STS-126: Landing Day
By TonyF on 30 November 2008 at 10:11AM
Flight Day 17 is scheduled to be the last in space for the Shuttle crew. Weather around KSC may send Endeavour to Edwards AFB instead of home to Florida. The most likely landing opportunity would place deorbit burn at 3:20PM EST and touchdown at 4:25 p.m. EST (2125 GMT). NASA reports:
Image above: Astronaut Eric Boe, STS-126 pilot, checks on the lithium hydroxide canisters beneath the middeck of the space shuttle Endeavour. Credit: NASA
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Two landing opportunities are available for space shuttle Endeavour and the STS-126 crew at Kennedy Space Center, Fla., today. There also are two landing opportunities available at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
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Endeavour's first landing opportunity is at 1:19 p.m. EST at Kennedy.
Endeavour arrived at the station Nov. 16, delivering equipment that will help allow the station to double its crew size to six. In addition, the STS-126 astronauts delivered Expedition 18 Flight Engineer Sandra Magnus, who replaced Greg Chamitoff, now a mission specialist returning to Earth aboard Endeavour.
STS-126 is the 124th shuttle mission and 27th shuttle flight to visit the space station.
Additional Resources
› Landing Ground Tracks
› STS-126 Press Kit (4.5 Mb PDF)
› STS-126 Mission Summary (475 kb PDF)
› Execute Packages
› About the Crew
› Shuttle Launch Manifest
Flight Day 16 videos are up at the JSC Gallery. Look for landing pics and video at KSC. Discussion here. Status Report #32 here. Check the links at right for play-by-play and NASA TV.
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