Discovery is behaving well during the early part of what is her final pad flow, with only one issue reported as the stack continues Launch Pad Validation tasks (S0009). Away from Pad 39A, managers are beginning their departmental Flight Readiness Review (FRR) meetings, leading up to the key Agency FRR – which is likely to slip to just days prior to the launch date.
In what is highly likely to be her final rollout, Discovery – as the STS-133…
Engineers are preparing Endeavour for next week’s installation of her three Space Shuttle Main Engines…
A multi-stage approach to the mitigation of foam liberations from the intertank region of the…
Clouds over the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) have scrubbed Endeavour’s launch by 24 hours. Earlier,…
Following a few minor delays due to poor weather at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC),…
If the first half of 2009 for NASA demonstrated the agency’s unwavering attention to safety,…
For NASA, 2009 proved to be a stellar year, one filled with five extremely successful…
Discovery was undergoing S0007 Launch Countdown Scrub Turnaround procedures, with the goal to launch on…
Engineers are once again at the I/T Access Arm attached to the External Tank for…
Although no ill effects were suffered by Endeavour, the problems with her External Tank (ET-131)…
Shuttle orbiter Endeavour was again ready to launch to the International Space Station. However, poor…
Results on the STS-127 stack – called for after a number of lightning strikes were…
STS-127’s External Tank (ET-131) has completed a tanking test on the realigned Ground Umbilical Carrier Plate…
Preparations for next Wednesday’s tanking test are proceeding well, with the flight seal now replaced…
Managers have set next Wednesday morning for a full-up tanking test of External Tank ET-131…
Endeavour will launch only when engineers are happy they have a full understanding of the…
STS-127 has been scrubbed for the second time due to another leak at the Ground Umbilical…
Endeavour has won the right to make a launch attempt on June 17 (Wednesday), following…
In a similar event to STS-119’s scrub, Endeavour’s launch has been delayed due to a…
