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| Successful Fueling Test Paves Way For July 11 Endeavour Launch |
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Wednesday, July 01 2009 @ 09:58 PM MST
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA successfully conducted a tanking test of space shuttle Endeavour's external fuel tank today, to ensure repairs to tank's liquid hydrogen vent line were successful. All indications are that the vent valve and valve performed as expected, which paves the way for the shuttle to liftoff on a space station assembly mission on July 11.
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Three members of the International Space Station Expedition 19/20 crew boarded their Soyuz return spacecraft attached to the station and moved it to a different docking port on Thursday, July 2. The operation was aimed at preparing the International Space Station to make room for docking of the Progress M-67 cargo supply spaceship to the docking port of the Zvezda-SM instrumentation compartment later this month.
KOUROU, FRENCH GUIANA - The Ariane 5 rocket scored its 31st consecutive success today with the launc of TerreStar-1, the world's heaviest commercial satellite, for North American operator TerreStar Networks Inc. The launch ocurred at 1:52 p.m. EDT from the European Spaceport in French Guiana. Lifting off from the ELA-3 launch zone on a rare afternoon departure, the Ariane 5 deployed TerreStar-1 into geostationary transfer orbit 26 minutes later.
CAPE CANAVERAL, FL - A day after its launch was scrubbed for bead weather, the newest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-O, rocketed into orbit today after lifting off from Cape Canaveral's Space Launch Complex 37 at 6:51 p.m. EDT on a United Launch Alliance Delta IV rocket.
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - Today, a conduit financing package was approved by the Space Florida Board of Directors to reassign the lease for Launch Complex 41 (LC-41) to United Launch Alliance. Florida Lt. Gov. Jeff Kottkamp signed the resolution during today's meeting of the Space Florida Board that ensures no aerospace jobs at United Launch Alliance will be lost when the shuttle stops flying in 2010.
The Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, successfully completed its most significant early mission milestone Tuesday with a lunar swingby and calibration of its science instruments. The satellite will search for water ice in a permanently shadowed crater at the moon's south pole
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - NASA's pathfinding mission back to the Moon blasted off today from Kennedy Space Center with the successful launch of the Lunar Reonnaissance Orbiter and Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Spacecraft (LRO/LCROSS) aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket. LRO will map the entire surface of the Moon in never-before seen detail while LCROSS seeks to answer one of lunar science's greatest questions: is there water in permanently shadowed craters at the Moon's poles.
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - For a second time in a week, NASA's efforts to launch space shuttle Endeavour on a mission to deliver hardware to the International Space Station were put on hold due to a leak of flammable hydrogen gas from a launch pad vent line connected to the shuttle's external tank. Endeavour's scrub means the next launch for NASA will be the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LRO / LCROSS) later this week.
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - Today, space shuttle managers cleared Endeavour for launch Wednesday on a space station construction mission, pushing back launch of an unmanned mission to the Moon in order to accomodate the shuttle's delayed liftoff and maximize the launch windows for both spacecraft which run only until June 20.
