The first Shuttle landing at Kennedy is set for Feb. EST, into a circular 189.7 statute mile orbit with an inclination to the equator of 28.45 degrees. with no connection to, or responsibility for, schedule or. Challenger, making its fourth trip into space, is scheduled to be launched from Kennedy Space Center on Feb.
The first orbiter to use the SLF was Challenger on Feb. Space Shuttle Era Resources NASA’s Space Shuttle fleet. Over a span of some 27 years, 77 of the 135 space shuttle missions landed at the Shuttle Landing Facility. It began flight operations in 1992 on mission STS-49, the Intelsat VI repair mission. NASA hopes the repairs will keep Hubble running for another five to 10 years, giving astronomers further opportunity to use it to peer into deep space and work on unravelling some of the mysteries of the universe. Endeavor first arrived at KSC’s Shuttle Landing Facility on May 7, 1991, atop NASA’s new Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (NASA 911). The seven-person crew needed five spacewalks to replace the telescope's batteries, gyroscopes and data-handling unit and add a host of new instruments. The shuttle has been cleared for re-entry after a Thursday inspection of the shuttle's wings and nose showed no evidence of damage that might give NASA additional concerns about Atlantis's return to Earth.Ītlantis flew to Hubble last week on a mission to give the 19-year-old orbiting telescope its fifth and final repair. EDT (1316 GMT) Saturday after NASA passed on two landing opportunities Friday because of cloudy skies and rain showers. NASA has the option of landing shuttles at other landing sites - most notably Edwards Air Force Base in California - but the preferred landing site is Kennedy because it makes it easier for NASA crews to put the shuttle back in its hangar. mission landing on the 3-mile-long Shuttle Landing Facility at Kennedy Space Center. Touchdown at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida was rescheduled for 9:16 a.m. The shuttle has enough supplies to stay up until Monday. Flight controllers will aim for a touchdown at Kennedy at 9:16 a.m. ET. NASA will try again Saturday morning to end the successful mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. Mission Control notified the seven astronauts Friday morning that they will spend another day in space due to expected thunderstorms in Florida. Commander Eileen Collins and the six-member Space Shuttle Discovery crew are scheduled to land at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) at approximately 4:46 a.m.
NASA has called off two scheduled landing attempts for Friday for the space shuttle Atlantis, citing the forecast for stormy weather around Florida's Kennedy Space Center.
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