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Shuttle Countdown To Begin Thursday
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Aug 22, 2006 NASA is set to begin the countdown for the Florida launch of the space shuttle Atlantis' mission to the International Space Station at 6 p.m. EDT Thursday. The flight will mark resumption of ISS construction, started in 1998 but halted in 2003 after the loss of space shuttle Columbia and the death of its crew. The NASA Kennedy Space Center launch team will conduct the countdown that includes 27 hours, 24 minutes of built-in hold time leading to a preferred launch time at 4:30 p.m. Sunday. The launch window for that day extends an additional five minutes. The mission -- the 116th space shuttle flight, the 27th flight for Atlantis and the 19th U.S. flight to the International Space Station -- is to last 11 days, with a landing at Kennedy about 12:02 p.m. EDT Sept. 7. The STS-115 crew is Commander Brent Jett, pilot Chris Ferguson, and mission specialists Joe Tanner, Dan Burbank, Heide Stefanyshyn-Piper and Canadian astronaut Steve MacLean. They are to, among other things, deliver and install a 17.5-ton integrated truss segment on the station. The girder-like truss includes a set of giant solar arrays, batteries and associated electronics. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links NASA STS-115 Space Shuttle News at Space-Travel.Com Space Shuttle News at Space-Travel.Com
Atlantis Shuttle Ready To Go On August 27
Washington (AFP) Aug 16, 2006The Atlantis shuttle is ready to launch on August 27 on the first mission to resume construction of the International Space Station since the 2003 Columbia disaster, NASA said Wednesday. "We have set the launch date again for the 27th (of August)," Bill Gerstenmaier, the NASA associate administrator for space operations, told reporters. |
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