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My best wishes to everyone! Let me share this impression from my backyard: Obviously, this is not space-related, but I thought I thank all my regular readers for sticking with …
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My best wishes to everyone! Let me share this impression from my backyard: Obviously, this is not space-related, but I thought I thank all my regular readers for sticking with …
The weather forecast for Atlantis STS-122 December, 6th launch is close to perfect. Other than with STS-120, which had only a 40% chance of launch on time, the forecast for …
Do you remember Colin Ake? He is a fellow astronomer and STS-120 launch viewer. And he did a superb job at taking launch pictures: Even though I did not notice …
The agency-level flight readiness review held yesterday concluded with the expected December, 6th launch date for Atlantis STS-122 mission. This continues Atlantis’ exceptionally well processing flow. No major problems occurred …
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On the picture to the right, you see the actual layers of a current space glove. I shot this picture when I attended World Space Expo 2007 at Kennedy Space …
Everything is going very smooth with Atlantis’ STS-122 launch. No matter where I looked, I do not find any information on problems. So no news again means excellent news! The …
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The international space station’s expedition 16 crew successfully completed an important spacewalk yesterday. It was needed to get the ISS ready for the arrival of space shuttle Atlantis, which delivers …
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As of NASA’s shuttle home page, the Columbus ISS module has been stowed inside Atlantis: The European-built Columbus module has been loaded into the cargo bay of space shuttle Atlantis …