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<\/em><\/font>**STS-121: Launch: July 4 Launch\/Debris\/Flight Day 1*<\/font> \u2013 <\/font>Flight Day 2*<\/font> \u2013 <\/font>Flight Day 3*<\/font> <\/font>Flight Day 4*<\/font> <\/font>Flight Day 5*<\/font> <\/font>Flight Day 6*<\/font> <\/font>Flight Day 7*<\/font> <\/font>Flight Day 8*<\/font> <\/font>Flight Day 9*<\/font>
**Flight Day 10 \u2013 LIVE**<\/p>\n
While this may come as a surprise, the remaining 16 missions yet to fly before the retirement of the Shuttle fleet allows for no major changes in the currently launch processing flows. Should, in the undesirable scenario of an orbiter being unable to re-enter, the next schedule mission should be able to provide LON assistance via its own regular timelines.<\/p>\n
Most of all, the revalation of LON missions being added to the manifest should be seen as a sign NASA is not taking any chances.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n
Other than the additions of the LON missions, the manifest remains solid \u2013 and now realistic \u2013 following the successful \u2018clean\u2019 launch of Discovery last week.<\/p>\n Her sister, Discovery, will be supporting as the LON shuttle, in tandem with preparations for her second mission of the year, STS-116, currently NET December 14.<\/p>\n With Endeavour rejoining flight operations in 2007, NASA hopes to launch five missions next year, with Endeavour\u2019s first mission since her long stand-down post Columbia and major modification period being STS-118, carrying S5, Spacehab-SM, ESP3. STS-118 is currently NET June 11, although she will be supporting LON requirements for Atlantis\u2019 February 22 STS-117.<\/p>\n 2008 is set to be a highlight year for the final flights of the Shuttle, with five fights including the Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission, tagged STS-125 \u2013 HST-SM04.<\/p>\n Evaluations are taking place for the possibility of a unique and ambitious \u2018single pad rescue mission,\u2019 should there be a major problem with Discovery during the servicing of Hubble.<\/p>\n The mission should \u2013 if the manifest listings are followed in order \u2013 be listed as STS-325, although STS-199 has appeared on some documents relating to STS-125 \u2013 which has been confirmed as the fourth and final servicing mission to Hubble.<\/p>\n Two separate articles will appear on this site on both the CLV\/Pad 39B and the evaluations for a LON for STS-125. Documentation and information currently on L2. 1 \u2013 August 28, 2006 \u2013 STS-115 \u2013 12A \u2013 Atlantis \u2013 P3\/P4 <\/font><\/p>\n **FREE VIDEOS**<\/em><\/font> \u2013 <\/em>SRB Cam, Docking, Hatch Opening. Rbar (RPM) Video (8x). Flight Deck ascent video.<\/font><\/font> Five videos of the debris events. Full T-30 mins to T+60 mins STS-121 launch video and all views of launch, plus more. **NASASpaceflight.com Job Opportunities**<\/font> \u2013 due to an e-mail issue, please re-sent applications if you e-mailed over the last two weeks.<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n <\/u><\/p>\n <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The latest Shuttle manifest shows NASA has extended the number of flights that will have a LON (Launch On Need) rescue mission on standby. While STS-121 with Discovery has stood down its STS-300 LON (with Atlantis), three more rescue missions have been added to accompany flights through to at least STS-120, with another special \u2013 […]<\/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-42004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42004"}],"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=42004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/font>The faster-than-scheduled change-out of the ECO (Engine Cut Off) sensors in ET-118 has pulled back the schedule pressure on the NET (No Earlier Than) August 28 launch of Atlantis, as she re-starts International Space Station Assembly missions, carrying the P3\/P4 truss uphill.<\/p>\n
<\/font>The NET April 11, 2008 will be the only flight without the \u2018safe haven\u2019 of the International Space Station, while also being scheduled after the handover of launch pad complex 39B for recommisioning into the test pad \u2013 and eventual launch pad \u2013 for the CLV (Crew Launch Vehicle).<\/p>\n
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<\/em><\/font>Below is the current manifest listing:<\/p>\n
(November 11, 2006 \u2013 STS-301 \u2013 LON for STS-115 \u2013 Discovery)
2 \u2013 December 14, 2006 \u2013 STS-116 \u2013 12A.1 \u2013 Discovery \u2013 P5, Spacehab-SM, ICC
(February 9, 2007 \u2013 STS-317 \u2013 LON for STS-116 \u2013 Atlantis]
3 \u2013 February 22, 2007 \u2013 STS-117 \u2013 13A \u2013 Atlantis \u2013 S3\/S4
(May 8, 2007 \u2013 STS-318 \u2013 LON for STS-117 \u2013 Endeavour)
4 \u2013 June 11, 2007 \u2013 STS-118 \u2013 13A.1 \u2013 Endeavour \u2013 S5, Spacehab-SM, ESP3
(July 26, 2007 \u2013 STS-320 \u2013 LON for STS-118 \u2013 Atlantis)
5 \u2013 August 9, 2007 \u2013 STS-120 \u2013 10A \u2013 Atlantis \u2013 Node 2, PDGF
6 \u2013 September 27, 2007 \u2013 STS-122 \u2013 1E \u2013 Discovery \u2013 Columbus, MPESS
7 \u2013 November 29, 2007 \u2013 STS-123 \u2013 1J\/A \u2013 Endeavour \u2013 JEM ELM-PS, SLP-D1 with SPDM Dextre
8 \u2013 February 7, 2008 \u2013 STS-124 \u2013 1J \u2013 Atlantis \u2013 JEM PM, JEM RMS
9 \u2013 April 11, 2008 \u2013 STS-125 \u2013 HST SM-04 \u2013 Discovery
(LON STS-325 or STS-199 \u2013 Single Pad \u2013 Discovery\/Endeavour Lifeboat and Rescue \u2013 under consideration)
10 \u2013 June 19, 2008 \u2013 STS-119 \u2013 15A \u2013 Endeavour \u2013 S6
11 \u2013 August 21, 2008 \u2013 STS-126 \u2013 ULF2 \u2013 Atlantis \u2013 MPLM Leonardo (last flight of OV-104)
12 \u2013 October 30, 2008 \u2013 STS-127 \u2013 2J\/A \u2013 Discovery \u2013 JEM EF, JEM ELM-ES, SLP-D2
13 \u2013 January 22, 2009 \u2013 STS-128 \u2013 17A \u2013 Endeavour \u2013 MPLM Donatello, LMC
14 \u2013 April 30, 2009 \u2013 STS-129 \u2013 ULF3 \u2013 Discovery \u2013 ELC1, ELC2 (last flight of OV-103)
15 \u2013 July 16, 2009 \u2013 STS-130 \u2013 19A \u2013 Endeavour \u2013 MPLM Donatello, LMC
(October 22, 2009 \u2013 STS-131 \u2013 ULF4\/CLF \u2013 Discovery \u2013 ELC3, ELC4)
16 \u2013 January 21, 2010 \u2013 STS-132 \u2013 20A \u2013 Endeavour \u2013 Node 3 with Cupola (last flight of OV-105)
(July 15, 2010 \u2013 STS-133 \u2013 ULF5\/CLF \u2013 Endeavour \u2013 ELC5, ELC1).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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