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Description KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Inside the MILA Spaceflight Tracking and Data Network Station during a visit to Kennedy, members of the STS-114 crew listen to Gary Morse (left), incumbent MILA/PDL station director. (MILA refers to Merritt Island Launch Area, PDL designates the Ponce De Leon Inlet site.) The astronauts, from left, are Mission Specialists Andrew Thomas, Wendy Lawrence and Stephen Robinson, and Commander Eileen Collins. The tracking station serves as the primary voice, data and telemetry communications link between the Shuttle and the ground from launch until 7-1/2 minutes into the flight. Millions of clues about the performance of the Space Shuttle?s main engines and other components are communicated to launch managers, technicians and engineers on the ground, who must keep their fingers on the pulse of the Space Shuttle during the critical ascent period. In a typical year, MILA provides through KSC more than 10,000 hours of data between spacecraft and data users. MILA is also used during a Space Shuttle landing at KSC and provides communications beginning about 13 minutes before touchdown. Also, MILA can be called upon to provide data transfer support for NASA?s Expendable Launch Vehicle missions and orbiting scientific satellites.
Release Date 12/13/2004
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Description KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - On a visit to Kennedy, STS-114 Mission Specialist Stephen Robinson (right) points out an area above the orbiter Discovery to Commander Eileen Collins (left). Discovery is in the Orbiter Processing Facility for launch processing. Discovery is scheduled for a launch planning window of May 12 to June 3, 2005.
Release Date 12/13/2004
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Description KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - During a visit to Kennedy, at the MILA Spaceflight Tracking and Data Network Station, members of the STS-114 crew listen to Gary Morse (center), incumbent MILA/PDL station director. (MILA refers to Merritt Island Launch Area, PDL designates the Ponce De Leon Inlet site.) The astronauts, from left, are Pilot James Kelly, Mission Specialists Andrew Thomas, Wendy Lawrence and Stephen Robinson, and Commander Eileen Collins. The tracking station serves as the primary voice, data and telemetry communications link between the Shuttle and the ground from launch until 7-1/2 minutes into the flight. Millions of clues about the performance of the Space Shuttle?s main engines and other components are communicated to launch managers, technicians and engineers on the ground, who must keep their fingers on the pulse of the Space Shuttle during the critical ascent period. In a typical year, MILA provides through KSC more than 10,000 hours of data between spacecraft and data users. MILA is also used during a Space Shuttle landing at KSC and provides communications beginning about 13 minutes before touchdown. Also, MILA can be called upon to provide data transfer support for NASA?s Expendable Launch Vehicle missions and orbiting scientific satellites.
Release Date 12/13/2004
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Description KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - On a visit to Kennedy, members of the STS-114 crew pose for a photo standing under the belly of the orbiter Discovery. The crew, from left, are Pilot James Kelly, Mission Specialists Stephen Robinson and Wendy Lawrence, Commander Eileen Collins, and Mission Specialist Andrew Thomas. Between them is Alberto Deloucas, Midbody electrical technician . The designated vehicle for the mission, Discovery is in the Orbiter Processing Facility for launch processing. Discovery is scheduled for a launch planning window of May 12 to June 3, 2005.
Release Date 12/13/2004
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Description KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Outside the MILA Spaceflight Tracking and Data Network Station during a visit to Kennedy, members of the STS-114 crew pause for a photo with Anthony Ippolito (far left), current director of MILA/PDL. (MILA refers to Merritt Island Launch Area, PDL designates the Ponce De Leon Inlet site.). The crew members are (left to right) commander Eileen Collins, Mission Specialists Stephen Robinson, Wendy Lawrence and Andrew Thomas, and Pilot James Kelly. Between Lawrence and Thomas is Gary Morse (left), incumbent MILA/PDL station director. Between Thomas and Kelly is Melissa Blizzard, MILA operations manager. The tracking station serves as the primary voice, data and telemetry communications link between the Shuttle and the ground from launch until 7-1/2 minutes into the flight. Millions of clues about the performance of the Space Shuttle?s main engines and other components are communicated to launch managers, technicians and engineers on the ground, who must keep their fingers on the pulse of the Space Shuttle during the critical ascent period. In a typical year, MILA provides through KSC more than 10,000 hours of data between spacecraft and data users. MILA is also used during a Space Shuttle landing at KSC and provides communications beginning about 13 minutes before touchdown. Also, MILA can be called upon to provide data transfer support for NASA?s Expendable Launch Vehicle missions and orbiting scientific satellites.
Release Date 12/13/2004
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Description KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Members of the STS-114 crew spend time becoming familiar with Shuttle and mission equipment. From left (in their blue suits) are Mission Specialists Soichi Noguchi, Stephen Robinson, Charles Camarda, Andrew Thomas and Wendy Lawrence, Commander Eileen Collins and Pilot James Kelly. Noguchi represents the Japanese Aerospace and Exploration Agency. They are looking at the thermal protection system insulation blankets being installed on an insert for Discovery?s nose cap. The STS-114 mission is Logistics Flight 1, which is scheduled to deliver supplies and equipment plus the external stowage platform to the International Space Station.
Release Date 03/05/2004
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Description KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The STS-114 crew gathers around the work stand holding the insert for Discovery?s nose cap. From left are Mission Specialists Soichi Noguchi, and Charles Camarda, Commander Eileen Collins, Mission Specialists Andrew Thomas and Wendy Lawrence, Pilot James Kelly, and Mission Specialist Stephen Robinson. Noguchi represents the Japanese Aerospace and Exploration Agency. The insert is being fitted with thermal protection system insulation blankets. The crew is spending time becoming familiar with Shuttle and mission equipment. The mission is Logistics Flight 1, which is scheduled to deliver supplies and equipment plus the external stowage platform to the International Space Station.
Release Date 03/05/2004
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Description KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Some of the STS-114 crew listen to Paul Gutierrez (right), SRB associate program manager with United Space Alliance, in the SRB Assembly and Refurbishment Facility. They are looking at a booster separation motor (BSM) igniter. Starting from left are Mission Specialist Stephen Robinson, Commander Eileen Collins, Mission Specialists Andrew Thomas (holding the igniter), Charles Camarda and Wendy Lawrence, and Pilot James Kelly. Not seen is Mission Specialist Soichi Noguchi, who is with the Japanese Aerospace and Exploration Agency. The crew is at KSC for familiarization with Shuttle and mission equipment. The STS-114 mission is Logistics Flight 1, which is scheduled to deliver supplies and equipment, plus the external stowage platform, to the International Space Station.
Release Date 03/05/2004
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Description KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At the SRB Assembly and Refurbishment Facility, STS-114 crew members look at booster separation motors (BSM) on an aft skirt that has had booster trowlable ablative removed by liquid nitrogen cutting. The astronauts are learning how the BSMs would be removed from the aft skirt. From left are Mission Specialist Wendy Lawrence, Commander Eileen Collins, Mission Specialist Andrew Thomas, Pilot James Kelly (background), and Mission Specialists Soichi Noguchi and Stephen Robinson. Noguchi is with the Japanese Aerospace and Exploration Agency. The crew is at KSC for familiarization with Shuttle and mission equipment. The STS-114 mission is Logistics Flight 1, which is scheduled to deliver supplies and equipment, plus the external stowage platform, to the International Space Station.
Release Date 03/05/2004
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Description KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the SRB Assembly and Refurbishment Facility, STS-114 crew members take a close look at a mock-up of a booster separation motor (BSM) igniter and expanded views of the BSM and igniter on the table. From left are Mission Specialists Soichi Noguchi, Stephen Robinson and Andrew Thomas (holding the igniter), Commander Eileen Collins, and Mission Specialist Charles Camarda. At far right is Paul Gutierrez, SRB associate program manager with United Space Alliance. Not pictured is Mission Specialist Wendy Lawrence. Noguchi is with the Japanese Aerospace and Exploration Agency. The crew is at KSC for familiarization with Shuttle and mission equipment. The STS-114 mission is Logistics Flight 1, which is scheduled to deliver supplies and equipment, plus the external stowage platform, to the International Space Station.
Release Date 03/05/2004
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Description KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The STS-114 crew talks to the Discovery processing team in the Orbiter Processing Facility. The crew members, from left, are Mission Specialists Soichi Noguchi and Stephen Robinson and Pilot James Kelly. Also present but not pictured are Mission Specialists Wendy Lawrence, Andrew Thomas and Charles Camarda, and Commander Eileen Collins. Noguchi represents the Japanese Aerospace and Exploration Agency. The crew is at KSC for familiarization with Shuttle and mission equipment. The STS-114 mission is Logistics Flight 1, which is scheduled to deliver supplies and equipment, plus the external stowage platform, to the International Space Station.
Release Date 03/05/2004
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Description KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The STS-114 crew stands in front of the operations desk in the Orbiter Processing Facility. At far right is astronaut John Young, who flew on the first flight of Space Shuttle Columbia with Robert Crippen. Young is associate director, Technical, at Johnson Space Center. From left are Young?s pilot, STS-114 Commander Eileen Collins, Mission Specialists Andrew Thomas, Soichi Noguchi and Stephen Robinson, Pilot James Kelly, and Mission Specialist Charles Camarda. Noguchi represents the Japanese Aerospace and Exploration Agency. The STS-114 crew is spending time becoming familiar with Shuttle and mission equipment. The mission is Logistics Flight 1, which is scheduled to deliver supplies and equipment plus the external stowage platform to the International Space Station.
Release Date 03/05/2004
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Description KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The STS-114 crew stands underneath Discovery in the Orbiter Processing Facility. From left are Mission Specialist Stephen Robinson, Pilot James Kelly, Mission Specialist Charles Camarda, astronaut John Young, Commander Eileen Collins and Mission Specialists Andrew Thomas, Wendy Lawrence and Soichi Noguchi, who is with the Japanese Aerospace and Exploration Agency. Young is associate director, Technical, at Johnson Space Center. The crew is spending time becoming familiar with Shuttle and mission equipment. The mission is Logistics Flight 1, which is scheduled to deliver supplies and equipment plus the external stowage platform to the International Space Station.
Release Date 03/05/2004
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Description KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the SRB Assembly and Refurbishment Facility, some of the STS-114 crew greet United Space Alliance employees Ed Glovich and Noemi Navaro-Cruz. The crew members are (from left) Mission Specialists Soichi Noguchi and Stephen Robinson, Commander Eileen Collins, and Mission Specialist Charles Camarda. Behind Noguchi, who represents the Japanese Aerospace and Exploration Agency, is Paul Gutierrez, SRB associate program manager with United Space Alliance. The STS-114 crew is at KSC for familiarization with Shuttle and mission equipment. The STS-114 mission is Logistics Flight 1, which is scheduled to deliver supplies and equipment, plus the external stowage platform, to the International Space Station.
Release Date 03/05/2004
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Description KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - - In the SRB Assembly and Refurbishment Facility, some of the STS-114 crew listen to Mike Leppert, Manufacturing Operations project lead with United Space Alliance, talk about a booster separation motor (BSM) igniter. Pictures on the table give expanded views of the BSM and igniter. Next to Leppart, from left, are Mission Specialists Soichi Noguchi and Stephen Robinson, Commander Eileen Collins, and Mission Specialists Andrew Thomas (holding a mockup of an igniter) and Charles Camarda. Noguchi is with the Japanese Aerospace and Exploration Agency. The crew is at KSC for familiarization with Shuttle and mission equipment. The STS-114 mission is Logistics Flight 1, which is scheduled to deliver supplies and equipment, plus the external stowage platform, to the International Space Station.
Release Date 03/05/2004
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Description KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The STS-114 crew talks to the Discovery processing team in the Orbiter Processing Facility. The crew members, from left, are Mission Specialists Soichi Noguchi and Stephen Robinson, Pilot James Kelly, Mission Specialists Wendy Lawrence, Andrew Thomas and Charles Camarda, and Commander Eileen Collins. Noguchi represents the Japanese Aerospace and Exploration Agency. The crew is at KSC for familiarization with Shuttle and mission equipment. The STS-114 mission is Logistics Flight 1, which is scheduled to deliver supplies and equipment, plus the external stowage platform, to the International Space Station.
Release Date 03/05/2004
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Description KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At the SRB Assembly and Refurbishment Facility, STS-114 Eileen Collins (center) and Mission Specialist Stephen Robinson look on the table at a mockup of a booster separation motor (BSM) igniter and expanded views of the BSM and igniter. At left is Paul Gutierrez, SRB associate program manager with United Space Alliance. The crew is at KSC for familiarization with Shuttle and mission equipment. The STS-114 mission is Logistics Flight 1, which is scheduled to deliver supplies and equipment, plus the external stowage platform, to the International Space Station.
Release Date 03/05/2004
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Description KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the SRB Assembly and Refurbishment Facility, STS-114 Mission Specialists Soichi Noguchi (left), Stephen Robinson (center) and Commander Eileen Collins (back to camera) are briefed by Bob Dougert, manager of Test Engineering and Operations, on the thrust vector control system in solid rocket boosters. The crew is at KSC for familiarization with Shuttle and mission equipment. The STS-114 mission is Logistics Flight 1, which is scheduled to deliver supplies and equipment, plus the external stowage platform, to the International Space Station.
Release Date 03/05/2004
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Description KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - - The STS-114 crew poses with the employees in the SRB Assembly and Refurbishment Facility. At far left is L. Roger Elliot, director of Design engineering for SRB Element, United Space Alliance, next are Mission Specialists Stephen Robinson and Wendy Lawrence, Commander Eileen Collins, Mission Specialists Charles Camarda and Andrew Thomas, at center is Paul Gutierrez, associate program manager in SRB Element, Pilot James Kelly, Mission Specialist Soichi Noguchi, and astronaut Steven Frick, who joined the STS-114 crew during equipment familiarization at KSC. Noguchi represents the Japanese Aerospace and Exploration Agency. The STS-114 mission is Logistics Flight 1, which is scheduled to deliver supplies and equipment, plus the external stowage platform, to the International Space Station.
Release Date 03/05/2004
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Description KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the SRB Assembly and Refurbishment Facility, Bob Dougert, manager of Test Engineering and Operations, explains the thrust vector control system to the STS-114 crew. Counterclockwise from upper left are Mission Specialists Soichi Noguchi and Stephen Robinson, Commander Eileen Collins, and Mission Specialists Charles Camarda and Andrew Thomas. The crew is at KSC for familiarization with Shuttle and mission equipment. The STS-114 mission is Logistics Flight 1, which is scheduled to deliver supplies and equipment, plus the external stowage platform, to the International Space Station.
Release Date 03/05/2004
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Description KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the SRB Assembly and Refurbishment Facility, STS-114 crew members look at test designs of the bolt catcher insulation. Starting from left are Mission Specialists Stephen Robinson, Andrew Thomas and Soichi Noguchi, and Commander Eileen Collins. The STS-114 crew is at KSC for familiarization with Shuttle and mission equipment. The mission is Logistics Flight 1, which is scheduled to deliver supplies and equipment, plus the external stowage platform, to the International Space Station.
Release Date 03/05/2004
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Description KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The STS-114 crew pose for a photo in front of a solid rocket booster aft skirt in the SRB Assembly and Refurbishment Facility. In front, from left, are Cynthia Perrons, electrical technician with United Space Alliance, Commander Eileen Collins, Pilot James Kelly, and Mission Specialists Charles Camarda and Andrew Thomas. In back are Paul Gutierrez, associate program manager in SRB Element, USA, John Cleary Jr., electrical engineer with USA, Mike Leppert, project lead, Manufacturing Operations, USA, Don Noah, Materials and Processes engineer, USA, Bob Herman, deputy associate program manager, SRB Element, USA, Mission Specialist Soichi Noguchi, Dale Marlow, thermal protection system engineer with USA, Mission Specialist Stephen Robinson, Greg Henry, director, Manufacturing Operations, USA.
Release Date 03/05/2004
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