Next UP!
STS-127 Endeavour (OV-105)
Scheduled Launch: July 11, 2009 @ 7:39pm EDT
Scheduled Landing: July 27, 2009
STS-127 Mission Status (07/03/09 @ 9:00am EDT)
The STS-127 crew should arrive at KSC around 2pm on Tuesday, July 7th to begin preparations for launch day! Crew arrival may be carried live on NASA TV.
Mission TV Coverage
All events are carried live on NASA TV (see "For More Information" section below for a link to NASA TV on the web). NASA TV can be found on some cable public access channels (consult your local cable TV channel schedule/guide). If you have satellite TV service (DIRECTV or DISH Network), NASA-TV can be found on;
Channel 283
Channel 213
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Launch of STS-123
"Endeavour"
Photographed from the VIP Stands (3 miles from launch site) at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida on March 11, 2008 by SCAS Member Tim Khan (Nikon D200). Click on the picture to download a Hi-Res copy.)
Launch of STS-119
"Discovery"
Photographed from Brandon, FL (111 miles from launch site) by SCAS Webmaster Art Mullis with a Nikon D300, FL=200MM. Click on the picture to download a Hi-Res copy.)
The End of the Road!
On Sept 30, 2010, the NASA Space Shuttle Program will be officially retired from service!
There are only 8 more shuttle missions scheduled.........
8 more Shuttle Flights scheduled to the ISS * (See STS-134 below)
So, if you have never seen a Shuttle Launch in person at KSC,
DO SO BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!
You will not regret the experience.
For those of us who were too young to remember the Saturn V launches of the late 1960's and early 1970's. The Space Shuttle is to this generation what the Saturn V rocket was to a previous generation. It will be lost to history before you know it!
Future Shuttle Launch Dates (Consolidated Launch Manifest)
July 11 , 2009 @ 7:39pm EDT - STS-127 (Endeavour) - Endeavour sets sail on its 23rd mission with the Japanese Kibo Laboratory's Exposed Facility and Experiment Logistics Module Exposed Section, the final permanent components of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's contribution to the station program. During the 16-day mission, Endeavour's crew will perform five spacewalks and deliver six new batteries for the P6 truss, a spare drive unit for the Mobile Transporter and a spare boom assembly for the Ku-band antenna. Mark Polansky will be Endeavour's commander with Doug Hurley as pilot. Mission specialists will be Christopher Cassidy, Tom Marshburn, Dave Wolf, Tim Kopra and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Julie Payette. Kopra will become a station flight engineer replacing Koichi Wakata, who will return home with the STS-127 crew. It will be the 29th shuttle flight to the station.
August 6, 2009 @ 8:49am EDT - STS-128 (Discovery) - Discovery will carry the MPLM "Leonardo" and the Lightweight Experiment Support Structure Carrier with an Ammonia Tank Assembly.
November 12 , 2009 @ 4:22pm EDT- STS-129 (Atlantis) - The STS-129 mission will see Atlantis deliver the Express Logistics Carriers 1 & 2 (ELC-1 and ELC -2), along with SASA and MISSE (Materials on International Space Station Experiment) 7A and 7B, to the Space Station.
February 4, 2010 @ 6;20am EST - STS-130 (Endeavour) - Endeavour on its 24th mission to deliver the final connecting node, Node 3 "Tranquility" (named for the Apollo 11 lunar landing site), and the Cupola, a robotic control station with six windows around its sides and another in the center that provides a 360-degree view around the station. At least three spacewalks are planned during the 11-day mission.
March 18, 2010 @ 1:08pm EST - STS-131 (Discovery) - Discovery will carry a Multi-Purpose Logistics Module filled with science racks that will be transferred to laboratories of the station. The 11-day mission will include at least three spacewalks to attach a spare ammonia tank assembly outside the station and return a European experiment that has been outside the Columbus module. It will be the 33rd shuttle mission to the station.
May 14, 2010 @ 3:05pm EDT - STS-132 (Atlantis) - Atlantis's final mission will carry an integrated cargo carrier to deliver maintenance and assembly hardware, including spare parts for space station systems. In addition, the second in a series of new pressurized components for Russia, a Mini Research Module, will be permanently attached to the bottom port of the Zarya module. The Russian module also will carry U.S. pressurized cargo. The first Russian Mini Research Module to go to the station is scheduled to launch on a Russian rocket in the summer of 2009. Additionally, at least three spacewalks are planned to stage spare components outside the station, including six spare batteries, a boom assembly for the Ku-band antenna and spares for the Canadian Dextre robotic arm extension. A radiator, airlock and European robotic arm for the Russian Multi-purpose Laboratory Module also are payloads on the flight. The laboratory module is scheduled for launch on a Russian rocket in 2011. The mission marks the 34th mission to the station.
July 29, 2010 @ 8:45am EDT - STS-133 (Endeavour) - Endeavour's 25th mission will carry critical spare components that will be placed on the outside of the station. Those will include two S-band communications antennas, a high-pressure gas tank, additional spare parts for Dextre and micrometeoroid debris shields. At least three spacewalks are planned to be carried out by the crew, which has yet to be named. The 15-day mission will be the 35th to the station.
September 16, 2010 @ 1pm EDT - STS-134 (Discovery) - Discovery may be budgeted by Congress to fly one more mission to deliver the "Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer" (AMS) to the ISS.
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ULF - Utility Logistics Flight MPLM - Multi-Purpose Logistics Module ELC - Express Logistics Carrier
PM - Pressurized Module EF - Exposure Facility
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For More Information
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ISS-Amateur Telescope Project |
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