STS120, will be the 120th Shuttle flight |
STS120, will be the 120th Shuttle flight |
Oct 22 2007, 07:14 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2920 Joined: 14-February 06 From: Very close to the Pyrénées Mountains (France) Member No.: 682 |
For once, STS number will correspond to actual fight number.
We're less than 24 hours to launch of what is said the most complex fligth of the ISS assembly. One first : The CDR of the shuttle will be a female (Pam Melroy) and she'll be greated by the first female CDR of the ISS (Peggy Whitson) here is the countdown timeline : http://www.spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts1...0countdown.html Have a good flight. -------------------- |
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Oct 23 2007, 03:57 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15 |
Could be lighting -- there was good sunlight along the belly of the orbiter as it separated from the ET, perhaps the sun angle simply was advantageous in highlighting sparklies that are always there.
Interestingly, I thought they weren't supposed to launch into cloud decks as low as the one they launched into...? Maybe the post-Columbia launch restrictions are being eased a bit? -the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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