Thursday, 9 January 2014

STS 119 Discovery: boosting the station to full power




STS-119: Station Power Up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoRw1BVgYdU


STS-119: A Final Station Power Up



The ISS now has the full complement of eight solar array wings


8 stars/twin solar towers



8 stars + rotation stars/twin solar towers
The STS-119 mission will deliver to the station the final set of solar arrays needed to complete the station's complement of electricity-generating solar panels, and through them support the station's expanded crew of six in 2009.




Space Shuttle Status Update (03-06-09): "Go" Given for March 11 Launch of Discovery on the STS-119 Mission


STS-119: Official Flight Kit
From a NASCAR driver’s flag to a purple stuffed duck, the collection of orbital mementoes chosen by the astronauts of space shuttle Discovery’s STS-119 mission highlight a diverse set of influences and interests.


Among the assortment of flags being flown is a National Guard design from Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s racing team. Earnhardt races in NASCAR’s Sprint Cup Series in the No. 88 car sponsored in part by the National Guard
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/behindscenes/whatsgoingup119.html


STS 119's pilot was even wearing the dale jr (green/dew) 88 hat


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Dale Earnhardt, Jr.


In 2001, the major event of the season occurred on February 18, in the final corner of the final lap of the 2001 Daytona 500. As Earnhardt Jr. pushed his teammate Michael Waltrip to the finish line on the final lap, he finished second, to Waltrip; his father had crashed in turn four after Sterling Marlin made contact with his left rear bumper. Earnhardt, Sr. shot up the track into the outside wall behind Waltrip and Earnhardt, Jr. and collected Ken Schrader. Dale Earnhardt Sr. was killed instantly in the crash by a basilar skull fracture.

In the aftermath, many disgruntled fans sent death threats to Sterling Marlin and his family, blaming him for the crash; Earnhardt, Jr. and Waltrip requested that fans stopped blaming anybody for Dale, Sr.'s death and both the local police and NASCAR investigations into the crash cleared Marlin of any involvement. Earnhardt, Jr. raced at Rockingham the following weekend, but finished in 43rd-place after a wreck on the first lap that looked eerily similar to his father's wreck just one week earlier. In the later part of the season, Earnhardt, Jr. made a comeback, beginning with an emotional win at the Pepsi 400, which was also the first race held at Daytona since Earnhardt, Sr.'s death. Earnhardt, Jr. had the dominant car of the race, leading 115 of 160 laps. On the last restart, Earnhardt, Jr. managed to make a move from fourth place to first place in the span of two laps, with Michael Waltrip holding off the field as Earnhardt, Jr. took the checkered flag. He won the MBNA Cal Ripken, Jr. 400 at Dover, which was the first Cup race following the September 11th attacks as the original scheduled race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway was postponed until the end of the season. After the race, he performed a Polish victory lap while holding a large American flag out the driver's side window.
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Also note how the yellow sections of the ISS/ISIS form an 11:11!

http://synchromysticismforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=692&hilit=sts+119+11%3A11


Mountain Dew/K2 & 9/11
http://rundonotwalk.blogspot.ca/2007/12/k2-candy-3.html


The mission was originally scheduled for Atlantis   

NASA managers juggle shuttle launch schedule again
STS 125 Hubble mission:STS-123 and STS-124 appear to be solid with their February and April, 2008 launch dates, before the manifest places all future flights to the status of ‘under review.’
This is where alternative options kick in, with the possibility of moving STS-119 away from Atlantis, which would see her finale mission to Hubble moving to the emotionally awkward launch date of September 11.





Canceled Space Shuttle missions


STS-119 (Atlantis)

Originally to be launched on 15 January 2004 to the International Space Station to conduct assembly mission ISS-15A and carry-out a station crew rotation.
Crew:



STS-108 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle Endeavour. Its primary objective was to deliver supplies to and help maintain the ISS.


PilotMark E. Kelly
First spaceflight

Honoring victims of the 11 September attacks
STS-108 was the first Space Shuttle launch following the September 11 attacks, and remembering it would become a focus of the flight. Security was increased at Kennedy Space Center for press and visitors for the launch, and press activity was more tightly controlled.[3]
In the early morning hours of 12 September 2001, New York City Police Sergeant Gerald Kane and Detective Peter Friscia, assigned to the office of Police Commissioner Bernard B. Kerik, retrieved a large American flag that was tattered and torn and wrapped around a flag pole near in corners of Church and Chambers Street amidst the devastation of the World Trade Center site.[4] That American flag, a USMC flag recovered from the Pentagon, an American flag that flew over the State Capital in Harrisburg, PA on the day of 11 Sept., the 23 shields (badges) of the fallen NYPD officers; patches, posters and an emblem from the FDNY, patches from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and 6,000 small American flags to honor those lost and those that served in the response and recovery efforts for 9/11 were all flown aboard Endeavour.
The 6,000 smaller flags were later given to families that lost loved ones on 9/11 and the flag retrieved from the World Trade Center site is maintained by the Office of the New York City Commissioner of Records.



STS-108 astronauts Mark Kelly (left) and Dan Tani pose with a collection of miniature US flags, carried aboard Endeavour on the first post-9/11 Shuttle mission. Photo Credit: NASA


Life of Discovery:





March 28, 2009=STS 119 complete


Discovery's next mission was 5 months later on STS 128


Launched August 28, 2009


Landing was on the 8th 9/11 anniversary





STS-119 delivered the S6 solar arrays to the space station, completing the construction of the Integrated Truss Structure.[8] STS-119 also carried several experiments, including the Shuttle Ionospheric Modification with Pulsed Local EXhaust (SIMPLEX), Shuttle Exhaust Ion Turbulence Experiments (SEITE), and Maui Analysis of Upper Atmospheric Injections (MAUI). STS-119 was also used for the "Boundary Layer Transition Detailed Test Objective" experiment. One tile of the thermal protection system was raised 0.25 inches (6.4 mm) above the others so that, at about Mach 15 during reentry, a boundary layer transition would be initiated.[9] This experiment was repeated during STS-128 with the tile raised to 0.35 inches (8.9 mm), tripping at Mach 18 to produce more heat.

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