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Discovery’s heat shield ‘OK’

Matt | July 10, 2006 |

The Discovery space shuttle has been cleared for re-entry to Earth next week after Nasa officials gave its heat shield a clean bill of health. Analysts at mission control in Houston had spent days looking at images for possible damage caused by Tuesday’s lift-off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. They later said that there were a […]

New Discovery launch videos

Matt | July 9, 2006 |

Nasa have just released a series of videos showing the launch of the Shuttle Discovery on mission STS-121. The videos show the launch from a number of never before seen angles. There is some excellent footage take from the SRB camera and from the External Tank camera. Nasa have been inspecting these videos virtually frame […]

First space walk complete

Matt | July 9, 2006 |

Mission Specialists Piers Sellers and Mike Fossum successfully completed STS-121’s first spacewalk. Their space walk involved testing the new shuttle robotic arm boom extension to be used as a platform for astronauts should it be necessary to conduct heat shield repairs. Sellers worked on the end of the 50-foot extension before being joined by Fossum […]

Space walk

Matt | July 8, 2006 |

Mission Specialists Piers Sellers and Mike Fossum conduct the first spacewalk of the STS-121 mission. Sellers and Fossum installed a device to block the cutter blade on the International Space Station’s mobile transporter. The device will prevent the blade from cutting a power and data cable that links the mobile transporter to the rest of […]

Another day in space

Matt | July 8, 2006 |

The Mission Management Team announced that Space Shuttle Discovery and the STS-121 crew will get another day in orbit. From the outset the Mission Management Team had been hoping to add the extra space day but it depended on how much fuel, air and power they used up. Matt [Technorati tag(s): shuttle, nasa, Space Shuttle, […]

Discovery has docked with ISS

Tracy Davis | July 6, 2006 |

[color=#6200AA]Discovery has safely docked with the International Space Station exactly on schedule.[/color] [color=#6200AA]Tracy[/color] [Technorati tag(s): shuttle, nasa, Space Shuttle, Space Shuttle Discovery, Discovery, Space, Science, STS-121, ISS]

Docking early!

Matt | July 6, 2006 |

Discovery will be docking early, possibly within the next 15 minutes. Image of Discovery approach from ISS. Matt [Technorati tag(s): shuttle, nasa, Space Shuttle, Space Shuttle Discovery, Discovery, Space, Science, STS-121, ISS]

Final approach

Matt | July 6, 2006 |

Discovery fired her engines just after 13:00GMT biginning final appraoch with the International Space Station (ISS). Discovery is scheduled to dock with the station at 14:52GMT. More info. as we get it! Matt [Technorati tag(s): shuttle, nasa, Space Shuttle, Space Shuttle Discovery, Discovery, Space, Science, STS-121, ISS]

Sony Poos?

Matt | July 6, 2006 |

I might be a bit slow with this blog entry, it may not be that ‘new’ but having heard about it I just had to comment: Surely Sony isn’t serious, it has to be that they are poking fun at Nintendo’s Wii but the word on the street it that Sony has trademarked the controller […]

Race towards ISS

Matt | July 6, 2006 |

Space Shuttle Discovery and the STS-121 crew race towards their rendezvous with International Space Station. Discovery is slated to dock with ISS at 17:52 GMT today. Discovery is carrying cargo of almost 13 tonnes consisting of equipment and supplies for ISS. Matt [Technorati tag(s): shuttle, nasa, Space Shuttle, Space Shuttle Discovery, Discovery, Space, Science, STS-121, […]