STS-131

[Admin]

Landing cancelled for today. Weather not cooperating. Next attempt in 24hrs.

/Admin

[ASFalcon13]

What is the difference in docking manually without radar in terms we can understand with our SSM? Are we able to do it in SSM?

I got to visit the MPSR for the STS-130 docking.  This didn't get much press, but the TCS CW laser range/range-rate data for that rendezvous was flaky.  The backup is a handheld laser that they shine out of the Shuttle window at the ISS.  As for implementation in SSM, well...I'm not ground crew, so I have no comment there .

More info (but you'll have to dig in the articles a little bit):
-http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/shuttle-space-station-docking-100210.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+spaceheadlines+%28SPACE.com+Headline+Feed%29
-http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2010/02/sts-130-eva-3-cupolas-opening-comm-issues-evaluated/

[ASFalcon13]

Oh yeah, I'd also nominate STS-131 for inclusion as an add-on mission.  3 EVA's, and a Ku antenna failure leading to a late inspection while still docked to the station...some pretty tight RMS clearances, from what I hear.  That'd definitely be a challenge to pull off.

[schmidtrock]

Discovery is home safe!! I saw the streaking contrails and heard the sonic booms from my front yard! Most awesome especially since I was at the launch! Man that thing was moving!

[Pocci]

I followed it almost syncronized with the iPhone App mentioned in the update 5.30 thread.
The NASA-TV stream was lagging terribly but that app is cool.

[Spaceguy5]

The clouds prevented me from seeing it x.x