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Shuttle due home

Matt | July 17, 2006 |

Space shuttle Discovery is due to return home today which will end it’s 13 day mission STS-121. The weather is looking good for a landing at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 0914 EDT. The crew will fire the shuttle’s engines at 0807 to begin the orbiter’s descent. The landing will bring to an […]

MoDaCo Summer Event

Matt | July 17, 2006 |

This weekend saw MoDaCo’s 2006 summer event. The event, held at Orange’s offices in Paddington, was the sixth such event organised by the Smartphone community forum. This year’s event was certainly one to remember with the hosts Orange and contributors Microsoft pulling out all the stops. Throughout the day there were breakout sessions covering subjects […]

Discovery Cleared For Landing

Tracy Davis | July 16, 2006 |

[color=#6200AA]The Mission Control Center told the STS-121 crew this morning that engineers have cleared Space Shuttle Discovery for landing after completing a review of post-docking inspection data.[/color] [color=#6200AA]The Landing is Scheduled for Kennedy Space Centre in Florida tomorrow with two possible landing windows. Weather forcasts say there is a possibility of showers over the landing […]

STS-121 Crew leave ISS

Tracy Davis | July 15, 2006 |

[color=#6200AA]The 6 crew memebers of STS-121 crew have left the International Space Station to prepare for the undocking of Discovery from ISS scheduled for 6.08am EDT (12.14GMT). [/color] [color=#6200AA]Both the Discovery STS-121 crew and the Expedition 13 crew need to perform a series of checks before the undocking takes place ready for Discovery’s two day […]

Vista Install Marathon

Matt | July 14, 2006 |

I registered for and downloaded Windows Vista Beta 2 a while ago and last weekend I finally got round to installing it. I had a spare laptop that had Windows XP pre-installed so I thought I would use that for trying out Vista. The first thing that bothered me about Vista was that it comes […]

Astronauts get day off

Matt | July 13, 2006 |

Following the 3 marathon spacewalks by Mission Specialists Mike Fossum and Piers Sellers and the rest of the crew of Discovery and ISS working hard transferring the cargo and supplies to and from Leonardo multi-purpose logistics, STS-121 and Expedition 13 astronauts have been given the day off. What do astronauts do in space on their […]

Final Space Walk Completed

Tracy Davis | July 12, 2006 |

[color=#6200AA]Discovery astronauts Piers Sellers and Mike Fossum have completed their third and final space walk of mission STS-121.[/color] [color=#6200AA]The spacewalkers tested repair techniques on pre-positioned heat shield materials in the payload bay. Among the tools they used were a space-certified caulk gun and a variety of spatulas to manipulate the test materials.[/color] [color=#6200AA]Landing has been […]

Preparing for 3rd Space Walk

Matt | July 11, 2006 |

The STS-121 and Expedition 13 crew members are pressing ahead with today’s scheduled activities aboard Space Shuttle Discovery and the International Space Station. One of the main tasks on the schedule is the transfer of items to and from the shuttle, the International Space Station and the Leonardo multi-purpose logistics module. Leonardo arrived inside Discovery’s […]

Chimp plays PacMan

Matt | July 11, 2006 |

This is one of the funniest things, a chimp playing PacMan. As a big fan of PacMan I think it’s time to challenge him to a competition. I think we should ban the coaching though! Matt [Technorati tag(s): chimp, PacMan, Funny Video, monkey, gaming]

Second Space Walk Completed

Tracy Davis | July 10, 2006 |

[color=#6200AA]Discovery astronauts Piers Sellers and Mike Fossum have completed their second space walk of mission STS-121. They are currently just returning on board through the airlocks.[/color] [color=#6200AA]There is one more scheduled space walk to take place before Discovery undocks from ISS for its return to Earth next week.[/color] [color=#6200AA]Tracy[/color] [Technorati tag(s): shuttle, nasa, Space Shuttle, […]