Dr. Jeff Goldstein, the Director for the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education. There is a unique and historic opportunity for students in grades 5-12 to fly an experiment on the final scheduled space shuttle mission, STS-134, through the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP). There [...]
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07 June 2010
Send Your Face to Space On Final Two Shuttle Missions
If NASA offered you a ride on one of the final two scheduled space shuttle missions, you'd go, right? I know I would, so that's why I immediately signed up for NASA's newest public participation campaign, "Send Your Face to Space." If I can't go, at least my face is heading up to [...]
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28 May 2010
First Ever Video of NASA's 'Ice Team'
NASA has released, for the first time, video of the final inspection of a space shuttle before launch. The Final Inspection Team, also known as the "Ice Team," performs a walkdown of Kennedy's Launch Pad 39A during space shuttle Atlantis' STS-132 launch countdown on May 14, 2010. The six-member team walks on every level [...]
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28 May 2010
The Last Train to KSC: Final Set of Solid Rocket Boosters Arrive
Another end-of-an-era event heralding the conclusion of the space shuttle program: the final set of space shuttle solid rocket booster segments arrived at the Kennedy Space Center on Thursday, May 27, 2010. The segments were carried on railway cars from the ATK factory in Utah where the boosters are built. The [...]
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26 May 2010
Atlantis Crew 'Riding Inside a Fireball'
At a post-landing news conference, STS-132 commander Ken Ham described the incredible visual effects the crew of Atlantis witnessed as they returned to Earth today. As the shuttle was engulfed in plasma during the hottest part of their re-entry through Earth's atmosphere, they were in orbital darkness, which highlighted the orange, fiery glow around [...]
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26 May 2010
Atlantis Returns Home — For the Last Time?
A bittersweet moment in space history as Atlantis and her six-member crew landed at Florida's Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday morning. Very likely, this was Atlantis' final landing, returning home after 25 years of service. Atlantis' rich history includes 294 days in space, 4,648 orbits and 120,650,907 miles during 32 flights. There's a [...]
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21 May 2010
Picture Gallery: STS-132, Atlantis' Last Mission
Is this Atlantis' last mission to space? STS-132 is the last scheduled flight for space shuttle Atlantis, and it remains to be seen whether any additional shuttle flights will be added. But the imagery from this mission is incredibly rich with wonderful images of the orbiter. So, while previous shuttle mission galleries [...]
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21 May 2010
Incredible Image: Atlantis and ISS Transit the Sun
French astrophotographer Thierry Legault has done it again. He captured a view of space shuttle Atlantis and the International Space Station crossing the face of the Sun on May 16, 2010 about 50 minutes before the shuttle docked with the space station. Legault took the image from Madrid, Spain at 13:28:55 UT. "Atlantis [...]
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20 May 2010
Amazing Time-Lapse Video of Space Shuttle Discovery
This is incredible! Smithsonian Air & Space photographers Scott Andrews, Stan Jirman and Philip Scott Andrews created a unique time-lapse video (at the request of shuttle commander Alan Poindexter) from from thousands of individual frames, and they condense six weeks of painstaking work into three minutes, 52 seconds (read here how they did it). [...]
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18 May 2010
Space Station Gets a New Science Module
A 8,550 kg (17,760-pound) Russian Mini-Research Module, known as Rassvet or "Dawn," was attached to the International Space Station today. This is the first (and last) Russian-built module to be delivered by a space shuttle, and the 8 meter long (20 ft) 2.5 meter (8 ft) diamater module will serve an area for [...]
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