Endeavour's Tuesday morning wake-up music
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STS 130 Endeavour docking maneuvers approaching the international space Station Video
Endeavour's Wednesday wake-up music
Also Sprach Zarathustra / 2001 Space Odyssey opening theme
Space Shuttle Endeavour is docked to the
International Space Station
Wednesday's work will focus on supply
transfers, spacewalk preparations and Water Recovery System
repairs.
Thursday's work will focus on installation of the new
Tranquility module onto the Unity module and the mission's first
spacewalk.
Image above: (From left) Mission Specialist
Nicholas Patrick, Pilot Terry Virts, Mission Specialists Robert Behnken
and Kathryn Hire, Commander George Zamka and Mission Specialist Stephen
Robinson. Image credit: NASA
All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except
those noted previously or below. Sleep shift in effect: The ISS crew’s
workday began last evening at 4:14pm and ended this morning at 7:44 EST
(see time table at bottom).
STS-130/Endeavour docked smoothly at the ISS PMA-2
(Pressurized Mating Adapter-2) port at ~12:57am EST this morning, late by
~51 min -- of which ~35 min delay was due to lost alignment during
retraction, followed by regaining alignment (slowed by gravity gradient)
before continuing retraction and hook drive (similar signature was seen on
STS-126). After successful completion of the RPM (R-Bar Pitch Maneuver),
Endeavour had arrived at +V-Bar (310 ft straight in front of ISS) at few
minutes later. The station now hosts eleven occupants as Mission 20A is
underway. [The combined crew is comprised of ISS-CDR Jeff Williams (USA),
FE-1 Maxim Suraev (Russia), FE-4 Oleg Kotov (Russia), FE-5 Soichi Noguchi
(Japan), FE-6 TJ Creamer (USA), STS-CDR George Zamka, PLT Terry Virts, MS1
Kay Hire, MS2 Steve Robinson, MS3 Nicholas Patrick and MS4 Robert
Behnken.]
Hook closure to rigidize the Shuttle-ISS linkup was at
12:57am. After the docking, the station was reoriented as planned to
minimize the risk of micrometeoroid/debris impacts upon the Shuttle (-XVV
= -x-axis in velocity vector, +z-axis in local vertical). [Earlier, at
10:18pm, the ISS maneuvered to docking attitude after attitude control
authority was handed over from USOS (US Segment) to RS MCS (Russian
Segment Motion Control System) at ~10:13pm. Control returned to US
Momentum Management at ~1:35am.]
Before the docking, FE-1 Suraev performed final STTS
communications configuration checks for the docking. Upon docking, Maxim
switched USOS/RS comm systems to their mated-flight mode.
Do not launch 1.) through or
within 5 nautical miles of the nearest edge of cumulus type clouds with
tops higher than the 14 degree F level;
2) through or within 10 nautical miles of
the nearest edge of cumulus clouds with tops higher than the -4 degrees F.
level.
Do not launch if the flight path is through
any non-transparent clouds that extend to altitudes at or above the 32
degrees F. level which are associated with disturbed weather producing
moderate or greater precipitation, or melting precipitation, within five
nautical miles of the flight path.
Do not launch through an attached anvil
cloud. If lightning occurs in the anvil or the associated main cloud, do
not launch within 10 nautical miles for the first 30 minutes after
lightning is observed, or within 5 nautical miles from 30 minutes to 3
hours after lightning is observed.
Do not launch if
the flight path will carry the vehicle:
a.)
through non-transparent parts of a detached anvil for the first three
hours after the anvil detaches from the parent cloud, or the first four
hours after the last lightning occurs in the detached anvil.
b.) within 10 nautical miles of
non-transparent parts of a detached anvil for the first thirty minutes
after the time of the last lightning in the parent or anvil cloud before
detachment, or the detached anvil after its detachment.
c.)
within 5 nautical miles of non-transparent parts of a detached anvil for
the first three hours after the time of the last lightning in the parent
or anvil cloud before detachment, or the detached anvil after detachment,
unless there is a field mill within 5 nautical miles of the detached anvil
reading less than 1,000 volts per meter for the last 15 minutes and a
maximum radar returns from any part of the detached anvil within 5
nautical miles of the flight path have been less than 10 dBZ (light rain)
for 15 minutes.
Do not launch if
the flight path will carry the vehicle through a thunderstorm or
cumulonimbus debris cloud which is not transparent and less than three
hours old. Launch may not occur within five nautical miles of these debris
clouds unless:
1) for 15
minutes preceding launch there is at least one working field mill within
five nautical miles of the debris cloud;
2) all electric
field mill readings are between -1 kilovolt and + 1 kilovolt per meter
within five nautical miles of the flight path;
3) no precipitation has been detected in the
debris cloud (less than 10 dbz by radar) within 5 nautical miles of the
flight path.
Do not launch if the flight path will carry
the vehicle through any cumulus cloud that has developed from a smoke
plume while the cloud is attached to the plume, or for the first 60
minutes after the cumulus cloud detaches from the smoke plume.
NASA INVITES PUBLIC TO TWEET THEIR WAY
INTO SPACE
HOUSTON -- The Twitterverse and
universe will converge during space
shuttle Endeavour's mission to the International Space Station. NASA is inviting the public to send
questions for the astronauts via Twitter and have
them answered live from space.
Astronaut Mike Massimino will be
accepting questions for the crew from the public
via his Twitter account until Thursday, Feb. 11. Massimino will be a shuttle Capcom, or spacecraft communicator,
at NASA's Mission Control in Houston during
Endeavour's flight, scheduled for launch Feb. 7.
At 2:24 a.m. CST on Feb. 11,
Massimino will host an interactive event with the
crew from his console in Mission Control. He will ask the astronauts as many submitted and live questions as
practical during the 20-minute event. The shuttle
will be docked to the station during the live
question and answer session. The event with Endeavour's crew will be broadcast live on the Web and NASA
Television.
The public is invited to start
tweeting questions for Endeavour's crew today to
Massimino's Twitter account, @astro_Mike, or add the hashtag #askastro to their tweets.
Endeavour's 13-day STS-130 mission
will include three spacewalks and the delivery of
the Tranquility node, the final module of the U.S. portion of the station. Tranquility will provide
additional room for crew members and many of the
space station's life support and environmental
control systems.
Attached to Tranquility is a cupola,
which houses a robotic control station and has
seven windows. The windows will provide a panoramic view of Earth, celestial objects and visiting
spacecraft. After the node and cupola are added,
the orbiting laboratory will be approximately 90
percent complete.
The time and day of the Twitter
session are subject to change due to mission
priorities. Updates to the NASA TV event schedule are available online at:
Code Amber News Service (CANS) issued this Missing Endangered person Alert after the girl disappeared from her bedroom some time after 3 AM Tuesday morning in Satsuma. Satsuma is approximately 75 miles east of Gainsville.
Haleigh Cummings a white female, 3 feet tall, weighs 39 pounds and has blond hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing a pink shirt and underwear.
There are no suspects in this case at this time. However, due to the circumstances of the child's disappearance an abduction is strongly suspected.
There is no suspect vehicle at this time.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Putnam County Sheriff's office at (386) 329-0808 or dial 911.
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