STS-126

[Bj]

Hmm, interesting. How has it compared to the heaviest shuttle flight on record? I did some Googling but did not see any data.

I know, I didn't find any info either, but this is what I thought I heard over the TV.

Edit;

OH NO! AN UFO! Ok, It's just an Helicopter...

I wonder what would happen if the helicopter accidentally flew into the landing pad...

 

[Orbinaut Pete]

First astronaut arrived in the white room

 

[Zoe]

CDR Chris Ferguson now in the white room.

 

[Orbinaut Pete]

How do they get up the ladder into the flight deck when its horizontal & sideways???

 

[Urwumpe]

How do they get up the ladder into the flight deck when its horizontal & sideways???

Magic.

If you look closely at the videos, you can see that they are actually standing on the aft wall of the Shuttle

 

[Matt]

How do they get up the ladder into the flight deck when its horizontal & sideways???

With difficulty? :rofl:

 

[Zoe]

CDR Chris Ferguson is now boarding Endeavor.

 

[Orbinaut Pete]

The Space Shuttle Program is truly amazing. You can't deny that...

 

[Zoe]

MS5 Sandra Magnus is now in the white room.

 

[Orbinaut Pete]

Ah. So that's how they do it...

They climb up the floor....

 

[Urwumpe]

The Space Shuttle Program is truly amazing. You can't deny that...

Actually, it is just an Apollo on steroids, which collided badly with a B-1B Lancer Bomber.

The true magic behind the Shuttle is the fact, that it really works (And I say that as SSU developer)

 

[Orbinaut Pete]

Hmm...

I just had a thought...

How much of my download limit will NASA TV eat up???

I only have 10gb per month...

 

[Zoe]

MS5 Sandra Magnus now boarding Endeavor, PLT Eric Boe is in the white room.

 

[Bj]

Hmm...

I just had a thought...

How much of my download limit will NASA TV eat up???

I only have 10gb per month...

If your viewing the smallest version then its 1,000 KBs, so about 3 hours I think.

but if you can only download at 30KBs, like me, then you can go for about 100 hours...

 

[Zoe]

MS3 Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper is now in the white room.

 

[Orbinaut Pete]

PLT Eric Boe now entering Endeavour. Heide now in White Room...

 

[pete.dakota]

I only have 10gb per month...

Surely all of the UK has unlimited broadband by now? We got auto-switched to unlimited by NTL 4 years ago!

 

[Bj]

Stupid feed again... breaking up again...

Edit; never mind, fixed almost immediately

 

[Zoe]

CDR Chris Ferguson is now doing comm checks with OTC Mark Taffet, NTD Charlie Blakwell-Thompson and Houston.

 

[DaveS]

CDR Chris Ferguson is now doing comm checks with OTC Mark Taffit, NTD Charlie Blakwell-Thompson and Houston.

CAPCOM is Alan "Dex" Poindexter. Dex made his first flight as PLT on STS-117/ISS 13A mission in June 2007 that saw the installation of the S3/S4 trusses with it's associated Solar Array Wings and retraction of the 2B Power Channel Solar Array Wing of the P6 truss.