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The first stage’s nine Merlin 1D engines produce 1.3 million pounds of thrust at sea level, ramping up to 1.5 million pounds of thrust in vacuum.T+01:18Max QThe Falcon 9 rocket reaches Max Q, the point of maximum aerodynamic pressure.T+02:54MECOMoments after two of the Falcon 9’s first stage engines shut down, the remaining seven Merlin 1D engines cut off at an altitude of about 90 kilometers, or 56 miles.T+02:57Stage 1 SeparationThe Falcon 9’s first stage separates from the second stage five seconds after MECO.T+03:04Stage 2 IgnitionThe second stage Merlin 1D vacuum engine ignites for an approximately 5-minute, 35-second burn to inject the Thaicom 6 satellite into a parking orbit.T+03:55Fairing JettisonThe 5.2-meter (17.1-foot) diameter payload fairing jettisons once the Falcon 9 rocket ascends through the dense lower atmosphere. The 43-foot-tall fairing is made of two clamshell-like halves composed of carbon fiber with an aluminum honeycomb core.T+08:39SECO 1The second stage Merlin 1D vacuum engine shuts down after reaching orbit.T+26:XXStage 2 RestartThe second stage Merlin 1D vacuum engine re-ignites for a brief burn lasting just over one minute to inject Thaicom 6 into the planned supersynchronous transfer orbit. SpaceX has not disclosed the exact time of second stage restart.T+28:XXSECO 2The second stage Merlin 1D vacuum engine shuts down. The upper stage next re-orients itself to deployment of the Thaicom 6 payload. SpaceX has not disclosed the exact time of second stage shutdown.T+31:13Thaicom 6 SeparationThe 6,649-pound Thaicom 6 broadcasting satellite is deployed from the Falcon 9 second stage in an orbit with a perigee of 183 miles, an apogee of 55,923 miles (295 km x 90,000 km) with an inclination of 22.5 degrees. 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Stormy weather and high winds earlier this week pushed the countdown rehearsal to Friday.After powering up the 15-story rocket, the launch team verified all systems were functioning, performed engine purge checks and cleared workers from the launch pad. About 29 managers and engineers inside SpaceX’s Launch Control Center oversaw the countdown, which began at the T-minus 2 hour, 30 minute point.The transporter/erector, also serving as an umbilical tower and strongback, was partially tilted away from the rocket around 1:30 p.m. EST. Liquid oxygen started flowing into the two-stage Falcon 9 launcher at about 3 p.m. EST.The super-cold oxidizer was loaded into the rocket until the first and second stage tanks were 98 percent full, then the launch team topped off the liquid oxygen to liftoff levels, where they remained throughout the countdown, according to SpaceX.The shining white rocket was coated in ice after liquid oxygen was placed on-board.The Falcon 9 was next filled with kerosene fuel, which powers Merlin engines on both stages of the rocket.In the final 10 minutes of the countdown, the Falcon 9’s navigation system was aligned for launch, the rocket was transferred to internal power, the engine steering systems were checked out, and propellant tanks were pressurized at T-minus 40 seconds, according to Buzza.The countdown clock was stopped at T-minus 10 seconds around 5:15 p.m. EST using the pad abort system.After safing the rocket and launch pad, SpaceX drained the Falcon 9 of propellant and raised the strongback next to the launcher.”It was a good day,” said Elon Musk, SpaceX’s founder and CEO.Engineers will spend the next few days carefully reviewing data from Friday’s test. 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Liftoff remains targeted for 4 p.m. EST (2100 GMT).Space Exploration Technologies Corp. founder Elon Musk cautions, however, that delays could be inevitable for this critical inaugural launch.”This is a brand new rocket from a brand new launch site, so I would characterize that time as the first launch attempt. Miracles can happen and it may actually happen on that exact time, but it is not a certainty,” he told reporters at a news conference last week.The day’s launch opportunity extends four hours to 8 p.m. EST (0100 GMT).Be sure to check out some spectacular images of the rocket at the launch pad. You can see the photo collection .This will be the first ground-based orbital launch of its kind to originate from the U.S. Army’s Kwajalein base in the Marshall Islands. An air-launched Pegasus rocket did ascend to orbit from the range carrying NASA’s HETE gamma-ray observatory a few years ago.A 25-member SpaceX team will oversee Saturday’s countdown. While the Falcon rocket is fueled at the pad the company has built on the tiny island of Omelek, the launch team will be controlling operations from a separate island.The bare-bones pad does not feature a large mobile service gantry or bulky umbilical tower. The rocket is mounted atop a ground pedestal, and is supported by the transport trailer that it has been riding since being assembled at SpaceX headquarters in El Segundo, California. The rocket and trailer duo was wrapped in a protective covering and shipped by barge from the U.S. to Kwajalein this summer. That trailer has continued to service Falcon even after it was erected upright on the pad.A pole-like structure next at the pad routes umbilical lines to the rocket stages and to the nose cone the enclosing the payload — the Air Force Academy’s cadet-built FalconSat 2 craft. The rocket is fed with a highly refined kerosene propellant and super cold liquid oxygen to power the engines of its two stages. 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Younes said he expects TDRS L will be put into operation before 2020.It will take an hour and 46 minutes for the Atlas 5 rocket to deposit TDRS L into an oval-shaped orbit ranging between 3,006 miles and 22,237 miles in altitude with an inclination of 25.5 degrees.The launcher’s first stage, powered by a dual-chamber RD-180 engine built in Russia, will fire four minutes to boost the rocket into the rarified upper atmosphere. The Atlas 5’s hydrogen-fueled Centaur upper stage will ignite its RL10 engine a few seconds later for the first of two firings on Thursday night’s mission.The first Centaur burn will last about 18 minutes, followed by a coast through space before the RL10 engine fires again for a 63-second burn set to begin at 10:45 p.m. EST if the launch occurs on time.The separation of TDRS L is expected at 10:51 p.m. EST, assuming an on-time liftoff Thursday night. Artist’s concept of the TDRS L satellite with its solar panels and antennas deployed. Credit: BoeingThe fuel-laden satellite is programmed to switch on its radio transmitters and broadcast its status to a ground station in Australia moments after deploying from the Centaur upper stage.TDRS L’s on-board maneuvering engine will ignite five times over the next 10 days to reach a circular orbit 22,300 miles high, the altitude where a satellite’s orbit synchronizes with the speed of Earth’s rotation.Then the spacecraft will unfurl its antennas and extend two solar array wings before beginning about three months of testing to check the satellite’s functionality. Handover to NASA is expected around May, according to Gramling.From its vantage point high above the equator, TDRS L will mechanically pivot twin 15-foot-diameter mesh reflectors to track the space station and other satellites orbiting a few hundred miles over the planet, beaming messages back and forth in S-band, Ku-band and Ka-band frequencies.”The TDRS satellites must track an object 22,000 miles away that is moving across the face of the Earth roughly every 45 minutes,” said Andy Kopito, director of civil space programs and Boeing Space and Intelligence Systems. “This capability is analagous to standing at the top of the Empire State Building and tracking an ant as it marches its way down the sidewalk in front of the building, a truly remarkable capability.”Like its TDRS counterpart launched last year, TDRS L is a multitasker with the ability to communicate with several satellites at different frequencies at the same time.Despite the space shuttle’s retirement, the number of TDRS users has gone up in recent years, said Robert Buchanan, NASA’s deputy TDRS project manager.Thanks to the TDRS network, NASA can beam live video and audio to and from the space station. And if you’ve seen any of the breathtaking cosmic images from Hubble, chances are they made it Earth through TDRS antennas.NOAA weather satellites in polar orbit, NASA’s Terra, Aqua and Aura climate research satellites, and launch vehicles rely on the TDRS network for communications.The Atlas 5 rocket launching TDRS L carries a transponder to send telemetry back to the launch team via the TDRS system.Vernon Thorp, United Launch Alliance’s program manager for NASA missions, said availability of TDRS communications has allowed engineers to design more flexible launch trajectories and save money by eliminating staffing of downrange ground stations.”I think it’s a great testament to the breadth of valuable services that the overall TDRS constellation provides,” Thorp said.The spacecraft will be renamed TDRS 12 once it enters service.Follow Stephen Clark on Twitter: .Final Shuttle Mission PatchFree shipping to U.S. addresses!The crew emblem for the final space shuttle mission is now available in our store. 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The capsule is one of the key elements of returning astronauts to the Moon.Fallen Heroes Patch CollectionThe official patches from Apollo 1, the shuttle Challenger and Columbia crews are available in the store. | | | | 2014 Spaceflight Now Inc.NASA prepares to take first steps back to the Moon SPACEFLIGHT NOWPosted: June 17, 2009 Credit: United Launch AllianceA robotic scout to reconnoiter the Moon like never before and a sleuth that will dig into a tantalizing mystery at the lunar south pole are awaiting blastoff Thursday aboard an Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral.The 19-story booster will hurl toward the Moon its double payload comprised of NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite. Together, the two independent projects represent NASA’s first steps in its eventual plans to return humans to the Moon.Liftoff from Complex 41 will be possible at any of three available moments in time:5:12 p.m. EDT (2112 GMT)5:22 p.m. EDT (2122 GMT)5:32 p.m. EDT (2132 GMT)The United Launch Alliance control team will target the day’s first opportunity, but weather or technical problems could prompt a delay to one of the subsequent times.The precision required in putting the spacecraft on the proper Moon-bound trajectory restricts when the launch can occur. If the rocket is unable to go Thursday, alternate tries are possible Friday starting at 6:41 p.m. EDT and Saturday beginning at 8:08 p.m. EDT. The next lunar launch window would open June 30.Rumbling away from the planet on nearly a million pounds of thrust, the Atlas 5 rocket will be flying in its most basic, two-stage configuration without any added strap-on motors. A half-dozen previous missions have relied on this version of the launcher, each displaying a slow and majestic ascent trailing only a flickering golden flame from its Russian-designed RD-180 main engine.Once above its launch pad, the rocket sets sail for the trek downrange over the Atlantic Ocean, constantly gaining speed as its double-nozzle engine gulps 25,000 gallons of kerosene fuel and 50,000 gallons of superchilled liquid oxygen in just four minutes.The bronze first stage, its propellants depleted and job now completed, then jettisons with the help of tiny thrusters. Some 106.5 feet long and 12.5 feet around, the stage is discarded to fall back into the open sea.The cryogenic Centaur upper stage ignites moments after shedding the lower booster, lighting its tried-and-true RL10 engine for 22,300 pounds of thrust to continue clawing toward orbit. An artist’s concept shows LRO and LCROSS riding into space atop the Centaur upper stage. Credit: NASACovered with insulating foam and adorned with mission logos, this stage stretching 41.5 feet in length and 10 feet in diameter must perform two burns during the launch. The LRO and LCROSS satellites stacked atop the Centaur are counting on a safe drive.Shortly after the upper stage begins firing, the two-piece aluminum nose cone that shrouded the payloads during flight through the atmosphere becomes no-longer-necessary and separates to expose the lunar tandem to space for the first time.Centaur will fire for almost 10 minutes to reach a temporary parking orbit around Earth. Once it has achieved the intended perch, the RL10 engine shuts down and the rocket begins a quiet coast over the equatorial Atlantic and southern Africa.A spot high above the eastern shore of Africa is where Centaur will restart its powerplant about 38 minutes into the flight to establish a direct course to the Moon. The firing will last five minutes over the Southern Indian Ocean.LRO is released from the launcher 46 minutes after liftoff, embarking on the multi-year mission to survey the Moon’s terrain, map its natural resources and measure the radiation threats in preparation for the next human expeditions. The craft should reach the Moon in four days, then use its onboard engines to enter lunar orbit.LCROSS will remain with the Centaur. Special procedures to deplete and expel residual fuel from the upper stage will be performed in the hours after launch, leading to the official transfer of control from the rocket to the LCROSS spacecraft about four hours into the mission.The duo will stay coupled together for four months as they make incredibly long orbits around the Earth. The looping orbits will extend outward past the Moon’s distance, then swing back to close proximity to the home planet, setting the stage for impact into the lunar south pole on October 9.Final Shuttle Mission PatchFree shipping to U.S. addresses!The crew emblem for the final space shuttle mission is now available in our store. Get this piece of history!STS-134 PatchFree shipping to U.S. addresses!The final planned flight of space shuttle Endeavour is symbolized in the official embroidered crew patch for STS-134. Available in our store!Ares 1-X PatchThe official embroidered patch for the Ares 1-X rocket test flight, is available for purchase.Apollo CollageThis beautiful one piece set features the Apollo program emblem surrounded by the individual mission logos.Project OrionThe Orion crew exploration vehicle is NASA’s first new human spacecraft developed since the space shuttle a quarter-century earlier. The capsule is one of the key elements of returning astronauts to the Moon.Fallen Heroes Patch CollectionThe official patches from Apollo 1, the shuttle Challenger and Columbia crews are available in the store. | | | | 2014 Spaceflight Now Inc.NASA satellite attached to booster rocket for launch SPACEFLIGHT NOWPosted: January 20, 2013 NASA’s next-generation communications satellite was mounted atop the Atlas 5 rocket Sunday, kicking off the final week of preparations to send the science-relay spacecraft into orbit. Credit: NASA-KSCThe Tracking and Data Relay Satellite K, or TDRS K, is scheduled for liftoff from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 41 next Tuesday, Jan. 29, at 8:52 p.m. EST. The evening’s available window extends 40 minutes.It begins the third era of spacecraft for NASA’s space network for routing communications from the International Space Station, transmitting science data from orbiting satellites and tracking booster rockets.The system began taking shape in 1983, replacing the smattering of ground stations around the world that provided periodic contact with orbiting spacecraft. Over the past three decades, however, TDRS created a constellation of geosynchronous satellites 22,300 miles above Earth for constant communications.From such a high vantage point, TDRS satellites look down on the entire globe, receiving transmissions from fast-moving craft flying only a few hundred miles in altitude and channeling those signals to dedicated terminals for dissemination to mission controllers.To keep the infrastructure maintained, NASA is preparing to launch TDRS K, plus sister-satellites TDRS L in 2014 and TDRS M in 2015. Together, they will ensure the constellation’s viability well into the next decade.”We’ve got to make sure we continue to provide the services a whole host of users come to rely on,” Jeff Gramling, NASA’s TDRS project manager.After deploying the first generation of craft aboard space shuttle missions through 1995, a second batch flew on Atlas 2A rockets between 2000 and 2002. Now, NASA has bought this latest trio using mostly the same specs as the last birds, albeit with updated components.

STORY WRITTEN FOR & USED WITH PERMISSIONPosted: August 5, 2011;Updated after news conference KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL–A powerful United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket roared to life Friday and launched NASA’s solar-powered Juno space probe on a five-year voyage to Jupiter, the first step in a $1.1 billion mission to look for clues about the origins of the solar system in the hidden heart of its largest planet. Credit: Justin Ray/Spaceflight Now”What we’re really going after are some of the most fundamental questions of our solar system — how Jupiter formed, how it evolved, what really happened early in the solar system that eventually led to all of us and the terrestrial planets,” said Scott Bolton, the principal investigator. “These are really basic questions, who are we, where did we come from, how did we get here?”We’re kind of going after this recipe of how planets are made. We’re getting the ingredients of Jupiter, we’re going to understand what the structure is like inside, how was it built, and that will give us guidance as to what happened in that early time that eventually led to us.”The towering 197-foot-tall Atlas 5, equipped with five solid-fuel strap-on boosters for extra power, ignited with a ground-shaking roar at 12:25 p.m. EDT (GMT-4), generating 2.5 million pounds of thrust and instantly pushing the spacecraft away from launch complex 41 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. It was only the second launch of a five strap-on Atlas 5, the most powerful version offered by United Launch Alliance.Liftoff was delayed 51 minutes to resolve two technical issues and to make sure the launch danger zone was clear.Climbing away atop a brilliant plume of fiery exhaust, the rocket accelerated through the sound barrier 34 seconds after liftoff, arcing away to the East and putting on a spectacular lunchtime show for tourists and area residents. The strap-on boosters burned out and peeled off about a minute later and the first stage shut down and fell away as planned four-and-a-half minutes after launch.The rocket’s hydrogen-fueled Centaur upper stage then carried out a six-minute burn to boost the spacecraft into a temporary parking orbit. A second nine-minute Centaur firing 31 minutes later accelerated Juno to 25,000 mph, or 7 miles per second — interplanetary escape velocity — and three minutes later, the 4-ton spacecraft separated from the Centaur to fly on its own. Credit: Pat Corkery/United Launch AllianceJuno’s three solar panels then unfolded and initial checks showed the spacecraft came through launch in good shape and pointed in the right direction.”Next stop is Jupiter!” Bolton said during a post-launch news conference. “I could not be happier, this is sort of like a dream come true.”Project manager Jan Chodas said the solar arrays deployed normally, “we spun down to .4 rpm as predicted and then the spacecraft spun us back up to 1 rpm as planned. We were left off about 19 degrees off sun, within the 20-degree cone that we needed, so we did not need to turn to put the arrays on the sun, we were already pointed in the right direction.””So everything was, our favorite word, ‘nominal,'” she said. “I’m happy to say we are stable, we are spinning, we are power positive, the arrays are picking up power and recharging the battery, and we are commandable. So those are the four things we wanted today, couldn’t be happier.”The Atlas 5 was not powerful enough to fling the spacecraft directly to its target. Instead, Juno will fly out past the orbit of Mars and then use on-board propulsion in September 2012 to drop back into the inner solar system for a velocity-boosting Earth flyby in October 2013. That will give Juno the extra push it needs to reach Jupiter on July 4, 2016.The primary goals of the mission are to use the solar system’s largest, and presumably oldest, planet to answer fundamental questions about the evolution of the early solar system and the processes at work in the hidden hearts of gas giants like Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and scores of others discovered around distant suns.Mission objectives include:Determining how much water may be in Jupiter’s atmosphere, a key factor in theories about how the solar system first formed and the distribution of elements in the solar nebula.To measure the composition, temperature and the motions of clouds deep in Jupiter’s atmosphere.To characterize the magnetic and gravitational fields to learn more about the interior structure of the planet and whether a solid core might be present.To study Jupiter’s magnetosphere and the intense auroras at the planet’s poles to learn more about the planet’s magnetosphere and its effects on the atmosphere.Braking into orbit around Jupiter in 2016, Juno will swoop to within 3,100 miles of the gargantuan planet’s cloud tops once each orbit to collect precise data about its magnetic and gravitational field strength. But it will do so in an orbit around the planet’s poles, ducking below the intense radiation belts that concentrate high-energy sub-atomic particles around the equator.”So not only are we over the poles, but we’re getting closer to Jupiter in our orbit than any other spacecraft has gone,” Bolton said. “We’re only 5,000 kilometers above the cloud tops and so we’re skimming right over those cloud tops and we’re actually dipping down beneath the radiation belts, which is a very important thing for us. Because those radiation belts at Jupiter are the most hazardous region in the entire solar system other than going right to the sun itself.”Even in a polar orbit, Juno will be exposed to the equivalent of 100 million dental X-rays over one year. To survive in that hellish environment, the spacecraft’s electronics are housed in what amounts to a titanium vault.”We’re basically an armored tank going to Jupiter,” Bolton said.But exposure to even reduced levels of radiation will reduce the spacecraft’s useful life to about one year, or 33 orbits. At that point, Juno will be ordered to crash into Jupiter’s atmosphere to prevent any chance of a future collision with one of Jupiter’s moons and contamination of any presumed sub-surface oceans. An artist’s concept of the Juno spacecraft at Jupiter. Credit: NASA/JPL-CaltechBuilt by Lockheed Martin Space Systems of Denver and managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., Juno will be the ninth spacecraft to study Jupiter and only the second to orbit the huge world.All of the earlier spacecraft were powered by radioisotope thermoelectric generators, or RTGs, which used thermocouples to convert the heat produced by radioactive decay into electricity. Juno is the first solar-powered spacecraft designed to study an outer planet nearly 500 million miles out where sunlight is 25 times weaker than at Earth.As a result, three huge solar panels were required, each one the size of a tractor-trailer rig, arranged starfish fashion around the central body of the spacecraft. At Earth’s distance from the sun, the arrays would generate 14 kilowatts of power. At Jupiter’s distance, they will provide just 400 watts. But that’s enough to power Juno’s science instruments and subsystems.Spinning at 2 rpm for stability, Juno will probe Jupiter’s powerful magnetic field, study its powerhouse auroras — the most energetic in the solar system — chart the movements of its colorful cloud belts, the churning Great Red Spot and other surface storms and use the planet’s powerful gravitational field to probe the hidden interior where scientists believe a crushed, solid core may lurk under an unimaginable 40 million atmospheres of pressure.”If you were looking at the solar system from Alpha Centauri, for example, what you would see would be the sun, four planets and some debris,” said Toby Owen, a Juno co-investigator at the University of Hawaii. “We’re down in the debris. So it’s like being an archeologist and you’re surrounded by chips and pieces of marble, some pots, and you’re trying to figure out where they came from, what kind of a civilization produced them, and we’re sort of in that situation with the solar system.”We’re in the debris, the bits and piece, and the reason we want to go to Jupiter is it should have preserved the original material from that disk, from that solar nebula as we call it. And so if we can study Jupiter, we have a chance of getting back in time and looking at conditions, the composition, that existed then.” The Juno spacecraft is shown in orbit above Jupiter’s colorful clouds in this artist’s rendering. Credit: NASA/JPL-CaltechA major goal of the Juno mission is to determine how much oxygen is present. Jupiter should have roughly the same levels as the sun, but data from NASA’s Galileo probe indicated that may not be the case.”Some of the heavy elements, carbon and nitrogen in particular, are enriched in Jupiter’s atmosphere above the level that they have in the sun,” Owen said. “Oxygen may or may not be, and that’s one of the reasons we’re anxious to find it. If oxygen is more abundant in Jupiter’s atmosphere than the carbon and the nitrogen, we have to figure out how it got that way.”If that is the case, Jupiter may have formed farther out in the solar system, where more ice was present in the original solar nebula, and then migrated inward. If Jupiter formed where it is today, Juno should detect roughly similar levels of oxygen, carbon and nitrogen.”If, on the other hand, the oxygen is lower than the carbon and nitrogen, then we would expect the oxygen has combined to make silicon, to make rocks,” Owen said. “The rocks would have settled out and joined that big mass, the 10-Earth mass, in making a core. We don’t know if that happened. But we have an experiment that may tell us about a concentration of matter at the center.”But carefully monitoring radio signals from Juno, scientists can detect subtle changes in the spacecraft’s velocity caused by the effects of Jupiter’s gravitational field. That will provide a direct measure of how mass in the planet’s interior is distributed.”If we also have this information from the oxygen about the formation of rocks, then we’ll be pretty much zooming in on the fact that Jupiter has a core, and this will be a very important result,” Owen said. “Because that will tell us that this model for making Jupiter from a 10-Earth mass object is probably right.”Looking at the bigger picture, Bolton said Jupiter’s history is directly tied to Earth’s, “because the stuff that Jupiter’s enriched in, these heavy elements, everything heavier than helium, is what we’re made out of, it’s what the Earth’s made out of, it’s what all life is made out of.””We’re trying to figure out what that history was early in the solar system of how these things got into Jupiter and how the planets got more of them than the sun did, because it obviously led to us.”Additional coverage for subscribers:VIDEO:EARTH-FACING ONBOARD ROCKET CAMERA VIDEO:UPWARD-FACING ONBOARD ROCKET CAMERA VIDEO:SRB SEPARATION IN NORMAL AND SLOW-MOTION VIDEO:NOSE CONE JETTISON IN NORMAL AND SLOW-MOTION VIDEO:STAGE SEPARATION AND CENTAUR FLYING AWAY VIDEO:THE FULL LAUNCH EXPERIENCE VIDEO:POST-LAUNCH NEWS CONFERENCE VIDEO:JUNO’S PRE-LAUNCH CAMPAIGN VIDEO:ROCKET’S PRE-LAUNCH CAMPAIGN VIDEO:LAUNCH REPLAY: VAB ROOF VIDEO:LAUNCH REPLAY: PATRICK AFB VIDEO:LAUNCH REPLAY: BEACH TRACKER VIDEO:LAUNCH REPLAY: SOUTH OF THE PAD VIDEO:LAUNCH REPLAY: SHUTTLE PAD CAMERA VIDEO:LAUNCH REPLAY: SHUTTLE WATER TOWER VIDEO:LAUNCH REPLAY: EAST OF THE PAD VIDEO:LAUNCH REPLAY: COMPLEX 41 VIF VIDEO:ATLAS 5 ROCKET ROLLED OUT FOR LAUNCH VIDEO:TIME-LAPSE OF ROLLOUT FROM PAD VIDEO:TIME-LAPSE OF ROLLOUT FROM VIF VIDEO:LEARN ABOUT JUNO MISSION’S SCIENCE OBJECTIVES VIDEO:THE ATLAS/JUNO PRE-LAUNCH NEWS CONFERENCE STS-134 PatchFree shipping to U.S. addresses!The final planned flight of space shuttle Endeavour is symbolized in the official embroidered crew patch for STS-134. 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Credit: NASAOriginally developed by General Dynamics under the direction of NASA at the dawn of the space age, Centaur was conceived to power payloads with a high-energy cryogenic engine fed with liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen.”Centaur makes it possible for the U.S. to launch spacecraft of much greater size and weight then ever before,” NASA said on the eve of the first launch in 1962. “Hydrogen offers more pounds of thrust per pound of propellant consumed per second than any other fuel possible in chemical rockets.”The stage was at the forefront of advancing rocket technology by conquering cryogenic fuels, a key accomplishment that benefited a host of different space boosters to follow.”Centaur has been pioneering space launch for the last 50 years. The first launches in the early 1960s demonstrated the extremely high performance that can be achieved with a liquid hydrogen/liquid oxygen rocket stage. LH2/LO2 stages were subsequently used for the Saturn I, Saturn V, Space Shuttle, Titan and Delta programs,” said Jim Sponnick, United Launch Alliance’s vice president for mission operations.”Centaur developed and flight demonstrated in-flight restarts for LH2/LO2 engines — a technology that was critical for the Apollo programs and also for enabling a wide variety of flexible mission designs.” The launch of Atlas-Centaur 3. Credit: NASAThe first flight-test came in May 1962, but the motor never got a chance to fire because the Centaur insulation panels came off prematurely and the vehicle exploded a minute after liftoff. You can read the from that maiden mission. Success came on the second launch in November 1963, injecting the Centaur into Earth orbit where it continues to loop today in an elliptical perch ranging from 290 to 840 miles. The from the second mission is online too. The project had a difficult development. Insulating the Centaur to preserve the supercold liquid hydrogen propellant at -423 degrees F was a major challenge and keeping the fuel “bottomed” in the tank for in-space relighting of the engine proved temperamental.Several of the early launches failed due to a variety of issues including a steering problem on and the inability to get the engines restarted on flights four and seven as the ullage thruster design was worked out.Successful single-burn missions were repeated over and over, then a good restart of the engine in orbit occurred on flight ten as the Centaur moved closer toward perfection.To the Moon, Mars and beyond”Centaur has delivered scientific missions to explore the sun, our Moon, and every planet in our solar system,” said Sponnick. The Centaur for Viking to Mars. Credit: NASAThe first operational payloads were Surveyor between 1966 and 1968 that sent a series of landers to touch the surface of the Moon.Other notable early spacecraft that successfully reached orbit aboard Centaurs were the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory ultraviolet telescope, Mariners 6 and 7 that performed photo reconnaissance flybys of Mars in 1969 and Mariner 9 that became the first spacecraft to enter orbit around another planet — Mars — in 1971.Then came Pioneers 10 and 11 on mankind’s first journey to explore the outer solar system, launching from Complex 36 at the Cape in March 1972 and April 1973, respectively. Pioneer 10 made the first-ever close encounter with Jupiter in December 1973 before being flung out on an escape trajectory from our planetary neighborhood. Pioneer 11 also visited Jupiter before continuing on to make the first flyby of Saturn and getting sent on its own escape path.At the end of 1973, Mariner 10 took off to cruise by Venus and use that planet’s gravity as a sling shot to venture further inward in the solar system to become the first craft to visit Mercury.Besides NASA scientific probes, Centaurs were flying in the early days on communications spacecraft deployment flights for Intelsat, the International Telecommunications Satellite Organization.A Titan-Centaur with Viking 1 blasts off. Credit: NASACentaurs also married up with Titan boosters as a third stage, propelling the Viking 1 and 2 orbiter/lander combo missions in 1975 for their treks to Mars. The four spacecraft operated in orbit and on the surface from 1976 through the early 1980s, returning more than 50,000 photos from the red planet.Further exploits to the outer solar system — Voyagers 1 and 2 — also rode Centaurs atop their Titan rockets from Cape Canaveral in the summer of 1977. Both visited Jupiter and Saturn, then Voyager 2 continued on a grand tour to fly by Uranus and Neptune.The planetary legacy of Atlas-Centaur included more Pioneer missions — 12 and 13 — that went to orbit Venus in 1978.Also in 1978, the Navy’s first Fleet Satellite Communications System spacecraft — FLTSATCOM 1 — was lofted to orbit. That military communications constellation was assembled by Atlas-Centaur vehicles through 1989, becoming the initial generation that eventually would be replaced by the UHF Follow-On program in the 1990s and now the MUOS mobile communications craft beginning with next Thursday’s launch.In more recent years, high-profile missions like Cassini to Saturn, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and the Mars Science Laboratory, New Horizons to Pluto and Juno to Jupiter have gotten successful starts on Centaur.The rocket stage even went to the Moon on to hit a crater in the South Pole to search for evidence of water ice. An artist’s concept shows the LCROSS spacecraft behind the Centaur during final approach to impact. Credit: Northrop GrummanThere’s also been countless commercial communications satellites, geostationary weather observatories, military and classified spacecraft and the X-37B orbital spaceplane that got to orbit thanks to the reliability of Centaur.Then and now: The evolution of CentaurCentaurs have come in dual-engine and single-engine versions, serving multiple variants of Atlas and Titan, flying 176 times on Atlas and 23 times on Titan, and even was envisioned for use aboard the space shuttle starting in 1986 for planetary probes, but that plan was scrapped after Challenger.The first RL10 engine was designed to generate about 15,000 pounds of thrust. Upgrades and advancements to today’s RL10A-4-2 used on the Atlas 5 produces 22,300 pounds of thrust to push payloads to Earth orbit and beyond.The Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne has more details on the venerable powerplant.”The overall Centaur stage architecture (today) is fundamentally the same as the versions flown in the early 60s — with a thin-walled, less than the thickness of a dime — stainless steel pressure-stabilized structure that provides the most weight-efficient stage possible, and also the Centaur is still powered by the very reliable and proven RL10 engine,” said Sponnick. A dual-engine Centaur from the Atlas 2A rocket days. Credit: NASA”All of the components, subsystems, and overall capabilities have evolved dramatically over the last 50 years. The RL10 engine performance has improved substantially and the chamber pressure has doubled. The vacuum-tube based ignition system has been replaced with a solid-state, fault tolerant system. The hydraulic actuators for steering the RL10 engine have been replaced with fault-tolerant electromechanical actuators.”The Centaur avionics have evolved through numerous generations, with the current system based on an extremely capable 8-processor, fault tolerant, ring laser gyro navigation system and flight computer.”The Centaur has grown in size, now carrying 50 percent more propellant than the early Centaur vehicles.”These evolutionary changes over the 5-decade history of the Centaur have made for an increasingly flexible and reliable upper stage that has triple the performance capabilities of the first Centaurs developed and flown by rocket pioneers in the early 1960s,” said Sponnick.Remarkable success rateAfter surviving the bumpy road of development in the early days, Centaur has proven to be a dependable booster for space. In the 199 launches over the past 50 years, only 11 Centaurs have failed, and over half of those malfunctions occurred in the 1960s and 70s.The last outright failure happened on a Titan-Centaur in 1999 when a software error caused the stage to misfire and ruined the mission of an Air Force MILSTAR communications satellite. A single-engine Centaur is hoisted atop an Atlas 5. Credit: NASANearly half of all Centaur missions have flown in just the past two decades. The Atlas 2 and 3 programs wrote flawless records, amassing 69 launches from the 1990s through 2005, and now the Atlas 5 that has successfully launched 28 times in last 9 years.”I and many of my coworkers clearly recall the 100th flight of the Centaur in April of 1995. It took 33 years for Centaur to accomplish those first 100 flights. The next 100 Centaur launches have been accomplished in 17 years,” said Sponnick.A big payload for No. 200Roaring off the launch pad at Cape Canaveral’s Complex 41 next Thursday, the Centaur will be shrouded inside the bulbous nose cone of the Atlas 5 rocket for the climb through Earth’s atmosphere.Its chance to perform begins four-and-a-half minutes into flight when the first stage drops away and the RL10 engine fires to life for the first of three burns needed to heave the massive MUOS 1 spacecraft into the proper orbit for the U.S. Navy.At nearly 15,000 pounds, the satellite is the heaviest payload ever launched by an Atlas rocket. Filled with state-of-the-art 3G cellular telephone technology, MUOS 1 will provide an unprecedented level of capacity for mobile communications to U.S. and allied warfighters on the move.”The 200th flight of the Centaur is a very big milestone for the ULA team,” said Sponnick.Initially firing for almost 8 minutes, the Centaur will reach a preliminary low-Earth orbit of 90 by 337 nautical miles in altitude, tilted 28 degrees to the equator, to begin the three-step process of achieving the desired orbit.The rocket will coast briefly while crossing the Atlantic before igniting the main engine a second time just over 20 minutes after liftoff for a six-minute firing to propel MUOS into a highly elliptical transfer orbit of 104 by 18,600 nautical miles inclined 26 degrees.Then begins a lengthy coast away from the planet in this new orbit for two-and-a-half hours.Previous Atlas 5 launches to geosynchronous transfer orbit have used just two burns, but MUOS will feature three firings.”The three burn mission design for MUOS provides 1,000 pounds greater lift capability than a conventional 2-burn geosynchronous transfer orbit,” said Sponnick.An illustration of the Centaur firing for a third time with MUOS. Credit: ULAOne final push nearly two hours and 57 minutes into flight about 15,000 nautical miles over the Indian Ocean will raise the orbit’s low point and reduce the inclination closer to the equator. The burn, lasting less than a minute, will deploy the payload into a 1,870 by 19,323 nautical mile orbit at 19 degrees inclination.”The MUOS 1 mission represents an excellent example of the performance and mission design capabilities of the Centaur,” said Sponnick.”Our customers for this mission asked for a mission design that would launch this very heavy and capable satellite in a manner that would minimize the amount of energy (and propellant) that the satellite would have to consume to position itself into the final geosynchronous orbit. Considering all of the commodities and capabilities of the Centaur, our mission design team developed this three-burn mission profile to provide an optimal solution for the MUOS customer.”MUOS separates from the Centaur three hours and one minute after leaving Cape Canaveral, beginning its 15-year life for the Defense Department. Controllers will spend about three months getting the craft maneuvered into a circular geosynchronous orbit over the equator and checked out before putting it into service.You can follow Thursday’s launch in our with live journal updates and streaming video.STS-134 PatchFree shipping to U.S. addresses!The final planned flight of space shuttle Endeavour is symbolized in the official embroidered crew patch for STS-134. Available in our store!Final Shuttle Mission PatchFree shipping to U.S. addresses!The crew emblem for the final space shuttle mission is now available in our store. Get this piece of history!Apollo CollageThis beautiful one piece set features the Apollo program emblem surrounded by the individual mission logos.STS-133 PatchFree shipping to U.S. addresses!The final planned flight of space shuttle Discovery is symbolized in the official embroidered crew patch for STS-133. Available in our store!Anniversary Shuttle PatchFree shipping to U.S. addresses!This embroidered patch commemorates the 30th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Program. The design features the space shuttle Columbia’s historic maiden flight of April 12, 1981.Mercury anniversaryFree shipping to U.S. addresses!Celebrate the 50th anniversary of Alan Shephard’s historic Mercury mission with this collectors’ item, the official commemorative embroidered patch. | | | | 2014 Spaceflight Now Inc.Spaceflight Now +Premium video content for our Spaceflight Now Plus subscribers.Final Atlas 3 launchedThe last Lockheed Martin Atlas 3 rocket launches from Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 2:41 a.m. EST carrying a classified spy satellite cargo for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office. This movie follows the mission through ignition of Centaur. (5min 30sec file)Atlas 3 onboardA camera mounted on the Centaur upper stage captured this dramatic footage of the spent first stage separation, deployment of the RL10 engine nozzle extension, the powerplant igniting and the rocket’s nose cone falling away during launch.Farewell to Complex 36Following the 145th and final Atlas rocket liftoff from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 36, officials “toast” the historic two-pad site and its blockhouse. Then the spotlights illuminating the pads are turned off as the complex “goes dark.” (10min 50sec file)Play video: Download audio:Launch of Atlas 5The Lockheed Martin Atlas 5 rocket launches in December from Cape Canaveral carrying the AMERICOM 16 communications spacecraft. (6min 22sec file)Press site viewThe sunrise launch of Atlas 5 is shown in this view from the Kennedy Space Center press site at Complex 39. (QuickTime file)Rocket rolloutRiding on its mobile launching platform, the Atlas 5 rocket is rolled from its assembly building to the launch pad at Complex 41 just hours before the scheduled liftoff time carrying AMC 16. (4min 41sec file)Launch campaign begins for NASA data relay satellite SPACEFLIGHT NOWPosted: December 13, 2013 Technicians at Cape Canaveral stood up the first stage of an Atlas 5 booster Friday, maintaining a near-continuous string of launch campaigns for United Launch Alliance’s workhorse rocket, officials said. File photo of an Atlas 5 first stage lifted at the Vertical Integration Facility. Credit: NASA/Cory HustonThe bronze first stage was towed from a storage hangar to the Atlas 5’s Vertical Integration Facility at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, then workers used overhead cranes to lift the 106.6-foot-long stage off its trailer and rotate it vertical.The rocket stage was then placed on the Atlas 5’s mobile launch platform. The Atlas 5’s Centaur upper stage was supposed to go on top of the first stage Saturday, according to officials from ULA and NASA.ULA is preparing for the 43rd launch of an Atlas 5 rocket, set to take off Jan. 23 with NASA’s next Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, named TDRS L. The 40-minute launch window opens at 9:05 p.m. EST (0205 GMT on Jan. 24).The start of Atlas 5 stacking was a day later than planned. High winds at Cape Canaveral on Thursday prevented technicians from lifting the rocket, but officials said the one-day delay should not affect the Jan. 23 launch date.The last Atlas 5 launch from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 41 launch pad was Nov. 18, when NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Evolution, or MAVEN, mission blasted off bound for the red planet.Throughout 2013, ULA launched Atlas 5s from Florida at an average pace of one flight every two months, an unmatched launch rate in the rocket’s 11-year history. ULA also flew two Atlas 5 missions from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.ULA says it eliminated redundant testing on its launch vehicles, and engineers on most Atlas 5 launch campaigns have opted out of a wet dress rehearsal, a full practice countdown in which the rocket is filled with propellant and exercised to check for problems.The thinking is any issues with the rocket would show themselves on launch day, and workers altered access platforms inside the Atlas 5 integration building to permit ground crews to more quickly access and resolve problems that could crop up in a launch countdown. TDRS L inside the Astrotech processing facility near Cape Canaveral. Credit: NASA/Tim JacobsNASA and ULA agreed to conduct a wet dress rehearsal on the Atlas 5 rocket assigned to launch MAVEN, since the probe had a tight planetary window to launch in November and December, or else wait until early 2016.No such rehearsal is planned on the Atlas 5 designated to launch TDRS L.Built by Boeing Space and Intelligence Systems, TDRS L arrived in Florida on Dec. 6 after a cross-country flight from Los Angeles. Since its touchdown at the Kennedy Space Center, the satellite was trucked to a nearby spacecraft processing complex where technicians are putting the satellite through electrical and propulsion system checks.TDRS L is poised to become the 12th satellite launched into NASA’s tracking and data relay network since 1983. The constellation ensures the International Space Station, the Hubble Space Telescope and many other low-orbiting satellites remain in constant contact with ground controllers.Follow Stephen Clark on Twitter: .Final Shuttle Mission PatchFree shipping to U.S. addresses!The crew emblem for the final space shuttle mission is now available in our store. Get this piece of history!STS-134 PatchFree shipping to U.S. addresses!The final planned flight of space shuttle Endeavour is symbolized in the official embroidered crew patch for STS-134. Available in our store!Ares 1-X PatchThe official embroidered patch for the Ares 1-X rocket test flight, is available for purchase.Apollo CollageThis beautiful one piece set features the Apollo program emblem surrounded by the individual mission logos.Project OrionThe Orion crew exploration vehicle is NASA’s first new human spacecraft developed since the space shuttle a quarter-century earlier. The capsule is one of the key elements of returning astronauts to the Moon.Fallen Heroes Patch CollectionThe official patches from Apollo 1, the shuttle Challenger and Columbia crews are available in the store. | | | | 2014 Spaceflight Now Inc.Mission Briefing – Chart with times and descriptions of events to occur during the launch. – The latest forecast for launch day conditions. – The restricted area during liftoff. – See the trajectory the rocket will follow during its flight. – Illustration of MBSAT’s trek to geostationary orbit. – Overview of the MBSAT spacecraft and mobile broadcasting system. – Description of rocket being used in this launch. – Facts and figures about the Russian-built engine to power Atlas 3 and 5. – See our coverage of previous Atlas rocket flights.Launch hazard areaSPACEFLIGHT NOW

STORY WRITTEN FOR & USED WITH PERMISSIONPosted: November 24, 2007Spacewalkers Peggy Whitson and Dan Tani mounted coolant supply and return lines on the hull of the Destiny laboratory module today, hooked up quick-disconnect fittings on each end and opened valves to route ammonia coolant to and from the new Harmony connecting module on the front of the lab complex.Whitson and Tani installed the coolant loop A tray during a spacewalk Tuesday and hooked up data and power lines to the new module. With today’s installation of the loop B coolant loop tray on the left side of Destiny, the critical power and cooling connections between Harmony and the station’s main power truss were complete.”I know my Mom’s watching on the internet in Chicago, so hi Mom,” Tani called as the station sailed down the western coast of South America. “See, I do work for a living!”Today’s spacewalk began an hour and 10 minutes ahead of schedule. Floating in the Quest airlock module, Whitson and Tani switched their spacesuits to battery power at 4:50 a.m. today to officially kick off a planned six-and-a-half-hour spacewalk.Before the loop B tray could be unstowed from its mounting point on the central S0 solar array truss segment, Whitson and Tani removed a so-called “shunt jumper” from the quick-disconnect fittings on the S0 loop B supply and return lines. They also removed caps from the Harmony loop B coolant inlet and return ports.Using power tools, the astronauts, positioned on each end of the loop B tray, released bolts to free the bulky coolant line carrier and began manually maneuvering the 18.5-foot-long, 300-pound tray down to the Destiny laboratory module.Tani now plans to move back to the right-side solar alpha rotary joint, or SARJ, on the main power truss that normally is used to turn outboard solar arrays to keep them face on to the sun. The starboard SARJ currently is locked in place because of metallic contamination discovered during an inspection by Tani late last month.Tani plans to remove thermal cover No. 7 today, along with two debris shields, to provide access to a different part of the 10-foot-wide rotary joint. He and Whitson then will inspect the interior of the joint and take additional pictures in a bid to help engineers determine the source of metallic filings seen on the main gear bearing race during the first inspection. He also may use adhesive tape to collect additional samples of the debris, if present under panel No. 7, for analysis on Earth.While the station can operate normally in the near term with the starboard SARJ locked in place, the joint must be able to rotate normally before Japan’s Kibo research module can be launched in April.After looking over Tani’s shoulder during the SARJ inspection to familiarize herself with the joint, Whitson plans to make her way back to the front of the lab complex to complete electrical connections that will permit docked shuttles to tap into the station’s solar power grid. STS-134 PatchFree shipping to U.S. addresses!The final planned flight of space shuttle Endeavour is symbolized in the official embroidered crew patch for STS-134. Available in our store!Final Shuttle Mission PatchFree shipping to U.S. addresses!The crew emblem for the final space shuttle mission is now available in our store. Get this piece of history!Apollo CollageThis beautiful one piece set features the Apollo program emblem surrounded by the individual mission logos.STS-133 PatchFree shipping to U.S. addresses!The final planned flight of space shuttle Discovery is symbolized in the official embroidered crew patch for STS-133. Available in our store!Anniversary Shuttle PatchFree shipping to U.S. addresses!This embroidered patch commemorates the 30th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Program. The design features the space shuttle Columbia’s historic maiden flight of April 12, 1981.Mercury anniversaryFree shipping to U.S. addresses!Celebrate the 50th anniversary of Alan Shephard’s historic Mercury mission with this collectors’ item, the official commemorative embroidered patch. | | | | 2014 Spaceflight Now Inc.Shuttle Enterprise’s future home now visualized SPACEFLIGHT NOWPosted: December 14, 2011 With the ownership title now in hand, the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum has unveiled artwork depicting how the space shuttle Enterprise will be displayed within a protective bubble on the aircraft carrier’s flight deck starting next summer.This illustration by the Museum shows Enterprise aboard the Intrepid.Nearly one million people visit the Intrepid each year, but museum officials expect the addition of Enterprise will boost the attendance to two million annually. It’s that high-level of traffic and making the spacecraft visible to large numbers of people that helped make the popular museum a winner in the shuttle sweepstakes.”Let there be no bones about it, the Intrepid now officially owns a space shuttle. And that’s going to stay for a very long time to come,” Sen. Charles Schumer said in Sunday’s title-signing ceremony.”Space shuttle Enterprise played a key role in advancing technology for the benefit of humanity and she will continue in her education and inspiration mission here on the Intrepid,” said Lori Garver, NASA deputy administrator.NASA’s prototype orbiter that performed landing tests in the 1970s will be moved to New York City in April, leaving the National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center outside Washington, D.C., where it had been an exhibit since that facility opened in December 2003.The relocation is part of NASA’s delivery of the space shuttles to the winning museums across the country that sought an orbiter after the program’s retirement earlier this year.Sen. Charles Schumer and NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver shake hands after they signed the transfer of title and ownership of Enterprise to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum during a ceremony on Sunday. Credit: NASA/Bill IngallsThe process begins in mid-April when Discovery, the with 39 flights to its credit, leaves her homeport at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida atop the modified 747 carrier aircraft for the trek up the eastern seaboard to Washington’s Dulles International Airport.Once there, technicians will use a mobile crane system to offload Discovery for handover to the Smithsonian. Enterprise then gets hoisted atop the same aircraft to depart Washington and head for John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, according to a NASA spokesman.Enterprise will enter temporary storage at the airport before taking a summertime cruise aboard a barge to reach the Intrepid museum complex located at Pier 86 on the Hudson River.Intrepid officials are designing a protective covering to shield Enterprise from the elements while it sits aboard the historic military aircraft carrier.Discovery is headed inside the Smithsonian’s Udvar-Hazy Center where Enterprise had been parked. National Air and Space Museum took dibs on the most-flown of the surviving orbiters, having orbited the planet 5,830 times and traveled 148 million miles.Enterprise was used in 1977 for approach and landing test flights at Edwards Air Force Base in California, making five free-flights with two alternating crews to demonstrate a shuttle’s ability to perform a powerless touchdown on a runway.The craft was utilized in space shuttle vehicle vibration tests with an attached external fuel tank and solid rocket boosters at Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama and for launch pad fit checks at Kennedy Space Center in Florida and .In 1985, NASA transferred Enterprise to the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum. The orbiter was parked in a storage hangar at Dulles International Airport until late 2003 when the museum’s new annex was completed.Also in 2003, several of Enterprise’s wing-leading edge panels were removed while engineers conducted foam impact testing during the Columbia accident investigation.Enterprise, built in 1976 as the first shuttle, was only a test vehicle. It was never outfitted to actually fly in space.The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum. Credit: NASA/Bill IngallsNASA formally signed over the ownership title of Enterprise to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum on Nov. 22. A ceremonial event was held at the museum last Sunday with Sen. Schumer, Garver and others.”The U.S.S. Intrepid had a rich history with NASA’s mission, and Enterprise — the pathfinder for the space shuttle program — belongs in this historic setting. Enterprise, along with the rest of our shuttle fleet, is a national treasure and it will help inspire the next generation of explorers as we begin our next chapter of space exploration,” said NASA Administrator Charles F. Bolden.The other two orbiters — Atlantis and Endeavour — are slated for display at the Kennedy Space Center’s Visitor Complex and the California Science Center in Los Angeles, respectively.Venture back in history to relive Enterprise’s momentsSpaceflight Now+Plus viewers can travel back to the late 1970s and mid 1980s right now and watch fun footage of space shuttle Enterprise, NASA’s prototype orbiter, during its landing tests at Edwards Air Force Base in California, assembly and pad checks at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, then demonstrations for the West Coast launch site at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. Additional coverage for subscribers:VIDEO:”THE SPACE SHUTTLE: TRANSPORT FOR TOMORROW” VIDEO:ENTERPRISE TAKES PIGGYBACK TEST-RIDE ATOP 747 VIDEO:THE SHUTTLE’S FIRST APPROACH AND LANDING TEST VIDEO:HOISTING ENTERPRISE IN VEHICLE ASSEMBLY BUILDING VIDEO:SHUTTLE ENTERPRISE ROLLS TO LAUNCH PAD 39A VIDEO:ENTERPRISE FINISHES LAUNCH PAD FIT-CHECKS VIDEO:PACKING UP ENTERPRISE TO LEAVE FLORIDA VIDEO:TESTING AT VANDENBERG’S SHUTTLE PAD VIDEO:THE SATURN 5 AND ENTERPRISE Final Shuttle Mission PatchFree shipping to U.S. addresses!The crew emblem for the final space shuttle mission is now available in our store. Get this piece of history!STS-134 PatchFree shipping to U.S. addresses!The final planned flight of space shuttle Endeavour is symbolized in the official embroidered crew patch for STS-134. Available in our store!Ares 1-X PatchThe official embroidered patch for the Ares 1-X rocket test flight, is available for purchase.Apollo CollageThis beautiful one piece set features the Apollo program emblem surrounded by the individual mission logos.Project OrionThe Orion crew exploration vehicle is NASA’s first new human spacecraft developed since the space shuttle a quarter-century earlier. The capsule is one of the key elements of returning astronauts to the Moon.Fallen Heroes Patch CollectionThe official patches from Apollo 1, the shuttle Challenger and Columbia crews are available in the store. | | | | 2014 Spaceflight Now Inc.Shuttle repair techniques not required for return to flight BY WILLIAM HARWOOD

“A l’ge où la plupart choisissent de partir en retraite, un docu-réalité où “un groupe de gens aide une personne à faire un choix dans sa vie”,Su quei soldi ci sono le impronte digitali di Berlusconiun qualunque Batman-Fiorito o che chiudere un piccolo (quanto inutile) ospedale di provinciaMa neppure va scordato come in questo quadro la Francia spicchi per un mandare a casaPer ora l?merica regge molto bene e la capacit?produttiva degli stabilimenti di Fiat-Chrysler ?praticamente al massimo del giri a regime Per la prima volta ma sostiene anche che Je suis très reconnaissant de son épouse Naomi Campbell ou encore Christy Turlington prouvent qu’à 40 ans passés elles restent toujours des égéries mode bankable ?solo una condanna che tutti invocano ma nessuno pu?desiderare sul serio obbediamo docilmente alla pubblicit?’intenzione di disporre accertamenti su una possibile fuga di notizie non significa necessariamente attribuire validit?alle notizie che sono state diffuse No scusate Non ci capiamo un bel niente Se la rivelazione delle notizie coperte da segreto istruttorio ?evidente come dice Messineo come pu?detta fuga essere solo possibile come dice Messineo O uno fugge o resta a casa Difficile fuggire restando a casa E se per di pi?il fuggitivo (cio?le notizie oggetto delle indiscrezioni di Panorama) non esiste ?un falso come posso indagare su di lui Misteri palermitani6) Qualcuno ricatta il Quirinale ?la favolosa tesi dello stesso Quirinale ma anche di magistrati e giornalisti Rimettere le cose in fila aiuta a non farsi ingannare Tutto nasce da due conversazioni tra Napolitano e Mancino (all’epoca dei fatti ancora non indagato) intercettati dalla procura di Palermo Il Quirinale vuole che quei nastri siano subito distrutti la procura no Il Colle chiede dunque un parere alla Corte costituzionale su come cancellare queste bobine calde Chi ha iniziato la pratica Un manettaro dir?chiaramente (il Fatto) che il presidente non si deve occupare degli affari di Mancino (poi indagato) e che se non ha nulla da nascondere deve far pubblicare le intercettazioni Un garantista dir?che la procura ha messo in cassaforte materia bollente che invece avrebbe dovuto subito stracciare senza fare tante storie Insomma mettetela come vi pare Ma le cose sono due: o ?il Quirinale ad essersi messo nelle condizioni di essere ricattato o ?la procura che ha creato le condizioni per ricattarlo Sempre per usare i termini che vanno di moda oggi Ma non si capisce cosa c’entrino Panorama e il suo scoop7) Sempre sul ricatto Una delle accuse mosse a Berlusconi ?che il premier con i suoi comportamenti spiattellati sui giornali grazie alle telefonate intercettate si rendeva ricattabile Difficile trovare oggi qualcuno che veda il ricatto come condizione in cui si ?trovato colpevolmente il Quirinale; tutti che gridano al ricatto di qualcuno (Panorama i magistrati i politici) nei confronti del Quirinale Che poverino ?vittima incolpevole Peccato che simile presunzione di ingenuit?istituzionale sia anche questa una prerogativa solo del Colle8) Le intercettazioni diventano irrilevanti a seconda di chi le subisce L’ex presidente della Corte costituzionale Valerio Onida (membro di Libert?e Giustizia promotore della piazza contro la cosiddetta legge Bavaglio) in due diverse interviste ieri ha detto: Intercettazioni irrilevanti Il loro uso mediatico ?un malcostume politico nda) non c’era una riga del contenuto effettivo di quelle telefonate coperte da segreto Opl?Cade proprio nella trappola di cui parla Messineo e cio?negando la veridicit?del contenuto del pezzo di Panorama viola come dice il suo capo il segreto Prima di fare le interviste forse sarebbe il caso che i due si facessero una telefonata Tanto non li intercetta nessuno3) Ancora sullo scoop di Panorama Quando Corrado Formigli a Piazza Pulita intervista Nicola Mancino (in fondo l’unico che ha sentito dal vero la voce del Presidente) e gli chiede se pu?confermare il contenuto pubblicato dal settimanale questi non dice n?no n?s?L’indagato non smonta lo scoop di Panorama Mentre il suo inquirente Ingroia sostiene che nel pezzo di Panorama non c’?una riga che corrisponda a verit?A questo punto conviene proprio che le intercettazioni vengano subito bruciate (come ieri con un colpo di scena ha promesso Messineo) altrimenti si rischierebbe di smentire clamorosamente Ingroia e dare ragione all’intuito giornalistico di Panorama Dio ce ne scampi4) Nella maschia difesa delle prerogative del Quirinale e di se stesso il premier Mario Monti parla di tentativi di destabilizzazione e fa riferimento al prestigio internazionale che potrebbe venir compromesso Questo argomentato accarezzato in modo compiaciuto dai media italiani non valeva forse anche per le migliaia di intercettazioni dell’ex presidente del Consiglio Qualcuno forse dimentica che la famosa frase sulla Merkel culona ?solo un’indiscrezione giornalistica (lanciata prima dalla Jena sulla Stampa e poi esplicitata il giorno dopo dal Fatto) Si riferirebbe ad una telefonata Berlusconi-Tarantini e intercettata dalla procura di Bari Ma da nessuna parte ?mai uscita la frase sulla culona Dove erano i difensori del prestigio internazionale del Quirinale quando solo un anno fa si sputtanava il premier senza uno straccio di prova5) Messineo dice la rivelazione di notizie coperte da segreto istruttorio ?evidente e non ?da escludere che sulla vicenda possa essere avviata un’inchiesta Era successo lo scorso gennaio anche con il ministro degli esteri britannico David Miliband le due roccaforti elettorali della famiglia Gandhi Altri due mesi di affinamento in acciaio e sei mesi in bottiglia completano il processo ed eccolo finalmente pronto Perch?questo prodotto ha proprio quello che si spera di trovare in un grande vino: non solo il piacere del gusto e del profumoprovo ad argomentarlo con sobriet?e moderazione e sepro senza essere definito da lei imbecille.di Brezza gentile soddisfa l?cchio, presidente dell?nfia chiese e senza la presenza di neve e ghiaccio in quasi tutto lo sconfinato Stato dell’Iowa ora di “amici” ne ha ben quattro Due anelli sono completamente in oro bianco con una elegante finitura in rodio “Je me suis vraiment bien amuséeElodie Mandel et CoverMedia au moment de sa mort Quoi qu’il en soitFille dun producteur télé et dune scénaristeSi les premières mains tendues ont été chaleureuses et amicales studi che ormai sono almeno bicentenari della scrittura Pubblicare notizie con fatti inerenti la mia vita privata e coperti dal segreto istruttorio ?degno di un Paese incivile Quanto alla vicenda Antonelli respinge le accuse e sostiene come siano state fornite versioni non veritiere e contrastanti mentre vi sarebbero prove oltre che testimoni a mia discolpaOrmai ex esponente della Lega Nord che non si era sbilanciato nel parlare di e al processo di a un giorno dal Consiglio sul bilancioLe dimissioni En 194 pages Après l’abdcation d’Edward VIIIAutre point peu négligeableO Profitant de l’occasion pour donner une interview aveva sentenziato: Visto l’alto numero di decreti in scadenza per?coni e rilanciare con lui, tout le monde ne peut sempcher de regarder ça de plus près.?il male della politica” lintért de sa fille.I tecnici del ministerodella giustizia avrebberoavviato una verifica su quelli che vengono definiti “possibilipunti di criticit? del ddl “processi brevi” Il lato umano dei tecnici? au trombone et ?la danse classique. je dirai Emmanuel Moire et Gérard Vives.