CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA managers have scheduled the next launch attempt of space shuttle Endeavour's STS-127 mission for 5:40 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, June 17. The launch will take place at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
As a result, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, and Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, are set to lift off together aboard an Atlas V rocket on Thursday, June 18. There are three launch opportunities from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida: 5:12 p.m., 5:22 p.m. and 5:32 p.m.
NASA managers postponed Endeavour's planned June 13 liftoff because of a leak associated with the gaseous hydrogen venting system outside the shuttle's external fuel tank. The system is used to carry excess hydrogen safely away from the launch pad.
The LRO and LCROSS launch was moved to June 18 to accommodate Endeavour's June 17 liftoff. If Thursday's liftoff of LRO and LCROSS is postponed 24 hours, the launch times Friday are 6:41 p.m., 6:51 p.m. and 7:01 p.m. Saturday's opportunities are 8:08 p.m., 8:18 p.m. and 8:28 p.m.
Endeavour's 16-day STS-127 mission to the International Space Station will feature five spacewalks and complete construction of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Kibo laboratory. Astronauts will attach a platform to the outside of the Japanese module that will allow experiments to be exposed to space.
LRO is scheduled for a one-year exploration mission at a polar orbit of about 31 miles, or 50 kilometers, the closest any spacecraft has orbited the moon. The primary objective of LRO is to conduct investigations to prepare for future explorations of the moon.
Launching with LRO is LCROSS, a partner mission that will search for water ice on the moon by sending the spent upper-stage Centaur rocket, about the size of a sports utility vehicle, to impact part of a polar crater in permanent shadows. LCROSS will fly into the plume of dust left by the impact and measure the properties before also colliding with the lunar surface.
Live updates to the NASA News Twitter feed will be added throughout the shuttle mission and landing. To access the NASA News Twitter feed, visit: http://www.twitter.com/nasa
The STS-127 mission commander, Mark Polansky, has a Twitter account named Astro_127, and can be followed online at: http://www.twitter.com/Astro_127
For information about NASA TV streaming video, downlink and schedule information, visit:
https://mail02.ndc.nasa.gov/owa/redir.aspx?C=944bce57149049c68270b307936aa932&URL=http://www.nasa.gov/ntv
For information about the space station, visit:
https://mail02.ndc.nasa.gov/owa/redir.aspx?C=944bce57149049c68270b307936aa932&URL=http://www.nasa.gov/station
For the latest information about the STS-127 mission and its crew, visit:
https://mail02.ndc.nasa.gov/owa/redir.aspx?C=944bce57149049c68270b307936aa932&URL=http://www.nasa.gov/shuttle
To learn more about the LRO and LCROSS missions, go to the mission home pages at:
http://www.nasa.gov/LRO
http://www.nasa.gov/LCROSS
As a result, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, and Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, are set to lift off together aboard an Atlas V rocket on Thursday, June 18. There are three launch opportunities from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida: 5:12 p.m., 5:22 p.m. and 5:32 p.m.
NASA managers postponed Endeavour's planned June 13 liftoff because of a leak associated with the gaseous hydrogen venting system outside the shuttle's external fuel tank. The system is used to carry excess hydrogen safely away from the launch pad.
The LRO and LCROSS launch was moved to June 18 to accommodate Endeavour's June 17 liftoff. If Thursday's liftoff of LRO and LCROSS is postponed 24 hours, the launch times Friday are 6:41 p.m., 6:51 p.m. and 7:01 p.m. Saturday's opportunities are 8:08 p.m., 8:18 p.m. and 8:28 p.m.
Endeavour's 16-day STS-127 mission to the International Space Station will feature five spacewalks and complete construction of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Kibo laboratory. Astronauts will attach a platform to the outside of the Japanese module that will allow experiments to be exposed to space.
LRO is scheduled for a one-year exploration mission at a polar orbit of about 31 miles, or 50 kilometers, the closest any spacecraft has orbited the moon. The primary objective of LRO is to conduct investigations to prepare for future explorations of the moon.
Launching with LRO is LCROSS, a partner mission that will search for water ice on the moon by sending the spent upper-stage Centaur rocket, about the size of a sports utility vehicle, to impact part of a polar crater in permanent shadows. LCROSS will fly into the plume of dust left by the impact and measure the properties before also colliding with the lunar surface.
Live updates to the NASA News Twitter feed will be added throughout the shuttle mission and landing. To access the NASA News Twitter feed, visit: http://www.twitter.com/nasa
The STS-127 mission commander, Mark Polansky, has a Twitter account named Astro_127, and can be followed online at: http://www.twitter.com/Astro_127
For information about NASA TV streaming video, downlink and schedule information, visit:
https://mail02.ndc.nasa.gov/owa/redir.aspx?C=944bce57149049c68270b307936aa932&URL=http://www.nasa.gov/ntv
For information about the space station, visit:
https://mail02.ndc.nasa.gov/owa/redir.aspx?C=944bce57149049c68270b307936aa932&URL=http://www.nasa.gov/station
For the latest information about the STS-127 mission and its crew, visit:
https://mail02.ndc.nasa.gov/owa/redir.aspx?C=944bce57149049c68270b307936aa932&URL=http://www.nasa.gov/shuttle
To learn more about the LRO and LCROSS missions, go to the mission home pages at:
http://www.nasa.gov/LRO
http://www.nasa.gov/LCROSS
4 comments:
NASA wants to see if it is safe for a person to land on the moon, since it has never been done before.
Not the old Moon conspiracy theory again. Really, landing on the Moon is not a not a great technological feat by today's standards. We have people living in space on Mir continuously. I bet if the Moon was made of gold and uranium, I'd be typing this post from up there.
Anon 9:49
You are right. You have to be a complete idiot to doubt anything our government tells us. You have to be even more stupid to doubt anything you see on television. When you combine our government information with the television, why would anyone question anything they see on television?
My question is this: if going to the moon is so technilogically easy, then why haven't we ever gone back again?
We are coming up on the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon walk in July of this year - next month. I am sure our government will celebrate the greatest feat in human history by commemorating the walk. The media will air countless shows, and print countless pictures etc. We will all enjoy looking at the beautiful pictures and watching the black and white images of the astronauts coming down the steps of the lunar module. Right?
I mean, our government and media WANT us to look at those images again after 40 years, right?
When we look at them again in the modern era, will we see that it is obviously a fake?
Is it possible that the 40th anniversary will go by without fan fare and celebration? If so, then I say that is evidence that the event never happened.
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