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Topic: STS115 Mission Specialists
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cspg
Member Posts: 6210
From: Geneva, Switzerland
Registered: May 2006
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posted 09-10-2006 02:01 AM
   
From the STS-115 Press kit: Mission Specialist 3 (MS3)is Heide Stefanyshyn‐Piper.
Yet during the countdown yesterday and commmunications check between Houston and Atlantis,Heide Stefanyshyn‐Piper identified herself as Mission Specialist 4.
Anybody knows why?Chris. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42988
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 09-10-2006 04:08 PM
I just inquired at the JSC press site (as I am now back in Houston) and they confirmed Stefanyshyn-Piper is MS3. In addition, the official flight profile summary lists her as MS3.That said, I'm holding the FRR crew certification slide, dated Aug. 15-16, 2006, and it has Piper listed as MS4 (which corresponds with how she identified herself during the pre-launch comm checks). I'll see what else I can learn. [Edited by Robert Pearlman (September 10, 2006).] |
cspg
Member Posts: 6210
From: Geneva, Switzerland
Registered: May 2006
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posted 09-11-2006 09:36 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Robert Pearlman:
I'll see what else I can learn.
thanks, Robert.Chris. [Edited by cspg (September 11, 2006).] |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42988
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 09-11-2006 10:15 AM
Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper is Mission Specialist 3. Several of the reporters at JSC for STS-115 had recognized the same discrepancy but it was Bill Harwood with CBS who pointed out that the flight plan — which is the definitive document — lists Piper as MS3. Why did she answer as MS4 during pre-launch? That may be a question only she can answer upon her return. |
mark plas
Member Posts: 385
From: the Netherlands
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 09-11-2006 12:13 PM
did it have something to do with the seat she was in? |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42988
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 09-11-2006 12:40 PM
No, seating is independent of MS number. |
John Charles
Member Posts: 339
From: Houston, Texas, USA
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 09-11-2006 08:19 PM
Note that the CDR, PLT and MS2 always occupy assigned seats (MS2 as flight engineer in the middle seat behind CDR and PLT). The other crewmembers vary seating depending on who has already flown where before, to give more of them a chance to experience a launch or a landing on the flight deck, etc.------------------
John Charles
Houston, Texas |
cspg
Member Posts: 6210
From: Geneva, Switzerland
Registered: May 2006
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posted 09-12-2006 02:32 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Robert Pearlman:
Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper is Mission Specialist 3. Several of the reporters at JSC for STS-115 had recognized the same discrepancy but it was Bill Harwood with CBS who pointed out that the flight plan — which is the definitive document — lists Piper as MS3. Why did she answer as MS4 during pre-launch? That may be a question only she can answer upon her return.
Thanks, Robert.
So much for relying on press kits to obtain reliable information! I haven't seen on NASA's web site the attribution of mission specialists number to crewmembers.
Is the flight plan available online?
Chris. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42988
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 09-12-2006 07:06 AM
The updated flight plan is available in the mission's daily execute packages. |
cspg
Member Posts: 6210
From: Geneva, Switzerland
Registered: May 2006
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posted 09-12-2006 10:19 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Robert Pearlman:
The updated flight plan is available in the mission's daily execute packages.
thanks!
(indeed Heidemarie is referred to as MS3). Chris. |
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