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| Posted: Mon Nov 16th, 2009 08:23 am |
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Benbrook Susie
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From the NASA website :
Weather remains at 90 percent favorable for an on-time liftoff at 2:28 p.m. Monday afternoon.
That's Eastern time; subtract an hour for most of us here in the CST.
NASA Channel is 283 on DirecTV.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html
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| Posted: Mon Nov 16th, 2009 12:20 pm |
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Bob Of Burleson
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The Best Invention of the Year
NASA's Ares Rockets
Time.com
Metal has no DNA; machines have no genes. But that doesn't mean they don't have pedigrees — ancestral lines every bit as elaborate as our own. That's surely the case with the Ares 1 rocket. The best and smartest and coolest thing built in 2009 — a machine that can launch human beings to cosmic destinations we'd never considered before — is the fruit of a very old family tree, one with branches grand, historic and even wicked.
There are a lot of reasons astronauts haven't moved beyond the harbor lights of low-Earth orbit in nearly 40 years, but one of them is that we haven't had the machines to take us anywhere else. The space shuttle is a flying truck: fine for the lunch-bucket work of hauling cargo a couple of hundred miles into space, but nothing more. In 2004, however, the U.S. committed itself to sending astronauts back to the moon and later to Mars, and for that, you need something new and nifty for them to fly. The answer is the Ares 1, which had its first unmanned flight on Oct. 28 and dazzled even the skeptics.
From a distance, the rocket is unprepossessing — a slender white stalk that looks almost as if it would twang in the Florida wind. But up close, it's huge: about 327 ft. (100 m) tall, or the biggest thing the U.S. has launched since the 363-ft. (111 m) Saturn V moon rockets of the early 1970s. Its first stage is a souped-up version of one of the shuttle's solid-fuel rockets; its top stage is a similarly muscled-up model of the Saturn's massive J2 engines.
If that general body plan doesn't exactly break ground, that's the point. NASA tried breaking ground with the shuttles and in doing so broke all the rules. Shuttle astronauts sit alongside the fuel — next to the exploding motor that claimed Challenger, beneath the chunks of falling foam that killed Columbia. And when you fly a spacecraft repeatedly as opposed to chucking it after a single use, there's a lot of wear to repair.
When NASA engineers gathered to plan the next generation of America's rockets, they thus decided to go back to the future — way back. The Saturn V was the brainchild of Wernher von Braun, the German scientist whose bright genius gave the U.S. its finest line of rockets — and whose dark genius gave Hitler the V2 missile that rained terror on London. Von Braun had, in turn, drawn insights from American rocket pioneer Robert Goddard. Goddard built on the work of 17th century artillery innovator Kazimierz Siemienowicz, a Pole.
The Ares 1 is a worthy descendant of their rockets and others, with lightweight composites, better engines and exponentially improved computers giving it more reliability and power. The Ares 1 will launch an Apollo-like spacecraft with four crew members — perhaps by 2015. Alongside it, NASA is developing the Brobdingnagian Ares V, a 380-ft. (116 m) behemoth intended to put such heavy equipment as a lunar lander in Earth orbit, where astronauts can link up with it before blasting away to the moon. Somewhere between the two rockets is the so-called Ares Lite — a heavy-lift hybrid that could carry both humans and cargo and is intended to be a design that engineers can have in their back pockets if the two-booster plan proves unaffordable.
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| Posted: Mon Nov 16th, 2009 08:53 pm |
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I watched the lift off today. Beautiful one!
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| Posted: Tue Nov 17th, 2009 07:46 am |
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| Posted: Mon Nov 23rd, 2009 08:01 am |
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Benbrook Susie
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Today's spacewalk scheduled to begin in just over 3 hours.
Landing scheduled for Friday morning at 8:41 CST.
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| Posted: Fri Nov 27th, 2009 08:04 am |
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Benbrook Susie
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Landing scheduled for Friday morning at 8:44 CST.
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| Posted: Fri Nov 27th, 2009 12:49 pm |
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Jim Jack
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Deorbit burn has occurred. They are on their way.
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| Posted: Sat Nov 28th, 2009 07:49 am |
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Benbrook Susie
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It was a beautiful morning for a landing !!
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| Posted: Sun Feb 7th, 2010 06:47 am |
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Benbrook Susie
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Shuttle Endeavour will take off in just under two hours ---- 3:39 a.m. CDT. There are some clouds moving in, but so far the launch is a go.
NASA Channel is 283 on DirecTV.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html
Well, shoot. Website now ( 2:30 ) says cloud cover may delay launch.
Last edited on Sun Feb 7th, 2010 07:33 am by Benbrook Susie
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I read an article this morning that the countries vying to make the next moon landing are China, South Korea, India, and Russia.
Looks like we're heading in the wrong direction.
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Benbrook Susie
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Again awaiting launch of Shuttle Endeavour, scheduled for 3:14 a.m. CDT. Just under an hour to go......
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Benbrook Susie
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Time to go watch in the other room.......
Wow, nighttime launches are indeed spectacular !! And yes, I still get chills after all these years of watching. 
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| Posted: Wed Feb 17th, 2010 08:18 am |
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Benbrook Susie
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Shuttle is scheduled to land on Sunday, February 21, at 9:20 p.m. CST.
I got to watch some of Tuesday night's spacewalk.
LC barb was there for the launch !!!!!
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| Posted: Sat Feb 20th, 2010 06:44 am |
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Benbrook Susie
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Landing pushed up a few minutes to 9:16 p.m. CST Sunday.
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| Posted: Sun Feb 21st, 2010 08:47 am |
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Benbrook Susie
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Back to 9:20......... 
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| Posted: Mon Feb 22nd, 2010 03:22 am |
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Bob Of Burleson
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Space shuttle Endeavour
returns safely to Earth
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Space shuttle Endeavour and its six crew members wrapped up a 14-day construction mission to the International Space Station on Sunday with a precision touchdown in Florida.
Double-sonic booms rang through the balmy night as the spaceship dropped beneath the sound barrier for first time since its predawn blastoff from the Kennedy Space Center on February 8.
Minutes later, Endeavour commander George Zamka gently settled the 100-ton spaceship onto a canal-lined runway at 10:20 p.m. EST, bringing NASA's 130th space shuttle mission to an end.
Four flights remain before NASA retires its three-ship fleet later this year.
Endeavour and its crew spent nearly 10 days at the space station to deliver and install the last connecting hub and a seven-windowed observation deck, completing major assembly tasks for the U.S.-portion of the orbital outpost.
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| Posted: Mon Feb 22nd, 2010 06:24 am |
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Benbrook Susie
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Always relieved to see the shuttles land safely.
Usually I stick around the NASA Channel for awhile afterwards, but tonight I wanted to switch back to Ice Dancing.......
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Benbrook Susie
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From NASA's website :
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html
Management Team Gives "Go" for Discovery LaunchSat, 03 Apr 2010 11:50:22 AM CDT
Launch countdown operations are on schedule with no issues to report, according to officials at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida during the STS-131 L-2 prelaunch briefing. Space shuttle Discovery is set to launch at 6:21 a.m. EDT Monday.
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librarylady
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My dream was to see a lift off in person, but with this being the final one, it will never happen.
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Bob Of Burleson
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Spacewoman power: 4 women in orbit at same time
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Space is about to have a female population explosion.
One woman already is circling Earth in a Russian capsule, bound for the International Space Station. Early Monday morning, NASA will attempt to launch three more women to the orbiting outpost — along with four men — aboard shuttle Discovery.
It will be the most women in space at the same time.
Men still will outnumber the women by more than 2-to-1 aboard the shuttle and station, but that won't take away from the remarkable achievement, coming 27 years after America's first female astronaut, Sally Ride, rocketed into space.
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