Nitrometan
2011-06-30, 09:27
Uppdrag STS-135 har fått klartecken för start.
Rymdfärjan Atlantis gör den sista flygningen med det amerikanska rymdfärjeprogrammet.
Den 8:e juli lyfter den. 12 dagar senare är eran med rymdfärjorna slut. *cry* The end of the Space Shuttle Era.
Från NASA:
Date: July 8
Mission: STS-135
Launch Vehicle: Space Shuttle Atlantis
Launch Site: Kennedy Space Center - Launch Pad 39A
Launch Time: 11:26 a.m. EDT
Description: Space shuttle Atlantis will carry the Raffaello multipurpose logistics module to deliver supplies, logistics and spare parts to the International Space Station. Atlantis also will fly a system to investigate the potential for robotically refueling existing spacecraft and return a failed ammonia pump module.
30 år höll de på. Hann också vara med i en Bondfilm. ;)
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/493736main_30patch_226x290.gif
En pdf med alla uppskjutningarna: http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/537939main_2011.05.09_SpaceShuttleWallChart.pdf
Historien om Discovery: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/flyout/discovery.html
It has flown to space more than any other craft, and it has carried more crew members to orbit. It was the first spacecraft to retrieve a satellite and bring it back to Earth. It has visited two space stations. It launched a telescope that has seen deeper in space and in time than ever before. And twice it has demonstrated the United States' will to persevere following devastating tragedy, returning America to orbit following the two worst accidents in space history.
Although all five vehicles that have comprised NASA's space shuttle fleet are unmatched in achievements, space shuttle Discovery is unique among the extraordinary.
In 38 trips to space, Discovery has spent 352 days in orbit, almost a full year. Discovery has circled Earth 5,628 times, all the while speeding along at 17,400 miles per hour. It has traveled almost 143 million miles. That equals 288 round trips to the moon or about one and a half trips to the sun.
Discovery has carried more crew members -- 246 -- than any space vehicle. Those have included the first female to ever pilot a spacecraft, the oldest person to fly in space, the first African-American to perform a spacewalk, the first cosmonaut to fly on an American spacecraft and the first sitting member of Congress to fly in space.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/flyout/flyoutcapecrusaders.html
Rymdfärjan Atlantis gör den sista flygningen med det amerikanska rymdfärjeprogrammet.
Den 8:e juli lyfter den. 12 dagar senare är eran med rymdfärjorna slut. *cry* The end of the Space Shuttle Era.
Från NASA:
Date: July 8
Mission: STS-135
Launch Vehicle: Space Shuttle Atlantis
Launch Site: Kennedy Space Center - Launch Pad 39A
Launch Time: 11:26 a.m. EDT
Description: Space shuttle Atlantis will carry the Raffaello multipurpose logistics module to deliver supplies, logistics and spare parts to the International Space Station. Atlantis also will fly a system to investigate the potential for robotically refueling existing spacecraft and return a failed ammonia pump module.
30 år höll de på. Hann också vara med i en Bondfilm. ;)
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/493736main_30patch_226x290.gif
En pdf med alla uppskjutningarna: http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/537939main_2011.05.09_SpaceShuttleWallChart.pdf
Historien om Discovery: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/flyout/discovery.html
It has flown to space more than any other craft, and it has carried more crew members to orbit. It was the first spacecraft to retrieve a satellite and bring it back to Earth. It has visited two space stations. It launched a telescope that has seen deeper in space and in time than ever before. And twice it has demonstrated the United States' will to persevere following devastating tragedy, returning America to orbit following the two worst accidents in space history.
Although all five vehicles that have comprised NASA's space shuttle fleet are unmatched in achievements, space shuttle Discovery is unique among the extraordinary.
In 38 trips to space, Discovery has spent 352 days in orbit, almost a full year. Discovery has circled Earth 5,628 times, all the while speeding along at 17,400 miles per hour. It has traveled almost 143 million miles. That equals 288 round trips to the moon or about one and a half trips to the sun.
Discovery has carried more crew members -- 246 -- than any space vehicle. Those have included the first female to ever pilot a spacecraft, the oldest person to fly in space, the first African-American to perform a spacewalk, the first cosmonaut to fly on an American spacecraft and the first sitting member of Congress to fly in space.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/flyout/flyoutcapecrusaders.html