STS-133 Shuttle Mission to the International Space Station Launches Thursday 21:50 GMT

apeZ said:
Great job Discovery and her crew - absolutely incredible to watch.

Is there any footage available for cockpit view of re-entry? I'd love to see that.
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They showed a replay earlier of cockpit view with the pilot's heads up display.
As they went through the clouds and the ground became visible, the picture started breaking up and they ended the replay. Whether there is more to that cockpit view I'd love to know.
 
Well done Discovery and her crew, and welcome home. It's sad that Discovery's 27-year career has come to an end.
 
Someone's been watching far too much NASA TV...

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simulatorman said:
What a great sight:

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What's the approximate altitude in that shot? I'm sure I once watched some video showing the nose still slightly glowing and the Shuttle still travelling at enormous speed. Must have been a large lens (or I imagined it!).
 
Domo said:
What's the approximate altitude in that shot? I'm sure I once watched some video showing the nose still slightly glowing and the Shuttle still travelling at enormous speed. Must have been a large lens (or I imagined it!).
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That's probably about 15-20km up. Sometimes in the very very early shots of the Shuttle coming in, the nose does appear to be glowing slightly. Whether this is residual heat from re-entry or some kind of trick of light I'm not sure. Or perhaps they were taken using IR, which would show the heat and the nose/leading edges would appear to glow.

Listening to the post landing conference, one of them mentioned they had a surveillance plane out in Mexico that took some images of the Shuttle re-entering overhead. At that point the orbiter would have been pretty close to peak heating and would be completely blanketed in plasma. Can't wait to see those images.
 
Discovery is waiting to go into her hanger. Last chance to see (unless you're going to the Smithsonian).

I suppose there might be a send-off on NASA TV once she's been de-serviced
 
Great work simulatorman, berserker, merlin5 and everyone else involved with the NASA threads.

Right now we say farewell to Dsicovery.

But don't relax as:
Endeavour Rolls to Launch Pad for April Launch

Just a day after Discovery's final landing, Endeavour rolled from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39A in preparations for it's launch on the STS-134 mission, currently targeted for April 19.
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Live on NASA TV now.
 
mctiny said:
You're welcome.

I was thinking of starting the STS-134 mission thread but I'll leave that upto you guys.
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I'd say go for it if you want. But then again, simulatorman has probably got a thread already drafted and waiting in the wings.:p
 
Merlin5 said:
I'd say go for it if you want. But then again, simulatorman has probably got a thread already drafted and waiting in the wings.:p
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simulatorman is the man for these threads and I know doubt he has the STS-134 one ready and waiting, where as I have nothing and don't even know half the links he has ;)
 
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