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Iffy weather forecast for Friday's shuttle landing
BY WILLIAM HARWOOD
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS "SPACE PLACE" & USED WITH PERMISSION
Posted: May 21, 2009

With the shuttle Atlantis in good shape and no problems with its protective heat shield, NASA managers today released the shuttle Endeavour from stand-by duty for a possible launch on an emergency rescue mission. The Atlantis astronauts, meanwhile, pressed ahead with preparations for landing Friday, keeping tabs on threatening weather in Florida.


Atlantis' path home during Friday's first landing opportunity. Credit: NASA TV
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Engineers at the Kennedy Space Center started a countdown Wednesday to preserve the option of launching Endeavour this weekend if some major problem developed that might prevent Atlantis from making a safe re-entry.

The Atlantis astronauts, launched into the Hubble Space Telescope's orbit, cannot seek "safe haven" aboard the International Space Station and NASA managers decided early on to prepare Endeavour for possible rescue duty in case of heat shield damage or some other major malfunction aboard Atlantis.

But Atlantis sailed through routine re-entry tests earlier today, its heat shield is in good condition and with bad weather threatening a landing delay to Saturday or possibly even Sunday, there was little point in continuing Endeavour's countdown.

For Endeavour to reach Atlantis now, it would have to take off Saturday or Sunday at the latest. Atlantis only has enough hydrogen and oxygen for its fuel cell system to make it through Monday and it would take Endeavour two days to complete a rendezvous. As a result of all that, mission managers released Endeavour from rescue stand by, clearing the way for normal processing toward launch June 13 on a space station assembly mission.

NASA managers never expected to actually need a rescue mission, saying improved post-Columbia damage detection and repair techniques could handle the sorts of heat shield damage that might be reasonably expected, even in Hubble's higher, more debris-littered orbit. As it turned out, no such damage has been seen.

The Atlantis astronauts, meanwhile, spent the morning testing the shuttle's re-entry systems and preparing for landing Friday, weather permitting.

"That all checked out perfect, we're ready to go, the vehicle is clearly ready for entry," said entry flight director Norm Knight.

During launch May 11, a short circuit knocked out one of four redundant electronic boxes used to format computer commands to valves that provide hydraulic power to actuators that, in turn, drive the shuttle's elevons, body fly and rudder/speed brake. Flight controllers checked out the aerosurface actuators today and verified Atlantis has no problems of any significance.

"There are four of these ASAs, we've lost one of the four, we're still fully functional and ready to go," Knight said. "We checked the rest of the system out today and have no issues."

Because Atlantis has enough on-board supplies to remain in orbit through Monday, Knight said the agency did not plan to staff the shuttle's backup landing site at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., on Friday. Instead, the crew will have just two landing opportunities at the Kennedy Space Center, one at 10:00:39 a.m. and the other one orbit later at 11:39:18 a.m. If the weather or some other problem prevents re-entry, the crew will stay in orbit another day and try again Saturday.

"The weather for KSC on Friday, I'll tell you it doesn't look great," Knight said. "There's a low pressure (system) sitting over Central Florida, it's been sitting there for several days, Florida's received quite a bit of rain and we're just waiting for that system to move out. So it's really a matter of timing as to when that system is going to move.

"We expect it's going to improve over the next couple of days, but again, it's just a matter of waiting and seeing. The entry strategy, based on the fact that we have end-of-mission-plus-three (days), is to target KSC only tomorrow, so we're not going to target Edwards, and then on Saturday we'll bring up Edwards, we'll look at both KSC and Edwards and really, based on how the weather is on Sunday, make a determination if Saturday is the day we're going to land."

The forecast for Edwards is "go" through the weekend, while rain is expected at NASA's other backup landing field, Northrup Strip, N.M.

Here is a timeline of major entry events for both Friday landing opportunities (in EDT):


EDT...........EVENT

Rev. 165 Deorbit to KSC

04:49 AM......Begin deorbit timeline
05:04 AM......Radiator stow
05:14 AM......Mission specialists seat installation
05:20 AM......Computers set for deorbit prep
05:24 AM......Hydraulic system configuration
05:49 AM......Flash evaporator cooling system checkout
05:55 AM......Final payload deactivation
06:09 AM......Payload bay doors closed
06:19 AM......Mission control 'go' for OPS-3 entry software load
06:29 AM......OPS-3 transition
06:54 AM......Entry switchlist verification
07:04 AM......Deorbit maneuver update
07:09 AM......Crew entry review
07:24 AM......CDR/PLT don entry suits
07:41 AM......IMU alignment
07:49 AM......CDR/PLT strap in; MS suit don
08:06 AM......Shuttle steering check
08:09 AM......Hydraulic system prestart
08:16 AM......Toilet deactivation
08:29 AM......Mission control 'go' for deorbit burn
08:35 AM......Astronaut seat ingress
08:44 AM......Single APU start

08:49:16 AM...Deorbit ignition (dT: 2:28; dV: 167 mph)
08:51:44 AM...Deorbit burn complete (alt: 345 miles)

09:29:09 AM...Entry interface (alt: 399,000 ft; vel: 16,840 mph; range: 4,925 sm)
09:33:36 AM...1st roll command to right
09:40:23 AM...1st right-to-let roll reversal
09:48:00 AM...C-band radar acquisition
09:54:05 AM...Velocity less than mach 2.5 (alt: 82,000 feet)
09:56:13 AM...Velocity less than mach 1 (alt: 47,800 feet)
09:56:33 AM...Shuttle turn to line up on runway 15 (alt: 42,700 feet)
10:00:31 AM...Landing

Rev. 166 Deorbit to KSC

10:13 AM......Mission control 'go' for deorbit burn
10:19 AM......Astronaut seat ingress
10:28 AM......Single APU start

10:33:41 AM...Deorbit ignition (dT: 2:34; dV: 173 mph)
10:36:15 AM...Deorbit burn complete (alt: 345 miles)

11:07:56 AM...Entry interface (alt: 399,000 ft; range: 4,944 sm)
11:12:27 AM...1st roll command to left
11:22:01 AM...1st left-to-right roll reversal
11:32:54 AM...Velocity less than mach 2.5 (alt: 82,000 feet)
11:35:01 AM...Velocity less than mach 1 (alt: 47,800 feet)
11:35:17 AM...Shuttle turn to line up on runway 15 (alt: 42,700 feet)
11:39:18 AM...Landing

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