**The most comprehensive collection of Shuttle, Ares, Orion and ISS related presentations and mission documentation, plus expansive daily processing documentation and updates are <\/em>available to download on L2<\/em><\/font> **<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n **<\/em><\/font>STS-124 L2 Sub Section (over 3400mb) \u2013 Continuing through post flight and post mission IFA\/Mission reviews.<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n **STS-125\/LON-400 L2 Sub Section Special already over 1650mb in size \u2013 special section Now Live, with over 40 superb mission presentations. STS-125 Flight Plan (newly created) and Flight Data Files now uploaded. Mission Overview in CGI videos building up \u2013 starting with payload overviews. STS-400 Flight Plan. Daily extensive processing latest.<\/font><\/p>\n **STS-124 Post Flight \u2013 STS-119 Processing Latest**<\/em><\/font> \u2014 <\/font>**STS-124 News Articles**<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n **LIVE updates: Endeavour Dual LON and STS-126 Processing**<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n Spaceflight history books (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/p>\n **LIVE updates on Atlantis STS-125 Processing Flow**<\/em><\/font> \u2014 <\/font>**STS-125 News Articles**<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Manifest Changes:<\/u><\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n As exclusively revealed by this site back in April, STS-125\u2019s move to October 8 \u2013 and the subsequent slip of STS-126 to November 10 \u2013 immediately moved STS-119 to February 12, 2009, though the latter was only made official in the manifest on Monday.<\/p>\n Discovery\u2019s STS-119 flight recently gained its opening planning documentation, created for the mission that will carry the final truss element (S6) to the International Space Station (ISS). <\/p>\n The expansive mission baseline includes documentation on the deferred Boundary Layer Transition (BLT) experiment that was originally scheduled for STS-126, plus a special Thrust Oscillation test \u2013 designed to provide valuable launch vibration data for Ares I. <\/p>\n With STS-119\u2019s slip from December, 08 to February, 09 now confirmed, the program refined the remaining manifest to align with the required spacing between missions.<\/p>\n \u2018The Shuttle Program has released a manifest CR (Change Request) to update launch dates for STS-119\/15A, STS-127\/2JA, and STS-128\/17A and have an updated manifest to reflect planning dates for the rest of the program,\u2019 noted documentation acquired by L2.<\/p>\n \u2018External Tank delivery dates are still the long pole but they are hopeful they will be able to meet the schedule.\u2019 <\/p>\n Endeavour\u2019s STS-127 mission will complete assembly of the Kibo Laboratory complex, and has now been moved from April 23, 09 to May 21. <\/p>\n Endeavour will launch with a complex array of payloads that will require a 15 day mission with five baselined EVAs. Aside from installing the Japanese Experiment Module \u2013 Exposed Facility (JEM-EF), Endeavour\u2019s crew will be tasked with replacing six batteries on the P6 truss.<\/p>\n STS-128 \u2013 now flying with Atlantis following her release from a 2008 retirement \u2013 is a logistics run to the ISS that has a new launch date of July 30, which is only a slip of a couple of weeks.<\/p>\n Atlantis\u2019 primary payload will be the Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM) \u2018Donatello\u2019 \u2013 which will boost the ISS\u2019 capability to deal with the increased crew of six astronauts. <\/p>\n Atlantis is scheduled to transport NASA astronaut Nicole Stott to the ISS for her role on Expedition 19, while returning US Army Colonel Timothy Kopra from his stay on the Station. Stott will return on a Russian Soyuz.<\/p>\n \u2018STS-128\/17A was baselined with a 7\/30\/09 launch date, consistent with the manifest CR,\u2019 added documentation. \u2018STS-128 is on OV-104 (Atlantis), which does not have SSPTS (Station-To-Shuttle Power Transfer System) so the baselined mission duration is 11+1+2 with two planned EVAs.<\/p>\n \u2018The cargo bay complement includes an MPLM and an Ammonia Tank Assembly (ATA) installed on a Lightweight MPESS Carrier (LMC). The TriDAR Automated Rendezvous and Docking Sensor DTO-701A is also planned for STS-128. <\/p>\n \u2018The depleted ATA and the external ESA payload, European Technology Exposure Facility (EuTEF), installed during STS-122\/1E, will return on the LMC and two Materials on International Space Station (MISSE) carriers (6a and 6b) will return on a sidewall carrier.\u2019<\/p>\n The documentation also noted the evaluations that are considering leaving Donatello on the ISS \u2013 though this is currently not been decided.<\/p>\n \u2018ISS is considering whether they want to leave the MPLM on orbit but the current baseline has it returning. This flight is planned to be the first flight of the OI-34 software and the last flight to launch a rotating ISS crewmember.\u2019<\/p>\n The manifest realignment also brought up an interesting element of flexibility, which references the evaluations into allowing launch dates that would see an orbiter docked to the ISS at the same time a Soyuz docks. <\/p>\n Known as Soyuz \u2018cutouts\u2019 \u2013 it is currently a constraint for orbiters, due to the potential of a Soyuz auto-abort during approach, when the Russian vehicle\u2019s Kurs docking system fails to see the docked orbiter \u2013 thus becoming a potential collision threat.<\/p>\n \u2018You\u2019ll note launch dates during what previously have been considered Soyuz \u2018cutouts\u2019, added the documentation. \u2018For example, STS-127\/2JA is scheduled to launch on 5\/21\/09 and Soyuz is scheduled to dock on 5\/27\/09. <\/p>\n \u2018The SSP has requested that the ISS and MOD (Mission Operations Directive) reassess Soyuz dockings and undockings while the Shuttle is docked to improve Shuttle launch flexibility. <\/p>\n \u2018The GJOP (Generic Joint Operations Panel) has been asked to review previous assessments, identify what assumptions are now different, and determine whether it makes sense to plan for a Soyuz docking or undocking during a Shuttle mission.\u2019<\/p>\n The re-evaluation has been called due to the expansion of the ISS, which has increased the distance between the docking ports of Soyuz and Shuttle at either \u2018end\u2019 of the Station. If the evaluations recommend the constraint remains in place, the launch dates will be again refined.<\/p>\n \u2018The thought process is that the answer may be different now that the Shuttle and Soyuz docking ports are farther away and ISS will be doing \u2018indirect handovers\u2019 \u2013 new crew coming up on Soyuz will be with three of the previous crew for an extended duration rather than the current short term intense handover period.\u2019<\/p>\n Realigning with the new manifest are the remaining five missions in the latter half of 2009 and the 2010 finale.<\/p>\n STS-129 slips to October 15, 09. The mission will see Discovery carrying the EXPRESS Logistics Carriers ELC1 and ELC2, and will involve a crew rotation of Expedition 20\u2019s Robert Thirsk with his replacement, Jeff Williams \u2013 although long-term schedules show Williams as riding on a Soyuz.<\/p>\n STS-130 slips six weeks to December 10, 2009. Endeavour is carrying the final major element of the ISS in Node 3, along with the ESA-built observatory module Cupola.<\/p>\n Three missions are currently scheduled for 2010, opening with Atlantis\u2019 second mission to be added since her stay of execution \u2013 STS-131 \u2013 which is a logistics run to the ISS.<\/p>\n Atlantis\u2019 mission \u2013 which has moved to February 11, 2010, involves the final flight of a Multi-Purpose Logistics Module, namely Raffaello. No mention of its potential stay on the ISS has been made at this time. <\/p>\n The two remaining missions \u2013 at present \u2013 for the shuttle program are the CLF (Contingency Logistic Flight) missions, tasked to Discovery and Endeavour.<\/p>\n Changes to these two missions see STS-132 move to April 8, 2010, while the finale to the program has been moved to the right by one month, as Endeavour flies to the ISS on May 31, 2010.<\/p>\n Officially removed from the long-term manifest are the specific Launch On Need (LON) requirements. The rescue capability remains throughout the remainder of the program, but instead of requiring a specific flow in the event of an emergency, the following launch date will be close enough to carry out the contingency.<\/p>\n \u2018Note that the new Launch on Need approach is to use the next flight with the planned cargo complement to rescue the previous flight if necessary (i.e. concept of STS-3xx\u2019s is going away).\u2019<\/p>\n L2 members<\/em><\/font>: All documentation \u2013 from which the above article has quoted snippets \u2013 is available in full in the related L2 sections, updated live.<\/em><\/p>\n **BRAND NEW STS-124 MISSION OVERVIEW MUSIC VIDEO \u2013 AVAILABLE HERE** (Free Video Section \u2013 Only requires to be logged into the forum) The SSP (Space Shuttle Program) have officially refined the launch dates for all their missions in 2009 and 2010 \u2013 based mainly around the fallout to the previous delay of STS-125 and the long-term External Tank delivery schedule. 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