Posts: 42988 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 02-17-2010 12:16 PM
quote:Originally posted by Mike Z: Does anyone know which flight day and time the SRB Launch Views were played on NASA TV?
The first playback of the SRB cameras was between the end of flight day 7 and the beginning of flight day 8 on Sunday, Feb. 14 at 11:00 a.m. CST (replayed at 3:30 and 4:30 p.m. CST).
James Brown Member
Posts: 1287 From: Atlanta, Georgia, USA Registered: Jun 2000
posted 02-17-2010 12:16 PM
Finally had time to post some of my photos from the launch.
music_space Member
Posts: 1179 From: Canada Registered: Jul 2001
posted 02-17-2010 03:55 PM
Twanquility strikes again... I love little unsought traditions like this.
Listen here for about fifteen seconds, as the PAO officer pays an unplanned hommage to Charlie Duke!
Ben Member
Posts: 1896 From: Cape Canaveral, FL Registered: May 2000
posted 02-17-2010 05:45 PM
quote:Originally posted by James Brown: Finally had time to post some of my photos from the launch.
Nice photos Jimmy! Who is that...
KSCartist Member
Posts: 2896 From: Titusville, FL USA Registered: Feb 2005
posted 02-19-2010 04:37 AM
We also want to take this moment to remember a friend, a coworker and a fellow astronaut, Lacy Veach, who was really dedicated to the early development of the Cupola and its vision on the International Space Station," continued Williams. "We would like to leave his patch in memory of him and dedicate it to him, as well as picture onboard the space station. The patch will be in the Cupola and the photograph of Lacy will go up on the airlock hatch.
I first met Lacy Veach when in 1989 he came to a Connecticut Young Astronaut event I organized and spoke to the kids. He was extremely gracious and answered every question, signed autographs and posed for photos with all who asked.
Fast forward to 1992, I am now living in Florida and one day in the mail an invitation arrives to attend the launch and landing of Columbia on STS-52. The night before launch my family and I attend the family party hosted by his wife Alice. A wonderful evening.
Then in 1995 one week after my Dad passes away, I learn of Lacy's death due to brain cancer. What a shock. Last January when my wife and I celebrated our 30th anniversary in Hawaii, we made a special stop at Puncbowl Cemetery to visit his crypt.
He was a super guy and it is so touching that he's been remembered in this way.
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 42988 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 02-19-2010 09:35 AM
NASA Television update
The Climb to Space
Video highlights set to music of shuttle Endeavour's Feb. 8 ascent from Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center to begin the STS-130 crews two-week mission to the International Space Station.
Playalinda Member
Posts: 152 From: Peoria, AZ, USA Registered: Oct 2009
posted 02-19-2010 01:51 PM
Great footage. If only Columbia had cameras like this on the ET. We all would have seen the hole on the leading edge after ET SEP.
Is it true I heard at one point (don't know who brought it up) that the temperature reading, while Columbia was climbing towards orbit, on the particular leading edge indeed was quite unusual?
It would make sense when there is a hole on the leading edge and Columbia is climbing higher towards the cold space the sensors must have read the much lower temperature compared to the wing that was not breached. Anybody knows anything?
Jay Chladek Member
Posts: 2272 From: Bellevue, NE, USA Registered: Aug 2007
posted 02-19-2010 03:09 PM
Columbia only had instrumentation on the left wing. It was a cost cutting measure that resulted in only one wing instrumented for the flight test phase as the thermal behavior of the left wing should match that of the right wing (mirror the data). As such, it was a bit fortuitous that Columbia was the one to have a breach in the left wing and collect the thermal data in the minutes before it broke up. If it were any other orbiter, the "smoking gun: wouldn't have been as easy to pinpoint as quickly.
As for the higher temperature readings up hill and on orbit, its one of those things where the variation was probably not enough to indicate any problems. It was only after the breakup when they went back and looked over the collected data did anyone figure out that the RCC damage might be a possible culprit and how damaged it might have been going uphill.
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 42988 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 02-19-2010 09:04 PM
Celebrate with the STS-130 crew at Ellington Field
You're invited to Ellington Field Hangar 990 on Monday, Feb. 22, at 4pm, to honor Commander George Zamka, pilot Terry Virts and Mission Specialists Nicholas Patrick, Robert Behnken, Stephen Robinson and Kathryn Hire at the STS-130 Crew Return Ceremony. Along with JSC Director Mike Coats, family, friends, colleagues and public guests are invited to wish Endeavour’s crew well as they return from a successful mission in space. Gates to Ellington will open at 3:30 pm.
garymilgrom Member
Posts: 1966 From: Atlanta, GA Registered: Feb 2007
posted 02-21-2010 09:47 AM
Where can we see the ground track for tonight's landing attempt? With the landing scheduled for after dark I'm wondering if it will be visible in the sky.
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 42988 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 02-21-2010 09:48 AM
NASA has published the landing ground tracks on their website.
edmk5000 Member
Posts: 49 From: Homestead, FL USA Registered: Apr 2005
posted 02-21-2010 10:16 PM
Watching the re-runs of the landing on NASA TV, I noticed that Endeavour (and I guess the other orbiters) doesn't have red/green navigation or landing lights.
It seemed in one view that the chute may have been lit from inside (its own light source).
Finally, in many night landing pictures, there seems to be a small glow in the main engines and OMS engines. Is this some type fume of burn-off device or simply a reflection of external light?
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 42988 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 02-21-2010 11:42 PM
From Soichi Noguchi, who tweeted this photo from the International Space Station:
Space Shuttle Endeavour making S-turn during atmospheric reentry. The first time it was photographed from Space Station Cupola.
Jay Chladek Member
Posts: 2272 From: Bellevue, NE, USA Registered: Aug 2007
posted 02-22-2010 01:22 AM
quote:Originally posted by edmk5000: Watching the re-runs of the landing on NASA TV, I noticed that Endeavour (and I guess the other orbiters) doesn't have red/green navigation or landing lights.
It seemed in one view that the chute may have been lit from inside (its own light source).
Finally, in many night landing pictures, there seems to be a small glow in the main engines and OMS engines. Is this some type fume of burn-off device or simply a reflection of external light?
Well, considering the shuttle can't go around and lands at very precisely controlled airstrips with air traffic exclusion zones around them, the navigation lights aren't really needed anyway. The thing pretty much appears right over KSC at altitudes usually too high for most aircraft and drops down to a landing rather quick, so it typically doesn't cross the flight path of other planes and ATC is pretty good about keeping that airspace closed at landing time.
As for the glow at the base of the orbiter's tail, I believe those are flashes coming from the water spray boilers. The WSBs are used to cool hydraulic fluid and oil used in the APUs during launch and reentry and they produce that distinctive "puff puff" sound you hear before launch and after landing. They use heat transfer to turn water droplets into steam and the steam puffs out the top. It is not uncommon to see bright yellow flashes like that on night landings. I don't believe it has been explained as to exactly what causes the apparent flame puffs, but the orbiter is still rather hot after landing, so the hot steam could be touching off something on a panel up there, yet it extinguishes almost right away. That would help explain why you only see the flame puffs on landing and not at launch. On the infrared pictures, you can see the periodic steam puffs coming from it until the APU is shut down, usually about 10 to 15 minutes after touch down (after the orbiter's aero surfaces have been moved to their final positions).
The engine bells themselves are semi-metallic in color, so any other glow coming from them or the drag chute I think is just reflected lighting, such as from runway landing lights.
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 42988 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 02-22-2010 10:04 PM
Five minute iPhone video from today's STS-130 crew homecoming at Ellington Field showing commander George Zamka introducing his crewmates:
The UK's Guardian newspaper devoted a two-page spread (24 x 18 inches) to this great photo on 15th February.
Mike Z Member
Posts: 451 From: Ellicott City, Maryland Registered: Dec 2005
posted 03-11-2010 08:14 PM
quote:Originally posted by Robert Pearlman: The first playback of the SRB cameras was between the end of flight day 7 and the beginning of flight day 8 on Sunday, Feb. 14 at 11:00 a.m. CST (replayed at 3:30 and 4:30 p.m. CST).
Did anyone happen to record the video of the STS-130 ET and SRB launch views?
posted 02-17-2010 12:16 PM
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