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**Over 2100mb of STS-116 onwards related presentions and mission documentation <\/em>available on L2<\/em> **<\/em><\/p>\n **LIVE news updates on Discovery STS-116 Processing**<\/em><\/p>\n **LIVE news updates on Atlantis STS-117 (STS-317) Processsing Flow**<\/em><\/p>\n Known as S0007 Launch Countdown Operations (full presentations available on L2), Discovery will undergo a final series of rigorous testing for what will be her 33rd flight. **Free video of the Countdown starting can be viewed here**<\/p>\n Her mission is being described as the most complex ever to be carried out on an assembly flight to the International Space Station (ISS). <\/font><\/p>\n \u2018We have several things going on, on STS-116. We\u2019re going to take up a part of the truss structure, called, P5. And we call it a spacer; and, in essence, it goes at the end of P4, which is another truss structure which has a pair of solar arrays,\u2019 noted STS-116 Commander Mark Polansky. <\/p>\n <\/font>\u2018Eventually there will be another piece, P6, which has been in orbit for a long time now but in a temporary location. It eventually will go way out on the portside of the station. P5 is the connecting piece between P4 and P6. So, that\u2019s an important piece that needs to get installed. <\/p>\n \u2018Once we get up there, we\u2019re going to reconfigure the electrical system. Right now we have again sort of a preliminary, temporary electrical system set up. It does a great job providing power, but it\u2019s not as robust as we need it to be in the future. <\/p>\n \u2018Once P5 is installed, we will be doing a lot of the rewiring of the space station to get the primary electrical system working. That\u2019s going to be a very critical thing for the station.\u2019<\/p>\n Also involved on the mission will be a crew rotation with Thomas Reiter, who is returning home after a six month stay onboard the ISS, swapping places with STS-116\u2019s Suni Williams.<\/p>\n \u2018One of the other main things we\u2019re doing is taking up Suni Williams, who is, going to round out the Increment 14 crew,\u2019 added Polansky She\u2019ll be that, third crew member on that flight. We\u2019ll bring back Thomas Reiter, who launched with STS-121. We\u2019ll bring him back home.\u2019 **INFINITY: 10 minute STS-115 MUSIC VIDEO**<\/font><\/em> \u2013 **NASASpaceflight.com Job Opportunities**<\/em><\/font> <\/p>\n <\/font> The countdown clock at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida has begun to tick down from T-1 day, 19 hours, towards the third Shuttle launch of the year. The countdown to the first launch attempt of Shuttle Discovery \u2013 her second launch of the year \u2013 is targeting a December 7 lift-off at 9:35pm local […]<\/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-41867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41867"}],"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=41867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/font><\/em>Weather forecasts remain favorable for the first attempt, with only a 20 percent chance of a breach of Launch Commit Criteria (LCC). Discovery currently has a 10 day launch window, which can be extended should NASA decide to bring into play their plans to deal with YERO (Year End Rollover).<\/p>\n
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