Tuesday, August 21, 2007
About Image: The Shuttle Landing Facility at Kennedy Space Center, Fla., awaits the return of Space Shuttle Endeavour today.
Image Credit: NASA TV
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Space Shuttle Endeavour and the STS-118 crew are scheduled to return home today, ending a successful assembly mission to the International Space Station. Landing is scheduled for 12:32 p.m. EDT at Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
The seven astronauts will make final preparations this morning for landing. The payload bay doors are scheduled to be closed at 8:45 a.m. If flight controllers decide to press ahead with landing, Commander Scott Kelly and Pilot Charles Hobaugh will fire Endeavour’s engines at 11:25 a.m. to begin the descent to Kennedy.
If flight controllers choose to pass on the first opportunity a second one is available at the Florida spaceport. It calls for touchdown at 2:06 p.m., with the deorbit burn at 1 p.m. White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico will not be called up today as a possible site. Edwards AFB, Calif., will be staffed, but is not expected to be used.
Above info courtesy of NASA
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. >>> UPDATE 11:30 am EDT
Space Shuttle Endeavour is coming HOME!
STS-118 Commander Scott Kelly and Pilot Charles Hobaugh fired Space Shuttle Endeavour’s jets at 11:25 am EDT to begin the descent to Kennedy Space Center, Fla. Endeavour is scheduled to touch down at Kennedy at 12:32 pm to end its mission to the International Space Station.
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Image above: Space Shuttle Endeavour rolls down the runway at the Shuttle Landing Facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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> As of 12:53pm EDT... It's been a little over 20 minutes since Endeavour and its crew touched down at Kennedy Space Center. Inside the orbiter, the crew is moving through a post-landing checklist while the landing convoy gathers around the vehicle to work on "safing" procedures.
Image/info Credit: NASA TV
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