**The most comprehensive collection of Shuttle, Ares, Orion and ISS related presentions and mission documentation, plus expansive daily processing documentation and updates are <\/em>available to download on L2<\/em><\/font> **<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n L2 Members: All documentation used in this article is available to download on the L2 section.<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n Special STS-118 L2 Section now live, with all the MOD Flight Readiness Review presentations (x16), a newly updated Flight Plan and handbooks, along with a large amount of mission documentation. STS-122 documentation build-up already begun.<\/em><\/p>\n **LIVE news updates on Endeavour STS-118 PAD FLOW**<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n **LIVE news updates on Atlantis STS-122 Processing**<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n Rocket building kits (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/p>\n **LIVE news updates on Discovery STS-120 (LON-320) Processing**<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n Article:<\/u><\/em><\/p>\n Several baseline documents clearly stated that Atlantis would be able to fly to the end of the shuttle program<\/font> \u2013 currently 2010 \u2013 with engineers carrying out various key elements of what would normally be carried out during her OMDP, in-between flights inside the OPF (Orbiter Processing Facility).<\/p>\n This OMDP refinement was subsequently approved by the PRCB (Program Requirements Control Board) \u2013 leading to the decision to manifest Atlantis with two flights previously scheduled to Discovery and Endeavour. In turn, this eased some of the pressure off Discovery and Endeavour, which was also noted in the documentation relating to OMDP requirements.<\/p>\n Atlantis returns to the previous plan of keeping her \u2018near flight ready status\u2019 inside her OPF (Orbiter Processing Facility), whilst becoming a parts donor for her two sisters. The validity of this role for Atlantis related to the previous requirement of an OMDP, a near two year process which \u2013 given the retirement of the fleet is activated by the time she would be ready to fly again \u2013 was deemed pointless.<\/p>\n The new manifest reflects the reversal of this decision \u2013 despite the news being omitted from recent shuttle program memos \u2013 leading to a number of sources believing the move relates to a wish to cut some of the United Space Alliance workforce ahead of 2010, partly for lack of a better reason for this U-turn. The resulting financial savings would likely be fed into the Constellation program<\/p>\n However, rationale relating to the workforce isn\u2019t documented and should be classed as rumor, especially when all FAWG manifests are fluid and classed as planning documents, rather than set in stone schedules. <\/p>\n However, the previous manifest \u2013 which showed Atlantis flying STS-122, STS-125 and twice more after the Ares I-X test flight<\/font> \u2013 made no reference to the schedule being an \u2018option\u2019, as opposed to several \u2018optional schedules\u2019 which were published around the time of the repairs to ET-124 were being carried out<\/font>, which subsequently moved the shuttle schedule to new launch dates. <\/p>\n Moving back to the state of play with the new manifest, a number of changes have been added to the shuttle schedule, ranging from the minor \u2013 a slip of three days for Discovery\u2019s STS-120 launch date \u2013 to the important scheduling of STS-119 with Discovery at the end of 2008. Atlantis\u2019 STS-125 mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope<\/font> has also moved up nearly a month to August 7, 2008. <\/p>\n Other notes of interest in this new manifest include the implementation of the JAXA (Japanese Space Agency) flights \u2013 the first two being STS-123 and STS-124 \u2013 being constrained to a 60 degree Solar Beta Angle. More information on addition of Beta Angle notes is expected in the coming days.<\/p>\n Run down of the latest manifest of flights to the ISS follows (changes denoted in red): <\/p>\n 2007 <\/p>\n <\/font><\/p>\n August 2<\/p>\n \u2013 Progress M-61 (26P) <\/p>\n August 7 \u2013 STS-118 (13A.1) \u2013 Endeavour \u2013 Spacehab-SM, S5, ESP3<\/p>\n [October 5 \u2013 STS-322 (Rescue STS-118) \u2013 Discovery]<\/p>\n October 10 \u2013 Soyuz TMA-11 (15S)<\/p>\n <\/font><\/p>\n October 23<\/p>\n \u2013 STS-120 (10A) \u2013 Discovery \u2013 Node 2 \u2018Harmony\u2019 <\/p>\n [December 2 \u2013 STS-320 (Rescue STS-120) \u2013 Atlantis]<\/p>\n December 6 \u2013 STS-122 (1E) \u2013 Atlantis \u2013 ICC-Lite, Columbus<\/p>\n <\/font><\/p>\n December 23<\/p>\n \u2013 Progress M-62 (27P) <\/b><\/p>\n 2008<\/p>\n<\/p>\n January 15 (TBD)<\/font> \u2013 ATV-1 \u2018Jules Verne\u2019<\/p>\n [January 31 \u2013 STS-323 (Rescue STS-122) \u2013 Endeavour]<\/p>\n February 12 (TBD) \u2013 Progress M-63 (28P)<\/p>\n February 14 \u2013 STS-123 (1J\/A) \u2013 Endeavour \u2013 SLP-D1 with SPDM \u2018Dextre\u2019, JEM ELM-PS<\/p>\n April 8 \u2013 Soyuz TMA-12 (16S)<\/p>\n [April 10 \u2013 STS-324 (Rescue STS-123) \u2013 Discovery]<\/p>\n April 24 \u2013 STS-124 (1J) \u2013 Discovery \u2013 JEM PM with JEM RMS<\/p>\n [July 13 \u2013 STS-326 (Rescue STS-124) \u2013 Endeavour]<\/p>\n <\/font><\/p>\n August 7<\/p>\n \u2013 STS-125 (HST-SM4) \u2013 Atlantis <\/p>\n [August 14<\/font> \u2013 STS-400 (Rescue STS-125) \u2013 Endeavour]<\/p>\n <\/font><\/p>\n September 18<\/p>\n \u2013 STS-126 (ULF2) \u2013 Endeavour \u2013 MPLM, LMC <\/font><\/p>\n November 6 \u2013 STS-119 (15A) \u2013 Discovery \u2013 S6<\/p>\n <\/b><\/p>\n 2009<\/p>\n <\/font><\/p>\n March \u2013 TBD \u2013 Endeavour \u2013 TBD<\/p>\n April \u2013 TBD \u2013 Discovery \u2013 TBD<\/p>\n August \u2013 TBD \u2013 Endeavour \u2013 TBD<\/p>\n October \u2013 TBD \u2013 Discovery \u2013 TBD<\/p>\n <\/b><\/p>\n 2010<\/p>\n <\/font><\/p>\n February \u2013 TBD \u2013 Endeavour \u2013 TBD<\/p>\n April \u2013 TBD \u2013 Discovery \u2013 TBD<\/p>\n July \u2013 TBD \u2013 Endeavour \u2013 TBD<\/p>\n<\/p>\n L2 members<\/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 **STARLIGHT: NEW STS-117 MISSION REVIEW MUSIC VIDEO**<\/font><\/em><\/font> <\/em><\/font><\/p>\n **ROCK YOU LIKE A HURRICANE: BRAND NEW STS-117 MISSION REVIEW MUSIC VIDEO \u2013 AS SEEN BY THE STS-117 CREW!!**<\/font> -. **NASASpaceflight.com Job Opportunities**<\/em><\/font> <\/font><\/em><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Atlantis has only two missions remaining \u2013 STS-122 and STS-125 \u2013 according to a new FAWG (Flight Assignment Working Group) manifest, which shows the orbiter is once again set for retirement in 2008. 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