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Re: Space and Space Travel News
Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 9:10 pm
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Space Shuttle Endeavour Photo Gallery
- The moon is seen rising behind the Space Shuttle Endeavour (STS-126) on pad 39A Friday, November 14, 2008, at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls -
Spaceflight1.nasa.gov
Re: Space and Space Travel News
Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 9:15 pm
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NASA Administrator Michael Griffin watches the launch of the Space Shuttle Endeavour (STS-126) from the Launch Control Center Friday, November 14, 2008. The Shuttle lifted off from launch pad 39A at 7:55 p.m. (EST). Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Re: Space and Space Travel News
Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 9:17 pm
by harsi
» AP:
Launch Video
- Against a black sky, the Space Shuttle Endeavour and its seven-member crew head toward Earth orbit and a scheduled link-up with the International Space Station. Liftoff was on time at 7:55 p.m. (EST) on Nov. 14, 2008. The mission will feature four spacewalks and work that will prepare the space station to house six crew members for long-duration missions.
» Space Shuttle :
Launch Viewing sites
Re: Space and Space Travel News
Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 9:17 pm
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Space Shuttle Endeavour approaches the International Space Station during rendezvous and docking operations. Docking occurred at 4:01 p.m. (CST) on Nov. 16, 2008. The Leonardo Multi-Purpose Logistics Module is visible in Endeavour's cargo bay with over 14,000 pounds of cargo for the space station. Credit:
NASA
Re: Space and Space Travel News
Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 9:18 pm
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- Nov 16: A close-up view of Space Shuttle Endeavour's tail section was provided by Expedition 18 crewmembers on the ISS. The image provides partial views of the shuttle's main engines, orbital maneuvering system pods, vertical stabilizer, the payload bay door panels and the Leonard Multi-Purpose Logistics Module located in the cargo bay. Before docking with the station, astronaut Chris Ferguson flew the shuttle through a roll pitch maneuver to allow the space station crew a good view of Endeavour's heat shield. Credit:
NASA
Re: Space and Space Travel News
Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 9:18 pm
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- June 26, 2008: In the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, STS-126 crew members check out the interior of the
Leonard Multi-Purpose Logistics Module that will fly on the mission. Shuttle crews frequently visit Kennedy to get hands-on experience, called
a crew equipment interface test, with hardware and equipment for their missions. Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
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Station Prepares for Expanding Crew
- Expanding kitchen facilities, adding more bedrooms and an extra bathroom all sound like home improvements that many homeowners have tackled. But when the “house” is the International Space Station orbiting 220 miles above Earth, things are a little more complicated than visiting the local home improvement store for materials. Just in time for its 10th anniversary, the space station will get a delivery via space shuttle Endeavour that might win a prize for out-of-this-world home makeover.
When Endeavour and crew lift off on the STS-126 mission for the 27th shuttle flight to the station, it will be packed with supplies like food and clothing for the station crew members. However, Endeavour’s major payload consists of equipment for enlarging the space station’s capacity to accommodate a six-member crew. The high-tech home improvement materials are stowed inside the Multi-Purpose Logistics Module Leonardo, which will be tucked inside the shuttle’s cargo bay. Some of the additions aboard will be: Continued...
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Re: Space and Space Travel News
Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 9:19 pm
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Russia's
Soyuz TMA-4 spacecraft
- The blackness of space and Earth’s horizon provide the backdrop for this scene of the Soyuz TMA-4 spacecraft, docked to the Zarya functional
cargo block (FGB) nadir port on the International Space Station (ISS). The scene was photographed by an Expedition 9 crewmember.
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On the Net:
Spacecraft Encyclopedia:
www.claudelafleur.qc.ca
All Soyuz spacecrafts ever launched:
www.claudelafleur.qc.ca/A-Semiorka.html
Re: Space and Space Travel News
Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 9:19 pm
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- Russia's new Cargo Spacecraft Progress M-63 arrives at the International Space Station, 7 Feb. 2008 (NASA)
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Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 9:20 pm
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Re: Space and Space Travel News
Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 9:20 pm
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On the Net: Russian Cargoships Progress:
www.claudelafleur.qc.ca/Progress.html
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Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 9:21 pm
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Re: Space and Space Travel News
Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 9:22 pm
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Lifting the European
Columbus research laboratory from the Space Shuttle's
cargo bay.
» ESA:
Columbus laboratory
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Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 9:23 pm
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Re: Space and Space Travel News
Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 9:25 pm
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