Space Forum / Shuttle / December 2007

Just wondering:
Is Atlantis going to be prepared to roll back to the VAB to toggle the
ECO sensors or replace the ET?
Can the ECO sensor problem be solved at the pad?

Can anyone tell me how many more missions are scheduled?  I thought I'd
read that there were only a few external tanks left but Nasa's website
suggest there are at least half a dozen more launches to come?
TIA

Is this the right group for the Constellation project, btw?
Probably not been reading the right information, but one
question I have been wondering for some time is:
How do you aqquire thrust vector contol -steering simply - of the upcoming

News reports state that the "Crew Office" made the proposal that if
all four ECO's were not working properly they would not fly. Is this a
case of the CDR putting his foot down, so to speak, and saying I, or
we, don't want to, or will not fly, if the system is not working 100%?

Is this  basket and armoured truck escape supposed to be used for?
Looks a bit risky, and surely the only sort of emergency it could maybe have
a place in would be poisonous gas or similar release in the cabin. If the
stack got punctured in a tank, or a fire occurred, I'd have ...

Dec. 6, 2007
Michael Curie
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-4715

Are those recent sensor failures only recent events ? Or have they been
happening throughout the life of the shuttle program but were either
unreported or undetected ?
What was changed to result in these now common problems ?

I'm sure this question has been asked before, but could not find an answer
so here goes.
Every launch of the Shuttle has a roll at the start to fly with the Shuttle
underneath at least for the first part of the flight. It has always seemed

STS-122 - TANKING COMMENTARY Part 1
http://www.space-multimedia.nl.eu.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=
3186&Itemid=2
STS-122  - TANKING Scrubbed
http://www.space-multimedia.nl.eu.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=
3187&Itemid=2

Ok, here's something to work on while waiting out the 48hr scrub:
STS-120 Flight Data Files, EVA Checklist, page FS18-25 (pg 439
of 485 of the pdf)... Who's the good lookin' dog?
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/news/flightdatafiles/foia_archive.html

my father just upgraded to DishHD, and now i will be able to Watch the
Atlantis Shuttle Launch on HDNET.
angela

NASA RESCHEDULES SPACE SHUTTLE LAUNCH
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The launch of NASA's space shuttle Atlantis
will take place no earlier than Saturday, Dec. 8, at 3:43 p.m. EST.
Thursday's scheduled liftoff from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla.,

If its not fixable, they will find a way to fly with only two sensors
working.
Brian

I read in another post that if it's going to the ISS, it goes up the
east coast.  Would it be visible in eastern PA?  How long after launch
till it gets here?

STS-122 - Atlantis Status Update
http://www.space-multimedia.nl.eu.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=
3180&Itemid=45
STS-122 - Crew Overview
http://www.space-multimedia.nl.eu.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=
3179&Itemid=1