Un doppio shuttle liscio per favore...

[gattovolante]

Beh... due shuttle pronti a partire non male..... starà mica arrivando la cometa sulla terra?!
Armageddon docet!!

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[gattovolante]

Ho trovato anche filmato del fatto.
Secondo voi tra 0:25 e 0:35, quello che sgattaiola via è un cinghiale?

[richelieu]

Dal sito della NASA .....

Dynamic Duo on Launch Pads

09.23.08

For the first time since July 2001, and the last time ever, two space shuttles are on the launch pads at the same time at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Atlantis is targeted to lift off on the STS-125 mission to service NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, and Endeavour is ready to act as a rescue vehicle for Atlantis, if needed.

After Atlantis' safe landing, Endeavour will roll around to pad 39A for its upcoming STS-126 mission to the International Space Station.

There may not be another dual-pad event in shuttle history that matches the excitement and thrill of seeing these two majestic space vehicles side-by-side on Kennedy's launch pads.

From the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, I'm Anita Barrett.

[richelieu]

Ho trovato anche filmato del fatto.
Secondo voi tra 0:25 e 0:35, quello che sgattaiola via è un cinghiale?

Si direbbe proprio di si .....

Il filmato si riferisce comunque all'avvenimento del Settembre 2008 ..... ma, nell'Aprile 2009, nonostante la NASA avesse detto che si sarebbe trattato dell'ultima volta, esso si è ripetuto .....

http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/08 ... llout.html

http://www.space.com/news/cs-090420-twi ... story.html

Una suggestiva immagine notturna (2008) .....



Un paio di belle immagini del 2008 .....





E qui c'è persino un arcobaleno .....

[arciere]

Dal sito della NASA .....

Dynamic Duo on Launch Pads

09.23.08

For the first time since July 2001, and the last time ever, two space shuttles are on the launch pads at the same time at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Atlantis is targeted to lift off on the STS-125 mission to service NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, and Endeavour is ready to act as a rescue vehicle for Atlantis, if needed.

After Atlantis' safe landing, Endeavour will roll around to pad 39A for its upcoming STS-126 mission to the International Space Station.

There may not be another dual-pad event in shuttle history that matches the excitement and thrill of seeing these two majestic space vehicles side-by-side on Kennedy's launch pads.

From the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, I'm Anita Barrett.

E che rischio avrebbe questa missione rispetto alle altre?

[richelieu]

arciere ha scritto:
..... E che rischio avrebbe questa missione rispetto alle altre? .....

..... The space shuttle Endeavour rolled out to a Florida launching pad early Friday to serve as a rescue craft for its sister ship Atlantis .....

..... NASA is preparing to launch seven astronauts aboard Atlantis next month on the final service call to the Hubble Space Telescope .....

..... But unlike recent missions to the International Space Station, where shuttle crews had the option of awaiting rescue aboard the outpost if their spacecraft suffered critical heat shield damage, Atlantis astronauts have no such safety net because they must fly higher and in a different orbit than the station to reach Hubble .....

..... Instead, NASA plans to have Endeavour and a skeleton crew of four astronauts standing by in the unlikely event Atlantis' heat shield is damaged beyond repair and the orbiter is unable to return to Earth. Under that plan, Endeavour would rendezvous with Atlantis and astronauts would stage a series of three spacewalks to retrieve the Hubble astronauts before discarding the stricken spacecraft .....

..... "They would come up and they'd rendezvous with us," explained Atlantis shuttle pilot Gregory C. Johnson in a NASA interview. "We would grapple each other, robotic arm to robotic arm, essentially, and then would transfer crew members between the shuttles." .....

Comunque qui c'è l'intero articolo (che risale al Settembre 2008) il cui link avevo già postato più sopra .....

http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/08 ... llout.html

[arciere]

Mille grazie

[Big_Teo]

quando dovrebbe partire?

[richelieu]

quando dovrebbe partire?

Nel 2008 .....