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STS-126 to Press Ahead With a Landing in California Flight controllers have elected to press ahead with space shuttle Endeavour's landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California at 1:25 p.m. - 4:25 p.m. EST today. The deorbit burn is scheduled for 3:19 p.m.

This is the live thread for the Space Shuttle Endeavour Landing (despite the missing tools in space). It was a good mission, however, I do have mix feelings about drinking urine..

This is the official live thread of the Space Shuttle Endeavour... To get up to date information go to the following sites: www.nasa.govwww.nasaspaceflight.com

11/13/2008 - MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE, Ala. (AFNS) -- An Air Force colonel who is a senior member of the Civil Air Patrol is scheduled to pilot the Space Shuttle Endeavour for mission STS-126 when it takes off Nov. 14 at Kennedy Space Center, Fla. Col. Eric Boe, a NASA astronaut, will fly the shuttle in his first voyage into space as Endeavour supports the International Space Station. Endeavor will dock with the space station and deliver supplies to support its expanding needs, including a multipurpose logistics module. "I'm very excited to go into space and get the opportunity to...

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The space shuttle Endeavour and the international space station will be visible to Antelope Valley residents early each morning for more than a week beginning Sunday. The Endeavour mission, to deliver the first component of a Japanese science laboratory and a Canadian robotic system to the station, is scheduled to end with a landing at 5:33 p.m. Wednesday, March 26, in Florida. The shuttle-space station combination will look like a very bright star moving steadily as they arc through the sky. If no variations are made to the flight plan, the only evening sighting of the shuttle and space station...

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Endeavour astronauts inspected the space shuttle's heat shield Wednesday, while NASA puzzled over a mysterious piece of debris that may have struck the shuttle's nose just after launch. Officials at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas refused to speculate on the origin or even the size of the debris captured on camera 10 seconds after launch. Nor are they sure if it struck the shuttle. "It looks like it's not coming from the orbiter, and you can't really tell if it strikes the orbiter or not," flight director Mike Moses told reporters after viewing video of the debris. "I...

March 10, 2008 - 11:45 p.m. EDT Commander Gorie was first to be secured in his seat, assisted by the Closeout Crew. Endeavour' pilot, Gregory Johnson, was next on the flight deck. The rest of the flight team was seated and strapped in while Gorie began powering up the orbiter's general purpose computer for flight. All seven Endeavour astronauts for mission STS-123 are now strapped into their seats inside the crew compartment and conducting last-minute preparations for launch. The countdown remains on track. Final communication checks took place as each crew member took his seat. About the Mission NASA astronaut...

This is the official thread for the launch of the Space Shuttle Endeavour.. During the launch I'm going to be in bed sleeping since I have to go to work the next day..

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA's space shuttle Endeavour is on track to light the predawn Florida sky ablaze early Tuesday as it rockets toward the International Space Station (ISS) with seven astronauts on board. Led by commander Dominic Gorie, Endeavour's STS-123 crew will install the first piece of Japan's three-part Kibo laboratory, assemble a monstrous, two-armed Canadian robot and deliver a suite of on-orbit experiments during their mission. The shuttle is counting down toward a planned 2:28 a.m. EDT (0628 GMT) launch on Tuesday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Gorie and his crew plan to spend...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Space shuttle Endeavour was poised for a rare nighttime launch Tuesday to the international space station and the longest visit ever to the orbiting outpost. With no major problems reported, NASA began fueling the shuttle late Monday afternoon. Good weather was forecast for the 2:28 a.m. liftoff. The odds were 90 percent in NASA's favor. It will be the first shuttle launch in darkness since 2006; only a quarter of all shuttle flights have begun at nighttime. It also will be NASA's longest space station mission: 16 days.

This is will be the official Space Shuttle Endeavour Landing Thread.

The space shuttle Endeavour left the International Space Station (ISS) a day ahead of schedule and has started its journey home to get the jump on what looks to be a diminishing threat from Hurricane Dean. The spaceship, which launched on August 8, is set to land at Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on Tuesday (US time), a day earlier than planned. NASA had ordered the early return on fears Dean could turn toward the Texas coast and Johnson Space Centre, home of Mission Control, in Houston. But forecasters say the storm is instead on a collision course with Mexico....

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA on Saturday ordered space shuttle Endeavour back to Earth a day early out of fear that Hurricane Dean might disrupt flight operations. The shuttle is now scheduled to depart from the international space station on Sunday, and landing is set for Tuesday. The astronauts had hurriedly completed a shortened spacewalk Saturday and were still cleaning up from it when the decision came down from mission managers. The two crews shook hands and said goodbye, then closed the hatches between their docked spacecraft. NASA worried the hurricane might veer toward Houston, the home of Mission Control,...

listen to the question and answer session between the astronauts and students........ Link is on the right side... http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html "Morgan, Crewmates Talk With Students STS-118 astronauts take questions from students in Boise, Idaho." One of the students asks... "can you see global warming from space?" Second to answer was Clay Anderson.... "I don't know, necessarily, if I agree with that whole concept". His Bio... http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/anderson-c.html

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA decided Thursday that no repairs are needed for a deep gouge in Endeavour's belly and the space shuttle is safe to fly home. Mission Control notified the seven shuttle astronauts of the decision right before they went to sleep, putting an end to a week of engineering analyses and anxious uncertainty — both in orbit and on Earth. "Please pass along our thanks for all the hard work," radioed Endeavour's commander, Scott Kelly. Mission Control replied, "It's great we finally have a decision and we can press forward." The astronauts had spent much of the...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A close-up laser inspection by Endeavour's astronauts Sunday revealed that a 3 1/2-inch-long gouge penetrates all the way through the thermal shielding on the shuttle's belly, and had NASA urgently calculating whether risky spacewalk repairs are needed. A chunk of insulating foam smacked the shuttle at liftoff last week in an unbelievably unlucky ricochet off the fuel tank and carved out the gouge. The unevenly shaped gouge — which straddles two side-by-side thermal tiles and the corner of a third — is 3 1/2 inches long and just over 2 inches wide. Sunday's inspection showed that...

A routine shuttle mission, highlighted by a teacher's first spaceflight and space station construction, is now overshadowed by a troubling gash in Endeavour's thermal shield. A detailed laser inspection on Sunday of the difficult-to-reach area on Endeavour's belly could send astronauts out to repair the 3-inch wound later in the week, although NASA said that prospect appeared less likely than it did a day earlier. A penetration, if severe enough, could let in searing gases when the shuttle returns to Earth in a possible replay of the Columbia accident. As a pair of spacewalking astronauts installed a new beam to...