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Topic: discovery autonomous landing
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michaelSN99
Member Posts: 153
From: heilbronn,germany
Registered: Apr 2005
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posted June 28, 2006 02:49 AM
   
on june 25th the websource "nasaspaceflight.com" reported, discovery would be able to land in an autonomous scenario without human interaction using the so called Autonomous Orbiter Rapid Prototype (AORP).source: http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/content/?id=4582 may anybody from our people behind the scenes (Robert ? ;-)) confirm this ?? is that a true story ?? thx michael
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michael may
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Ben
Member Posts: 1817
From: Daytona Beach, FL
Registered: May 2000
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posted June 28, 2006 10:58 AM
Yes, it is true, this will be the first mission with the capability. But it is only to be used in the event the orbiter is to be ditched unmanned. |
Aztecdoug
Member Posts: 1288
From: Huntington Beach
Registered: Feb 2000
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posted June 28, 2006 08:28 PM
Interestingly I spoke briefly to Bob Crippen about autonomous landings for the Shuttle back in the Fall of 2003 at SETP. He mentioned that among other things there was something that they had to do in the back of the cockpit or on the mid-deck manually in order to land the shuttle. He didn't elaborate at the time but this thread sort of joggled my memory cells.Hey, go easy on me on being fuzzy; they were pouring Bass Ale for free! After all, talking to an astronaut is one thing, but free booze is on an entirely different level of priorities.  ------------------
Kind Regards Douglas Henry Enjoy yourself and have fun.... it is only a hobby!
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pokey
Member Posts: 339
From: Houston, TX, USA
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted June 29, 2006 10:21 AM
The manual operation Crippen was refering to was pushing the button to arm the landing gear and once that talkback goes to ARM then pushing the button next to it to down the landing gear then waiting for that talkback to go to DOWN before main gear touchdown on the runway. The commander and pilot had their own redundant set of pushbuttons for that. The buttons are in front of the CDR and PLT's knees and have protective see-through hinged covers over them. 
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Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 23493
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted July 01, 2006 04:35 AM
From SPACE.com: quote:
Shuttle to Carry Tools for Repair and Remote-Control LandingShould Discovery’s STS-121 spacewalkers be forced to make a serious heat shield repair, the chances of which NASA officials believe to be extremely remote, flight controllers could opt to try to save the orbiter without endangering its astronaut crew.
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