Watch Space Shuttle Discovery STS-133
Landing Live on NASA TV
Discovery Crew Prepares for a Late
Wednesday Morning Landing
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As of Tuesday, March 08, 2011
08:25pm CST
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Space Shuttle Discovery’s crew is wrapping up final preparations for its planned Wednesday morning landing (weather permitting) at 10:57am CST at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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Landing Day Highlights
(All times CST)
5:53am | Deorbit Prep begins |
7:12am | Payload Bay Doors Closing |
7:22am | Mission Control: “Go” for Ops 3 Transition |
8:29am | Clothing Configuration |
8:52am | Seat Ingress |
9:19am | OMS Gimbal Check |
9:30am | Auxiliary Power Unit Prestart |
9:42am | MCC “Go-No Go” Decision for the Deorbit Burn |
9:47am | Maneuver to the Deorbit Burn Attitude |
9:52am | Deorbit Burn |
10:44am | Merritt Island, Fla., tracking station Acquisition of Signal from Discovery |
10:57am | Landing at Kennedy Space Center |
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* Join NASA Blogger Anna Heiney for updates from the Air Traffic Control Tower at Kennedy's Shuttle Landing Facility. Live landing coverage will begin Wednesday morning early, (March 9th) at 7:30am CST. Follow the latest info from orbit, Mission Control in Houston and the Shuttle Landing Facility right here at Kennedy.
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Discovery Crew Gets Ready for Landing
Wednesday March 09, 2011
Last updated: 02:43am CST
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Space Shuttle Discovery’s wakeup song for landing day was “Coming Home” by Gwyneth Paltrow, played for the entire crew and selected by the space station flight controllers in Mission Control. Commander Steve Lindsey and his five crew members will begin deorbit preparations a little before 6:00am CST for their planned landing at 10:57am CST at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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Discovery's Payload Bay Doors are Closed
07:22am CST
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Space Shuttle Discovery’s payload bay doors are closed and everything continues to proceed on schedule for this morning’s landing attempt.
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Weather currently is both forecast and observed “go.” Astronaut Rick Sturckow is flying weather reconnaissance at Kennedy Space Center, where winds are forecast to be high, but within limits for runway 15. Sturckow will fly runway approaches to assess conditions for Discovery’s landing. The winds from the southeast (130 degrees) are forecast to be 15 knots, peaking to 23 knots, providing a 10 knot crosswind and 21 knot headwind.
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At this time, winds are only six knots, peaking to 12 knots. End of mission weather flight rules state that daylight crosswinds may not exceed 15 knots, headwinds may not exceed 25 knots and tailwinds may not exceed 15 knots. Also, peak winds may not be greater than 10 knots over the average wind.
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At 8:22am, Mission Control is expected to give a “go” for Discovery’s computers to begin running the Ops 3 entry software. At 07:52am, a “go” is expected for crew suit up. The “go” for deorbit burn is expected by 09:32am.
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Deorbit burn is scheduled for 09:52am and will lead to a landing at 10:57am CST.
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* Deorbit Burn Complete *
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* Deorbit Burn Complete *
- 09:53am CST -
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Discovery's Orbital Maneuvering System engines have fired as expected and Deorbit Burn is now complete. This was a 2-minute, 31-second burn. Mission Control confirmed the success of burn right after the engines cut off.
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They’re Coming HOME!!!
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WELCOME HOME DISCOVERY!
11:00am CST
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Space Shuttle Discovery STS-133 has landed
and what a Beautiful Landing it was!!!
JOB WELL DONE...
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Discovery Lands for Final Time at 10:57 a.m. CST
11:08am CST
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About above image: Space Shuttle Discovery lands at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Image credit: NASA TV
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At 10:57am CST, Space Shuttle Discovery landed for the final time at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center after 202 orbits around Earth and a journey of 5,304,140 miles on STS-133.
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Discovery’s main gear touched down at 10:57:17 followed by the nose gear at 10:57:28am and wheels stop at 10:58am CST. At wheels stop, the mission elapsed time was 12 days, 19 hours, four minutes and 50 seconds.
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A post-landing news conference with managers at Kennedy is expected no earlier than 1:00pm CST on NASA TV.
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The participants will be Bill Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for Space Operations, Mike Moses, space shuttle launch integration manager, and Mike Leinbach, space shuttle launch director.
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STS-133 was the 39th and final flight for Discovery, which spent 365 days in space, orbited Earth 5,830 times and traveled 148,221,675 miles..
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Keep up with latest wrap-up of mission at links below...
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Watch Landing/Mission End LIVE
At NASA TV
At NASA TV
ENJOY!!!
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Read latest up-to-date News about
Landing/Mission End
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Welcome Home again!
AubreyJ.........
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Above info/video/images taken from the NASA.gov website
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