The Official Space Flight Thread - The Space Station and Beyond

Cosimo · 17 Apr 2012 at 15:57

Another fly-by:

Cosimo · 17 Apr 2012 at 16:08

Landed:

Cosimo · 17 Apr 2012 at 16:16

One last pic:

Discovery will be transferred to the Smithsonian on Thursday:

http://airandspace.si.edu/collections/discovery/activity-detail.cfm?id=3784

Cosimo · 17 Apr 2012 at 16:45

Firestar_3x said:
I take it the 747's are being decommissioned after all the shuttle movements have taken place?

There were two 747-100 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), N905NA and N911NA. N911NA was retired in February and this one will go when the remaining shuttles have been delivered to their resting places.

Cosimo · 17 Apr 2012 at 17:26

For those that missed the landing:

Cosimo · 17 Apr 2012 at 19:17

For those that missed the departure from Kennedy:

Cosimo · 17 Apr 2012 at 19:18

Glaucus said:
Is that museum worth a visit? Almost certainly going to space centre in Florida anyway.

It is the National Air and Space Museum which has the largest collection of historic air and spacecraft in the world. Given a chance I would most certainly visit the place:

http://www.nasm.si.edu/museum/

Cosimo · 18 Apr 2012 at 09:48

Moscow at Night:

Moscow appears at the center of this nighttime image photographed by the Expedition 30 crew aboard the International Space Station, flying at an altitude of approximately 240 miles on March 28, 2012. A solar array panel for the space station is on the left side of the frame. The view is to the north-northwest from a nadir of approximately 49.4 degrees north latitude and 42.1 degrees east longitude, about 100 miles west-northwest of Volgograd. The Aurora Borealis, airglow and daybreak frame the horizon.

Cosimo · 20 Apr 2012 at 17:31

The launch of ISS Progress 47P (Progress M-15M) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome earlier today:

Cosimo · 20 Apr 2012 at 17:35

Another cracker from the Expedition 30 crew aboard the space station:

The sequences are as follows:

:01 -- Stars over southern United States
:08 -- US west coast to Canada
:21 -- Central Europe to the Middle East
:36 -- Aurora Australis over the Indian Ocean
:54 -- Storms over Africa
1:08 -- Central United States
1:20 -- Midwest United States
1:33 -- United Kingdom to Baltic Sea
1:46 -- Moonset
1:55 -- Northern United States to Eastern Canada
2:12 -- Aurora Australis over the Indian Ocean
2:32 -- Comet Lovejoy
2:53 -- Aurora Borealis over Hudson Bay
3:06 -- United Kingdom to Central Europe

Cosimo · 21 Apr 2012 at 08:24

Cosimo · 21 Apr 2012 at 08:27

Martin_Man said:
That is amazing!! Is it real?

Yes it's all real. To find out more visit here:

http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/

Cosimo · 23 Apr 2012 at 08:22

Progress 47 has docked to the station:

Cosimo · 23 Apr 2012 at 16:10

One arrives and another moves. Space shuttle Enterprise being mated on top of the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) at Washington Dulles International Airport, Friday April 20:

Cosimo · 23 Apr 2012 at 16:11

It was due to fly to New York City’s John F. Kennedy International Airport today but that has been postponed due to bad weather. A new date will be set today. Enterprise will go on permanent display at the Intrepid Sea Air and Space Museum in New York in June.

Cosimo · 24 Apr 2012 at 08:38

Weather permitting the Enterprise ferry flight to New York is now scheduled to occur between (14:30-16:30 BST (09:30-11:30 EDT) tomorrow.

Cosimo · 25 Apr 2012 at 08:15

The Enterprise ferry flight has been shifted to Friday because of unfavorable weather conditions.

Cosimo · 27 Apr 2012 at 09:20

Soyuz TMA-22 undocking is live now NASA TV and due to touchdown in Kazakhstan at 12:45 BST (07:45 EDT):

http://www.ustream.tv/nasahdtv

Cosimo · 27 Apr 2012 at 12:51

Soyuz has landed:

Cosimo · 27 Apr 2012 at 13:05

Crew being taken out:

Commander Dan Burbank and Flight Engineers Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin are home after their 165 day mission.

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