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STS-135 Last Shuttle Flight.
« on: July 06, 2011, 11:29:45 PM »
Well folks, here it is, the last shuttle flight this Friday (07/08/2011) at 11:26 a.m. EDT.  The last U.S. spaceflight for some time.  Good luck Atlantis!
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Re: STS-135 Last Shuttle Flight.
« Reply #1 on: July 07, 2011, 08:34:38 PM »
I won't miss this one. Hopefully the weather cooperates.
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Re: STS-135 Last Shuttle Flight.
« Reply #2 on: July 08, 2011, 10:32:29 AM »
Great liftoff and SRB separation.
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Re: STS-135 Last Shuttle Flight.
« Reply #3 on: July 08, 2011, 11:50:48 AM »
I thought we were in for a scrub when the countdown stopped at 31 seconds.
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Re: STS-135 Last Shuttle Flight.
« Reply #4 on: July 13, 2011, 03:20:45 AM »
Yeah, but they handled it really well.
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Re: STS-135 Last Shuttle Flight.
« Reply #5 on: July 19, 2011, 10:54:36 PM »
Landing: July 21, 5:56 a.m. EDT.
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Re: STS-135 Last Shuttle Flight.
« Reply #6 on: July 20, 2011, 06:05:58 PM »
You'd think they'd arrange the landing for a time when more Americans will be awake to see it, since it is the last time we'll get the chance.
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Re: STS-135 Last Shuttle Flight.
« Reply #7 on: July 25, 2011, 12:36:06 PM »
For the record, contrary to AP and Fox News report, Mission Control is not closed.  We still have people on ISS, including Americans, and we're taking good care of them every day from Flight Control Room 1, which is just down the hall from the Shuttle Flight Control Room.

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Re: STS-135 Last Shuttle Flight.
« Reply #8 on: July 25, 2011, 07:32:05 PM »
I never would have believed MC was closed... especially if I heard it from Fox News.
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Re: STS-135 Last Shuttle Flight.
« Reply #9 on: July 26, 2011, 12:12:41 AM »
Quote from: evancise on July 25, 2011, 12:36:06 PM
For the record, contrary to AP and Fox News report, Mission Control is not closed.  We still have people on ISS, including Americans, and we're taking good care of them every day from Flight Control Room 1, which is just down the hall from the Shuttle Flight Control Room.
This just goes to show that some people have misconceptions about how Mission Control works, such as thinking that there is a single control room that juggles all manned missions at the same time
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Re: STS-135 Last Shuttle Flight.
« Reply #10 on: July 26, 2011, 07:05:08 AM »
Wow!  That would make life crazy! 
For the record, we have 5 control rooms in Houston. The White Flight Control Room (White FCR) is the Shuttle room, the Red FCR is the ISS training room, the Blue FCR used to be used for ISS ops until we outgrew it.  It's most recently been used by Hubble during STS-125 and by the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer during STS-134.  FCR-1, used in the past for Apollo, Apollo-Soyuz, Skylab, and Shuttle is now being used for ISS operations.  FCR-2 was used for Gemini, all odd numbered Apollo missions (including Apollos 11 and 13), and Shuttle has been restored to how it looked during Apollo 11 and is a National Historic Landmark.
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