**The most comprehensive collection of Shuttle 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 and presentations used in this article are available to download on the L2 section.<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n Re-live Atlantis\u2019 STS-117 mission with on our Flight Day specific interactive event pages<\/font> \u2013 open to all.<\/em><\/p>\n **LIVE news updates on Atlantis STS-117 Post Launch Processing \u2013 LIVE**<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n **LIVE news updates on Endeavour STS-118 Processing**<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n NASA mission updates (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<\/p>\n Atlantis was originally set to retire in 2008 after the Hubble mission<\/font>. Given the shuttle program is due to end in 2010, the subsequent OMDP (Orbiter Maintenance Down Period) \u2013 which would have taken at least a year \u2013 it was decided her retirement in 2008 was deemed to be the best course of action. <\/p>\n Atlantis would have remained inside an OPF (Orbiter Processing Facility) and maintained to near flight ready condition, to be used as a parts donor for her two sisters, Discovery and Endeavour. <\/p>\n This decision has now been reversed, with Atlantis taking two missions which were previous allocated to either Discovery or Endeavour. The STS-122 baseline presentation \u2013 acquired by this site\u2019s L2 section in May \u2013 shows that one of those flights which Atlantis will take is STS-127, set to launch NET (No Earlier Than) June 30, 2009.<\/p>\n Previously Endeavour\u2019s mission, STS-127 will deliver the final element of the Japanese Experiment Module \u2013 the EF (Exposed Facility \u2018Terrace\u2019) \u2013 which will be located outside the port cone of the JAXA Pressurized Module (PM) core component \u2013 set to fly with Discovery on STS-124 (April 24, 2008). <\/p>\n The other mission Atlantis is likely to take is STS-131 (ULF4), carrying the CBC, Russian Docking Cargo Module, manifested to fly NET January 28, 2010. <\/p>\n With this extension to Atlantis\u2019 operational lifetime, certain elements of the OMDP can still be safely carried out during pre\/post-launch processing intervals. <\/p>\n The ability to keep the fleet flying without the stand-down of OMDP before 2010 was outlined in an October 2006 presentation to the PRCB (Program Control Requirements Board). <\/p>\n Titled the \u20183 year \/ 8 Flight OMRSD (Operations Maintenance Requirements Specifications Document) Review,\u2019 the presentation from the Orbiter Project Office (OPO) showed that only Endeavour had the ability to keep flying until 2010 before an OMDP was due \u2013 under the then current guidelines. <\/p>\n \u2018Current 3 year\/8 flight OMDP interval requirement does not support remaining flight manifest without test reset or interval increase,\u2019 the presentation opened, before noting that Discovery is actually due an OMDP in March 2008, Atlantis in July 2008, along with Endeavour in July 2010 at the time of the document\u2019s creation.<\/p>\n The purpose of the evaluations noted in the presentation was to look at the possibility of extending the OMDP interval requirement to 5.5 years, which would enable the whole fleet to keep flying until the scheduled retirement of the shuttle program.<\/p>\n This appeared favorable, as the review found that out of the \u2018722 subsystem-coded requirements\u2019 only 29 \u2018dispositions\u2019 were deemed unacceptable past the three year interval \u2013 with those requirements likely to be worked on the orbiters during pre\/post flight processing flows, compared with 693 \u2018dispositions\u2019 classed as acceptable for the extension to a 5.5 year interval between OMDPs.<\/p>\n Concluding that the program will \u2018define new OMDP new interval of 8 flights and 5.5 years, for extendable requirements,\u2019 the shuttle program will \u2018continue to partner with KSC the Implementation Plans for the items that must be performed prior to 3 years,\u2019 with Discovery and her previously due date for OMDP \u2013 which ensures that \u2018based on these OMRSD Reviews, (OMDP, Interval and Time\/Cycle), there should be no large impacts to the current manifest.\u2019<\/p>\n Ultimately, this was implemented into the STS-122 baseline, before finally being confirmed with the extension to Atlantis\u2019 operation lifetime in the latest FAWG manifests, which also confirm some refinements to the schedule, including the advancement of Endeavour\u2019s upcoming return to flight action after a five year wait. Another set of minor refinements were made to the manifest last Friday.<\/p>\n STS-118 now has a new NET date of August 7<\/font>, assisted by a very smooth processing flow which is allowing the youngest orbiter to rollover out of OPF 2 on July 2, ahead of mating with ET-117 and the twin Solid Rocket Boosters inside the VAB.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Atlantis \u2013 currently at Edwards Air Force Base after Friday\u2019s return to Earth on STS-117 <\/font>\u2013 is undergoing a level of post flight processing, including the flushing of residual propellants from her main engines, and the SCAPE operations to remove hazardous hypergolic fuels from her Reaction Control Systems.<\/p>\n After this process, a tail cone faring will be mated on her aft, before being mated with NASA\u2019s SCA (Shuttle Carrier Aircraft) next week for the piggyback ride back to KSC. <\/p>\n Her crew, including former ISS crewmember Suni Williams<\/font>, have arrived back at their home base in Houston on Saturday.<\/p>\n For <\/em><\/font>L2 members<\/em><\/font><\/font>, follow and review NASA\u2019s evaluations on the L2 Flight Day specific pages for STS-117\u2019s mission and post launch processing (which contain many 100s and same day MMT level documentation and presentations \u2013 uploaded live during each Flight Day).<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n Latest Manifest \u2013 in text form:<\/font><\/u><\/p>\n 2007 2008 2009 2010 **INFINITY: 10 minute STS MUSIC VIDEO**<\/font><\/em><\/font> \u2013 COMING SOON: Atlantis\/Starlight. **NASASpaceflight.com Job Opportunities**<\/em><\/font> <\/font><\/em><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NASA managers have decided to manifest shuttle orbiter Atlantis with missions through to 2010, cancelling her previously planned retirement in 2008. Information gained from STS-122 \u2013 the next flight of Atlantis \u2013 processing documentation, along with the latest FAWG (Flight Assignment Working Group) manifests, confirm the addition of two further missions for the orbiter, to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41679"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}**Ride home through the fire and plasma of re-entry with Atlantis on STS-115 \u2013 And now also with Discovery on STS-116 \u2013 TWO Stunning high quality 2hr, 355mb videos \u2013 from deorbit burn to post landing**<\/font><\/p>\n
July 22 \u2013 Progress M-61 <\/b>(26P<\/b>)
August 7 \u2013 STS-118 <\/b>(13A.1<\/b>) \u2013 Endeavour \u2013 Spacehab-SM, S5, ESP3
[October 5 \u2013 STS-322 <\/b>(Rescue STS-118<\/b>) \u2013 Discovery]
October 10 \u2013 Soyuz TMA-11 <\/b>(15S<\/b>)
October 20 \u2013 STS-120 <\/b>(10A<\/b>) \u2013 Discovery \u2013 Node 2 \u2018Harmony\u2019
[December 2 \u2013 STS-320 <\/b>(Rescue STS-120<\/b>) \u2013 Atlantis]
December 6 \u2013 STS-122 <\/b>(1E<\/b>) \u2013 Atlantis \u2013 ICC-Lite, Columbus
December 12 <\/b>(TBD<\/b>) \u2013 Progress M-62 <\/b>(27P<\/b>) <\/p>\n
January \u2013 ATV-1 \u2018Jules Verne\u2019
[January 31 \u2013 STS-323 <\/b>(Rescue STS-122<\/b>) \u2013 Endeavour]
February 12 <\/b>(TBD<\/b>) \u2013 Progress M-63 <\/b>(28P<\/b>)
February 14 \u2013 STS-123 <\/b>(1J\/A<\/b>) \u2013 Endeavour \u2013 SLP-D1 with SPDM \u2018Dextre\u2019, JEM ELM-PS
April 8 \u2013 Soyuz TMA-12 <\/b>(16S<\/b>)
[April 10 \u2013 STS-324 <\/b>(Rescue STS-123<\/b>) \u2013 Discovery]
April 24 \u2013 STS-124 <\/b>(1J<\/b>) \u2013 Discovery \u2013 JEM PM with JEM RMS
[July 23 \u2013 STS-326 <\/b>(Rescue STS-124<\/b>) \u2013 Endeavour]
September 10 \u2013 STS-125 <\/b>(HST-SM4<\/b>) \u2013 Atlantis
[September 17 \u2013 STS-400 <\/b>(Rescue STS-125<\/b>) \u2013 Endeavour]
October 16 \u2013 STS-126 <\/b>(ULF2<\/b>) \u2013 Endeavour \u2013 MPLM, LMC <\/p>\n
January 15 \u2013 TBD \u2013 Discovery \u2013 TBD
April 23 \u2013 TBD \u2013 Endeavour \u2013 TBD
June 30 \u2013 TBD \u2013 Atlantis \u2013 TBD
September 11 \u2013 TBD \u2013 Discovery \u2013 TBD
November 19 \u2013 TBD \u2013 Endeavour \u2013 TBD <\/p>\n
January 28 \u2013 TBD \u2013 Atlantis \u2013 TBD
April 7 \u2013 TBD \u2013 Discovery \u2013 TBD
June 10 \u2013 TBD \u2013 Endeavour \u2013 TBD<\/p>\n<\/font><\/p>\n
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