Fri, Mar 27, 2009
Discovery To Land Saturday; Atlantis Moves To Launch Pad
Tuesday
Space shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to roll out to Launch Pad
39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday, March
31... three days after its sister ship Discovery is scheduled to
land at KSC following completion of its STS-119 mission to the
International Space Station.
Atlantis is targeted to lift off May 12 on STS-125, to service
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope one final time.
As ANN reported, Atlantis' original targeted
launch on October 10, 2008 was delayed when a system that transfers
science data from the orbiting observatory to Earth malfunctioned
on September 27. The orbiter has sat in the Vehicle Assembly
Building ever since.
Meanwhile, the STS-119 crew onboard Discovery is expected to
complete their mission with a Saturday afternoon landing at NASA's
Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Wheels down at the Shuttle Landing
Facility is slated for 1:43 pm EDT on March 28. The return to Earth
will conclude a 13-day flight, which nine of those days spent
docked to the station.
The entry flight control team in Mission Control at NASA's
Johnson Space Center in Houston will evaluate weather conditions at
Kennedy before permitting Discovery to return to Earth. Saturday's
landing opportunities at Kennedy are at 1:43 pm and 3:19 pm If
weather prevents a Kennedy landing Saturday, the secondary landing
site at Edwards Air Force Base, CA will be activated Sunday for
consideration as well.
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